An eclectic collection of books I’ve enjoyed. Needless to say, I don’t agree with everything in each book, but they’ve all been influential on my thinking in some way. For a full list of likes and dislikes, check goodreads.
People & History

A Primate's Memoir

The Alchemy of Air

Armed Struggle

Baghdad Diaries

Bury the Chains

Caesar

Code Girls

Command and Control

Down and Out in Paris and London

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Eyes on the Street

Ghenghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Gulag

Hero of Two Worlds

Hitch 22

Infidel

The Infidel and the Professor

Keynes Hayek

Letters to a Young Scientist

Man's Search for Meaning

Mao: The Unknown Story

The Marginal Revolutionaries

Mortality

Night

Reading Lolita in Tehran

Strangers Drowning

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!

The Anatomy of Fascism

The Ascent of Money

The Fall of Berlin 1945

The Fire Next Time

The Gulag Archipelago

The Power Broker

Turing's Cathedral

Wittgenstein's Poker
Non-Fiction

A Conflict of Visions

Against Empathy

All Life is Problem Solving

Animal Liberation

Chaos

Complexity

Conjectures and Refutations

Expert Political Judgement

Fabric of Reality

Gödel, Escher, Bach

How to Change Your Mind

Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem

Lying

Moral Tribes

Oil

On Inequality

Philosophy and the Real World

Political Philosophy

Poor Economics

Reasons and Persons

Relative Justice

Seeing like a State

Stubborn Attachments

The Beginning of Infinity

The Better Angels of Our Nature

The Blank Slate

The Case Against Education

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Dictator's Handbook

The Drunkard's Walk

The Elephant in the Brain

The Expanding Circle

The Five Invitations

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

The Moral Animal

The Moral Foundations of Politics

The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

The Myth of the Framework

The Myth of the Rational Voter

The Open Society and its Enemies, Vol 1+2

The Poverty of Historicism

The Righteous Mind

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Tribe

Why Information Grows

Words on the Move
Fiction & Other

1984

A Hero of our Time

Animal Farm

Brave New World

Captains Courageous

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Crime and Punishment

Exhalation: Stories

Fictions

Hunger

Invitation to a Beheading

Lolita

Purple Hibiscus

Stories of your Life and Others

The Name of the Rose

The Royal Game

The Thing Around Your Neck

The Trial

Things Fall Apart

To Kill a Mockingbird