Here is a extensive list of books to help expand your knowledge, skills, mind and wisdom
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’tby Jim Collins
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The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
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Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail–but Some Don’tby Nate Silver
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Shwartz
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Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, by Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson,
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The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
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Founders At Work: Stories Of Startups* Early Days by Jessica Livingston
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The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
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ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by David Heinemeier Hansson
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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
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Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
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The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
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Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Thinkby Kenneth Cukier
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The Fine Art of Small Talk: How To Start a Conversation, Keep It Going, Build Networking Skills — and Leave a Positive Impression by Debra Fine
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The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh
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The Thank You Economy – Buy The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
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Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
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Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
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The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Move More Profitable by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur’s Odyssey to Educate the World’s Children by John Wood
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The 22 Immutable Laws Of Branding by Laura Ries and Al Ries
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Rich Dad Poor Dad : What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That The Poor And Middle Class Don’t by Robert T. Kiyosaki
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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
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How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
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Outliers: Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
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What the Dog Saw: and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
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The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich by Thomas Ferriss
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How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be : The 25 Principles of Success by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
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How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
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Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How by Daniel Coyle
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How I Made My First Million on the Internet and How You Can Too!: The Complete Insider’s Guide to Making Millions with Your Internet Businessby Ewen Chia
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Litt
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Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs by Norm Brodsky
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Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
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Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change by Louis V., Jr. Gerstner
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The Ten Faces of Innovation (English) – Buy The Ten Faces of Innovation : IDEO’s Strategies for Defeating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Tom Kelley
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Too Big to Fail : The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System by Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Rework by Jason Fried
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The Innovator’s Dilemma : The Revolutionary National Bestseller That Changed The Way We Do Business by clayton m. christensen
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The Paypal Wars : Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth by Eric M. Jackson
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Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
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Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered Worldby Tyler Cowen
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One Click: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon.com by Richard Brandt
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Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic by Dan Ariely
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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart by Ian Ayres by Ian Ayres
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The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, Ava Seave
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Philosophy, Psychology and Spirituality
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Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
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Any Book by Daniel Kahneman
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Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid by Robert J.. Sternberg
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Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life: Winifred Gallagher by Winifred Gallagher
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Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life by Shakti Gawain
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You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
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Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average by Joseph T. Hallinan
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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
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Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Others by Sherry Turkle
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Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities by Dean Radin
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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy by William Barrett
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The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business by Charles Duhigg
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The Concise 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
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Prisoner’s Dilemma by William Poundstone
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Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average: Joseph T. Hallinan
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The Ethical Brain: The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas by Michael S. Gazzaniga
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In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan
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Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You: Sam Gosling by Sam Gosling
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker
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The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature: Steven Pinker
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present by Eric Kandel
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future: Daniel H. Pink
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Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis: Eric Berne.
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How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic: Madsen Pirie
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Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind: Shunryu Suzuki, David Chadwick
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
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Ecological Rationality: Intelligence in the World (Evolution and Cognition)by Peter M. Todd, Gerd Gigerenzer
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This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series) by John Brockman
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Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C. Dennett
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Amazon.com: Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy by Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone
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The History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
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The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations by Matthew Stewart
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Bulfinch’s Mythology – All Three Volumes – The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
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Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized by James Ladyman, Don Ross, et al
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto): Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy : With Illustrations by Matthew Stewart
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Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter
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Education and the Significance of Life: Krishnamurti
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Metaphors We Live By: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces: Joseph Campbell
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen: Christopher McDougall
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The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size (Penguin Press Science) by Tor Norretranders
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Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence by David Perkins
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Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller
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The Social Contract (Penguin Classics)by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston
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Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travelby Rolf Potts
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History
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The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
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The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet by David Kahn
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) by Matt Ridley
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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton
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Civilization: The West and the Rest: Niall Ferguson by Niall Ferguson
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The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present: Jacques Barzun
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage): Tim Wu
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Debt – Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World: Steven Johnson
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Guns, Germs, And Steel : The Fates Of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
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Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future: Ian Morrisage
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A Farewell to Arms : A Brief Economic History of the World: A Brief Economic History of the World Gregory Clark
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee
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The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan
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Sexual Politics in Modern Iran by Janet Afary
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The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan’s Lawless Frontier by Imtiaz Gul
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Inside the Crosshairs: Snipers in Vietnam by Col. Michael Lee Lanning
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God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History by Stephen Hawking
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
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Design
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Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure): Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, Shlomo Angel
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Health
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8 Weeks to Optimum Health: A Proven Program for Taking Full Advantage of Your Body’s Natural Healing Power by Andrew Weil
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Politics
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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict by Michael Klare
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier
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The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policiesby Bryan Caplan
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Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael J. Sandel
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime by John Heilemann, Mark Halperin
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Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis by James Rickards
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
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Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition by Thomas Sowell
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Evolution, Science, and Medicine
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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition by Thomas S. Kuhn
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The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon
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The 10, 000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
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Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity by Dean Keith
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler
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A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
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A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
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Asimov’s New Guide to Science by Isaac Asimov
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Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Ageby Bart Kosko
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us by Noson S. Yanofsky
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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense by Jonathan D. Moreno
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Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives: David Sloan Wilson
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Darwin’s Dangerous Idea : EVOLUTION AND THE MEANINGS OF LIFE: Daniel C. Dennett
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
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The New Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes in a Complex World by Elkhonon Goldberg
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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham
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The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex by Murray Gell-Mann
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Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind by Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen
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Education
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance: Josh Waitzkin
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How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development): John Holt
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Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture: Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer
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Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood: A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb
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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas: Seymour A. Papert
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Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist: John Brockman
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Teaching as a Subversive Activity: Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
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Writing
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Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim: Stephen Sondheim
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Clear and Simple as the Truth: Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner
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Theater and Film
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In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing by Walter Murch
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A Practical Handbook for the Actor: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet
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The Actor and the Target: Declan Donnellan
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How to Stop Acting: Harold Guskin
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Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh: Mike Alfreds
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Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director’s Chair: Frank Hauser, Russell Reich
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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre: Keith Johnstone
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Shakespeare
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Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard by Barry Edelstein.
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Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt
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Hamlet and Revenge by Eleanor Prosser.
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Shakespeare’s Metrical Art: George T. Wright
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Fiction
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
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The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Moller
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, William Weaver
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The Eight by Katherine Neville
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
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Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton
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The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel by Hermann Hesse, Richard and Clara Winston
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The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories (New Directions Paperbook) by Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander
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The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky
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Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Emma: Jane Austen
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Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte
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The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton
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The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
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The Bone People: A Novel by Keri Hulme
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Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
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The City & The City (Random House Reader’s Circle) by China Mieville
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Letters From The Earth by Mark Twain
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.): Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Signet): Ken Kesey
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Watership Down: A Novel: Richard Adams
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Cat’s Eye: Margaret Atwood
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Bleak House (Penguin Classics): Charles Dickens
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Lonesome Dove: A Novel: Larry McMurtry
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The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
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The Queen’s Gambit: A Novel: Walter Tevis
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1Q84: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel.
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War and Peace: Leo Tolstoy.
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The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Deception Point: Dan Brown
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Technical
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How to Find a Habitable Planet (Science Essentials)
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Scientific Genius: A Psychology of Science: Dean Keith Simonton
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The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science): Richard Dawkins
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe: Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee
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Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec.
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The Little Schemer – 4th Edition by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, Gerald J. Sussman
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
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Logic and Problem Solving
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What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math): by Raymond M. Smullyan
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The Lady or the Tiger?: and Other Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math) by Raymond M. Smullyan
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library) by George Polya
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Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone
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Humor
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I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max
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