Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterChaos by James GleickThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Information by James Gleick
Complexity
163 books — 165 voters
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOutliers by Malcolm GladwellBlink by Malcolm GladwellThe Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Radiolab Suggested Readings
182 books — 241 voters

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the Decade: 1930s
922 books — 1,262 voters
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess1984 by George OrwellThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Best Experimental Books Ever
1,123 books — 1,855 voters

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieAngels & Demons by Dan    BrownRebecca by Daphne du MaurierA Story of Yesterday by Sergio Cobo
Best Crime & Mystery Books
7,482 books — 16,387 voters
The Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsThe Greatest Show on Earth by Richard DawkinsWhy Evolution Is True by Jerry A. CoyneYour Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
Best Books on Evolution...
280 books — 219 voters

The Blank Slate by Steven PinkerOutliers by Malcolm GladwellStrangers to Ourselves by Timothy D. WilsonDescartes' Error by António DamásioSynaptic Self by Joseph E. LeDoux
Social Animal
78 books — 18 voters
Cosmos by Carl SaganA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootPale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Science Writing
289 books — 148 voters

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanOutliers by Malcolm GladwellBlink by Malcolm GladwellQuiet by Susan CainPredictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Greatest Psychology Books
795 books — 1,334 voters
Siddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIVZen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu SuzukiWhen Things Fall Apart by Pema ChödrönPeace Is Every Step by Thich Nhat Hanh
A Buddhist Reading List
929 books — 1,217 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,379 books — 1,639 voters
Minima Moralia by Theodor W. AdornoNegative Dialectics by Theodor W. AdornoCivilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund FreudPostmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonOne-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
Critical Theory
85 books — 38 voters


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