Philosophy

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Noam Chomsky

The Conscience of a Liberal

Paul Krugman

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

Vladimir Lenin

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery

The Ascent of Man

Jacob Bronowski

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

Lee Smolin

Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Charles Seife

The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

Fritjof Capra

Ill Fares the Land

Tony Judt

The Trial

Franz Kafka

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory

Albert Einstein

The Descent of Man

Charles Darwin

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine

Simon Singh

The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir

The Discourses

Niccolò Machiavelli

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Neil Postman

Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler

Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Henry David Thoreau

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

The Grand Design

Stephen Hawking

The Plague

Albert Camus

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Mark Fisher

The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom