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

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