Book Recommendations
Politics, Society, Economics, and Government
- Democracy May Not Exist but We'll Miss it When it's Gone by Astra Taylor
- Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
- The People vs. Democracy by Yasha Mounk
- Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World by Annie Lowery
- The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton
- Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan
- One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger by Matthew Yglesias
- Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson
- The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run—or Ruin—an Economy by Tim Harford
Philosophy
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
- The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr
Mathematics, Science, and Technology
- The GΓΆdel's Proof by Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter
- Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
- Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised by Katie Hafner
History
- The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan
- The History of Rome (Series) by Titus Livy
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Fiction
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Poetry
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Fantasy & Science Fiction
- The Stormlight Archive (Series) by Brandon Sanderson
- The Wizard of Earthsea (Series) by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Mistborn (Series) by Brandon Sanderson
- Alloy of Law (Series) by Brandon Sanderson
- The First Law (Series) by Joe Abercrombie
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien