Y Combinator

The Idea Factory

Jon Gertner,

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth,

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

Phil Knight,

Hillbilly Elegy

J. D. Vance,

Seveneves

Neal Stephenson,

Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull,

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari,

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari,

The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch,

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham,

The Road To Character

David Brooks,

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

Daniel Yergin,

Too Big to Fail

Andrew Ross Sorkin,

Strangers in Their Own Land

Arlie Russell Hochschild,

The Rent Is Too Damn High

Matthew Yglesias,

City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism

Jim Krane,

Don Quixote

Miguel De Cervantes,

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Ron Chernow,

The Holy or the Broken

Alan Light,

The Enemy (Jack Reacher)

Lee Child,

A Guide to the Good Life

William B. Irvine,

On Becoming a Person

Carl R. Rogers,

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Reza Aslan,

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright,

War in a Time of Peace

David Halberstam,

Thank You for Being Late

Thomas L. Friedman,

Silence Once Begun

Jesse Ball,

Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction

Nathan Shedroff,

Rising Strong

Brené Brown,

Red Notice

Bill Browder,

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

Edmund Morris,

The Agony And The Ecstasy

Irving Stone,

Finding God in the Waves

Mike McHargue,

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Steve Martin,

Weapons of Math Destruction

Cathy ONeil,

A Gambler's Anatomy: A Novel

Jonathan Lethem,

Manna: Two Visions of Humanity's Future

Marshall Brain,

The Man Who Knew

Sebastian Mallaby,

Powerhouse

James Andrew Miller,

Before the Trumpet

Geoffrey C. Ward,

The Nix: A novel

Nathan Hill,

Nexus Series

Ramez Naam,

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Maria Konnikova,

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M Sapolsky,

Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes

Richard A. Clarke,

I Am Not I

Jacob Needleman,

Man's Search For Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl,

Caverns Measureless to Man

Sheck Exley,

The Righteous Mind

Jonathan Haidt,

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

Carlota Perez,

Einstein’s Dreams

Alan Lightman,

Six Not So Easy Pieces

Richard P. Feynman ,

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall B. Rosenberg,

The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World

Steve Levine,

Superforecasting

Philip E. Tetlock,

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

John Edward Huth,

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

Daniel Yergin,

Elon Musk

Ashlee Vance,

The Song Machine

John Seabrook,

Tiny Beautiful Things

Cheryl Strayed,

The Martian

Andy Weir,

The Supermen

Charles J. Murray,

Ready Player One

Find Me Unafraid

Kennedy Odede,

The Magicians Trilogy

Lev Grossman,

The Expanse Collection

James S. A. Corey,

Our Mathematical Universe

Max Tegmark,

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin,

Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian,

Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them

Joshua Greene,

Work Rules!

Laszlo Bock,

Where Vultures Feast

Ike Okonta,

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Lawrence Weschler,

Thoughts Without a Thinker

Mark Epstein,