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

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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