Goodreads "Want to Read" book list

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  • Lois Lowry - The Giver
  • Peter Thiel - Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
  • Christopher Scotton - The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
  • Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Gene: An Intimate History
  • Edith Hamilton - Mythology
  • Kim Stanley Robinson - 2312
  • Stephen R. Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
  • Eula Biss - On Immunity: An Inoculation
  • Vaclav Smil - Should We Eat Meat? Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory
  • Darrell Huff - How to Lie with Statistics
  • Randall Munroe - What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
  • Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
  • Richard Dawkins - The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
  • Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
  • Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species
  • Jim Al-Khalili - Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed
  • Oran B. Hesterman - Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All
  • Adolf Hitler - Mein Kampf
  • Orson Scott Card - Children of the Fleet
  • Stuart Diamond - Getting More: How You Can Negotiate to Succeed in Work and Life
  • Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
  • Edward O. Wilson - The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
  • Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
  • Richard Matheson - I Am Legend
  • William R. Forstchen - One Second After
  • Stephen Guise - Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results
  • Mihály Csíkszentmihályi - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
  • Moshé Feldenkrais - Awareness Through Movement: Easy-to-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness
  • Kelly McGonigal - The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
  • Doc Childre - The HeartMath Solution: The Institute of HeartMath's Revolutionary Program for Engaging the Power of the Heart's Intelligence
  • Tanya X. Short - Procedural Generation in Game Design
  • Keith C. Blackmore - Mountain Man
  • Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Cat's Cradle
  • Peter Wohlleben - The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World
  • Jeff Olson - The Slight Edge
  • Lucy Cooke - The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
  • J. K. Rowling - The Tales of Beedle the Bard
  • J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Andrzej Sapkowski - The Last Wish
  • Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends & Influence People
  • John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
  • Dom Mazzetti - The Swoly Bible: The Bro Science Way of Life
  • Michael Matthews - The Shredded Chef: 125 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
  • Mark Rippetoe - Practical Programming for Strength Training
  • Nicholas Pileggi - Wiseguy
  • Mark Manson - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
  • Mark Manson - Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope
  • Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
  • Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass
  • Brian Jacques - Redwall
  • Yann Martel - Life of Pie
  • Michael Crichton - The Andromeda Strain
  • Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Galápagos
  • Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
  • Richard Preston - The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
  • Mary Roach - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
  • Mary Roach - Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
  • Stephen Jay Gould - Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History
  • Matt Ridley - Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human
  • Stephen Jay Gould - Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
  • Michael Ruse - Evolution: The First Four Billion Years
  • Dan Ariely - The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic
  • Andy Puddicombe - The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness
  • Yuval Noah Harari - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
  • Walter Isaacson - The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
  • Hans Rosling - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
  • Hugh Howey - Shift
  • Heather Morris - The Tattoist of Auschwitz
  • Malcolm Gladwell - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
  • Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • Benjamin Todd - 80,000 Hours: Find a Fulfilling Career That Does Good
  • Allan M. Brandt - The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
  • Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
  • Michael Moss - Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
  • Steven D. Levitt - SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
  • Robert Wright - Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
  • Ward Farnsworth - The Practicing Stoic
  • Peter C. Brown - Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
  • Sun Tzu - The Art of War
  • W. Timothy Gallwey - The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
  • Eric Berne - Games People Play
  • Jonathan Haidt - The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
  • Jonathan Haidt - The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
  • Bob Woodward - Rage
  • Bill Gates - How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
  • Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
  • Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow
  • Walter Isaacson - Steve Jobs
  • Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • Paul Scharre - Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
  • Vaclav Smil - Energy and Civilization: A History
  • Nick Lane - The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
  • Randall Munroe - Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words
  • Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Project
  • John Brooks - Business Adventures
  • Min Jin Lee - Pachinko
  • Scott E. Page - The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
  • Daniel Lipkowitz - The Lego Book
  • Jess Walter - The Cold Millions
  • Jake Halpern - Welcome to the New World
  • Fábio Moon - Daytripper
  • Ben Lynch - Dirty Genes: A Breakthrough Program to Treat the Root Cause of Illness and Optimize Your Health
  • Jean M. Twenge - iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
  • Brad Stone - The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
  • Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
  • Bijal P. Trivedi - Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the Patients and Families Who Changed Medicine Forever
  • Barack Obama - A Promised Land
  • Brad Stone - The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World
  • Ray Kurzweil - The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
  • Michael Pollan - The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
  • Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change
  • Carol J. Loomis - Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book
  • Karl Weber - Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
  • Frank Herbert - Dune
  • Sinan Aral - The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health - and How We Must Adapt
  • Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
  • George Orwell - Animal Farm
  • Jacy Reese Anthis - The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System
  • Jim Mellon - Juvenescence: Investin in the Age of Longevity
  • Nichola Raihani - The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
  • Scott Keyes - Take More Vacations: How to Search Better, Book Cheaper, and Travel the World
  • Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
  • Vaclav Smil - Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World
  • Philipp Dettmer - Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive
  • Brian Herbert - Frank Herbert's Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1
  • Jordan Ellenberg - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
  • Bill Bryson - The Body: A Guide for Occupants
  • Michael Pollan - This Is Your Mind on Plants
  • Orson Scott Card - Pathfinder
  • Dan Ariely - Irrationally Yours: On Missing Socks, Pickup Lines, and Other Existential Puzzles
  • Walter Isaacson - The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
  • Fiona Valpy - The Storyteller of Casablanca
  • Heather E. Heying - A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
  • Tom Brady The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance
  • Joel Salatin - Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
  • Thomas Insel - Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health
  • Erez Yoeli - Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior
  • Bertrand Russell - Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
  • Bertrand Russell - The Conquest of Happiness
  • Edmud Morris - The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
  • Richard P. Feynman - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
  • Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
  • Gary Wilson - Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction
  • Vaclav Smil - How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
  • John E. Sarno - Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection
  • Amor Towles - The Lincoln Highway
  • Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Official Guides to the Appalachian Trail)
  • Ezra Klein - Why We're Polarized
  • Dave Asprey - Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life
  • Kevin Hart - The Decision: Overcoming Today's BS for Tomorrow's Success
  • Kevin Hart - I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons
  • Michael Lewis - The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
  • Robert M. Sapolsky - Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
  • David McRaney How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
  • Jay J. Van Bavel - The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony
  • Lisa Feldman Barrett - Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
  • Carol S. Dweck - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
  • Paul Bloom - The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning
  • Bruce Lee - Tao of Jeet Kune Do
  • Friedrich Nietzsche - The Portable Nietzsche
  • Arik Kershenbaum - The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens - and Ourselves
  • Ingrid Newkirk - Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion
  • David Attenborough - A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
  • Jonathan Weiner - The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
  • Sherry F. Colb - Mind If I Order the Cheeseburger?: And Other Questions People Ask Vegans
  • Koula Barydakis - The Mediterranean Diet of Crete: Traditional Recipes from the Healthiest People in the World
  • Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
  • David Hanscom - Back in Control: A Spine Surgeon's Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain
  • Gabor Maté - The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
  • Phil Jackson - Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior
  • Ed Yong An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  • Robert M. Sapolsky - A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
  • Bruce Lee - Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing The Human Body
  • Gavin de Becker - The Gift of Fear; Survival Signals the Protect Us from Violence
  • Timothy Ferriss - The Tao of Seneca: Practical Letters from a Stoic Master, Volume 1
  • Yvon Chouinard - 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless
  • Yvon Chouinard - Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
  • JL Collins - The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
  • Daniel E. Lieberman - The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
  • Emily Nagoski - Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
  • Héctor García - Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
  • Anna Lembke - Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
  • Toby Ord - The Precipice
  • Eric Jorgenson - The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
  • Greg McKeown: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
  • Seth Stephens-Davidowitz - Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life
  • David Hanscom - Do You Really Need Spine Surgery? Take Control With a Surgeon’s Advice
  • Christopher M. Palmer - Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health - and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More
  • Ryan Holiday - The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
  • Michael Easter - The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
  • Stephen Gray - How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
  • John J. Ratey - Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
  • Andreas Michalsen - The Nature Cure: A Doctor's Guide to the Science of Natural Medicine
  • Benjamin Bikman - Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease - and How to Fight It
  • Robert H. Lustig - Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
  • David Allen - Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
  • Dacher Keltner - Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
  • Paul Millerd - The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
  • Edith Eger - The Choice: Embrace the Possible
  • Timothy Ferriss - The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
  • Richard V. Reeves - Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It
  • Hippocrates - Hippocratic Writings
  • Herbert S. Goldberg - Hippocrates, Father of Medicine
  • Richard Shotton - The Illusion of Choice: 16 ½ psychological biases that influence what we buy
  • Robert Greene - The 48 Laws of Power
  • Michael A. Singer - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
  • Kristin Neff - Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
  • Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
  • Aldous Huxley - The Perennial Philosophy
  • Aldous Huxley - Island
  • Aldous Huxley - The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
  • Peter Godfrey-Smith - Other Minds
  • Lindsay C. Gibson - Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
  • Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
  • Mario Puzo - The Godfather
  • Jiddu Krishnamurti - Freedom from the Known
  • Paul Stamets - Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World: An Identification Guide
  • Don E Hemmes - Mushrooms of Hawaiʻi: An identification Guide
  • Brian christian - Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
  • Theodore John Kaczynski - Technological Slavery
  • Joe De Sena - The Spartan Way: Eat Better. Train Better. Think Better. Be Better
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
  • John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
  • Bruce Lee - Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
  • Herman Melville - Moby-Dick or, The Whale
  • Joseph Heller - Catch-22
  • Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
  • Jacques Ellul - The Technological Society
  • Henry David Thoreau - Walden
  • Martin E. P. Seligman - Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death
  • Martin E. P. Seligmen - Homo Prospectus
  • Aesop - Aesop's Fables
  • Martin J. Rees - Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century - on earth and beyond
  • Norman Melchert The Great Conversation: Volume I: Pre-Socratics through Descartes
  • David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
  • Kai Bird - American Prometheus: The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture "Oppenheimer"
  • Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
  • Paul Skallas - Life & The Lindy Effect