Non-fiction
- The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power - Robert Kaplan.
- Debt: The First 5000 Years - David Graeber.
- The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West - Alex Karp.
- The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind - Gustave Le Bon.
- Pieces of the Action - Vannevar Bush.
- Seven Brief Lessons on Physics - Carlo Rovelli.
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - Anne Lamott.
- The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must - Robert Zubrin.
- Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory - George Gamow.
- The Expulsion of Other: Society, Perception and Communication Today - Byung-Chul Han.
- How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between - Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner.
- The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth - Michio Kaku.
- Star Warriors: A Penetrating Look into the Lives of the Young Scientists Behind Our Space Age Weaponry - William Broad.
- What Life Could Mean to You - Alfred Adler. Timeless.
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni.
- Breaking Through: My Life in Science - Katalin Karikó.
- The Five Temptations of a CEO: A Leadership Fable - Patrick Lencioni.
- Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors - Patrick Lencioni.
- The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem - Nathaniel Branden. A very clean formulation.
- The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom - Graham Farmelo. The greatest read I’ve had in a long while.
- Thinking In Systems: A Primer - Donella Meadows. Familiar concepts from the signals & systems course in college, nevertheless a revelation when applied to personal routines and inducing my interest in the topic of resilience.
- The Fixer: My Adventures Saving Startups from Death by Politics - Bradley Tusk. Helpful for founders combating entrenched interests.
Fiction