"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

Start Ups/Business:

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
• The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
• Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups* Early Days  by jessica livingston,
• The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
• ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by 37signals
• The E-Myth Revisited : Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do about It  by Michael E. Gerber
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
• The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
• The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
• The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
• The Thank You Economy - Buy The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
• Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
• The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
• Leaving Microsoft to Change the World for Pack by Chris Rice, John Wood
• The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding  by Laura Ries, , Jack Trout
• Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Dont by Robert T .Kiyosaki
• Linchpin :  Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• What the Dog Saw: and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
• The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
• How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• The Talent Code: Greatness isn't born. It's grown Here's How by Daniel Coyle
• How I Made My First Million on the Internet and How You Can Too!: The Complete Insider's Guide to Making Millions with Your Internet Business by Ewen Chia
• Superfreakonomics : Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance  by Levitt, Steven D. Dubner, Stephen J.
• Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs by Bo Burlingham, Norm Brodsky
• Strategy for Sustainability : A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
• Who Says Elephants Can't Dance by Louis V. Jr. Gerstner
• The Ten Faces of Innovation (English) - Buy The Ten Faces of Innovation : IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Tom Kelley
• Too Big to Fail : The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• The Innovator's Dilemma : The Revolutionary National Bestseller That Changed The Way We Do Business  by clayton m. christensen
• The Paypal Wars : Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth by Eric M. Jackson
• Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
• The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic by Dan Ariely
• Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age eBook by Clay Shirky
• Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart by Ian Ayres

History

• From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present: Jacques Barzun
• The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage): Tim Wu
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World: Steven Johnson
• Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
• Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future: Ian Morrisage
• A Farewell to Alms : A Brief Economic History of the World: A Brief Economic History of the World Gregory Clark
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu

Design

• Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure): Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel

Politics

• The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by  Jonathan Haidt

Evolution

• The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary edition Richard Dawkins
• Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives: David Sloan Wilson
• Darwin's Dangerous Idea : EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE: Daniel C. Dennett

Philosophy and Psychology

• Any Book by Daniel Kahneman
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business by Charles Duhigg
• The Concise 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
• Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average: Joseph T. Hallinan
• Language as a Window into Human Nature: Steven Pinker
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature: Steven Pinker
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition: Robert B. Cialdini
• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future: Daniel H. Pink
• Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis: Eric Berne.
• How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic: Madsen Pirie
• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick
• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World: David
• Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World (Evolution and Cognition): Peter M. Todd, Gerd Gigerenzer
• This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking: John Brockman
• Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking: Daniel C. Dennett
• Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy: Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone
• The History of Western Philosophy: Bertrand Russell
• The Truth about Everything: Brianna Wiest
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
• Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized by John Collier, Don Ross, Professor of Philosophy James Ladyman
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto): Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern: Douglas Hofstadter
• Education and the Significance of Life: Krishnamurti
• Metaphors We Live By: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Joseph Campbell
• Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen: Christopher McDougall

Problem Solving

• How to Solve It : G. Polya.m

Puzzle Books

• What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles: Raymond M. Smullyan.

Sexuality

• Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha.
• For balance: Sex at Dusk: Lifting the Shiny Wrapping from Sex at Dawn: Lynn Saxon 

Education

• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance: Josh Waitzkin
• How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development): John Holt
• Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture: Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer
• Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood: A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb
• Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas: Seymour A. Papert
• Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist: John Brockman
• Teaching as a Subversive Activity: Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner

Writing

• Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim: Stephen Sondheim
• Clear and Simple as the Truth: Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner

Theater

• A Practical Handbook for the Actor: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet
• The Actor and the Target: Declan Donnellan
• How to Stop Acting: Harold Guskin
• Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh: Mike Alfreds
• Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair: Frank Hauser, Russell Reich
• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre: Keith Johnstone

Shakespeare

• Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard: Barry Edelstein.
• Hamlet in Purgatory: Stephen Greenblatt.
• Hamlet and Revenge: Eleanor Prosser.
• Shakespeare's Metrical Art: George T. Wright

Fiction

• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino, William Weaver
• Sense and Sensibility (Collins Classics) Jane Austen
• The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
• Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Emma: Jane Austen
• Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
• The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
• One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.): Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Signet): Ken Kesey
• Watership Down: A Novel: Richard Adams
• Cat's Eye: Margaret Atwood
• Bleak House (Penguin Classics): Charles Dickens
• Lonesome Dove: A Novel: Larry McMurtry
• The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
• The Queen's Gambit: A Novel: Walter Tevis
• 1Q84: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip ­Gabriel.
• War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy.
• The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald.

• Deception Point: Dan Brown

Technical

• How to Find a Habitable Planet (Science Essentials)
• Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science: Dean Keith Simonton
• The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science): Richard Dawkins
• Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe: Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee

Other / Not Yet Categorized

• Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence: Hans Moravec.
• In the Blink of an Eye Revised 2nd Edition: Walter Murch.
• The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present: Eric Kandel.
• The User Illusion.
• You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation: Deborah Tannen.
• The Little Schemer - 4th Edition: Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman.
• Steppenwolf: A Novel: Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton
• The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel: Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston
• The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook): Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander
• The Bone People: A Novel: Keri Hulme
• A Brief History of Time: Stephen Hawking
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Confessions of a Mask: Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby
• The City & The City (Random House Reader's Circle): China Mieville
• Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World: Kevin Kelly
• The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain: Terrence W. Deacon
• At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity: Stuart Kauffman
• The Discoverers: Daniel J. Boorstin
• Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (Perennial Classics) - Kindle edition by Mark Twain, Bernard DeVoto.
• Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy: William Barrett
• The Social Contract (Maestro Reprints): Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition: Thomas Sowell
• A Short History of Nearly Everything: Bill Bryson
• I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell: Tucker Max
• 8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power: Andrew Weil:
• The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature: Steven Pinker
• Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel: Rolf Potts
• Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime: John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership: Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
• The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies: Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave
• Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence eBook: David Perkins
• Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age: Bart Kosko
• The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom: Yochai Benkler
• The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind
• Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid: Robert J. Sternberg
• The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex: Murray Gell-Mann
• Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics: Eric D. Beinhocker
• The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies: Bryan Caplan
• Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human: Richard Wrangham
• Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World: Tyler Cowen
• Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity: Dean Keith Simonton
• Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense: Jonathan D. Moreno
• Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior: Geoffrey Miller
• Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher:
• Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling
• Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
• The 10, 000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
• The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Thomas L. Friedman