Recommended (book with the greatest positive impact)
- The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul --- Dennet & Hofstadter
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined --- Pinker
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom --- Haidt
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty --- Acemoglu & Robinson
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century --- Picketty
- Consciousness Explained --- Dennett
- Guns, Germs, and Steel --- Diamond (but Why Nations Fail is more correct)
Wish to read/finish
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information --- Tufte
- A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World --- Clark
- Reasons and Persons --- Parfit
- Word and Object --- Quine
- The Moral Animal --- Robert Wright
- Practical Ethics --- Singer
- Genealogy of Morals --- Nietzsche
- The Wealth of Nations --- Smith
Textbooks and the like
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics --- Feynman
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach --- Russell & Norvig
- Information Theory, Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks --- Mackay
- Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air --- Mackay
- Concepts: Core Readings --- Margolis & Lawrence
- A Mathematical Theory of Communication --- Shannon
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money --- Keynes
- The Art of Computer Programming --- Knuth
- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp --- Norvig
- Syntactic Structures --- Chomsky
- Modularity of Mind --- Fodor