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Biography
Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
Made in America: My Story by Sam Walton
The Martians of Science: Five Physicists by Istvan Hargittai 
Models of my Life by Herbert Simon *out of print*
Personal History by Katharine Graham
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter Kaufman  
Pour Your Heart into It by Howard Schultz
Snowball by Alice Schroeder
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin 
Three Scientists and Their Gods by Robert Wright  
Warren Buffet CEO by Robert Miles 

Biology, Ecology, Geology and Paleontology
Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade 
Chaos by James Gleick
Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean Carroll 
Gorgon by Peter Ward
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond 
Ice Age by John & Mary Gribbin 
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin 
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin  
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins 
Something New Under the Sun by J.R. McNeill 
The Tangled Wing by Mel Konner
Three Scientists and Their Gods by Robert Wright 
What Evolution Is by Ernst Mayr 

The Classics
Aristotle
The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi *out of print*
The Bible: The New Oxford Edition 
Euripides: The Complete Plays Volume III by David Grene *out of print*
Iliad and Odyssey by Homer
Landmark Herodotus by Robert Strassler
Landmark Thucydides by Robert Strassler
Plato's Republic and selections from his other dialogues
Who Killed Homer? by Victor Davis Hanson  
 
Creativity
Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Universal Traveler by Don Koberg
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

Design and Usability
Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough 
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman 
Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug 
How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
How to be a (Bad) Birdwatcher by Simon Barnes
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud 
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig

Economics - especially Behavioral Economics
The Innovator's Solution by William Poundstone
Living Within Limits by Garrett Hardin
Models of my Life by Herbert Simon *out of print*
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Gary Belsky

Fiction including Poetry and Drama
Epileptic by David B. 
Euripides: The Complete Plays Volume III by David Grene *out of print*
Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 
Iliad by Homer
Odyssey by Homer 
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose  
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien 

History 
An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson 
Brand New by Nancy Koehn 
The First Fossil Hunters by Adrienne Mayor  
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond 
Inventing the Internet by Janet Abbate 
Landmark Herodotus by Robert Strassler 
Landmark Thucydides by Robert Strassler 
Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer 
Randomness by Deborah J. Bennett 
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin 

Math and Physics - especially chaos, relativity and probability
Deep Simplicity by John Gribbin 
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson 
Feynman's Lost Lecture by David Goodstein 
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story by William Poundstone 
Genius: Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick 
The Martians of Science: Five Physicists by Istvan Hargittai 
Numeracy by John Allen Paulos
Randomness by Deborah J. Bennett 
Rare Earth by Peter Ward 
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin 

Marketing
The Brand Gap by Marty Neumeier 
Brand New by Nancy Koehn 
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz 
Purple Cow by Seth Godin  
The Service Profit Chain by Heskett et al
The Ultimate Question by Fred Reichheld 
Uncommon Practice by Andy Milligan 

Productivity
Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst 
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler 
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose 

Psychology, Neurology and Medicine
Blank Slate by Stephen Pinker
Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam 
Demon under the Microscope by Thomas Hager 
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini 
The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz 
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter Kaufman 
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
The Tangled Wing by Mel Konner
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes by Gary Belsky 

Strategy and Management
Built to Last by Jim Collins  
Competitive Strategy by Michael Porter  
Confronting Reality by Larry Bossidy 
Good to Great by Jim Collins 
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter Kaufman 
The Practice of Management by Peter Drucker 
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin 
Setting the Table by Danny Meyer 
Snowball by Alice Schroeder
Warren Buffet CEO by Robert Miles 

Value Investing
Common Stocks, Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher 
The Dhando Investor by Mohnish Pabrai 
Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter Kaufman 
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin 
Snowball by Alice Schroeder
Warren Buffet CEO by Robert Miles 
Warren Buffet Way by Robert Hagstrom 
Where are the Customers' Yachts by Fred Schwed