Reading List

  • 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
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