Not a comprehensive list, I hold these books in my shelves and I have made varied progress on these. Recommended titles are in bold modeled after Aaron Swartz's Review of Books and Tommy Collison's books list. Similar to Patrick Collison's Bookshelf these books are not in any particular order.
- The Last Days of Socrates by Plato
- The War of Art
- People's Park: Still Blooming
- If Mayors Ruled The World
- Caste by Wilkerson
- Las Raices Torcidas de America Latina by Carlos Alberto Montaner
- India After Ghandi
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
- Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
- Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
- Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
- The Sovereign Individual