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)