1. Moonglow by Michael Chabon
2. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future by Gretchen Bakke
3. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
4. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
5. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
6. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
7. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
8. Neuromancer by William Gibson
9. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard Thaler
10. The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin
11. The Myth of the Strong Leader by Archie Brown
12. The Diamond Age: or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neil Stephenson
13. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
14. What is Not Yours is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
15. Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer
16. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
17. The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
18. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
19. The Mismeasure of Man by Stephn Gould
20. Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
21. Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles Water Supply in the Owens Valley by William L. Kahrl
22. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
23. I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
24. A History of the Global Stock Market: From Ancient Rome to Silicon Valley by B. Mark Smith
25. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
26. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
