College Reading List

Reading List

Books to Read in the Future

  • DSM 4
  • Why We Remember
  • Three Body Problem: Dark Forest
  • Nuclear War
  • Elon Musk
  • Genome: The Autobiography of a Species In 23 Chapters
  • Children of Time
  • All About Love
  • Crime and Punishment
  • All the Light We Cannot See
  • Breath: New Science of an Old Art
  • Accessory to War
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos
  • The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
  • How Not to Be Wrong
  • Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep-- Love
  • What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
  • Talking to Strangers
  • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
  • Ego Is the Enemy
  • The Anatomy of Evil
  • Burning Chrome
  • The Emperor of All Maladies
  • Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
  • I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
  • The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
  • The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America
  • The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
  • The Laws of Human Nature
  • Neuromancer
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Divine Comedy
  • The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  • The Trial by Kafka
  • The Power of Money
  • On the Road
  • 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
  • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
  • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • The Dawn of Everything
  • The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
  • Kafka's Diaries — Ross Benjamin
  • The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
  • Dante’s Inferno
  • The Anxious Generation
  • Ilium
  • Demons by Dostoevsky
  • The Secret Language of Flowers
  • The Old Man and the Sea
  • The Sun Also Rises
  • Dominion by Tom Holland
  • Pillars of Fire and Cloud
  • The Exiles (Bradbury story)
  • The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  • The Power Book

Books Completed 2023-2024

  • Thinking Fast and Slow
  • The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
  • Three Body Problem
  • Homo Deus
  • I’m Glad My Mother Died
  • The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
  • Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics
  • The Martian Chronicles
  • Siddhartha
  • The Prophet
  • Goodbye, Eri
  • The Ministry for the Future
  • Surrounded by Idiots