Books
★ = recommended
2026
Beyond Belief: The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limiting Yourself and Achieve Breakthrough Results
Nir Eyal
Tojo: The Rise and Fall of Japan's Most Controversial World War II General
Peter Mauch
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker
Kevin Mitnick
Under the Eye of the Big Bird: A Novel
Hiromi Kawakami
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
Hu Anyan
×12
20th Century Boys
Naoki Urasawa
×8
Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka
Naoki Urasawa
×2
The Power Fantasy
Kieron Gillen
Dawnrunner
Ram V
×7
Radiant Black
Kyle Higgins, Cherish Chen
★ ×6
Invincible
Robert Kirkman
2025
Saga Compendium One
Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples
East of West
Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta
Ask This Book a Question: An Interactive Journey to Find Wisdom for Life's Big and Little Decisions
Vicki Tan
Sunday
Olivier Schrauwen
Fugitive Telemetry: The Murderbot Diaries
Martha Wells
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Ken Liu
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton
Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Neuromancer
William Gibson
Batman by Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale
Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale
Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman
Jonathan Hickman
House of X/Powers of X
Jonathan Hickman
2001: A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
The Once and Future King
T.H. White
Secret Wars
Jonathan Hickman
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Gödel's Proof
Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman
Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Rebecca Goldstein
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow The Deluxe Edition
Tom King
Helen of Wyndhorn
Tom King
The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
Ward Farnsworth
The Soccer 100
Michael Cox
All That We See or Seem
Ken Liu
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
R.F. Kuang
The Burning God (The Poppy War Book 3)
R.F. Kuang
1984
George Orwell
Why I Am Not a Christian
Bertrand Russell
In Praise of Idleness: A Timeless Essay
Bertrand Russell
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War Book 2)
R.F. Kuang
Artificial Condition: The Murderbot Diaries
Martha Wells
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries
Martha Wells
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Anna Lembke
This Inevitable Ruin: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 7
Matt Dinniman
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 6
Matt Dinniman
The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
Ward Farnsworth
The Three-Body Problem: The Graphic Novel Boxset
Liu Cixin
Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus, Vol. 1
Grant Morrison
Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories
Terry Bisson
Dune (Penguin Galaxy)
Frank Herbert
McAtlas: A Global Guide to the Golden Arches
Gary He
×3
Transformers
Daniel Warren Johnson
2024
Airframe
Michael Crichton
Congo
Michael Crichton
The Lost World: A Novel (Jurassic Park Book 2)
Michael Crichton
Timeline: A Novel
Michael Crichton
×2
All You Need Is Kill
Ryosuke Takeuchi
Hip-Hop Is History
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Ben Greenman
The Stars, Like Dust
Isaac Asimov
The Robots of Dawn
Isaac Asimov
The Naked Sun
Isaac Asimov
The Caves of Steel
Isaac Asimov
Forward the Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Prelude to Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Real Americans
Rachel Khong
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty
The Boys Omnibus Vol. 1
Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson
How the World Made the West: A 4,000 Year History
Josephine Quinn
The Butcher's Masquerade: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 5
Matt Dinniman
The Gate of the Feral Gods: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 4
Matt Dinniman
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 3
Matt Dinniman
Carl's Doomsday Scenario: Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 2
Matt Dinniman
★ Foundation and Earth
Isaac Asimov
★ Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov
Second Foundation
Isaac Asimov
★ Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
Fuchsia Dunlop
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Chris Dixon
2023
★ Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
★ I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire
Isaac Asimov
★ Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
★ Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
The Thrawn Trilogy 3-Book Bundle
Timothy Zahn
MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, Gavin Edwards
★ American Prometheus
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
★ Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
★ Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
★ What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
Tim Urban
The Stress Prescription
Dr. Elissa Epel
Dynasty of Evil: A Novel of the Old Republic
Drew Karpyshyn
Rule of Two: Star Wars Legends (Darth Bane)
Drew Karpyshyn
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book III: Lesser Evil)
Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book I: Chaos Rising)
Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book II: Greater Good)
Timothy Zahn
Revan: Star Wars Legends (The Old Republic)
Drew Karpyshyn
Chip War
Chris Miller
Thrawn: Treason
Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
James Luceno
Scaling People
Claire Hughes Johnson
Thrawn: Alliances
Timothy Zahn
Path of Destruction: A Novel of the Old Republic
Drew Karpyshyn
Star Wars: Dark Force Rising
Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: Heir to the Empire
Timothy Zahn
Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance
Sean Williams
Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
★ The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Richard P. Feynman
2022
★ The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
★ Norse Mythology
Neil Gaiman
Sphere
Michael Crichton
Star Wars: Thrawn
Timothy Zahn
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia MD
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
The Silmarillion
J.R.R. Tolkien
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Michael Pollan
The Metaverse
Matthew Ball
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
The Network State
Balaji Srinivasan
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R Hofstadter
★ The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
★ Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Jessica Livingston
★ Dune
Frank Herbert
Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
Heretics of Dune
Frank Herbert
Chapterhouse: Dune
Frank Herbert
2021
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday
Hackers & Painters
Paul Graham
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
★ Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
★ Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
Frank Wilczek
★ A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
Frank Wilczek
A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind
Shoukei Matsumoto
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Bill Gates
The Cold Start Problem
Andrew Chen
The Story of China
Michael Wood
2020
★ Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
Kobe Bryant
★ The Conquest of Happiness
Bertrand Russell
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Inner Game of Tennis
W. Timothy Gallwey
Zen: The Authentic Gate
Kōun Yamada
The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
★ Very Important People
Ashley Mears
★ Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
★ Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
★ The Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
Cheryl Misak
Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami
Eat a Peach: A Memoir
David Chang
LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay
Warren Kozak
The Old Guard, Vol. 1
Greg Rucka
2019
★ Exhalation: Stories
Ted Chiang
Atomic Habits
James Clear
★ The Mind-Body Problem
Rebecca Goldstein
The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo
Cult of the Dead Cow
Joseph Menn
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
★ 1Q84
Haruki Murakami
★ The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Ken Liu
Bad Blood
John Carreyrou
★ Red Notice
Bill Browder
★ Masters of Doom
David Kushner
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
Jared Diamond
What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
The Girl With All the Gifts
M.R. Carey
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami
Wind/Pinball: Two Novels
Haruki Murakami
The Wandering Earth
Liu Cixin
A Man for All Markets
Edward O. Thorp
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
John Steinbeck
2018
AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
Billion Dollar Whale
Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan
The Singapore Story
Lee Kuan Yew
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Essentialism
Greg Mckeown
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
★ Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 3)
Cixin Liu
★ The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Cixin Liu
★ The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Rich People Problems
Kevin Kwan
China Rich Girlfriend
Kevin Kwan
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake
The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 2
Jonathan Hickman
The Lessons of History
Will Durant, Ariel Durant
Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond
Chris Burniske, Jack Tatar
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra F. Vogel
Moonwalking with Einstein
Joshua Foer
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
This Time Is Different
Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff
★ Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R Hofstadter
★ Guns, Germs, and Steel
Jared Diamond
2011
2010
2009
2008