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The Waste Land and Other Poems (Dodo Press) by T. S. Eliot

Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has …

Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Posthumously published work by Wittgenstein, in which he came to overthrow some number of his earlier ideas as published in …

The Joyful Wisdom by Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato - Dialogues by Plato

Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato …

Eating animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink …

The Illustrated Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since …

The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks

In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts …

Effondrement by Jared Diamond

"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond examined how and why Western civilizations developed the technologies …

A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson

A Short History of Nearly Everything by American author Bill Bryson is a popular science book that explains some areas …

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Guns, germs, and steel by Jared Diamond

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings (1))

The first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien’s classic epic of Good versus Evil, set in the …

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. …