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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives only one.”
                                                                                                                                - George R. R. Martin

Books

SCIENCE/BIOLOGY
  • Sapiens by Yuval Harari
  • What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randal Munroe 
  • Taking Wing by Pat Shipman
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
  • Night Comes to the Cretaceous by James Powell
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  • There Are No Electrons by Kenn Amdahl
  • The Red Queen by Matt Ridley
  • The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  • Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin
  • Microcosmos by Lynne Margulis and Dorion Sagan
  • Life on a Young Planet by Andrew H. Knoll
  • When Life Nearly Died by Michael Benton
  • Eating the Sun by Oliver Morton
  • Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World by Nick Lane
  • The Planet in a Pebble by Jan Zalasiewicz
  • Written in Stone by Brian Switek
  • Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould
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SCIENCE FICTION
  • Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie
  • Player of Games by Iain Banks
  • The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth
  • The Hunger Games by Susan Collins
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry 
  • Trilogy: Uglies, Pretties, Specials by Scott Wester
  • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
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CLASSICS
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  • A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
  • The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
GENERAL NON-FICTION
  • Factfulness by Hans Rosling
  • The Economist magazine 
  • Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
  • Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
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HISTORY
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • From the Holy Mountain: A journey in the shadow of Byzantium by William Dalrymple
  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
  • Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
  • A History of the English-Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill
  • Maus: A survivor's tale by Art Spiegelman (historical fiction)
  • The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis (historical fiction)
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FANTASY
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
  • Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
  • The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Blue Sword by Robin McKinely
  • Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
  • Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
  • The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 
  • Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
  • City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
  • Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry
  • East by Edith Pattau
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ADVENTURE
  • The Hatchet by Gary Paulson
  • My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
  • I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
  • The Recruit (Cherub series) by Robert Muchamore

Podcasts

  • Revolutions by Mike Duncan
  • The History of Rome by Mike Duncan
  • The Memory Palace by Nate DiMeo
  • The History of the World in 100 Objects by the BBC
  • Minute Physics on YouTube
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        • 10.1
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        • 11.4
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