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Books
Startups and Business
Name: Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Author: Phil Knight
Rating: 4.46
Year: 2016
Name:
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the
Walt Disney Company
Author: Robert Iger, Joel Lovell
Rating: 4.44
Year: 2019
Name: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Author: John Carreyrou
Rating: 4.4
Year: 2018
Name: The Compound Effect
Author: Darren Hardy
Rating: 4.40
Year: 2010
Name: Never Split the Difference
Author: Chris Voss
Rating: 4.39
Year: 2016
Name:
Failing to Succeed: The Story of India's First E-Commerce Company
Author: K. Vaitheeswaran
Rating: 4.39
Year: 2017
Name: High Output Management
Author: Andy Grove
Rating: 4.38
Year: 1995
Name: Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
Author: Napoleon Hill
Rating: 4.38
Year: 2011
Name:
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich
for a Lifetime!
Author: M.J. DeMarco
Rating: 4.28
Year: 2011
Name:
How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25
Principles of Success
Author: Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
Rating: 4.26
Year: 2007
Name: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Author: Michael Lewis
Rating: 4.26
Year: 2015
Name:
The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies
Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
Author: Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler
Rating: 4.25
Year: 2020
Name:
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the
Way of True Inspiration
Author: Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace
Rating: 4.21
Year: 2014
Name: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
Author: Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
Rating: 4.21
Year: 2009
Name:
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There
Are No Easy Answers
Author: Ben Horowitz
Rating: 4.20
Year: 2014
Name: Think and Grow Rich
Author: Napoleon Hill
Rating: 4.17
Year: 1937
Name: AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Author: Kai-Fu Lee
Rating: 4.16
Year: 2018
Name:
Nail it then Scale it: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and
Managing Breakthrough
Author: Nathan Furr
Rating: 4.13
Year: 2011
Name: Outliers: Story of Success
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Rating: 4.11
Year: 2008
Name:
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More
Profitable
Author: Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
Rating: 4.09
Year: 2005
Name: Principles: Life and Work
Author: Ray Dalio
Rating: 4.07
Year: 2017
Name:
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Author: Simon Sinek
Rating: 4.07
Year: 2009
Name:
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to
Educate the World's Children
Author: John Wood
Rating: 4.07
Year: 2006
Name: Hackers and Painters
Author: Paul Graham
Rating: 4.06
Year: 2004
Name: How Google Works
Author: Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
Rating: 4.06
Year: 2014
Name: Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Author: Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
Rating: 4.05
Year: 2002
Name:
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't
Author: Jim Collins
Rating: 4.05
Year: 2001
Name:
The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically
Successful Businesses
Author: Eric Ries
Rating: 4.04
Year: 2011
Name:
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key
to High Performance and Personal Renewal
Author: Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
Rating: 4.03
Year: 2005
Name: The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
Author: Atul Gawande
Rating: 4.03
Year: 2009
Name: Where Good Ideas Come From
Author: Steven Johnson
Rating: 4.03
Year: 2010
Name: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Author: Tony Hsieh
Rating: 4.01
Year: 2010
Name: The Innovator's Dilemma
Author: clayton m. christensen
Rating: 4.00
Year: 1997
Name: Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change
Author: Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson
Rating: 3.98
Year: 2007
Name:
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What
to Do About It
Author: Michael E. Gerber
Rating: 3.98
Year: 1995
Name: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Author: David Allen
Rating: 3.98
Year: 2001
Name:
Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune
Doing Business My Way
Author: Richard Branson
Rating: 3.97
Year: 1998
Name:
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why
Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Author: Steven D. Litt
Rating: 3.96
Year: 2009
Name: The Ten Faces of Innovation
Author: Tom Kelley
Rating: 3.96
Year: 2005
Name:
Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That
The Poor And Middle Class Don't
Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki
Rating: 3.95
Year: 1997
Name: Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups Early Days
Author: Jessica Livingston
Rating: 3.94
Year: 2007
Name: The Paypal Wars
Author: Eric M. Jackson
Rating: 3.94
Year: 2010
Name: Lean In : Women, Work and the Will to Lead
Author: Sheryl Sandberg
Rating: 3.94
Year: 2013
Name: ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
Author: David Heinemeier Hansson
Rating: 3.93
Year: 2010
Name: The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding
Author: Laura Ries and Al Ries
Rating: 3.93
Year: 1998
Name:
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of
Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Rating: 3.93
Year: 2006
Name: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Rating: 3.92
Year: 2002
Name: The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Author: Steve Blank
Rating: 3.92
Year: 2005
Name: The Curse of the Mogul
Author: Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave
Rating: 3.91
Year: 2009
Name:
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling
Giants
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Rating: 3.90
Year: 2013
Name: Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto
Author: Adam Werbach
Rating: 3.89
Year: 2009
Name: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Rating: 3.88
Year: 2007
Name: Contagious: Why Things Catch On
Author: Jonah Berger
Rating: 3.88
Year: 2013
Name:
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through
Dramatic Change
Author: Louis V Gerstner, Jr
Rating: 3.88
Year: 2003
Name: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable
Author: Seth Godin
Rating: 3.87
Year: 2010
Name:
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You
Love, and Create a New Future
Author: Chris Guillebeau
Rating: 3.85
Year: 2012
Name: Too Big to Fail
Author: Andrew Ross Sorkin
Rating: 3.85
Year: 2011
Name: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Author: Barry Shwartz
Rating: 3.84
Year: 2005
Name:
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for
Anyone Starting Anything
Author: Guy Kawasaki
Rating: 3.82
Year: 2004
Name:
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of
Business
Author: Jeff Howe
Rating: 3.82
Year: 2008
Name:
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Author: Clay Shirky
Rating: 3.82
Year: 2010
Name: Data Driven
Author: D.J. Patil
Rating: 3.80
Year: 2015
Name: Zero to One
Author: Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
Rating: 3.75
Year: 2014
Name: One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com
Author: Richard Brandt
Rating: 3.75
Year: 2011
Name:
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and
Think
Author: Kenneth Cukier
Rating: 3.70
Year: 2013
Name:
The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the
New Rich
Author: Timothy Ferriss
Rating: 3.61
Year: 2012
Name:
The Accidental Billionaires : The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of
Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
Author: Ben Mezrich
Rating: 3.50
Year: 2009
Philosophy And Psychology
Name:
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Author: Eric Jorgenson
Rating: 4.64
Year: 2020
Name: The Ascent of Humanity
Author: Charles Eisenstein
Rating: 4.43
Year: 2007
Name: Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Author: Gregory Boyle
Rating: 4.41
Year: 2010
Name: The Slight Edge - Secret to a Successful Life
Author: Jeff Olson
Rating: 4.39
Year: 2005
Name: Education and the Significance of Life
Author: Krishnamurti
Rating: 4.38
Year: 2008
Name: Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions
Author: Robert H. Frank
Rating: 4.34
Year: 1989
Name:
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the
Art of Living
Author: Ryan Holiday, Stephan Hanselman
Rating: 4.34
Year: 2016
Name: Man's Search for Meaning
Author: Viktor E. Frankl
Rating: 4.33
Year: 2006
Name:
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break
Bad Ones
Author: James Clear
Rating: 4.32
Year: 2018
Name: The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
Author: Tor Norretranders
Rating: 4.30
Year: 1999
Name:
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race
the World Has Never Seen
Author: Christopher McDougall
Rating: 4.27
Year: 2009
Name: Prometheus Rising
Author: Robert Anton Wilson
Rating: 4.26
Year: 2010
Name: The Concise 48 Laws of Power
Author: Robert Greene
Rating: 4.25
Year: 2011
Name: The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Author: Joseph Campbell
Rating: 4.24
Year: 1972
Name: The Magic of Thinking Big
Author: David J. Schwartz
Rating: 4.23
Year: 1959
Name: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Author: Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick
Rating: 4.23
Year:
Name:
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art,
Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Author: Eric Kandel
Rating: 4.22
Year: 2012
Name: Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius
Rating: 4.21
Year:
Name: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Author: Robert B. Cialdini
Rating: 4.18
Year: 2006
Name:
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Author: Gavin de Becker
Rating: 4.18
Year: 2000
Name: Gifts of Imperfection
Author: Brene Brown
Rating: 4.18
Year:
Name:
Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
Rating: 4.16
Year: 1996
Name:
The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy :
With Illustrations
Author: Matthew Stewart
Rating: 4.15
Year: 1997
Name: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Author: Richard Bach
Rating: 4.15
Year: 1977
Name: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Author: Dale Carnegie
Rating: 4.14
Year: 1998
Name:
Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create
What You Want in Your Life
Author: Shakti Gawain
Rating: 4.13
Year: 2002
Name: Bulfinch's Mythology
Author: Thomas Bulfinch
Rating: 4.13
Year: 1998
Name: Ego Is the Enemy
Author: Ryan Holiday
Rating: 4.12
Year: 2016
Name:
Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your
Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
Author: Anthony Robbins
Rating: 4.11
Year: 1991
Name: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Author: Eckhart Tolle
Rating: 4.11
Year: 1997
Name: Tuesdays with Morrie
Author: Mitch Albom
Rating: 4.11
Year: 1997
Name: The Way of the Monk
Author: Gaur Gopal Das
Rating: 4.10
Year: 2020
Name: Predictably Irrational
Author: Dan Ariely
Rating: 4.10
Year: 2008
Name: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Rating: 4.10
Year: 1990
Name: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman
Rating: 4.09
Year: 2011
Name: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Author: William Barrett
Rating: 4.09
Year:
Name: Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Author: Derren Brown
Rating: 4.08
Year: 2016
Name:
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Author: David Deutsch
Rating: 4.08
Year: 2011
Name: Metaphors We Live By
Author: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Rating: 4.08
Year: 2003
Name: The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Author: Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson
Rating: 4.05
Year: 2017
Name:
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Author: Susan Cain
Rating: 4.04
Year: 2012
Name:
The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand,
Enhance, and Empower the Mind
Author: Michio Kaku
Rating: 4.04
Year: 2014
Name: Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized
Author: James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al
Rating: 4.04
Year: 2007
Name: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Rating: 4.04
Year: 2012
Name: Mindset: The new psychology of success
Author: Carol S. Dweck,Ph.D.
Rating: 4.04
Year: 2006
Name: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business
Author: Charles Duhigg
Rating: 4.03
Year: 2012
Name:
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying
Logic
Author: Dan Ariely
Rating: 4.00
Year: 2010
Name: Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence
Author: David Perkins
Rating: 4.00
Year: 1995
Name: The Art of War
Author: Sun Tzu
Rating: 3.95
Year: 2005
Name: Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Author: Ron P. Baumeister, John Tierney
Rating: 3.95
Year: 2011
Name: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Author: Daniel H. Pink
Rating: 3.95
Year: 2006
Name:
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel
Author: Rolf Potts
Rating: 3.92
Year: 2002
Name:
Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary
Psychic Abilities
Author: Dean Radin
Rating: 3.91
Year: 2013
Name: Prisoner's Dilemma
Author: William Poundstone
Rating: 3.91
Year: 1993
Name:
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving a F@ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to
Living a Good Life
Author: Mark Manson
Rating: 3.91
Year: 2017
Name: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
Author: Steven Pinker
Rating: 3.90
Year: 2007
Name: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Author: Edward O. Wilson
Rating: 3.90
Year: 1999
Name:
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in
Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
Author: Joseph T. Hallinan
Rating: 3.87
Year: 2009
Name: You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Author: Deborah Tannen
Rating: 3.86
Year: 2007
Name:
Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western
Philosophy
Author: Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone
Rating: 3.85
Year: 2011
Name: What the Dog Saw: and other adventures
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Rating: 3.82
Year: 2009
Name: Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Author: Geoffrey Miller
Rating: 3.82
Year: 2009
Name:
Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis
Author: Eric Berne.
Rating: 3.81
Year: 1964
Name:
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your
Thinking
Author: John Brockman
Rating: 3.81
Year: 2012
Name: Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking
Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Rating: 3.80
Year: 2014
Name: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Author: Richard Bach
Rating: 3.80
Year: 1970
Name: Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
Author: Jim Holt
Rating: 3.77
Year: 2012
Name: The Social Contract
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
Rating: 3.75
Year: 2009
Name: The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas
Author: Michael S. Gazzaniga
Rating: 3.70
Year: 2006
Name: Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid
Author: Robert J Sternberg
Rating: 3.68
Year: 2003
Name:
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from
Each Others
Author: Sherry Turkle
Rating: 3.62
Year: 2011
Name: How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
Author: Madsen Pirie
Rating: 3.55
Year: 2006
Name: Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher
Author: Winifred Gallagher
Rating: 3.54
Year: 2009
Name: The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Author: Robin Hanson
Rating: 3.41
Year: 2016
Name:
The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It
Going, Build Networking Skills -- and Leave a Positive Impression
Author: Debra Fine
Rating: 3.36
Year: 2005
Name: Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling
Author: Sam Gosling
Rating: 3.33
Year: 2001
Name:
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and
Redemption
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Rating: 4.39
Year: 2010
Name: Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
Author: Jenna Bush Hager
Rating: 4.38
Year: 2020
Name: Long Walk to Freedom
Author: Nelson Mandela
Rating: 4.31
Year: 1995
Name: My Life and My Work
Author: Henry Ford
Rating: 4.29
Year: 1922
Name:
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious
Character
Author: Richard Feynman
Rating: 4.29
Year: 1997
Name: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Author: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
Rating: 4.29
Year: 1965
Name:
The Third Door:The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most
Successful People Launched Their Careers
Author: Alex banayan
Rating: 4.28
Year: 2018
Name:
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal
Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
Author: Steve Wozniak
Rating: 3.82
Year: 2007
History
Name: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Rating: 4.42
Year: 2014
Name: Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Author: Timothy Snyder
Rating: 4.36
Year: 2010
Name: How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
Author: Brian McCullough
Rating: 4.36
Year: 2018
Name: The Discoverers
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Rating: 4.34
Year: 2012
Name: Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Rating: 4.27
Year: 2017
Name:
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the
Brink of Nuclear War
Author: Michael Dobbs
Rating: 4.20
Year: 2008
Name:
The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication
from Ancient Times to the Internet
Author: David Kahn
Rating: 4.18
Year: 1996
Name: Blindness
Author: José Saramago
Rating: 4.13
Year: 1995
Name:
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to
the Present
Author: Jacques Barzun
Rating: 4.12
Year: 2001
Name: The Soul of a New Machine
Author: Tracy Kidder
Rating: 4.12
Year: 1981
Name:
Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They
Reveal About the Future
Author: Ian Morris
Rating: 4.09
Year: 2010
Name:
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
Author: Robert Jay Lifton
Rating: 4.07
Year: 1986
Name:
God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that
Changed History
Author: Stephen Hawking
Rating: 4.06
Year:
Name:
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of
India during World War II
Author: Madhusree Mukerjee
Rating: 4.05
Year: 2010
Name: El Tiempo Entre Costuras
Author: María Dueñas
Rating: 4.04
Year: 2009
Name: Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies
Author: Jared M. Diamond
Rating: 4.00
Year: 2005
Name: Discovery of India
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Rating: 3.98
Year: 1946
Name: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.)
Author: Matt Ridley
Rating: 3.98
Year: 2010
Name:
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime
Underground
Author: Kevin Poulson
Rating: 3.96
Year: 2011
Name:
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and
How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Author: Steven Johnson
Rating: 3.91
Year: 2006
Name: The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Author: Lawrence James
Rating: 3.89
Year: 1997
Name: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Author: Tim Wu
Rating: 3.89
Year: 2010
Name: Spycraft
Author: Robert Wallace, H. Keith Melton, Henry R. Schlesinger
Rating: 3.81
Year: 1987
Name: Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson
Author: Niall Ferguson
Rating: 3.78
Year: 2011
Name: The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
Author: Simson Garfinkel, Daniel Weise, Steven Strassmann
Rating: 3.78
Year: 1994
Name:
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming
Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
Author: Robert D. Kaplan
Rating: 3.68
Year: 2012
Name: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Rating: 3.66
Year: 2006
Science and Medicine
Name: Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Author: Robert M. Sapolsky
Rating: 4.42
Year: 2017
Name: Asimov's New Guide to Science
Author: Isaac Asimov
Rating: 4.36
Year: 1985
Name:
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why
Things Are Better Than You Think
Author: Hans Rosling
Rating: 4.36
Year: 2018
Name: The Gene: An Intimate History
Author: Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rating: 4.35
Year: 2016
Name: Origins of Form: The Shape of Natural and Man-Made Things
Author: Christopher Williams
Rating: 4.31
Year: 2013
Name: The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Author: Bill Bryson
Rating: 4.31
Year: 2019
Name: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Rating: 4.30
Year: 1979
Name: The Little Schemer
Author:
Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J.
Sussman
Rating: 4.27
Year: 1995
Name: Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science
Author: Dean Keith Simonton
Rating: 4.25
Year: 1988
Name:
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and
the Economic World
Author: Kevin Kelly
Rating: 4.24
Year: 1995
Name: The Brain: The Story of You
Author: David Eagleman
Rating: 4.20
Year: 2015
Name: A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author: Bill Bryson
Rating: 4.19
Year: 2003
Name: Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
Author: Matt Parker
Rating: 4.19
Year: 2014
Name:
The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain
Author: Terrence W. Deacon
Rating: 4.17
Year: 1998
Name: A Brief History of Time
Author: Stephen Hawking
Rating: 4.12
Year: 1998
Name: The Selfish Gene
Author: Richard Dawkins
Rating: 4.11
Year: 1976
Name: Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind
Author: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
Rating: 4.11
Year: 2009
Name: The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World
Author: Elkhonon Goldberg
Rating: 4.07
Year:
Name: The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
Author: Richard Dawkins
Rating: 4.07
Year: 1999
Name: Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe
Author: Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee
Rating: 4.06
Year: 2003
Name: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Author: Mary Roach
Rating: 4.05
Year: 2004
Name:
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for A Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Author: Oliver Sacks
Rating: 4.05
Year: 1998
Name: Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Author: Daniel C. Dennett
Rating: 4.03
Year: 1995
Name:
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will
Shape Our Future
Author: Kevin Kelly
Rating: 4.02
Year: 2016
Name:
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic
Cannot Tell Us
Author: Noson S. Yanofsky
Rating: 4.00
Year: 2013
Name:
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
Author: Thomas S. Kuhn
Rating: 3.99
Year: 1996
Name:
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of
Self-Organization and Complexity
Author: Stuart Kauffman
Rating: 3.97
Year: 1996
Name:
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets
and Freedom
Author: Yochai Benkler
Rating: 3.95
Year: 2006
Name: Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence
Author: Hans Moravec.
Rating: 3.95
Year: 1990
Name:
Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Rating: 3.94
Year: 1962
Name: How to Find a Habitable Planet
Author: James Kasting
Rating: 3.93
Year: 2010
Name:
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human
Evolution
Author: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
Rating: 3.91
Year: 2009
Name:
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and
the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
Author: Sam Kean
Rating: 3.91
Year: 2010
Name:
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We
Think About Our Lives
Author: David Sloan Wilson
Rating: 3.90
Year: 2007
Name:
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of
Digital Life
Author: J. Craig Venter
Rating: 3.87
Year: 2013
Name: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
Author: Nicholas Carr
Rating: 3.85
Year: 2011
Name: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Author: Richard Wrangham
Rating: 3.83
Year: 2009
Name:
Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the
Digital Age
Author: Bart Kosko
Rating: 3.82
Year: 2000
Name:
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex
Author: Murray Gell-Mann
Rating: 3.81
Year: 1994
Name:
Tomorrowland: Our Staggering Journey from Science Fiction to
Science Fact
Author: Steven Kotler
Rating: 3.80
Year: 2015
Name: Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity
Author: Dean Keith
Rating: 3.74
Year: 1999
Name:
Waters of the World: the story of the scientists who unravelled the
mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere and made the planet
whole
Author: Sarah Dry
Rating: 3.65
Year: 2019
Name: Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense
Author: Jonathan D. Moreno
Rating: 3.45
Year: 2007
Logic and Problem Solving
Name:
What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other
Logical Puzzles
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Rating: 4.24
Year: 2011
Name:
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science even If You
Flunked Algebra
Author: Barbara Oakley
Rating: 4.22
Year: 2014
Name: How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
Author: George Polya
Rating: 4.16
Year: 2015
Name:
Guide to Competitive Programming: Learning and Improving Algorithms
Through Contests
Author: Antti Laaksonen
Rating: 4.15
Year: 2016
Name: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Author: Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
Rating: 4.10
Year: 2015
Name: Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book
Author: Ken Watanabe
Rating: 4.10
Year: 2009
Name:
Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge
Author: William Poundstone
Rating: 4.05
Year: 1989
Name: Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected
Author: Clifford A. Pickover
Rating: 4.05
Year: 1992
Name: Outnumbered: Exploring the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
Author: David Sumpter
Rating: 3.99
Year: 2018
Name: Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems
Author: Leo Brodie
Rating: 3.96
Year: 1984
Politics
Name:
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Author: Michelle Alexander
Rating: 4.49
Year: 2010
Name: Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Author: Michael J. Sandel
Rating: 4.25
Year:
Name: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Author: Timothy Snyder
Rating: 4.20
Year: 2017
Name:
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and
Religion
Author: Jonathan Haidt
Rating: 4.16
Year: 2012
Name:
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American
Right
Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild
Rating: 4.15
Year: 2016
Name:
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race
of a Lifetime
Author: John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
Rating: 4.10
Year: 2010
Name:
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Author: Bryan Caplan
Rating: 3.96
Year: 2007
Name:
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
Author: Kevin D. Mitnick
Rating: 3.76
Year: 2003
Name: Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
Author: Michael Klare
Rating: 3.73
Year: 2001
Name:
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Author: Barack Obama
Rating: 3.70
Year: 2006
Economics
Name:
The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence
and a rich, free life
Author: J.L. Collins
Rating: 4.47
Year: 2016
Name: Origin of Wealth
Author: Eric D. Beinhocker
Rating: 4.23
Year: 2006
Name:
Every Shot Counts: Using the Revolutionary Strokes Gained Approach
to Improve Your Golf Performance and Strategy
Author: Mark Broadie
Rating: 4.23
Year: 2014
Name: Economic Facts and Fallacies
Author: Thomas Sowell
Rating: 4.18
Year: 2008
Name: Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
Author: David Graeber
Rating: 4.17
Year: 2011
Name: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Thomas Piketty
Rating: 4.01
Year: 2014
Name:
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of
Everything
Author: Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Rating: 3.98
Year: 2006
Name: 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Rating: 3.97
Year: 2010
Name:
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some
Don't
Author: Nate Silver
Rating: 3.96
Year: 2012
Name: Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
Author: James Rickards
Rating: 3.96
Year: 2011
Name: The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Author: Niall Ferguson
Rating: 3.88
Year: 2008
Name:
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What
Can Be Done About It
Author: Paul Collier
Rating: 3.85
Year: 2007
Name: The Thank You Economy
Author: Gary Vaynerchuk
Rating: 3.83
Year: 2011
Name:
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart
Author: Ian Ayres
Rating: 3.70
Year: 2007
Name: A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World
Author: Gregory Clark
Rating: 3.67
Year: 2007
Gender
Name: Cemetary Boys
Author: Aiden Thomas
Rating: 4.48
Year: 2020
Name:
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create
Difference
Author: Cordelia Fine
Rating: 4.15
Year: 2010
Name: Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Author: Andrea Lawlor
Rating: 4.00
Year: 2017
Name: Becoming A Man
Author: P. Carl
Rating: 3.95
Year: 2020
Sexuality
Name: Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern
Author: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
Rating: 4.02
Year: 2010
Name: The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
Author: Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt.
Rating: 3.83
Year: 2004
Name: The Sex Myth
Author: Brooke Magnanti
Rating: 3.50
Year: 2015
Race
Name: So You Want to Talk About Race
Author: Ijeoma Oluo
Rating: 4.53
Year: 2018
Name: The Origin of Others
Author: Toni Morrison
Rating: 4.22
Year: 2017
Name: Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas
Author: Seymour A. Papert
Rating: 4.32
Year: 1993
Name: The Little Prince
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Rating: 4.31
Year: 1943
Name: How Children Fail
Author: John Holt
Rating: 4.22
Year: 1995
Name: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Author: Cal Newport
Rating: 4.20
Year: 2016
Name: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Author: Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
Rating: 4.20
Year: 2014
Name: Teaching as a Subversive Activity
Author: Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
Rating: 4.19
Year: 1971
Name:
Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock
Your Exceptional Life
Author: Jim Kwik
Rating: 4.09
Year: 2020
Name: Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood
Author: A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb
Rating: 4.09
Year: 1995
Name: The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
Author: Josh Waitzkin
Rating: 4.08
Year: 2016
Name:
Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up
to Old School Culture
Author: Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer
Rating: 3.92
Year: 2009
Name: Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
Author: John Brockman
Rating: 3.72
Year: 2005
Writing
Name: Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics
Author: Stephen Sondheim
Rating: 4.77
Year:
Name: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Author: Stephen King
Rating: 4.31
Year: 2002
Name: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Author: Anne Lamott
Rating: 4.23
Year: 1995
Name: Clear and Simple as the Truth
Author: Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
Rating: 4.06
Year: 1996
Name:
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the
21st Century
Author: Steven Pinker
Rating: 4.03
Year: 2014
Theater and Film
Name:
Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it
fresh
Author: Mike Alfreds
Rating: 4.69
Year: 2008
Name: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Author: Keith Johnstone
Rating: 4.27
Year:
Name: The Actor and the Target
Author: Declan Donnellan
Rating: 4.25
Year: 2006
Name: In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing
Author: Walter Murch
Rating: 4.24
Year: 1995
Name:
Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's
Chair
Author: Frank Hauser, Russell Reich
Rating: 4.21
Year:
Name: How to Stop Acting
Author: Harold Guskin
Rating: 4.17
Year: 2003
Name: A Practical Handbook for the Actor
Author:
Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel
Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet
Rating: 3.87
Year: 1986
Shakespeare
Name:
Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors,
and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard
Author: Barry Edelstein.
Rating: 4.62
Year:
Name: Hamlet and Revenge
Author: Eleanor Prosser
Rating: 4.50
Year: 1971
Name: Shakespeare's Metrical Art
Author: George T. Wright
Rating: 4.39
Year: 1991
Name: Hamlet in Purgatory
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Rating: 3.98
Year: 2002
Fiction
Classics
Name: The Master and Margarita
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
Rating: 4.32
Year: 1966
Name: Infinite Jest
Author: David Foster Wallace
Rating: 4.31
Year: 1996
Name: The Brothers Karamazov
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Rating: 4.30
Year: 1880
Name: Pride And Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen
Rating: 4.24
Year: 1813
Name: A Prayer for Owen Meany
Author: John Irving
Rating: 4.22
Year: 1989
Name: Letters From The Earth
Author: Mark Twain
Rating: 4.22
Year: 1962
Name: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Ken Kesey
Rating: 4.18
Year: 1963
Name: London (Surviving The Evacuation #1)
Author: Frank Tayell
Rating: 3.86
Year: 2013
Name: Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle
Rating: 3.75
Year: 2003
Miscellaneous
Name: The Queen's Gambit
Author: Walter Tevis
Rating: 4.11
Year:
Name: The Bone People
Author: Keri Hulme
Rating: 4.06
Year: 1986
Name: Cat's Eye
Author: Margaret Atwood
Rating: 3.92
Year: 1998
Name: Xeelee Sequence
Author: Stephen Baxter
Rating: 3.69
Year: 1992
Name: Ghost Fleet
Author: P.W. Singer and August Cole
Rating: 3.62
Year: 2015
Name: Future Crimes
Author: Marc Goodman
Rating: 3.42
Year: 1990
Health
Name:
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent
and Reverse Disease
Author: Michael Greger, M.D.
Rating: 4.54
Year: 2015
Name:
Overcoming Gravity: A Systematic Approach to Gymnastics and
Bodyweight Strength (2nd edition)
Author: Steven Low
Rating: 4.3
Year: 2016
Name: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Author: James Nestor
Rating: 4.15
Year: 2020
Name: Convict Conditioning
Author: Paul Wade
Rating: 4.13
Year: 2012
Name: Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
Author: Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman
Rating: 3.95
Year: 2012
Name:
Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating for Cognitive Power
Author: Lisa Mosconi
Rating: 3.92
Year: 2018
Name:
Super Human: The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backward and Maybe Even
Live Forever
Author: Dave Asprey
Rating: 3.86
Year: 2019
Name: 8 Weeks to Optimum Health
Author: Andrew Weil
Rating: 3.86
Year:
Name:
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and
Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
Author: David Perlmutter
Rating: 3.89
Year: 2013
Design
Name: Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
Author:
Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max
Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel
Rating: 4.38
Year: 1977
Name: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Author: Stewart Brand
Rating: 4.32
Year: 1995
Name:
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web
Usability
Author: Steve Krug
Rating: 4.24
Year: 2014
Name: The Design of Everyday Things
Author: Donald Norman
Rating: 4.18
Year: 2002
Name: Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
Author: Kat Holmes, John Maeda
Rating: 4.14
Year: 2018
Name: The Art of Looking Sideways
Author: Alan Fletcher
Rating: 4.10
Year: 2001
Name:
Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and
Inspires Innovation
Author: Tim Brown
Rating: 3.88
Year: 2009
Travel
Name:
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Author: Joshua Foer
Rating: 4.24
Year: 2016
Language
Name: Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Rating: 4.22
Year: 1997
Name: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Author: Steven Pinker
Rating: 4.02
Year: 2000
Nature
Name: The Wild Places
Author: Robert Macfarlane
Rating: 4.27
Year: 2007
Name: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Author: Elizabeth Kolbert
Rating: 4.13
Year: 2014
Name: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Author: Annie Dillard
Rating: 4.11
Year: 1974
Name:
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trai
Author: Bill Bryson
Rating: 4.06
Year: 2006
Name: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
Author: David Wallace-Wells
Rating: 4.06
Year: 2019
Art
Name: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Author: Betty Edwards
Rating: 3.86
Year: 1989
Name:
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Author: Austin Kleon
Rating: 3.92
Year: 2012
Name:
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Author: Austin Kleon
Rating: 4.10
Year: 2014
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