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Brett

  • Adyashanti: The Most Important Thing: Discovering Truth at the Heart of Life (2019)
  • Albert, John: Wrecking Crew: The Really Bad News Griffith Park Pirates (2005)
  • Allen, David: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2002)
  • Ammous, Saifedean: The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking (2018)
  • Anderson, Chris: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More (2006)
  • Asimov, Isaac; Silverberg, Robert: Nightfall (1990)
  • Asimov, Isaac: The End of Eternity (1955)
  • Aslan, Reza: Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (2013)
  • Austin, Paul: Something for the Pain: Compassion and Burnout in the ER (2009)
  • Banks, Iain M.: Transition (2009)
  • Barker, Pat: Life Class (2007)
  • Beaubien, Rhiannon: The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics (2021)h
  • Becker, Adam: What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics (2018)
  • Bellow, Saul: Henderson the Rain King (1959)
  • Benioff, David: City of Thieves (2008)
  • Berlinerblau, Jacques: The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously (2005)
  • Bisson, Terry: Any Day Now: A Novel (2012)
  • Bisson, Terry: Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories (1993)
  • Bisson, Terry: They're Made out of Meat (1991)
  • Bloom, Paul: Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil (2013)
  • Brand, Stewart: Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (2009)
  • Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre (1847)
  • Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights (1847)
  • Brown, Dan (Brett admits to have read some of his books)
  • Bukowski, Charles: Ham on Rye (1982)
  • Bukowski, Charles: Hot Water Music (1983)
  • Burroughs, William S.: Naked Lunch (1959)
  • Carroll, Sean: Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime (2019)
  • Chah, Ajahn: Food for the Heart: The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah (1992)
  • Cheever, John: Bullet Park (1969)
  • Cheever, John: Falconer (1977)
  • Chiang, Ted: Exhalation (2019)
  • Chiang, Ted: Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
  • Chomsky, Noam: The Chomsky Reader (1987)
  • Chomsky, Noam: The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo (1999)
  • Christensen, Clayton M.: The Innovator's Dilemma (1997)
  • Cixin, Liu: The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1) (2008 / 2014)
  • Clarke, Richard A.: Against All Enemies (2004)
  • Coetzee, J. M.: Disgrace (1999)
  • Connelly, Michael: The Lincoln Lawyer (2005)
  • Covey, Stephen R.: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (1989)
  • Dawkins, Richard: A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
  • Dawkins, Richard: The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life (2004)
  • Dawkins, Richard: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (2009)
  • Dawkins, Richard: The Selfish Gene (1976)
  • Delgado, Richard: Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (1995)
  • DeLillo, Don: White Noise (1985)
  • Dennett, Daniel C.: Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness (1997)
  • Deutsch, David: The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World (2011)
  • Deutsch, David: The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications (1996)
  • deWitt, Patrick: Undermajordomo Minor (2015)
  • deWitt, Patrick: The Sisters Brothers (2011)
  • De Waal, Frans: Our Inner Ape (2005)
  • Diamond, Jared M.: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005)
  • Diamond, Jared M.: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1997)
  • Dick, Philip K.: A Scanner Darkly (1977)
  • Dick, Philip K.: Confessions of a Crap Artist (1975)
  • Dick, Philip K.: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
  • Dick, Philip K.: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974)
  • Dick, Philip K.: Martian Time-Slip (1964)
  • Dick, Philip K.: Now Wait for Last Year (1966)
  • Dick, Philip K.: Second Variety and Other Classic Stories (1991)
  • Dick, Philip K.: The Divine Invasion (1981)
  • Dick, Philip K.: The Eye of The Sibyl and Other Classic Stories (1992)
  • Dick, Philip K.: The Man in the High Castle (1962)
  • Dick, Philip K.: The Man Who Japed (1956)
  • Dick, Philip K.: The Minority Report (1956)
  • Dick, Philip K.: The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford and Other Classic Stories (1990)
  • Dick, Philip K.: The Simulacra (1964)
  • Dick, Philip K.: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
  • Dick, Philip K.: The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)
  • Dick, Philip K.: The Zap Gun (1967)
  • Dick, Philip K.: Ubik (1969)
  • Dick, Philip K.: VALIS (1981)
  • Dick, Philip K.: We Can Build You (1972)
  • Dick, Philip K.: We Can Remember It For You Wholesale and Other Classic Stories (1990)
  • Doerr, Anthony: All The Light We Cannot See (2014)
  • Doerr, Anthony: Cloud Cuckoo Land (2021)
  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment (1866)
  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: Notes from Underground (1864)
  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Gambler (1866)
  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The House of the Dead (1860)
  • Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot (1869)
  • Dostoyesvky, Fyodor: The Possessed (or The Devils or Demons) (1872)
  • Dowman, Keith (translator): The Flight of the Garuda: The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (1994)
  • Doxiadis, Apostolos; Papadimitriou Christos: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth (2009)
  • Durant, Will; Durant, Ariel: The Lessons of History (1968)
  • Eagleman, David: Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain (2011)
  • Eagleman, David: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (2009)
  • Eggers, Dave: A Hologram for the King (2012)
  • Erdrich, Louise: LaRose (2016)
  • Erdrich, Louise: The Round House (2012)
  • Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex (2002)
  • Fante, John: Ask the Dust (1939)
  • Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury (1929)
  • Fisher, Roger; Ury, William: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In (1981)
  • Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby (1925)
  • Flanagan, Owen: The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized (2011)
  • Forward, Robert L.: Dragon's Egg (Cheela #1) (1980)
  • Fox, Paula: Desperate Characters (1970)
  • Franzen, Jonathan: Crossroads (2021)
  • Franzen, Jonathan: Farther Away (2012)
  • Franzen, Jonathan: Freedom (2010)
  • Franzen, Jonathan: Purity (2015)
  • Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections (2001)
  • French, Tana: The Searcher (2020)
  • Fried, Jason; Heinemeier Hansson, David: Rework (2010)
  • Fukuyama, Francis: Liberalism and Its Discontents (2022)
  • Gibson, William: All Tomorrow's Parties (1999)
  • Gibson, William: Neuromancer (1984)
  • Gladwell, Malcolm: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (2005)
  • Gladwell, Malcolm: Outliers: The Story of Success (2008)
  • Gladwell, Malcolm: The Tipping Point: How Litte Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000)
  • Godwin, Peter: The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe (2010)
  • Golas, Thaddeus: The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment (1971)
  • Goldstein, Joseph: Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening (2013)
  • Goleman, Daniel: Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body (2017)
  • Gould, Stephen Jay: The Mismeasure of Man (1981)
  • Graffin, Greg; Olson, Steve: Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God (2010)
  • Greenberg, Alan C.: Memos from the Chairman (1996)
  • Greene, Graham: The Power and the Glory (1940)
  • Groff, Lauren: Matrix (2021)
  • Hagel, John; Brown, John Seely: The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization (2005)
  • Haidt, Jonathan: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2005)
  • Haidt, Jonathan: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012)
  • Haldeman, Joe: The Forever War (1974)
  • Halliday, Lisa: Asymmetry (2018)
  • Hamsun, Knut: Growth of the Soil (1920)
  • Harari, Yuval Noah: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century (2018)
  • Harari, Yuval Noah: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)
  • Harding, Luke: Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win (2017)
  • Hardy, Thomas: Jude the Obscure (1895)
  • Harris, Annaka: Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind (2019)
  • Harris, Sam: Free Will (2012)
  • Harris, Sam: The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (2010)
  • Harris, Sam: Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (2014)
  • Harris, Zakiya Dalila: The Other Black Girl (2021)
  • Hawking, Stephen: A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988)
  • Hayek, Friedrich; Caldwell, Bruce (editor): The Road to Serfdom (1944 / 2007)
  • Heath, Joseph; Potter, Andrew: Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture (2004)
  • Heller, Peter: The Dog Stars (2012)
  • Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms (1929)
  • Hemingway, Ernest: A Moveable Feast (1964)
  • Hemingway, Ernest: For Whom The Bell Tolls (1940)
  • Hemingway, Ernest: The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
  • Hemingway, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
  • Hemingway, Ernest: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories (1961)
  • Hemingway, Ernest: The Sun Also Rises (1926)
  • Hesse, Hermann: Siddhartha (1922)
  • Hoffman, Donald D.: The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (2019)
  • Isaacson, Walter: Steve Jobs (2011)
  • Jiles, Paulette: News of the World (2016)
  • Johnson, Denis: Jesus' Son (1992)
  • Johnson, Denis: Tree of Smoke (2007)
  • Kahneman, Daniel: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
  • Kerouac, Jack: The Dharma Bums (1958)
  • King, Lily: Five Tuesdays in Winter (2021)
  • Krakauer, Jon: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (1996)
  • Kushner, Rachel: The Flamethrowers (2013)
  • Larsson, Stieg: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005)
  • Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
  • Levitt, Steven D.; Dubner, Stephen J.: Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005)
  • MacDonald, John D.: The Deep Blue Good-by (1964)
  • Mandel, Emily St. John: Sea of Tranquility (2022)
  • Marletto, Chiara: The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals (2021)
  • Márquez, Gabriel García: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
  • Maugham, W. Somerset: The Razor's Edge (1944)
  • McAfee, Andrew: More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources - and What Happens Next (2019)
  • McBride, James: Deacon King Kong (2020)
  • McBride, Susan: Walk Into Silence (Detective Jo Larsen #1) (2016)
  • McCarthy, Cormac: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West (1985)
  • McCarthy, Cormac: The Orchard Keeper (1965)
  • McCarthy, Cormac: The Road (2006)
  • McGuire, Ian: The North Water (2016)
  • McRaney, David: You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself (2011)
  • Mill, John Stewart; Haidt, Johnathan (editor); Richard Reeves (editor); Cicirelli, Dave (illustrator): All Minus One: John Stuart Mill's Ideas on Free Speech Illustrated (2018)
  • Miller, Henry: Tropic of Cancer (1934)
  • Miller, Madeline: Circe (2018)
  • Miller, Madeline: The Song of Achilles (2011)
  • Mitchell, David: The Bone Clocks (2014)
  • Mochary, Matt: The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building (2019)h
  • Moore, Alan; Gibbon, Dave; Higgins, John: Watchmen (1987)
  • Mosley, Walter: The Long Fall (2009)
  • Mueller, Robert S., III: The Mueller Report: Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election (2019)
  • Munro, Alice: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories (2001)
  • Munro, Alice: Runaway (2004)
  • Munro, Alice: The Love of a Good Woman (1998)
  • Nabokov, Vladimir: Invitation to a Beheading (1935/36)
  • Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita (1955)
  • Nabokov, Vladimir: The Defense (1930)
  • Naím, Moisés: The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge isn't What It Used to Be (2013)
  • Nelson, Maggie: The Argonauts (2015)
  • Nunn, Kem: Tapping the Source (1984)
  • O'Brien, Tim: The Things They Carried (1990)
  • Orwell, George: 1984 (1949)
  • Parrish, Shane; Beaubien, Rhiannon: The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts (2019)
  • Parrish, Shane: The Great Mental Models, Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology (2020)
  • Pinker, Steven: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (2018)
  • Pinker, Steven: How the Mind Works (1997)
  • Pinker, Steven: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002)
  • Pinker, Steven: The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes (2011)
  • Pinker, Steven: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (1994)
  • Pinker, Steven: The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (2014)
  • Pomerantsev, Peter: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia (2014)
  • Popper, Karl: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)
  • Popper, Karl: The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1: The Spell of Plato (1945)
  • Popper, Karl: The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 2: The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the Aftermath (1945)
  • Powers, Richard: Bewilderment  (2021)
  • Powers, Richard: The Overstory (2018)
  • Pressfield, Steven: The War of Art (2002)
  • Prum, Richard O.: The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World  - and Us (2017)
  • Rahula, Walpola: What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada (1959 / 2007)
  • Rankin, Ian: Knots and Crosses (1987)
  • Rankin, Ian: Tooth and Nail (1992)
  • Reich, David: Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (2018)
  • Reid, Rob: After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley (2017)
  • Robinson, Kim Stanley: Aurora (2015)
  • Robinson, Kim Stanley: The Ministry for the Future (2020)
  • Rosenthal, David H.: Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965 (1992)
  • Rosling, Hans; Rosling Rönnlund, Anna; Rosling Ola: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (2017)
  • Roth, Philip: Sabbath's Theater (1995)
  • Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4) (2000)
  • Rucker, Rudy; Sterling, Bruce: Loco (2012)
  • Rucker, Rudy: Master of Space and Time (1984)
  • Rucker, Rudy: Surfing the Gnarl (2012)
  • Rucker, Rudy: Transreal Trilogy:
    The Secret of Life (1985), White Light (1980), Saucer Wisdom (1999)
  • Rucker, Rudy: Turing & Burroughs (2012)
  • Rucker, Rudy: Ware Tetralogy:
    Software (1982), Wetware (1988), Freeware (1997), Realware (2000)
  • Rushdie, Salman: The Satanic Verses (1988)
  • Sagan, Carl; Druyan, Ann: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (2006)
  • Sacks, Oliver: Hallucinations (2012)
  • Salinger, J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
  • Salter, James: Light Years (1975)
  • Sandford, John: Saturn Run (2015)
  • Sapolsky, Robert M.: Behave: The Bioloy of Humans at Our Best and Worst (2017)
  • Schwartz, Berry: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (2004)
  • Sheckley, Robert: Mindswap (1966)
  • Shermer, Michael: The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom (2015)
  • Shipstead, Maggie: Great Circle (2021)
  • Shteyngart, Gary: Our Country Friends (2021)
  • Singer, Peter: A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation (2000)
  • Slater, Lauren: Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century (2004)
  • Snyder, Timothy: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017)
  • Sokal, Alan: Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture (2008)
  • Sokal, Alan; Bricmont, Jean: Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (1999)
  • Stead, Christina: The Man Who Loved Children (1940)
  • Steinbeck, John: Cannery Row (1942)
  • Steinbeck, John: East of Eden (1952)
  • Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men (1937)
  • Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
  • Steinbeck, John: The Moon is Down (1942)
  • Stephenson, Neal: Anathem (2008)
  • Stephenson, Neal: Quicksilver (2003)
  • Stephenson, Neal: Seveneves (2015)
  • Stephenson, Neal: Snow Crash (1992)
  • Stephenson, Neal: The Diamond Age (1995)
  • Stone, Brad: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon (2013)
  • Stone, Douglas; Patton, Bruce; Heen, Sheila; Fisher, Roger (Foreword): Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (1999)
  • Strout, Elizabeth: Olive Kitteridge (2008)
  • Sunstein, Cass R.: Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide (2017)
  • Suskind, Ron: The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill (2004)
  • Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012)
  • Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001)
  • Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (2018)
  • Taleb, Nassim Nicholas: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007)
  • Tarrant, John: Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life (2004)
  • Tartt, Donna: The Goldfinch (2013)
  • Tavris, Carol; Aronson, Elliot: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (2007)
  • Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Children of Time (Children of Time #1) (2015)
  • Tegmark, Max: Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2017)
  • Tegmark, Max: Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2013)
  • Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (1971)
  • Thompson, Jim: A Hell of a Woman (1954)
  • Thompson, Jim: After Dark, My Sweet (1955)
  • Thompson, Jim: Pop. 1280 (1964)
  • Thompson, Jim: The Getaway (1958)
  • Thompson, Jim: The Grifters (1963)
  • Thompson, Jim: The Killer Inside Me (1952)
  • Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina (1877)
  • Tolstoy, Leo: The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories (2003)
  • Tolstoy, Leo: War and Peace (1869)
  • Urgyen, Tulku; Moran, Kerry (editor): Rainbow Painting (2013)
  • VanderMeer, Jeff: Annihilation (Southern Reach #1) (2014)
  • VanderMeer, Jeff: Authority (Southern Reach #2) (2014)
  • VanderMeer, Jeff: Acceptance (Southern Reach #3) (2014)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Armageddon in Retrospect (2008)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Bluebeard (1987)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday (1973)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Cat's Cradle (1963)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Deadeye Dick (1982)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Galápagos (1985)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine (1965)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Jailbird (1979)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Mother Night (1961)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage (1981)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Player Piano (1952)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: The Sirens of Titan (1959)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Timequake (1997)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Welcome to the Monkey House (1968)
  • Vuong, Ocean: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (2019)
  • Ward, Jesmyn: Sing, Unburied, Sing (Bois Sauvage #2) (2017)
  • Watts, Alan: The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
  • Watts, Peter: Blindsight (2006)
  • Webb, Stephen: If the Universe Is Teaming with Aliens... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life (Science and Fiction) (2002)
  • Weinberger, David: Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (2007)
  • Whitacre, Ed: American Turnaround: Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA (2013)
  • Whitehead, Colson: Harlem Shuffle (2021)
  • Wilson, David Sloan: Darwin's Cathedral (2002)
  • Wilson, E. O.: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998)
  • Wilson, E. O.: Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (The Anthropocene Epoch #3) (2016)
  • Wilson, E. O.: On Human Nature (1978)
  • Wilson, E. O.: Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)
  • Wilson, E. O.: The Meaning of Human Existence (2014)
  • Wilson, E. O.: The Social Conquest of Earth (2012)
  • Winston, Diana: The Little Book of Being: Practices and Guidance for Uncovering your Natural Awareness (2019)
  • Winterson, Jeanette: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) 
  • Winwood, Ian: Smash!: Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion (2018)
  • Wolfe, Thomas: Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life (1929)
  • Wolfe, Thomas: Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth (1935)
  • Wolfe, Thomas: The Web and the Rock (1939)
  • Wolfe, Thomas: You Can't Go Home Again (1940)
  • Wolfe, Tom: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
  • Wright, Lawrence: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (2013)
  • Wright, Lawrence: The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006)
  • Yanagihara, Hanya: A Little Life (2015)

Jay

  • Cordingly, David: Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates (1997)
  • Dick, Philip K.: The Man in the High Castle (1962)
  • Dick, Philip K.: Time Out of Joint (1959)
  • Dick, Philip K.: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
  • Dr. Seuss: The Lorax (1971)
  • Powell, William: The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
  • Sagan, Carl: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
  • Vonnegut, Kurt: Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969)

Greg Graffin

  • Chomsky, Noam: Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews with David Barsamian (1994)
  • Chomsky, Noam: Secrets, Lies, and Democracy (1994)
  • Chomsky, Noam: The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (1994)
  • Darwin, Charles: On The Origin Of Species (1859)
  • Hardy, Thomas
  • Kramnick, Isaac: The Godless Constitution: The Case Against Religious Correctness (1996)
  • Leakey,  Richard  & Lewin, Roger: Origins (1977)
  • Steinbeck, John

Greg Hetson

  • Dr. Seuss