• Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
• Dealing with China by Henry M. Paulson Jr.
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Energy: A Beginner’s Guide by Vaclav Smil
• Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
  • Also a favourite of Charlie Munger
• On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
• Orwell’s Revenge by Peter Huber
• Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven
• Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge by Michael Suk-Young Chwe
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Also a favourite of Bill Gates
• The Aeneid by Virgil
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity by Steven Pinker
• The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be by Moisés Naím
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
• The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History by Ibn Khaldûn
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
• The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
• The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson
• World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History by Henry Kissinger