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

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