- The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
- Spillover by David Quammen
- The Crusades by Hilaire Belloc
- The Wager by David Grann
- Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Disgrace by John W. Coetzee
- Destined for war: Can America and China escape Thucydides’s trap? by Graham Allison
- Letters from Thailand by Botan
- The WEIRDest people in the world by Joseph Henrich
- The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński
- Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- The power of regret by Daniel H. Pink
- Secondhand time by Svetlana Alexievich
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann
- Fifth Business (Deptford Trilogy #1) By Robertson Davies
- Two Crimes by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- A Frozen Hell by William Trotter
- The Samson Option by Seymour Hersh
- The Emigrants by Vilhelm Moberg
- The Magus by John Fowles
- The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
- Civilized to Death – The price of progress by Christopher Ryan.
- Token Economy by Shermin Voshmgir
- The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
- A thousand brains by Jeff Hawkings
- Klara and the sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- A natural story of the future by Rob Dunn
- Aura by Carlos Fuentes
- The Age of the Vikings by Anders Winroth
- Talent is overrated: what really separates world-class performers from everybody else by Geoffrey Colvin
- Numbers Don’t Lie by Vaclav Smil
- Guns, Germs, and Steel, The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- Crime and punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Leadership Principles for Project Success by Thomas Juli
- Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
- The rise and fall of the dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte
- The fifth child by Doris Lessing
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Introduction to psychology by Paul Bloom
- The Miracle of Self-discipline by Brian Tracy
- The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad
- T. Singer by Dag Solstad
- Five Levels of Leadership by John Maxwell
- The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver by Shawn Inmon
- Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- Total recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Napoleon’s Buttons by Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson
- Stranger than fiction by Chuck Palahniuk
- Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
- At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest by Stieg Larsson
- The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun
- The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg
- A little life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
- The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Replay by Ken Grimwood
- Wild Swans by Jung Chang
- The Redemption of Michael Hollister by Shawn Inmon
- Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
- Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman.
- A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
- The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand by Jim Algie
- Looking at the Sun by James M. Fallows
- Class Matters by Bill Keller
- Triple by Ken Follett
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- AIQ by Nick Polson and James Scott
- The Art of Thinking Clearly by R. Dobelli
- Pearl Harbor by Craig Nelson
- The library book by Susan Orlean