Books

Some favorites.

Nonfiction

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, Carlo M. Cipolla
ISBN: 9780385546478

The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins
ISBN: 9780199291151

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Anne Fadiman
ISBN: 9780374533403

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo
ISBN: 9780593238127

Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
ISBN: 9780805095159

How Doctors Think, Jerome Groopman
ISBN: 9780618610037

The Machinery of Life, David S. Goodsell
ISBN: 9780387849256

When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
ISBN: 9780812988406

The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson
ISBN: 9781594482694

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life, Ed Yong
ISBN: 9780062368591

Fiction

A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
ISBN: 9781476738024

1Q84, Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780307593313

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780804170123

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, B.J. Novak
ISBN: 9780385351836

1984, George Orwell
ISBN: 9780451524935

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
ISBN: 9780060838720

Kusamakura, Natsume Sōseki
ISBN: 9780140449869

A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
ISBN: 9780385539258