My all time favorite books.
- Math
- Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
- General Science
- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
- A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Genome by Matt Ridley
- Technology and Engineering
- The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
- The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
- Where is My Flying Car by J. Storrs Hal
- Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
- History and Political Commentary
- The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
- The Prize by Daniel Yergin
- From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew
- The Age of Wood by Roland Ennos
- Mind and Psychology
- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
- Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch
- Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Awareness by Anthony De Melo
- Philosophy
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee by Shannon Lee
- Education
- Summerhill: a radical approach to child rearing by A. S. Neil
- Health
- Spontaneous Healing by Andrew Weil
- Biography
- Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
- My Life and Work by Henry Ford (before the anti-semitic parts)
- Fiction
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostyevsky