- On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life – 1st Edition – Charles Darwin
- Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries – Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution – Richard Dawkins
- A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
- Science, Evolution, and Creationism – National Academy of Sciences & Institute of Medicine
- Rare Earth – Peter Ward & Donald Brownlee
- Supersense – Bruce Hood
- Outliers -Malcolm Gladwell
- Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
- The Faith Instinct – Nicholas Wade
- How We Decide – Jonah Lehrer
- The Invisible Gorilla – Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons
- The Demon-Haunted World – Carl Sagan
- How We Believe – Michael Shermer
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature – Steven Pinker
- The Bridge at the End of the World – James Speth
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman – John Perkins
- How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like – Paul Bloom
- Annoying: The Science of What bugs Us – Joe Palca & Flora Lichtman
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined – Steven Pinker
- Mortality – Christopher Hitchens
- The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
- The Fellowship of the Ring – J. R. R. Tolkien
- Flight Behavior – Barbara Kingsolver
- Free Will – Sam Harris
- How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker
- Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
- The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty – Dan Ariely
- Drunk Tank Pink – Adam Alter
- Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal – Mary Roach
- The Measure of a Nation: How to Regain America’s Competitive Edge and our Boost Global Standing – Howard Steven Friedman
- The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet – Robert M. Hazen
- A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson
- Anthill – E.O. Wilson
- Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls – David Sedaris
- The Wild Life of our Bodies – Rob Dunn
- Five Billion Years of Solitude – Lee Billings
- Lucky Planet – David Waltham
- The Improbability Principle – David Hand
- Ha!: The Science of When we Laugh and Why – Scott Weems
- Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
- The Lacuna – Barbara Kingsolver
- Seveneves – Neal Stephenson
- Aurora – Kim Stanley Robinson
- A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
- The Martian – Andy Weir
- Red Rising – Pierce Brown
- Golden Son – Pierce Brown
- Morning Star – Pierce Brown
- Iron Gold – Pierce Brown
- Dark Age – Pierce Brown
- A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire – George R. R. Martin
- New York 2140 – Kim Stanley Robinson
- A Man Called Ove – Fredrik Backman
- A Game of Thrones – George R. R. Martin
- A Clash of Kings – George R.R. Martin
- A Storm of Swords – George R. R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows – George R. R. Martin
- Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 – David Sedaris
- Artemis – Andy Weir
- The Hidden Life of Trees – Peter Wohlleben
- The Handmaid’s Tail – Margaret Atwood
- The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
- Red Moon – Kim Stanley Robinson
- How to Change Your Mind – Michael Pollan
- Middlesex -Jeffrey Eugenides
- First Man – James R Hansen
- Rocket Men – Robert Kurson
- Britt-Marie Was Here – Fredrik Backman
- Why Fish Don’t Exist – Lulu Miller
- Moonshot – Richard Wiseman
- Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver
- The Body – Bill Bryson
- Leviathan Wakes – James S. A. Corey
- Caliban’s War – James S. A. Corey
- Abaddon’s Gate – James S. A. Corey
- Project Hail Mart – Andy Weir
- Nemesis Games – James S. A. Corey
- Babylon’s Ashes – James S. A. Corey
- Persepolis Rising – James S. A. Corey
- The Vital Abyss – James S. A. Corey
- Gods of Risk – James S. A. Corey
- Tiamat’s Wrath – James S. A. Corey
- Auberon – James S. A. Corey
- Leviathan Falls – James S. A. Corey
- Drive – James S. A. Corey
- The Churn – James S. A. Corey
- The Butcher of Anderson Station – James S. A. Corey
- Strange Dogs – James S. A. Corey
- Cibola Burn – James S. A. Corey
- The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman
- His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife – Philip Pullman
- The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman
- Shaman – Kim Stanley Robinson
- The High Sierra – Kim Stanley Robinson
- The Sandman – Neil Gaiman, Dirk Maggs
- Other Minds 0- Peter Godfrey-Smith
- The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission – Jim Bell
- The Ultimate Interplanetary Travel Guide – Jim Bell
Great Courses (by The Teaching Company)
- Famous Greeks & Famous Romans by J. Rufus Fears
- From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity by Bart D. Ehrman
- Particle Physics for Non-Physicists by Steven Pollack
- Great Scientific Ideas That Changed the World by Steven L. Goldman
- Origins of Life by Robert M. Hazen
- Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for the Non-Scientist, 2nd Edition by Richard Wolfson
- Earth’s Changing Climate by Richard Wolfson
- Origins of the Human Mind by Stephen P. Hinshaw