Here is a list of books that I have read copied here from Goodreads. The idea is I would cull this into the ones I'd actually recommend other people to read (say 10% of these, 30 out of the 340 or so books.)
For now, a few favorites I've pulled up from below:
- Joy of Man's Desiring Giono, Jean
- Thinking, Fast and Slow Kahneman, Daniel
- Shantaram Roberts, Gregory David
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility Carse, James P.
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Hofstadter, Douglas R.
- Siddhartha Hesse, Hermann
- Man's Search for Meaning Frankl, Viktor E.
- The Aleph and Other Stories Borges, Jorge Luis
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Diamond, Jared
- Hunger Hamsun, Knut
- Midnight's Children Rushdie, Salman
- The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway, Ernest
- Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #1) Miller, Henry
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Sagan, Carl
- The Selfish Gene Dawkins, Richard
- The Quiet American Greene, Graham
The Long List
- My Midsummer Morning: Rediscovering a Life of Adventure Humpreys, Alastair
- You Are Not a Gadget Lanier, Jaron
- Ghostwritten Mitchell, David
- Race Against The Machine Brynjolfsson, Erik
- The Picture of Dorian Gray Wilde, Oscar
- The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) Collins, Suzanne
- Down and Out in Paris and London Orwell, George
- Norwegian Wood Murakami, Haruki
- Pan Hamsun, Knut
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Süskind, Patrick
- Journey to the End of the Night Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
- On the Road Kerouac, Jack
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kesey, Ken
- Mao: The Unknown Story Chang, Jung
- Underworld DeLillo, Don
- Inherent Vice Pynchon, Thomas
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) Pirsig, Robert M.
- The Illustrated Man Bradbury, Ray
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Ridley, Matt
- The Brothers Karamazov Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- The Master and Margarita Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) Card, Orson Scott
- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Chernow, Ron
- The Worst Journey in the World Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
- Paddle to the Amazon: The Ultimate 12,000-Mile Canoe Adventure Starkell, Don
- Dust On My Shoes Pinney, Peter
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Gladwell, Malcolm
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More Anderson, Chris *
- Crime and Punishment Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan
- One Hundred Years of Solitude García Márquez, Gabriel
- Love in the Time of Cholera García Márquez, Gabriel
- Nexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #3) Miller, Henry
- Plexus (The Rosy Crucifixion, #2) Miller, Henry
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future Pink, Daniel H. *
- The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J.R.R.
- Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo
- Jurgen (The Biography of Manuel, #7) Cabell, James Branch
- Figures of Earth Cabell, James Branch
- Freedom™ (Daemon, #2) Suarez, Daniel *
- Daemon (Daemon, #1) Suarez, Daniel *
- The Places in Between Stewart, Rory
- K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain Viesturs, Ed
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time Mortenson, Greg *
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass Carroll, Lewis
- The Wisdom of John Muir: 100+ Selections from the Letters, Journals, and Essays of the Great Naturalist Rowthorn, Anne
- The 13 Clocks Thurber, James
- The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence Kurzweil, Ray
- How to Be Idle Hodgkinson, Tom *
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales Sacks, Oliver
- Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management Berkun, Scott *
- The First and Last Freedom Krishnamurti, Jiddu
- The Essential Rumi Rumi
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Tolle, Eckhart
- Gargantua and Pantagruel Rabelais, François
- The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder Miller, Henry
- Cloud Atlas Mitchell, David
- What Technology Wants Kelly, Kevin *
- Steve Jobs Isaacson, Walter *
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) Adams, Douglas
- Reamde Stephenson, Neal *
- Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves Sorkin, Andrew Ross
- The Windup Girl Bacigalupi, Paolo *
- The Martian Chronicles Bradbury, Ray
- The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn
- Atlas Shrugged Rand, Ayn
- Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1) Heller, Joseph
- The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) Brown, Dan *
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail Bryson, Bill
- In a Sunburned Country Bryson, Bill
- The Catcher in the Rye Salinger, J.D.
- Franny and Zooey Salinger, J.D.
- Dracula Stoker, Bram
- The Call of the Wild London, Jack
- Ficciones Borges, Jorge Luis
- The Stranger Camus, Albert
- The Plague Camus, Albert
- Narcissus and Goldmund Hesse, Hermann
- The Glass Bead Game Hesse, Hermann
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Levitt, Steven D.
- Watchmen Moore, Alan *
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Murakami, Haruki
- American Gods (American Gods, #1) Gaiman, Neil *
- Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1) Gaiman, Neil *
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
- The Road McCarthy, Cormac
- Lord of the Flies Golding, William
- Into the Wild Krakauer, Jon *
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Eggers, Dave
- Hell's Angels Thompson, Hunter S.
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Thompson, Hunter S.
- Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1) Gibson, William
- Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) Gibson, William
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2) Adams, Douglas
- Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3) Adams, Douglas
- Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5) Adams, Douglas
- Post Office Bukowski, Charles
- Les Fleurs du Mal Baudelaire, Charles
- Waiting for Godot Beckett, Samuel
- Heart of Darkness Conrad, Joseph
- The Alchemist Coelho, Paulo *
- Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) Herbert, Frank
- Brave New World Huxley, Aldous
- The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell Huxley, Aldous
- Point Counter Point Huxley, Aldous
- Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu
- Moby-Dick Melville, Herman
- Cakes and Ale Maugham, W. Somerset
- The Magician Maugham, W. Somerset
- The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde, Oscar
- An Ideal Husband Wilde, Oscar
- Candide Voltaire
- Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche, Friedrich
- The Arabian Nights Anonymous
- The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre Lovecraft, H.P.
- On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Saint Francis of Assisi Chesterton, G.K.
- Makers Doctorow, Cory
- Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel
- The Hobbit, or There and Back Again Tolkien, J.R.R.
- How to Win Friends and Influence People Carnegie, Dale
- The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything Kawasaki, Guy *
- Everyman Roth, Philip
- Women Bukowski, Charles
- Lord Jim Conrad, Joseph
- The Sun Also Rises Hemingway, Ernest
- A Farewell to Arms Hemingway, Ernest
- The Dharma Bums Kerouac, Jack
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Krakauer, Jon *
- The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest Boukreev, Anatoli
- The General in His Labyrinth García Márquez, Gabriel
- Tropic of Capricorn Miller, Henry
- Tropic of Cancer Miller, Henry
- Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Miller, Henry
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Mitchell, David
- An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales Sacks, Oliver
- Snow Crash Stephenson, Neal *
- Anathem Stephenson, Neal *
- A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Tolle, Eckhart
- Istanbul Passage Kanon, Joseph *
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives Eagleman, David *
- Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town Theroux, Paul
- In Patagonia Chatwin, Bruce
- Half a Life Naipaul, V.S.
- The Enchantress of Florence Rushdie, Salman
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet Rushdie, Salman
- Fury Rushdie, Salman
- Pygmy Palahniuk, Chuck *
- Chaos: Making a New Science Gleick, James *
- High Fidelity Hornby, Nick
- American Psycho Ellis, Bret Easton
- Rising Sun Crichton, Michael
- Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein, Robert A.
- Nightfall Asimov, Isaac
- Foundation (Foundation, #1) Asimov, Isaac
- Childhood's End Clarke, Arthur C.
- Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age Rushkoff, Douglas *
- The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment Adyashanti
- Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dogen Dōgen
- The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) Tolkien, J.R.R.
- The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3) Tolkien, J.R.R.
- The Stand King, Stephen *
- The Eyes of the Dragon King, Stephen *
- The Death of Bunny Munro Cave, Nick
- Aura Fuentes, Carlos
- Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramahansa
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin
- Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom
- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues Robbins, Tom
- Moonchild Crowley, Aleister
- Diary of a Drug Fiend Crowley, Aleister
- The Colossus of Maroussi Miller, Henry
- Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Turkle, Sherry
- The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales #2) Cooper, James Fenimore
- The Magic Mountain Mann, Thomas
- Inferno & From an Occult Diary Strindberg, August
- Travels with My Aunt Greene, Graham
- Our Man in Havana Greene, Graham
- The Prophet Gibran, Kahlil
- Sons and Lovers Lawrence, D.H.
- In the Penal Colony Kafka, Franz
- Sky: Memoirs Cendrars, Blaise
- Beowulf Unknown
- Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
- Cat's Cradle Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
- Timequake Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
- I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) Asimov, Isaac
- Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership Hyde, Lewis *
- The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories Rose, Frank *
- Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity Lessig, Lawrence
- Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative Robinson, Ken
- The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole Huntford, Roland
- Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written Bickel, Lennard
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Boo, Katherine
- Desert Solitaire Abbey, Edward
- The Gift Hafez
- From Here to Eternity Jones, James
- The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road Theroux, Paul
- In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives Levy, Steven *
- The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life Florida, Richard
- The Society of Mind Minsky, Marvin
- Cosmos Sagan, Carl
- Nexus (Nexus, #1) Naam, Ramez *
- Bozo and the Storyteller Glaister, Tom
- The New Digital Age: Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business Schmidt, Eric
- The Song Of The World Giono, Jean
- Crux (Nexus, #2) Naam, Ramez *
- The Snow Leopard Matthiessen, Peter
- The Circle Eggers, Dave
- 1Q84 Murakami, Haruki
- We, the Drowned Jensen, Carsten
- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice Suzuki, Shunryu
- Contact Sagan, Carl
- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space Sagan, Carl
- The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Heinlein, Robert A.
- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies Brynjolfsson, Erik
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't Silver, Nate
- The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World Kirkpatrick, David *
- Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe Livio, Mario *
- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Gleick, James *
- The Sheltering Sky Bowles, Paul
- El coronel no tiene quien le escriba García Márquez, Gabriel
- The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World Davis, Wade
- A History of the World in 100 Objects MacGregor, Neil
- Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier Glaeser, Edward L.
- Future Shock Toffler, Alvin
- Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction Brockman, John
- Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown Watts, Alan W.
- Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1) Ghosh, Amitav
- River of Smoke (Ibis Trilogy, #2) Ghosh, Amitav
- Falling Into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering Adyashanti
- Great Stories of the Sea & Ships Wyeth, N.C.
- The Atlas Vollmann, William T.
- The Air-Conditioned Nightmare Miller, Henry
- The Wisdom of the Heart Miller, Henry
- Stand Still Like the Hummingbird Miller, Henry
- Quiet Days in Clichy Miller, Henry
- Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1) Quinn, Daniel
- The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) Pullman, Philip
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Gawande, Atul
- Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto Brand, Stewart
- I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Maharaj, Nisargadatta
- Magic and Mystery in Tibet David-Néel, Alexandra
- The Wisdom of Crowds Surowiecki, James
- The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics Penrose, Roger
- The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Rinpoche, Sogyal
- Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul Crick, Francis
- The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness Damasio, Antonio R.
- Far Tortuga Matthiessen, Peter
- Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West McCarthy, Cormac
- Fujifilm X100s: From Snapshots to Great Shots Mullins, Kevin
- What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Munroe, Randall *
- The Bone Clocks Mitchell, David
- Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin Cronin, Paul
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion Harris, Sam
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Thiel, Peter
- Boy on Ice: The Life and Death of Derek Boogaard Branch, John
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Bostrom, Nick *
- Seconds O'Malley, Bryan Lee
- Embassytown Miéville, China *
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Harari, Yuval Noah
- The Martian Weir, Andy *
- Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill Ricard, Matthieu
- The Brain: The Story of You Eagleman, David *
- The Sandman: Overture (The Sandman: Overture, #1-6) Gaiman, Neil *
- Glacier Mountaineering: An Illustrated Guide to Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue Tyson, Andy
- Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs Carroll, Henry
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Pinker, Steven *
- The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future Guillebeau, Chris *
- The Fujifilm X-T10: 115 X-Pert Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Camera Pfirstinger, Rico
- The Player of Games (Culture, #2) Banks, Iain M.
- Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley García Martínez, Antonio
- World Order Kissinger, Henry
- Seveneves Stephenson, Neal *
- Letters to a Young Contrarian Hitchens, Christopher
- Gratitude Sacks, Oliver
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Vance, J.D.
- The Science of Enlightenment: Teachings and Meditations for Awakening Through Self-Investigation Young, Shinzen
- On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious Harding, Douglas E.
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World Grant, Adam M. *
- The Three Pillars of Zen Kapleau, Philip
- The Art of War Sun Tzu
- Moon Palace Auster, Paul
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Dweck, Carol S.
- The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) Liu, Cixin *
- The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation Thich Nhat Hanh
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds Dennett, Daniel C.
- Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow Harari, Yuval Noah
- The Astonished Man Cendrars, Blaise
- Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment Wright, Robert
- The Left Hand of Darkness (Hainish Cycle, #4) Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Free Will Harris, Sam
- How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built Brand, Stewart
- The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire Deida, David
- Dying: A Memoir Taylor, Cory
- The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience Spira, Rupert *
- Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House Wolff, Michael
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer Meadows, Donella H.
- The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science Yates), Culadasa (John *
- Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump Isikoff, Michael
- Mother American Night: My Life and Crazy Times Barlow, John Perry
- A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life Kornfield, Jack *
- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress Pinker, Steven *
- No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are Kornfield, Jack *
- Abanded Dog Charlie: abused dog ParkerIII, Glen
- To Have and Have Not Hemingway, Ernest
- Our Pristine Mind: A Practical Guide to Unconditional Happiness Chowang, Orgyen
- The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures Damasio, Antonio R.
- Awakening: A Paradigm Shift of the Heart Smith, Rodney
- The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence Keltner, Dacher
- The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect Pearl, Judea
- Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Godfrey-Smith, Peter
- The Man Who Planted Trees Giono, Jean
- Blue Boy Giono, Jean
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Epstein, David *
- Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind Harris, Annaka *