Books to read

Start Ups/Business:
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
Rework by 37signals
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber
The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitablyby Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries, Jack Trout
Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert Kiyosaki
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated) by Timothy Ferriss
The Success Principles(TM): How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How by Daniel Coyle
How I Made My First Million on the Internet and How You Can Too!: The Complete Insider's Guide to Making Millions with Your Internet Businessby Ewen Chia
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J Dubner
Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs eBook by Norm Brodsky, Bo Burlingham
Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change by Louis V. Jr. Gerstner
The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem--and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen
The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth by Eric M. Jackson
Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic by Dan Ariely
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age eBook by Clay Shirky
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart by Ian Ayres
Winning by Jack Welch
The Changing World of the Executive by Peter F. Drucker
All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World by Seth Godin
Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers by Geoffrey A. Moore
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Theil

History
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present: Jacques Barzun
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage): Tim Wu
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World: Steven Johnson
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies: Jared M. Diamond
Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future: Ian Morris
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton Economic History of the Western World): Gregory Clark
The Art of War - Sun Tzu

Design
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure): Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel

Politics
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Vintage): Barack Obama
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion: Jonathan Haidt: 

Evolution
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author: Richard Dawkins
Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives: David Sloan Wilson
DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA: EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE: Daniel C. Dennett

Philosophy and Psychology
Any book by Daniel Kahneman
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business: Charles Duhigg
The 48 Laws of Power: Robert Greene
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average: Joseph T. Hallinan
Language as a Window into Human Nature: Steven Pinker
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature: Steven Pinker
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition: Robert B. Cialdini
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future: Daniel H. Pink
Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis: Eric Berne.
EPZ How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic: Madsen Pirie
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World: David
Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World (Evolution and Cognition): Peter M. Todd, Gerd Gigerenzer
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking: John Brockman
Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking: Daniel C. Dennett
Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy: Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone
The History of Western Philosophy: Bertrand Russell
The Truth about Everything: Brianna Wiest
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge: Edward Osborne Wilson
Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized: James Ladyman, Don Ross, David Spurrett, John Collier
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto): Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern: Douglas Hofstadter
Education and the Significance of Life: Krishnamurti
Metaphors We Live By: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Joseph Campbell
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen: Christopher McDougall
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking: Susan Cain

Problem Solving
How to Solve It: G. Polya.

Puzzle Books
What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles: Raymond M. Smullyan.

Sexuality
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships: Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha.
For balance: Sex at Dusk: Lifting the Shiny Wrapping from Sex at Dawn: Lynn Saxon 

Education
The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance: Josh Waitzkin
How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development): John Holt 
Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture: Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer
Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood: A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas: Seymour A. Papert
Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist: John Brockman
Teaching as a Subversive Activity: Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner

Writing
Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim: Stephen Sondheim.
Clear and Simple as the Truth: Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner.

Theatre
A Practical Handbook for the Actor: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet.
The Actor and the Target: Declan Donnellan.
How to Stop Acting: Harold Guskin.
Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh: Mike Alfreds.
Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair: Frank Hauser, Russell Reich.
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre: Keith Johnstone.

Shakespeare
Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard: Barry Edelstein.
Hamlet in Purgatory: Stephen Greenblatt.
Hamlet and Revenge: Eleanor Prosser.
Shakespeare's Metrical Art: George T. Wright.

Fiction
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler: Italo Calvino, William Weaver
Sense and Sensibility (Collins Classics) Jane Austen
The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
Pride and Prejudice - Kindle edition by Jane Austen.
Emma: Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
Amazon.com: One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.): Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Signet): Ken Kesey
Watership Down: A Novel: Richard Adams
Cat's Eye: Margaret Atwood
Bleak House (Penguin Classics): Charles Dickens:
Lonesome Dove: A Novel: Larry McMurtry
The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
The Queen's Gambit: A Novel: Walter Tevis
1Q84: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip ­Gabriel.
War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy.
The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Technical 
How to Find a Habitable Planet (Science Essentials)
Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science: Dean Keith Simonton
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science): Richard Dawkins
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe: Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee

Other / Not Yet Categorized
Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence: Hans Moravec.
In the Blink of an Eye Revised 2nd Edition: Walter Murch.
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present: Eric Kandel.
The User Illusion.
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation: Deborah Tannen.
The Little Schemer - 4th Edition: Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman.
Steppenwolf: A Novel: Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton
The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel: Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston
The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook): Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander
The Bone People: A Novel: Keri Hulme
A Brief History of Time: Stephen Hawking
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: Douglas R. Hofstadter
Confessions of a Mask: Yukio Mishima, Meredith Weatherby
The City & The City (Random House Reader's Circle): China Mieville
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World: Kevin Kelly
The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain: Terrence W. Deacon
At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity: Stuart Kauffman
The Discoverers: Daniel J. Boorstin
Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (Perennial Classics) - Kindle edition by Mark Twain, Bernard DeVoto.
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy: William Barrett
The Social Contract (Maestro Reprints): Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Deception Point: Dan Brown
Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition: Thomas Sowell
A Short History of Nearly Everything: Bill Bryson
I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell: Tucker Max
8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body's Natural Healing Power: Andrew Weil:
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature: Steven Pinker
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel: Rolf Potts
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime: John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership: Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
The Curse of the Mogul: What's Wrong with the World's Leading Media Companies: Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave
Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence eBook: David Perkins
Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age: Bart Kosko
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom: Yochai Benkler
The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind
Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid: Robert J. Sternberg
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex: Murray Gell-Mann 
Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics: Eric D. Beinhocker
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies: Bryan Caplan
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human: Richard Wrangham
Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World: Tyler Cowen
Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity: Dean Keith Simonton 
Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense: Jonathan D. Moreno
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior: Geoffrey Miller
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher:
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling
Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind: Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
The 10, 000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution: Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending:
The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Thomas L. Friedman: