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List of Texts I've Read

Updated: Jun 23, 2021

9th grade:

  1. The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time that Will Change Your Life by Philip Zimbardo

  2. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

  3. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo

  4. Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram

  5. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

  6. The Art of War by Sun Tzu

  7. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

  8. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

  9. The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War by MIchael Shaara

  10. Night by Elie Wiesel

  11. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

  12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck


Summer of 9th grade:

  1. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

  2. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky

  3. Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

  4. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

  5. The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win by Joel P. Trachtman

  6. Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum

  7. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

  8. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

  9. How to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  10. We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success by Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins

  11. The U.S. Constitution: Explained for Every American by Ray Raphael

  12. I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai


10th Grade:

  1. The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response by Peter Balakian

  2. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen Platt

  3. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum

  4. Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman

  5. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

  6. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

  7. World War 1 by S.L.A. Marshall

  8. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

  9. Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Simon Baker

  10. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson

  11. Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar

  12. King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hoschild

  13. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

  14. Dracula by Bram Stoker

  15. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

  16. Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighierri (read twice)

  17. Salem’s Lot by Stephen KIng

  18. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

  19. Needful Things by Stephen King

  20. Revival by Stephen King (read twice)

  21. The Long Walk by Stephen King (read twice)

  22. The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild

  23. The Outsider by Stephen King

  24. The Running Man by Stephen King

  25. Carrie by Stephen King

  26. Dear Leader: North Korea’s Senior Propagandist Exposes Shocking Truths About the Regime by Jang Jin-sung

  27. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

  28. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

  29. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (read twice)

  30. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe

  31. The Shining by Stephen King

  32. Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

  33. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  34. Misery by Stephen King

  35. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

  36. Classical Mythology by H.A. Guerber

  37. Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond

  38. 1001 Arabian Nights by Anonymous and Richard Burton

  39. Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright

  40. Duma Key by Stephen King

  41. Night Shift by Stephen King

  42. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

  43. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

  44. Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel by Jason Cobley and Mary Shelley

  45. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

  46. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  47. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

  48. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Summer of 10th grade:

  1. Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3-5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin

  2. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling

  3. Cosmos by Carl Sagan

  4. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

  5. Where you Go is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni

  6. Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Stephen Levitt

  7. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

  8. The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.

  9. The Grammar Bible: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Grammar but Didn't Know Whom to Ask by Auriel Douglas and Michael Strumpf

  10. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

  11. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

  12. How to be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out) by Cal Newport

  13. 1984 by George Orwell

  14. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness


11th grade:

  1. The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner

  2. Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Cornelia Funke, Guillermo del Toro (read thrice)

  3. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

  4. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

  5. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

  6. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

  7. In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka (read twice)

  8. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

  9. The Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich

  10. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

  11. Duma Key by Stephen King

  12. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

  13. In Praise of Idleness: A Timeless Essay by Bertrand Russell (read twice)

  14. 1984 by George Orwell

  15. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - DIscoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

  16. Tao Te Jing by Lao Tzu

  17. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

  18. The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell

  19. The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti

  20. Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche

  21. Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

  22. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  23. Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

  24. A Short History of Chinese Philosophy by Feng Youlan

  25. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King

  26. Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

  27. Faust: Part 1 by Goethe (read twice)

  28. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

  29. Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer

  30. Micromegas by Voltaire (read twice)

  31. Uzumaki by Junji Ito

  32. Shiver by Junji Ito

  33. The Trial by Franz Kafka

  34. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

  35. Candide by Voltaire (read twice)

  36. Zadig by Voltaire

  37. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Western World by Jack Weatherford

  38. Smashed by Junji Ito

  39. The Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

  40. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski

  41. Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti

  42. The Fisherman by John Langan (read twice)

  43. The Cheating Culture by David Callahan

  44. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

  45. Gyo by Junji Ito (read twice)

  46. The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin

  47. The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli

  48. Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright

  49. Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

  50. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

  51. Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth by Adam Frank

  52. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

  53. The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

  54. Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

  55. Yugioh: Volumes 22, 23, 24 by Kazuki Takahashi

  56. Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl

  57. Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 1 by Sui Ishida

  58. Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 2 by Sui Ishida

  59. Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 3 by Sui Ishida

  60. Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 4 by Sui Ishida

  61. Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 5 by Sui Ishida

  62. Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 6 by Sui Ishida

  63. Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 7 by Sui Ishida

  64. The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin


Summer of 11th grade:

  1. Pojo’s Unofficial Big Book of Yugioh by Bill Gill

  2. Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson

  3. Brain Droppings by George Carlin

  4. How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

  5. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

  6. Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin

  7. The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday

  8. Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell

  9. The Fourth Age by Byron Reese

  10. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? By George Carlin

  11. Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin

  12. Common Sense by Thomas Paine

  13. Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. Johnson

  14. The Hedonistic Imperative by David Pearce

  15. The Resurrectionist by Tess Gerritsen

  16. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

  17. Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence by Harlow Giles Unger

  18. The Post-Darwinian Transition by David Pearce


12th grade:

  1. The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil

  2. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

  3. Turing’s Vision: The Birth of Computer Science by Chris Bernhardt

  4. Faust: Part 2 by Goethe

  5. The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron

  6. The Shape of Water by Daniel Kraus, Guillermo del Toro

  7. Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? by David Pearce (read twice)

  8. Alien by Alan Dean Foster

  9. The Hedonistic Imperative by David Pearce

  10. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

  11. Antinatalism and the Future of Suffering by Magnus Vinding

  12. Antinatalism: Rejectionist Philosophy From Buddhism to Benatar by Ken Coates

  13. Suffering-Focused Ethics by Magnus Vinding

  14. Consilience by Edward Wilson

  15. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

  16. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

  17. The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

  18. At The Mountains of Madness: The First Volume by Gou Tanabe

  19. The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant by Nick Bostrom

  20. At The Mountains of Madness: The Second Volume by Gou Tanabe

  21. The Tragedy of Liberation by Frank Dikӧtter

  22. The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

  23. The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord

  24. Dissolving the Fermi Paradox by Eric Drexler, Toby Ord, and Anders Sandberg

  25. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

  26. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien

  27. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

  28. Free Will by Sam Harris

  29. Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikӧtter

  30. Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler

  31. Yugioh: Volumes 22, 23, 24 by Kazuki Takahashi

  32. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

  33. The Eclogues by Virgil

  34. Brave New World by Alduous Huxley (read twice)

  35. Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

  36. Hellstar Remina by Junji Ito

  37. The Georgics by Virgil

  38. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien

  39. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (read twice)

  40. Yugioh: Volumes 25, 26, 27 by Kazuki Takahashi

  41. Yugioh: Volumes 28, 29, 30 by Kazuki Takahashi

  42. Yugioh: Volumes 31, 32, 33 by Kazuki Takahashi

  43. On the Freedom of the Will by Arthur Schopenhauer

  44. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

  45. Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime by Aubrey de Gray

  46. The Intelligence Supernova by Alex M. Vikoulov

  47. Yugioh: Volumes 34, 35, 36 by Kazuki Takahashi

  48. Yugioh: Volumes 37, 38 by Kazuki Takahashi

  49. The Metamorphoses by Ovid

  50. The Iliad by Virgil

  51. Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization by Eric Drexler

  52. Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr

  53. The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction by Nicholas Money

  54. Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein

  55. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, and Strategies by Nick Bostrom

  56. The Luzumiyat by Al-Ma’arri

  57. Medea by Euripides (read twice)

  58. The Odyssey by Homer

  59. Overlord: Volume 1 by Kugane Maruyama

  60. Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by Bernard W. Carlson

  61. Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision of Our Future Evolution by Ted Chu

  62. Seeds of Anxiety: Volume 1 by Masaaki Nakayama

  63. Seeds of Anxiety: Volume 2 by Masaaki Nakayama

  64. The Prospect of Immortality by Robert Ettinger

  65. Collected Stories by Franz Kafka

  66. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

  67. The World As I See It by Albert Einstein

  68. Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World by Stephanie J. Snow

  69. Diaspora by Greg Egan

  70. The Ones Who Stay and Fight by N.K. Jemisin

  71. Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

  72. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

  73. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein

  74. Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy

  75. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

  76. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil

  77. Reverence for Life by Albert Schweitzer

  78. Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

  79. Othello by William Shakespeare

  80. The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence by Tim Urban

  81. Ajin: Volume 1 by Gamon Sakurai

  82. Ajin: Volume 2 by Gamon Sakurai

  83. Ajin: Volume 3 by Gamon Sakurai

  84. Ajin: Volume 4 by Gamon Sakurai

  85. Ajin: Volume 5 by Gamon Sakurai

  86. Ajin: Volume 6 by Gamon Sakurai

  87. Ajin: Volume 7 by Gamon Sakurai

  88. Apology by Plato

  89. King Lear by William Shakespeare (read twice)

  90. Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec

  91. Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzl

  92. Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

  93. Hell House by Richard Matheson

  94. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F. Cantor

  95. A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

  96. Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell

  97. The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown

  98. The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

  99. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  100. Future Diary: Volume 1 by Sakae Esuno

  101. Future Diary: Volume 2 by Sakae Esuno

  102. Future Diary: Volume 3 by Sakae Esuno

  103. Future Diary: Volume 4 by Sakae Esuno

  104. Future Diary: Volume 5 by Sakae Esuno

  105. Future Diary: Volume 6 by Sakae Esuno

  106. Future Diary: Volume 7 by Sakae Esuno

  107. Future Diary: Volume 8 by Sakae Esuno

  108. Future Diary: Volume 9 by Sakae Esuno

  109. Future Diary: Volume 10 by Sakae Esuno

  110. Future Diary: Volume 11 by Sakae Esuno

  111. Future Diary: Volume 12 by Sakae Esuno

  112. On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

  113. Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean M. Carroll

  114. A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg

  115. Human Anatomy: A Visual History from the Renaissance to the Digital Age by Benjamin A. Rifkin, Michael J. Ackerman

  116. The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System by Jacy Reese Anthis

  117. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

  118. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

  119. On the Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

  120. The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

  121. Out of My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer

  122. Animals’ Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress by Henry Stephens Salt

  123. The Universal Kinship by John Howard Moore

  124. The New Ethics by John Howard Moore

  125. Better World Philosophy - A Sociological Synthesis by John Howard Moore

  126. The Quiltmaker’s Gift by Jeff Brumbeau

  127. The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges

  128. The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins

  129. Everyday Scenes from a Parallel World by PIE International

  130. Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer by D.A. Henderson

  131. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

  132. Man into Superman by Robert C.W. Ettinger

  133. The Epistle of Forgiveness, or a Pardon to Enter the Garden by Al-Ma’arri

  134. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

  135. The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity by Joseph Priestley

  136. Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit by Joseph Priestley

  137. Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges

  138. The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

  139. Ju-on by Kei Ohishi

  140. The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright

  141. Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To by David A. Sinclair

  142. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn

  143. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

  144. The Ring: Volume 1 by Misao Inagaki, Hiroshi Takahashi

  145. The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett

  146. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

  147. Nano Comes to Life: How Nanotechnology is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology by Sonia Contera

  148. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse


Texts Especially Appreciated or Enjoyed:


History:

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

  • Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram

  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

  • The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker

  • King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hoschild

  • The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response by Peter Balakian

  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

  • The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett

  • Night by Elie Wiesel

  • Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees

  • The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild

  • Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum

  • Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

  • Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum

  • The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti

  • Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson

  • Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr

  • Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore

  • Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence by Harlow Giles Unger

  • Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by Bernard W. Carlson

  • Turing’s Vision: The Birth of Computer Science by Chris Bernhardt

  • I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai

  • Out of My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer

  • The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

  • SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

  • The Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich

  • The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin

  • Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World by Stephanie J. Snow

  • The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

  • The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown

  • A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

  • Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein

  • Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

  • The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker


Philosophy:

  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

  • Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

  • Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

  • The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

  • The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity by Joseph Priestley

  • Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit by Joseph Priestley

  • Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

  • Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer

  • On the Freedom of the Will by Arthur Schopenhauer

  • On the Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

  • The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill by John Stuart Mill

  • Animals’ Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress by Henry Stephens Salt

  • The Universal Kinship by John Howard Moore

  • The New Ethics by John Howard Moore

  • Better World Philosophy - A Sociological Synthesis by John Howard Moore

  • Reverence for Life by Albert Schweitzer

  • Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell

  • Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell

  • Animal Liberation by Peter Singer

  • The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer

  • The Hedonistic Imperative by David Pearce

  • The Post-Darwinian Transition by David Pearce


Literature:

  • 1984 by George Orwell

  • Brave New World by Alduous Huxley

  • Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighierri

  • The Trial by Franz Kafka

  • Collected Stories by Franz Kafka

  • Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

  • Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Cornelia Funke, Guillermo del Toro

  • The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

  • The Ones Who Stay and Fight by N.K. Jemisin

  • Candide by Voltaire

  • Micromegas by Voltaire

  • The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant by Nick Bostrom

  • Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke

  • All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

  • This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski

  • Men Like Gods by H.G. Wells

  • The Theban Plays by Sophocles

  • Medea by Euripides

  • The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

  • Faust by Goethe

  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare

  • King Lear by William Shakespeare

  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare

  • Othello by William Shakespeare

  • The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

  • The Quiltmaker’s Gift by Jeff Brumbeau

  • Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges

  • Ju-on by Kei Ohishi

  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

  • Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus

  • The Luzumiyat by Al-Ma’arri

  • Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy


Science:

  • On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

  • Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3-5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin

  • The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins

  • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

  • The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright

  • The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction by Nicholas Money

  • Human Anatomy: A Visual History from the Renaissance to the Digital Age by Benjamin A. Rifkin, Michael J. Ackerman

  • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky

  • Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward Wilson

  • Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

  • Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer by D.A. Henderson

  • The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

  • Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? by David Pearce

  • Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein

  • Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean M. Carroll

  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

  • Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman

  • The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord

  • Dissolving the Fermi Paradox by Eric Drexler, Toby Ord, and Anders Sandberg

  • Cosmos by Carl Sagan

  • Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

  • Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson

  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

  • The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System by Jacy Reese Anthis

  • Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler

  • Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization by Eric Drexler

  • Nano Comes to Life: How Nanotechnology is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology by Sonia Contera

  • The Prospect of Immortality by Robert C.W. Ettinger

  • Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime by Aubrey de Gray

  • Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To by David A. Sinclair

  • A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg

  • Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzl

  • The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil

  • How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil

  • Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec

  • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, and Strategies by Nick Bostrom


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