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

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