The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

by Angus Deaton

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World

by Stephen Radelet

The Grid

by Gretchen Bakke

The Idea Factory

by Jon Gertner

The Inevitable

by Kevin Kelly

The Last Word

by Thomas Nagel

The Magic of Reality

by Richard Dawkins

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

The Map That Changed the World

by Simon Winchester

The Moral Animal

by Robert Wright

The Moral Arc: How Science Makes Us Better People

by Michael Shermer

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

by Evgeny Morozov

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

by Judith Rich Harris

The Open Society and Its Enemies

by Karl R. Popper

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

by Julian Jaynes

The Paleo Solution

by Robb Wolf

The Paradox of Choice

by Barry Schwartz

The Philosophical Baby

by Alison Gopnik

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

by Richard P. Feynman

The Power of Habit

by Charles Duhigg

The Pragmatic Programmer

by Andy Hunt and David Thomas

The Red Queen

by Matt Ridley

The Rise of Superman

by Steven Kotler

The Sciences of the Artificial

by Herbert Simon

The Scientist In The Crib

by Alison Gopnik

The Sense of Style

by Steven Pinker

The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap

by Susan Pinker

The Signal and the Noise

by Nate Silver

The Singularity Is Near

by Ray Kurzweil

The Sixth Extinction

by Elizabeth Kolbert