Favorite books by subject.

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Brain / Networks / Collaboration
Wisdom of Crowds, TheJames Surowiecki
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and WorstRobert M. Sapolsky
Brain that Changes Itself, TheNorman Doidge
Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, TheOliver Sacks
Nature FixFlorence Williams
Global BrainHoward Bloom
MusicophiliaOliver Sacks
Psychology of the Digital AgeJohn Suler
Imp of the MindLee Baer
Ketamine for DepressionDr. Stephen J. Hyde
This Naked MindAnnie Grace
How to Take Smart NotesSönke Ahrens
Elephant in the Brain, TheKevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Phantoms in the BrainSandra Blakeslee, V. S. Ramachandran
Victorian InternetTom Standage
Because InternetGretchen McCulloch
Medium is the MassageMarshall McLuhan
Life / Philosophy / Religion / Spirituality
When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi
Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of ReligionAlain De Botton
Wisdom of Insecurity, TheAlan Watts
Course of Love: A NovelAlain de Botton
Modern RomanceAriz Ansari
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian SpiritualityDonald Miller
How to Win Friends & Influence PeopleDale Carnegie
Doors of Perception and Heaven and HellAldous Huxley
How to Change Your MindMichael Pollan
God’s DebrisScott Adams
Courage to be DislikedIchiro Kishimi
Finite and Infinite GamesJames Carse
Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred JourneysJames Fadiman
AttachedAmir Levine
LSD: My Problem ChildAlbert Hofmann
WaldenHenry David Thoreau
War of Art, TheSteven Pressfield
God and Sex: Now We Get BothMark Whitwell
People and Living Together
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal WorldRutger Bregman
Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of PowerShoshana Zuboff
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each OtherSherry Turkle
Amusing Ourselves to DeathNeil Postman
Nothing Is True and Everything Is PossiblePeter Pomerantsev
Master Switch, TheTim Wu
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth CenturyTimothy Snyder
Letters to a Young ContrarianChristopher Hitchens
Hell’s AngelsHunter S. Thompson
Nonviolent CommunicationMarshall B. Rosenberg PhD
Very Important PeopleAshley Mears
Behavioral Economics
Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman
InfluenceRobert B. Cialdini
Predictably IrrationalDan Ariely
Fiction
Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady’s Illustrated PrimerNeal Stephenson
Stories of Your Life and OthersTed Chiang
Three Body Problem, TheCixin Liu
DuneFrank Herbert
A Gentleman in MoscowAmor Towles
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Philip K. Dick
CryptonomiconNeal Stephenson
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley
Devil in the White CityErik Larson
Nineteen Eighty FourGeorge Orwell
I, RobotIsaac Asimov
Manifold: TimeStephen Baxter
Martian, TheAndy Weir
Catch-22Joseph Heller
Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury
Hobbit, TheJ.R.R. Tolkien
Dark Tower, TheStephen King
Stand, TheStephen King
AnnihilationJeff VanderMeer
Artificial Intelligence
Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend BiologyRay Kurzweil
Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, ThePedro Domingos
NovaceneJames Lovelock, Bryan Appleyard
Startups, Business, Institutions
Zero to OnePeter Thiel
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized WorldDavid Epstein
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win BigScott Adams
Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business WinGene Kim
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted WorldCal Newport
Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, TheJon Gertner
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at LockheedBen R. Rich
Masters of DoomDavid Kushner
One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.comRichard L. Brandt
Hatching TwitterNick Bilton
Smartest Guys in the Room, TheBethany McLean
InnovatorsWalter Issacson
Space Barons, TheChristian Davenport
Skygods: The Fall of Pan AmRobert Gandt
American KingpinNick Bilton
Finance & Economics
Richest Man in BabylonGeorge Clason
Rich Dad Poor DadRobert T. Kiyosaki
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily LifeNassim Nicholas Taleb
Economics in One LessonHenry Hazlitt
Memoris & Bibliographies
Educated: A MemoirTara Westover
Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro
Ghost in the WiresKevin Mitnick
Andrew CarnegieDavid Nasaw
Countdown to Zero DayKim Zetter
Surely You’re Joking, Mr FeynmanRichard Feynman
Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus, TheRichard Preston
Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine EspionageSherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, Annette Lawrence Drew
Total RecallArnold Schwarzenegger
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic FutureAshlee Vance
Hillbilly ElegyJ. D. Vance
On the Move: A LifeOliver Sacks
Fear and Loathing in Las VegasHunter S. Thompson
Big Dead PlaceNicholas Johnson
Permanent RecordEdward Snowden
Everything in its PlaceOliver Sacks
Last Lecture, TheJeffrey Zaslow
Kitchen ConfidentialAnthony Bourdain
Confessions of an Advertising ManDavid Ogilvy
Shadow DiversRobert Kurson
Never EnoughAndrew Wilkinson
Short Stories & Novellas
UnderstandTed Chiang
Exhalation: StoriesTed Chiang
Last Question, TheIssac Asimov
Egg, TheAndy Weir

And some books which really shaped me as a kid:

TitleAuthor
Pendragon (series)D. J. MacHale
Artemis Fowl (series)Eoin Colfer
Supernaturalist, TheEoin Colfer
AirmanEoin Colfer
Starclimber (series)Kenneth Oppel
Alex Rider (series)Anthony Horowitz
C.H.E.R.U.B. (series)Robert Muchamore
Hunger GamesSuzane Collins
Lone SurvivorMarcus Luttrell
Boy in Striped PajamasJohn Boyne
Roar, The (series)Emma Clayton
Tuesdays with MorrieMitch Albom
Book Thief, TheMarkus Zusak
Where the Red Fern GrowsWilson Rawls
Tunnels (series)Roderick Gordon
Wool (series)Hugh Howey
Sigma Force (series)James Rollins
A Wrinkle in TimeMadeleine L’Engle
A Series of Unfortunate EventsLemony Snicket
Tomorrow Code, TheBrian Falkner
HolesLouis Sachar
Giver, TheLois Lowry
Ender’s GameOrson Scott Card
Island of the Blue DolphinsScott O’Dell