9th grade:
The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time that Will Change Your Life by Philip Zimbardo
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War by MIchael Shaara
Night by Elie Wiesel
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Summer of 9th grade:
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Tools of Argument: How the Best Lawyers Think, Argue, and Win by Joel P. Trachtman
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
How to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success by Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins
The U.S. Constitution: Explained for Every American by Ray Raphael
I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai
10th Grade:
The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response by Peter Balakian
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen Platt
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? by Alan Weisman
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
World War 1 by S.L.A. Marshall
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Simon Baker
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hoschild
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighierri (read twice)
Salem’s Lot by Stephen KIng
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
Needful Things by Stephen King
Revival by Stephen King (read twice)
The Long Walk by Stephen King (read twice)
The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild
The Outsider by Stephen King
The Running Man by Stephen King
Carrie by Stephen King
Dear Leader: North Korea’s Senior Propagandist Exposes Shocking Truths About the Regime by Jang Jin-sung
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (read twice)
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
The Shining by Stephen King
Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Misery by Stephen King
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Classical Mythology by H.A. Guerber
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
1001 Arabian Nights by Anonymous and Richard Burton
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
Duma Key by Stephen King
Night Shift by Stephen King
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel by Jason Cobley and Mary Shelley
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Summer of 10th grade:
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3-5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin
The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J. K. Rowling
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix
Where you Go is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni
Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner and Stephen Levitt
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
The Grammar Bible: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Grammar but Didn't Know Whom to Ask by Auriel Douglas and Michael Strumpf
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
How to be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out) by Cal Newport
1984 by George Orwell
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
11th grade:
The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner
Pan’s Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun by Cornelia Funke, Guillermo del Toro (read thrice)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka (read twice)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Story of Art by Ernst Gombrich
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan
Duma Key by Stephen King
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
In Praise of Idleness: A Timeless Essay by Bertrand Russell (read twice)
1984 by George Orwell
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - DIscoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Tao Te Jing by Lao Tzu
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome by Michael Parenti
Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
A Short History of Chinese Philosophy by Feng Youlan
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Faust: Part 1 by Goethe (read twice)
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
Micromegas by Voltaire (read twice)
Uzumaki by Junji Ito
Shiver by Junji Ito
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Candide by Voltaire (read twice)
Zadig by Voltaire
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Western World by Jack Weatherford
Smashed by Junji Ito
The Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti
The Fisherman by John Langan (read twice)
The Cheating Culture by David Callahan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Gyo by Junji Ito (read twice)
The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth by Adam Frank
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
Yugioh: Volumes 22, 23, 24 by Kazuki Takahashi
Kon Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 1 by Sui Ishida
Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 2 by Sui Ishida
Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 3 by Sui Ishida
Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 4 by Sui Ishida
Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 5 by Sui Ishida
Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 6 by Sui Ishida
Tokyo Ghoul: Volume 7 by Sui Ishida
The Ones who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
Summer of 11th grade:
Pojo’s Unofficial Big Book of Yugioh by Bill Gill
Hubble’s Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images by Terence Dickinson
Brain Droppings by George Carlin
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell
The Fourth Age by Byron Reese
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? By George Carlin
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. Johnson
The Hedonistic Imperative by David Pearce
The Resurrectionist by Tess Gerritsen
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence by Harlow Giles Unger
The Post-Darwinian Transition by David Pearce
12th grade:
The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Turing’s Vision: The Birth of Computer Science by Chris Bernhardt
Faust: Part 2 by Goethe
The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
The Shape of Water by Daniel Kraus, Guillermo del Toro
Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? by David Pearce (read twice)
Alien by Alan Dean Foster
The Hedonistic Imperative by David Pearce
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
Antinatalism and the Future of Suffering by Magnus Vinding
Antinatalism: Rejectionist Philosophy From Buddhism to Benatar by Ken Coates
Suffering-Focused Ethics by Magnus Vinding
Consilience by Edward Wilson
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
At The Mountains of Madness: The First Volume by Gou Tanabe
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant by Nick Bostrom
At The Mountains of Madness: The Second Volume by Gou Tanabe
The Tragedy of Liberation by Frank Dikӧtter
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
Dissolving the Fermi Paradox by Eric Drexler, Toby Ord, and Anders Sandberg
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Free Will by Sam Harris
Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikӧtter
Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler
Yugioh: Volumes 22, 23, 24 by Kazuki Takahashi
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
The Eclogues by Virgil
Brave New World by Alduous Huxley (read twice)
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
Hellstar Remina by Junji Ito
The Georgics by Virgil
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (read twice)
Yugioh: Volumes 25, 26, 27 by Kazuki Takahashi
Yugioh: Volumes 28, 29, 30 by Kazuki Takahashi
Yugioh: Volumes 31, 32, 33 by Kazuki Takahashi
On the Freedom of the Will by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime by Aubrey de Gray
The Intelligence Supernova by Alex M. Vikoulov
Yugioh: Volumes 34, 35, 36 by Kazuki Takahashi
Yugioh: Volumes 37, 38 by Kazuki Takahashi
The Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Iliad by Virgil
Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization by Eric Drexler
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr
The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction by Nicholas Money
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory by Albert Einstein
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, and Strategies by Nick Bostrom
The Luzumiyat by Al-Ma’arri
Medea by Euripides (read twice)
The Odyssey by Homer
Overlord: Volume 1 by Kugane Maruyama
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age by Bernard W. Carlson
Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision of Our Future Evolution by Ted Chu
Seeds of Anxiety: Volume 1 by Masaaki Nakayama
Seeds of Anxiety: Volume 2 by Masaaki Nakayama
The Prospect of Immortality by Robert Ettinger
Collected Stories by Franz Kafka
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
The World As I See It by Albert Einstein
Blessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World by Stephanie J. Snow
Diaspora by Greg Egan
The Ones Who Stay and Fight by N.K. Jemisin
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil
Reverence for Life by Albert Schweitzer
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Othello by William Shakespeare
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence by Tim Urban
Ajin: Volume 1 by Gamon Sakurai
Ajin: Volume 2 by Gamon Sakurai
Ajin: Volume 3 by Gamon Sakurai
Ajin: Volume 4 by Gamon Sakurai
Ajin: Volume 5 by Gamon Sakurai
Ajin: Volume 6 by Gamon Sakurai
Ajin: Volume 7 by Gamon Sakurai
Apology by Plato
King Lear by William Shakespeare (read twice)
Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec
Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity by Jamie Metzl
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
Hell House by Richard Matheson
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made by Norman F. Cantor
A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russell
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Future Diary: Volume 1 by Sakae Esuno
Future Diary: Volume 2 by Sakae Esuno
Future Diary: Volume 3 by Sakae Esuno
Future Diary: Volume 4 by Sakae Esuno
Future Diary: Volume 5 by Sakae Esuno
Future Diary: Volume 6 by Sakae Esuno
Future Diary: Volume 7 by Sakae Esuno
Future Diary: Volume 8 by Sakae Esuno
Future Diary: Volume 9 by Sakae Esuno
Future Diary: Volume 10 by Sakae Esuno
Future Diary: Volume 11 by Sakae Esuno
Future Diary: Volume 12 by Sakae Esuno
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean M. Carroll
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Jennifer A. Doudna and Samuel H. Sternberg
Human Anatomy: A Visual History from the Renaissance to the Digital Age by Benjamin A. Rifkin, Michael J. Ackerman
The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System by Jacy Reese Anthis
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
On the Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
Out of My Life and Thought by Albert Schweitzer
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
The Quiltmaker’s Gift by Jeff Brumbeau
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins
Everyday Scenes from a Parallel World by PIE International
Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer by D.A. Henderson
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Man into Superman by Robert C.W. Ettinger
The Epistle of Forgiveness, or a Pardon to Enter the Garden by Al-Ma’arri
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity by Joseph Priestley
Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit by Joseph Priestley
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings by Jorge Luis Borges
The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
Ju-on by Kei Ohishi
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To by David A. Sinclair
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
The Ring: Volume 1 by Misao Inagaki, Hiroshi Takahashi
The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic by Benjamin Carter Hett
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
Nano Comes to Life: How Nanotechnology is Transforming Medicine and the Future of Biology by Sonia Contera
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