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  1. Born to Run: Christopher McDougall
  2. Invisible Cities: Italo Calvin
  3. The Finance Curse: Nicholas Shaxson
  4. Bullshit Jobs: David Graeber
  5. Strange but True Science: --
  6. Brave Little Leaf: Natalie Mazer
  7. Small is Beautiful: E. F. Schumacher
  8. Secrets of Mental Math: Arthur Benjamin & Michael Shermer
  9. The Population Bomb: Paul R. Ehrlich
  10. Range: David Epstein
  11. Loonshots: Safi Bahcall
  12. The Four: Scott Galloway
  13. Elements of Choice: Eric J. Johnson
  14. In a Flight of Starlings: Giorgio Parisi
  15. Dragons of Eden: Carl Sagan
  16. The Algebra of Happiness: Scott Galloway
  17. More Than Human: Ramez Naam
  18. Wild Problems: Russ Roberts
  19. The Psychology of Money: Morgan Hausel
  20. The Bed of Procrustes: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  21. Fascism: A Warning: Madeleine Albright
  22. Stuff, Be Gone: Zohra Mubeena
  23. Guns, Germs and Steel: Jared Diamond
  24. The Opposite of Namaste: Timber Hawkeye
  25. The One Thing: Gary Keller & Jay Papasan
  26. Biobuilding: Sam Barsch Adam
  27. Drunk Tank Pink: Adam Alter
  28. Dancing with Qubits: Robert S. Sutor
  29. Jesus Lived in India: Holger Kersten
  30. Tracers in the Dark: Andy Greenberg
  31. The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: Benoit Mandelbrot
  32. Experimental Wife: Sandra Jean Bangham
  33. Start with Why: Simon Sinek
  34. Bernoulli's Fallacy: Aubrey Clayton
  35. The Pregnant King: Devdutt Pattanaik
  36. The Singularity is Near: Ray Kurzweil
  37. Silent Spring: Rachel Carson
  38. Skip to the Fun Parts: Dana Jeri Maier
  39. The History of Mathematics: Carl B. Boyer
  40. The Lord of the Flies: William Golding
  41. The Annotated Gödel: Hal Prince
  42. Five Golden Rules: John L. Casti
  43. Transformer: Nick Lane
  44. The Story Behind: Emily Prokop
  45. Energy: Richard Rhodes
  46. Rethinking Consciousness: Michael S. A. Graziano
  47. A Thousand Brains: Jeff Hawkins
  48. The Ascent of Money: Niall Ferguson
  49. The Nazi Hunters: Andrew Nagorski
  50. The Genius of Earth Day: Adam Rome
  51. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Erik Larson
  52. The Beginning of Infinity: David Deutsch
  53. Masala Lab: Krish Ashok
  54. The Confidence Game: Maria Konnikova
  55. Shape: Jordan Ellenberg
  56. The Discourses: Niccolo Machiavelli
  57. Against the Gods: Peter Bernstein
  58. Through the Language Glass: Guy Deutscher
  59. Trading at the Speed of Light: Donald MacKenzie
  60. Numbers Don't Lie: Vaclav Smil
  61. The Prince: Niccolo Machiavelli
  62. No One Ever Told Us That: John D. Spooner
  63. The Great Arc: John Keay
  64. How Not to Be Wrong: Jordan Ellenberg
  65. Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
  66. The Double Helix: James D. Watson
  67. V for Vendetta: Alan Moore & David Lloyd
  68. The Unfolding of Language: Guy Deutscher
  69. Principles of Human Knowledge: George Berkeley
  70. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: Robert A. Heinlein
  71. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Philip K. Dick
  72. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Abridged): John Locke
  73. Watchmen: Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
  74. The Grand Biocentric Design: Adam Lanza & Matej Pavśić
  75. Hackers: Steven Levy
  76. Americana: Bhu Srinivasan
  77. The Code Breaker: Walter Isaacson
  78. Empires of the Word: Nicholas Ostler
  79. Eniac: Scott McCartney
  80. Irrational Exuberance: Robert J. Shiller
  81. Deep Simplicity: John Gribbin
  82. Money for Nothing: Thomas Levenson
  83. The Prize: Daniel Yergin
  84. The Secret Life of Groceries: Benjamin Lorr
  85. Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony: Lewis Thomas
  86. A World Without Work: Daniel Susskind
  87. Genius: James Gleick
  88. No Rules Rules: Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
  89. On Human Nature and The Understanding: David Hume
  90. The TeX Book: Donald E. Knuth
  91. Thinking In Bets: Annie Duke
  92. Titan: Ron Chernow
  93. Doubt And Certainty: Tony Rothman & George Sudarshan
  94. Fortune's Formula: William Poundstone
  95. The Path Between the Seas: David McCullough
  96. Humble Pi: Matt Parker
  97. Molecules At An Exhibition: John Emsley
  98. Upstream: Dan Heath
  99. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: Matt Parker
  100. The Making of the Atomic Bomb: Richard Rhodes
  101. Cod: Mark Kurlansky
  102. Ella Minnow Pea: Mark Dunn
  103. Scarcity: Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir
  104. The Paradox of Choice: Barry Schwartz
  105. The Moscow Rules: Antonio & Jonna Mendez
  106. Range: David Epstein
  107. How To: Randall Munroe
  108. The Ocean of Churn: Sanjeev Sanyal
  109. Capital in the 21st Century: Thomas Piketty
  110. Eight Lessons on Infinity: A Mathematical Adventure: Haim Shapira
  111. Eating Animals: Jonathan Safran Foer
  112. Better: Atul Gawande
  113. The God Delusion: Richard Dawkins
  114. The Omnivore's Dilemma: Michael Pollan
  115. Discipline & Punish: Michel Foucault
  116. Naked Money: Charles Wheelan
  117. Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith
  118. The Magic of Reality: Richard Dawkins
  119. The Selfish Gene: Richard Dawkins
  120. God is not Great: Christopher Hitchens
  121. Factfulness: Hans Rosling
  122. Why There is no God: Armin Navabi
  123. Slugfest: Reed Tucker
  124. Winners Take All: Anand Giridharadas
  125. Thing Explainer: Randall Munroe
  126. Through Two Doors at Once: Anil Ananthaswamy
  127. The Blank Slate: Steven Pinker
  128. Artemis: Andy Weir
  129. Nudge: Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein
  130. Thinking Fast and Slow: Daniel Kahneman
  131. How Not to Be Wrong: Jordan Ellenberg
  132. How to Excel at Math and Science: Barbara Oakland
  133. The Cartoon Guide to the Environment: Larry Gonick & Alice Outwater
  134. The Cartoon Guide to Genetics: Larry Gonick & Mark Wheelis
  135. The Cartoon Guide to Physics: Larry Gonick & Art Huffman
  136. The Cartoon Guide to Chemistry: Larry Gonick & Craig Criddle
  137. The Cartoon Guide to Algebra: Larry Gonick
  138. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics: Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith
  139. How the Mind Works: Steven Pinker
  140. Sapiens: Yuval Noah Harari
  141. The Better Angels Of Our Nature: Steven Pinker
  142. The Internet of Money: Andreas M. Antonopoulos
  143. The Physics of Superheroes: James Kakalios
  144. Everybody Lies: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  145. Weapons of Math Destruction: Cathy O'Neil
  146. Four Fish: Paul Greenberg
  147. Algorithms To Live By: Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
  148. Originals: Adam Grant
  149. Antifragile: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  150. A Burglar's Guide to the City: Geoff Manaugh
  151. The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran: Robert Spencer
  152. The Tipping Point: Malcolm Gladwell
  153. The Gene: Siddhartha Mukherjee
  154. Integration of the Indian States: V. P. Menon
  155. The Silk Roads: Peter Frankopan
  156. Outliers: Malcolm Gladwell
  157. The Rules of Wealth: Richard Templar
  158. Fault Lines: Raghuram Rajan
  159. The Art of Thinking Clearly: Rolf Dobelli
  160. The End of Faith: Sam Harris
  161. The Martian: Andy Weir
  162. What If?: Randall Munroe
  163. WTF, Evolution?: Mara Grunbaum
  164. The Theory Of Everything: Stephen Hawking
  165. Angels And Demons: Dan Brown
  166. Being Mortal: Atul Gawande
  167. Peril At End House: Agatha Christie
  168. Joy, Inc.: Richard Sheridan
  169. Tubes: Andrew Blum
  170. This Explains Everything: John Brockman
  171. Flashman: Fraser MacDonald
  172. Naked Statistics: Charles Wheelan
  173. Empire Of The Moghul - Raiders From The North: Alex Rutherford
  174. The Signal And The Noise: Nate Silver
  175. 2 States: Chetan Bhagat
  176. Hen's Teeth And Horse's Toes: Stephen Jay Gould
  177. Rework: Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  178. The Revenge Of Geography: Robert Kaplan
  179. Getting Real: Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  180. Naked Economics: Charles Wheelan
  181. The Upside Of Irrationality: Dan Ariely
  182. The Third Chimpanzee: Jared Diamond
  183. All The Countries We Have Invaded: Stuart Laycock
  184. The Art of Strategy: Avinash K. Dixit & Barry. J. Nalebuff
  185. The Wonder That Was India - Part II: S. A. A. Rizvi
  186. The Wonder That Was India: A. L. Basham
  187. The Elephant, The Tiger And The Cellphone: Shashi Tharoor
  188. I Am America (And So Can You!): Stephen Colbert
  189. Earth (The Book): Jon Stewart
  190. A Brief History Of Time: Stephen Hawking
  191. How to Win Every Argument: Madsen Pirie
  192. The Man Who Was Thursday: G. K. Chesterton
  193. New Theories Of Everything: John D. Barrow
  194. Maus II: Art Spiegelman
  195. Maus I: Art Spiegelman
  196. Numbers Rule Your World: Kaiser Fung
  197. Fermat's Last Theorem: Simon Singh
  198. Mahabharata: Devdutt Pattanaik
  199. Jack Patel's Dubai Dreams: P. G. Bhaskar
  200. Little Bets: Peter Sims
  201. Boomerang: Michael Lewis
  202. The Medusa and the Snail: Lewis Thomas
  203. The Big Short: Michael Lewis
  204. The Emperor of all Maladies: Siddhartha Mukherjee
  205. One Simple Idea: Stephen Key
  206. The 4-Hour Workweek: Timothy Ferriss
  207. Fantasia Mathematica: Clifton Fadiman
  208. The Penal Colony: Franz Kafka
  209. India Calling: Anand Giridharadas
  210. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: David S. Landes
  211. The Cartoon History of the Modern World: Larry Gonick
  212. In Spite of the Gods: Edward Luce
  213. 13 Things that Don't Make Sense: Michael Brooks
  214. Plato and Platypus Walk into a Bar: Thomas Cathcart & Daniel M. Klein
  215. The Story of My Experiments in Truth: Mohandas K. Gandhi
  216. A Splendid Exchange: William J. Bernstein
  217. First You Build A Cloud: K. C. Cole
  218. The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten: Julian Baggini
  219. River Of Gods: Ian McDonald
  220. The Book Of General Ignorance: John Mitchinson & John Lloyd
  221. Superstar India: Shobha De
  222. The Art of Money: David Standish
  223. The Drunkard's Walk: Leonard Mlodinow
  224. Where The Wild Things Were: William Stolzenberg
  225. Lost Histories of Indian Cricket: Boria Majumdar
  226. The Seekers: Daniel J. Boorstin
  227. Predictably Irrational: Dan Ariely
  228. The Back of the Napkin: Dan Roam
  229. Longitude: Dava Sobel
  230. Jesus Lived in India: Holger Kersten
  231. The No Asshole Rule: Robert I. Sutton
  232. The World Without Us: Alan Wiesman
  233. Better: Atul Gawande
  234. The Flamingo's Smile: Stephen Jay Gould
  235. The Hidden History of the Human Race: Michael A. Cremo & Richard L. Thompson
  236. A Short History of Nearly Everything: Bill Bryson
  237. The Panda's Thumb: Stephen Jay Gould
  238. The Long Tail: Chris Anderson
  239. The End Of Poverty: Jeffrey D. Sachs
  240. The World Is Flat: Thomas Friedman
  241. Collapse: Jared Diamond
  242. Salt: Mark Kurlansky
  243. Life of Pi: Yann Martell
  244. Blink: Malcolm Gladwell
  245. Freakonomics: Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
  246. The Story of Phi: Mario Livio
  247. First, Break All the Rules: Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
  248. The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Stephen Jay Gould
  249. Persepolis II: Marjane Satrapi
  250. Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi
  251. Dangerous Company: James O'Shea & Charles Madigan
  252. Economics in One Lesson: Henry Hazlitt
  253. Guns, Germs and Steel: Jared Diamond
  254. The Dhammapada: Ananda Maitreya & Rose Kramer
  255. The Automatic Millionaire: David Bach
  256. Karma Cola: Gita Mehta
  257. The Da Vinci Code: Dan Brown
  258. Creating Wealth: Bob Allen
  259. The Rise and Fall of the British Empire: Lawrence James
  260. The Supermen: Charles J. Murray
  261. The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Victor Hugo
  262. The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution - A Reconsideration: Mark Roseman
  263. The Design of Everyday Things: Donald A. Norman
  264. The Mismeasure of Man: Stephen Jay Gould
  265. The Programmer's Stone: Alan G. Carter & Colston Sanger
  266. The Living Past: Ivar Lissner
  267. Hyperspace: Michio Kaku
  268. Dinosaur in a Haystack: Stephen Jay Gould
  269. The Hindu Mind: Bansi Pandit
  270. Science and Hypothesis: Henri Poincaré
  271. Five Golden Rules: John L. Casti
  272. My Days - A Memoir: R. K. Narayan
  273. Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony: Lewis Thomas
  274. The Cartoon Guide to Statistics: Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith
  275. A Random Walk in Science: Robert L. Weber & Eric Mendoza
  276. Robinson Crusoe: Daniel Defoe
  277. The Moon and Sixpence: W. Somerset Maugham
  278. The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights: John Steinbeck
  279. Frontiers: Isaac Asimov
  280. VEIL: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987: Bob Woodward
  281. Marco Polo: Maurice Collis
  282. Jurassic Park: Michael Crichton
  283. Officers and Gentlemen: Evelyn Waugh
  284. Men at Arms: Evelyn Waugh
  285. Kalki: Gore Vidal
  286. Taming the Atom: Hans Christian von Baeyer
  287. Neuromancer: William Gibson
  288. The Catcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger
  289. The Man Who Knew Infinity: Robert Kanigel
  290. Acquired Tastes: Peter Mayle
  291. The Elegant Universe: Brian Greene
  292. The Mythical Man-Month: Frederick P. Brooks
  293. Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Richard Feynman
  294. Six Easy Pieces: Richard Feynman
  295. Gödel, Escher Bach - An Eternal Golden Braid: Douglas Hofstadter
  296. Bored of the Rings: Harvard Lampoon
  297. The Gulag Archipelago: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  298. The Great Indian Novel: Shashi Tharoor
  299. The Colours of Evil: Ashokamitran
  300. Great Essays in Science: Martin Gardner (ed.)
  301. Red Giants and White Dwarfs: Robert Jastrow
  302. In Quest of Jesus: W. Barnes Tatum
  303. Emergence: Steven Johnson
  304. Dune: Frank Herbert
  305. 1984: George Orwell
  306. India: A History: John Keay
  307. The Histories: Herodotus
  308. She Stoops to Conquer: Oliver Goldsmith
  309. Dragons of Eden: Carl Sagan
  310. Sholay: The Making of a Classic: Anupama Chopra
  311. Broca's Brain: Carl Sagan
  312. The Great Railway Bazaar: Paul Theroux
  313. The Riddle of the Dinosaur: John Wilford Noble
  314. Creation: Gore Vidal
  315. The Dancing Wu Li Masters: Gary Zukav
  316. Culture Jam: Kalle Lasn
  317. Lady Chatterly's Lover: D. H. Lawrence
  318. Roots: Alex Haley
  319. Song of Solomon: Toni Morrison
  320. Utopia: Thomas More
  321. The Mahabharata: Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
  322. Foundation and Earth: Isaac Asimov
  323. Foundation's Edge: Isaac Asimov
  324. The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy
  325. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: William L. Shirer
  326. The New New Thing: Michael Lewis
  327. Economics in One Lesson: Henry Hazlitt
  328. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
  329. Man's Search for Meaning: Viktor Frankl
  330. A Brief History of Time: Stephen Hawking
  331. The Odessa File: Frederick Forsythe
  332. The Haj: Leon Uris
  333. The Man from St. Petersburg: Ken Follet
  334. The Art of War: Sun Tzu Wu
  335. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Robert Pirsig
  336. Hocus Pocus: Kurt Vonnegut
  337. Foundation: Isaac Asimov
  338. The Prophet: Kahlil Gibran
  339. Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift
  340. Rubaiyat: Omar Khayyám
  341. Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
  342. Microserfs: Douglas Copeland
  343. Steppenwolf: Herman Hesse
  344. On the Road: Jack Kerouac
  345. Women in Love: D. H. Lawrence
  346. Complete Works: Saki (H. H. Munro)
  347. Animal Farm: George Orwell
  348. Collected Short Stories: O. Henry
  349. Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand
  350. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: J. R. R. Tolkien
  351. After Many a Summer Dies the Swan: Aldous Huxley
  352. Labyrinths: Jorge Luis Borges
  353. Fountainhead: Ayn Rand
  354. Complete Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle
  355. The Cartoon History of the Universe: Larry Gonick
  356. Doonesbury: Garry Trudeau
  357. The Far Side: Gary Larson
  358. Calvin & Hobbes: Bill Waterson
  359. Garfield: Jim Davis
  360. Dilbert: Scott Adams
  361. The Adventures of Asterix, the Gaul: Goscinny & Uderzo
  362. The Adventures of Tintin: Hergé
  363. Cerebus: Dave Sim
  364. You Said It: R. K. Laxman

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