Non-Fiction Books

• Richard P. Feynman:
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
  • What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
• Bill Bryson:
  • A Short History of Nearyly Everything
• Sam Kean:
  • The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
  • The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
• Simon Singh
• The Code Book
• Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
• Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
• David Bodanis:
  • E=MC^2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
• Alex Bellos:
  • Here's Looking at Euclid: A Surprising Excursion Through the Astonishing World of Math
• George Gamow:
  • One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science
• Konrad Lorenz:
  • King Solomon's Ring
  • Man Meets Dog
• James D. Watson:
  • The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
• Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson:
  • Napoleon's Buttons: How 17 Molecules Changed History
• Thomas Hager:
  • The Alchemy of Air
• Michael H. Hart:
  • The 100: A Ranking Of The Most Influential Persons In History
• Jared Diamond:
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
• Malcolm Gladwell:
  • Outliers: The Story of Success
  • David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
• Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons:
  • The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us
• Steven Johnson:
  • How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
• Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson:
  • Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
• Douglas J. Emlen:
  • Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle
• Clifford Stoll:
  • Cookoo's Egg
• Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner:
  • Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
• Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon:
  • Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics
• Daniel James Brown
  • The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
• Alfred Lansing
  • Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
• David M. Oshinsky
  • Polio: An American Story
• Charles Wheelan and Burton G. Malkiel
  • Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)"
• David McCullough
  • The Wright Brothers
• Leonard Mlodinow
  • The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
• Sharon Moalem and Jonathan Prince
  • Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity
  • Inheritance: How Genes Change Our Lives
• Paul de Kruif
  • Microbe Hunters
• Ben Mezrich
  • Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions
• Walter Isaacson
  • Steve Jobs
• Yuval Noah Harari
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
• Tamim Ansary
  • Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
• Richard H. Thaler
  • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
• Daniel Kahneman
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

Fiction Books

• George Orwell:
  • Animal Farm
• Cixin Liu (Author in Chinese), Ken Liu (Translator), Joel Martinsen (Translator)
  • The Three-Body Problem
  • The Dark Forest
  • Death's End
• Neal Stephenson
  • Seveneves: A Novel

Audiobooks (mostly listened to in the Car)

• Homer (translated and performed by Stanley Lombardo)
  • Odyssey
  • Illiad
• Greatcourses
  • Abraham Lincoln: In His Own Words