Books

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Jordan B. Peterson

★★★☆☆

2084: The End of the World

Boualem Sansal

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Yuval Noah Harari

A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings

Richard Dawkins

★★★☆☆

A Mad World, My Masters: Tales from a Traveller's Life

John Cody Fidler-Simpson

A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

Howard Zinn

★☆☆☆☆

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

Paul Bloom

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Stephen Kinzer

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Daniel C. Dennett

★★★★☆

Business @ The Speed Of Thought: Succeeding In The Digital Economy

Bill Gates

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction

Steve McConnell

★★★★☆

Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software

Mike Gunderloy

★★★★★

Convenience Store Woman

Sayaka Murata

★★★★☆

Conversations That Matter: Talking with Children and Teenagers in Ways That Help

Margot Sunderland

Darwinizing Culture: the Status of Memetics as a Science

Robert Aunger

★★☆☆☆

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

Tamim Ansary

★★★★★

Developer to Designer: GUI Design for the Busy Developer

Mike Gunderloy

★★★☆☆

Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

Eric Evans

★★★★☆

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Steve Krug

★★★★★

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Steven Pinker

Family Breakdown: Helping children hang on to both their parents

Penelope Leach

★★★☆☆

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Joseph J. Ellis

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Steven D. Levitt

Freedom Evolves

Daniel C. Dennett

★★★★★

God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion

Christopher Hitchens

★★★★☆

Guns, Germs and Steel (Civilizations Rise and Fall, #1)

Jared Diamond

High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People

Elad Gil

Hitch-22

Christopher Hitchens

Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

Yuval Noah Harari

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Steven Levitsky

★★★☆☆

If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future

Jill Lepore

★★★★☆

Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue

Sam Harris

★★★★☆

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work

Jason Fried

Jerusalem

Simon Sebag Montefiore

★★★☆☆

Liberalism and Its Discontents

Francis Fukuyama

★★★★☆

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark

Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East

James Barr

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy

Roger Eatwell

★★★★★

News from no man's land : reporting the world

John Cody Fidler-Simpson

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

Daniel Kahneman

Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World

Margaret MacMillan

★★★☆☆

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Marjane Satrapi

★★★☆☆

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

Marjane Satrapi

★★★☆☆

Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror

Michael V. Hayden

★★★★☆

Reading Lolita in Tehran: a story of love, books and revolution

Azar Nafisi

Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)

Martin Fowler

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

Robert B. Reich

Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Small Great Things

Jodi Picoult

★★★★★

Strange Places, Questionable People: Updated With a New Chapter on Kosovo

John Cody Fidler-Simpson

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

★★★☆☆

The Best Short Stories 2025: The O. Henry Prize Winners

Edward P. Jones

★★☆☆☆

The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky

Joel Spolsky

★★★★☆

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles

Bruce H. Lipton

★☆☆☆☆

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

Steven Pinker

★★★☆☆

The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design

Richard Dawkins

★★★★☆

The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right – A Provocative Analysis of Republican Excesses and Empowering Individuals

Andrew Sullivan

★★★★☆

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Sam Harris

★★★★☆

The End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama

★★★★★

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

Peter Zeihan

★★★★☆

The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

Steve Blank

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

★★★★★

The Grand Design

Stephen W. Hawking

★★☆☆☆

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

Richard Dawkins

★★★☆☆

The Happiness Myth: Why What We Think Is Right Is Wrong

Jennifer Michael Hecht

★★☆☆☆

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

★★★☆☆

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

★★★★☆

The Meme Machine

Susan Blackmore

★★★☆☆

The Object of My Affection Is in My Reflection: Coping with Narcissists

Rokelle Lerner

★★★☆☆

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

The Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

★★★★★

The Shortest History of England

James Hawes

★★★☆☆

The Shortest History of Germany

James Hawes

★★★★☆

The Shortest History of Japan: From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse―The Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation (The Shortest History Series)

Lesley Downer

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Nathaniel Branden

★★★☆☆

The Soul of a New Machine

Tracy Kidder

The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

Douglas Murray

★☆☆☆☆

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson

The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

Heather Morris

The Three Pound Universe

Judith Hooper

The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Joseph Henrich

★★★☆☆

The Worldly Philosophers

Robert L. Heilbroner

★★★☆☆

These Truths: A History of the United States

Jill Lepore

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Jon Meacham

★★★★☆

U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)

Founding Fathers

Wait, What?: A Thought-Provoking Guide To Asking The Right Questions

James E. Ryan

★★★★★

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

We are Iran

Nasrin Alavi

★★☆☆☆

Web Application Design Handbook: Best Practices for Web-Based Software (Interactive Technologies)

Susan Fowler

★★☆☆☆

Whole Brain Child

Daniel J. Siegel

Why I am Not a Muslim

Ibn Warraq

★★★☆☆

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

Robert M. Pirsig