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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By Yuval Noah Harari

Sex, God, and the Brain: How Sexual Pleasure Gave Birth to Religion and a Whole Lot More

By Newberg M.D., Andrew

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By Ranganath PhD, Charan

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By Schlanger, Zoë

Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

By Doty MD, James R.

Poverty, by America

By Desmond, Matthew

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By Maté MD, Gabor

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

By Rory Sutherland

The Nineties: A Book

By Chuck Klosterman

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

By Hari, Johann

Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really Are

By Lieberman PhD, David J.

Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them

By Phillips, Tom, Elledge, Jonn

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

By Burkeman, Oliver

The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

By Wright, Robert

Plays Well with Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrong

By Barker, Eric

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

By Pinker, Steven

Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us

By Klaas, Brian

The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

By Pink, Daniel H.

Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

By Press, Eyal

We Need New Stories: The Myths That Subvert Freedom

By Nesrine Malik

Upside: Profiting from the Profound Demographic Shifts Ahead

By Gronbach, Kenneth

The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

By Lieberman, Daniel Z., Long, Michael E.

Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't)

By Alex Bezzerides

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

By Rovelli, Carlo

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy

By Martin Lindstrom

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By Epstein, David

Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents

By Wilkerson, Isabel

Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts' (Bloomsbury Revelations)

By Fromm, Erich, Marx, Karl

Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t

By Phillips, Tom

Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up

By Phillips, Tom

The Communist Manifesto

By Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich

Angrynomics

By Lonergan, Eric, Blyth, Mark

Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

By Emanuel, Ezekiel J.

Since Yesterday: The 1930's in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939

By Allen, Frederick L

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

By Barker, Eric

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

By Murray, Douglas

Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

By Orenstein, Peggy

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

By Malcolm Gladwell

Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction

By Thompson, Derek

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

By Orenstein, Peggy

Team Human

By Rushkoff, Douglas

Jung: A Very Short Introduction

By Stevens, Anthony

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

By Harari, Yuval Noah

The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die

By Payne, Keith

Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope

By Hari, Johann

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

By Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling

Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth, the Illusion of Consent, and the Fight for Our Future

By Martinez, Raoul

On Color

By David Kastan, Stephen Farthing

The Power of Moments: Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

By Chip Heath, Dan Heath

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

By Kurt Andersen

Eat the Apple

By Matt Young

Why Liberalism Failed (Politics and Culture)

By Patrick J. Deneen

A Second Chance: For You, For Me, And For The Rest Of Us

By Catherine Hoke

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

By Daniel H. Pink

Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator

By Ryan Holiday

The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

By Burkeman, Oliver

The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

By Dan Jurafsky

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

By Timothy Snyder

Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter

By Scott Adams

Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

By Russell Brand

You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, an d 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself

By McRaney, David

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

By Cheryl Strayed

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

By Chris Voss, Tahl Raz

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

By Jennifer Senior

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

By Adam Alter

The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

By Helen Russell

Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us

By Shane Claiborne

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

By Sebastian Junger

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

By Steven Johnson

The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

By Sean Carroll

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By Bryan Stevenson

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By Carlo Rovelli

Revolution

By Russell Brand

Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years

By David Graeber

Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation

By Joseph Campbell

American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

By Dan Savage

The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (Hinges of History)

By Thomas Cahill

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

By Johann Hari

Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

By Carl Sagan

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

By Al Ries, Jack Trout

Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe

By Mario Livio

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

By Chris Hedges, Joe Sacco

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

By Jonah Berger

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

By Jessica Valenti

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

By Nicholas Carr

The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain

By Daniel Gardner

The Medium is the Massage

By McLuhan, Marshall, Fiore, Quentin

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

By Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett

That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion

By Rachel Herz PhD PhD

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

By Chip Heath, Dan Heath

The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm

By Kenneth W. Gronbach

The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Revised Edition

By Barry Schwartz

How We Decide

By Jonah Lehrer

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition

By Robert B. Cialdini