Entrepreneurship
- Zero to One; Peter Thiel
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future; Ashlee Vance
- Move Fast and Break Things; Jonathan Taplin
- The Great Bridge; David McCullough
- To Fly Like a Bird; Joe Mashman
Finance/Economics
- The Man Who Solved the Market; Gregory Zuckerman
- The Physics of Wall Street; James Weatherall
- The Black Swan; Nicholas Nassim Taleb
- More Money Than God; Sebastian Mallaby
- The Quants; Scott Patterson
- Dark Pools; Scott Patterson
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street; Burton Malkiel
- Adaptive Markets; Andrew Lo
- Freedom's Forge; Arthur Herman
- The Richest Man in Babylon; George Clarson
Physics/Mathematics
- The Scientist as Rebel; Freeman Dyson
- A Mathematician's Apology; G. H. Hardy
- Love and Math; Edward Frenkle
- The Greatest Story Every Told - So Far; Lawrence Krauss
- The Big Picture; Sean Carroll
- Algebra; Michael Artin (textbook)
History/Military History/Intelligence Service History/Biographical History
- Rogue Heros; Ben Macintyre
- The Lion's Gate; Steven Pressfield
- Sea Stories; Admiral William McRaven
- Blind Man's Bluff; Sherry Sontag et al.
- Endurance; Alfred Lansing
- The Secret State; Colonel John Hughes-Wilson
- The Kremlin Strikes Back; Steven Rosefielde
- The Man Without A Face; Masha Gessen
- Hardcore History: Supernova in the East; Dan Carlin (podcast series - eastern front, WW2)
- Hardcore History: Ghosts of the Ostfront; Dan Carlin (podcast series - pacific theater, WW2)
Philosophy/Sociology
- The Revolt of the Public; Martin Gurri
- The Strange Death of Europe; Douglas Murray
- The Rational Optimist; Matt Ridley
- Enlightenment Now; Steven Pinker
- The Accidental Superpower; Peter Zeihan
- The Gulag Archipelago; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Hillbilly Elegy; J.D. Vance
- The Diversity Myth; Peter Thiel
- Letters from a Stoic; Lucius Seneca
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Friedrich Nietzsche
- Between Heaven & Hell; Peter Kreeft