On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
Republic by Plato
The Confessions by Augustine (translated by Maria Boulding)
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley
The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Iliad by Homer
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Anna Schwartz & Milton Friedman
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by David Hume
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
The Arabian Nights or Tales of 1001 Nights
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
The Plague by Albert Camus
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Freedom from Fear by Aung San Suu Kyi
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher Browning
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Bible The New Oxford Annotated Bible
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation) by Virgil
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S Landes
The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
This Time Is Different by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff