Books To Read

Mythology/Epics/Legends:

The Mahabaratha

The Ramayana

Homer's Odessey

Homer's Illiad

The Bible

Oedipus

Ulysses

Epic of Gilgamesh

King Arthur & tKoTR

Romance Of The Three Kingdoms

Philosophy:

Phaedo, Plato

Organan, Aristotle

Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas

Meditations, Rene Decartes

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke

Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant

Science of Logic, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre

Language, Truth, and Logic, A.J. Ayer

Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein

Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

Frank Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics : A Defence of Conceptual Analysis

Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity

Dave Chalmers, The Conscious Mind : In Search of a Fundamental Theory

David Lewis, On the Plurality of Worlds

Michael Smith, The Moral Problem

J.S. Mill's On Liberty

Dennett's Consciousness Explained

"The Birth Of Tragedy" by Nietzsche

The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feurbach

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins

The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins

Biographies:

Mien Kampf (Hitler)

Third World to First (Lee Kuan Yew)

No Easy Walk To Freedom (Mandela)

Audacity of Hope (Obama)

Slash

Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Randy Pausch- The Last Lecture

Richard Branson - Losing My Virginity

The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero by Kalush and Sloman

"My Experiments with truth" - Gandhi

Kurt Vonnegut - Fate Worse Than Death

Clapton: The Autobiography by Eric Clapton

Motley Crue: The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

Sociology/Economics:

The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs

The Economy of Cities - Jane Jacobs

Cities and the Wealth of Nations - Jane Jacobs

Systems of Survival - Jane Jacobs

The Nature of Economies - Jane Jacobs

Dark Age Ahead - Jane Jacobs

Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell

"The Wisdom of Insecurity", by Alan W. Watts

Sway

Logic Of Life - Tim Harford

The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford

More Sex, Safer Sex

Freakonomics - Steven Levitt

Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life - Robert Reich

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time - Jeffrey Sachs

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet - Jeffrey Sachs

No Logo - Naomi Klein

The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein

Das Kapital

The Communist Manifesto

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

History/Political Science:

Sun Tzu's The Art Of War

Team of Rivals

Men In White (PAP)

Lee Kuan Yew's Memoirs

The Malay Dilemma (Mahatir)

New Asian Hemisphere (Kishore Mahbubani)

Social Theory of International Politics by Alexander Wendt

Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

The Post-American World - Fareed Zakaria

The Future Of Freedom - Fareed Zakaria

The End of History and the Last Man - Francis Fukuyama

Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism - Benedict Anderson

The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman

Sciencey Stuff:

"Ideas & Opinions," by Albert Einstein

"A Brief History of Time," by Stephen Hawking

Darwin's The Origin of Species

The Selfish Gene - Dawkins

The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (2002), by David Barash and Judith Lipton.

The Science of Orgasm (2006), by Barry Komisauruk, Carlos Beyer-Flores, and Beverly Whipple

How to Survive a Robot Uprising (2005), by Daniel H. Wilson.

Evolution's Rainbow: Why Darwin Was Wrong About Sexual Selection (2004), by Joan Roughgarden.

Why Things Break (2003), by Mark Eberhart.

How the Universe Got Its Spots (2002), by Janna Levin.

A User's Guide to the Brain (2002), by John Ratey.

The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (2000), by Simon Singh

The Elegant Universe (2000), by Brian Greene

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (1999), by Jared Diamond

Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics

Explained by its Most Brilliant Teacher (1995), by Richard P. Feynman

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1995), by Laurie Garrett.

Cosmos (1985), by Carl Sagan.

Godel, Escher, Bach (1979), by Douglas Hofstadter

Animal Liberation (1975), by Peter Singer.

Male and Female (1949), by Margaret Mead.

The Well: A Story of Love, Death, and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community (2001), by Katie Hafner.

Illegal Beings: Human Clones and the Law (2005), by Kerry MacIntosh.

Shakespeare:

Romeo & Juliet

The Merchant of Venice

Othello

Macbeth

Hamlet

King Lear

A Midsummer's Night Dream

Literature:

Crime & Punishment

Man In The Iron Mask

Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Count of Monte Cristo

Les Miserables

Phantom of the Opera

Anna Karenina

War & Peace

Great Expectations

Oliver Twist

Pride & Prejudice

The Pearl

For Whom The Bell Tolls

The Old Man & The Sea

Animal Farm

Sophie's World

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

Death of a Salesman

Lord Of The Flies

Frankenstein

Chekov's stories

Moby Dick

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Lolita

The Great Gatsby

Catch-22

Crime & Punishment

To Kill A Mockingbird

Middlemarch

The Catcher in the Rye

Alice in Wonderland

Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde

Gulliver's Travels

The Stand (Stephen King)

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Madame Bovary

Anatomy of Melancholy

The Satanic Verses

Charlotte's Web

Wrinkle In Time

Friedrich

The Handmaid's Tale

The Time-Traveller's Wife

Sum of All Fears

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Gone With The Wind

Religion & The Rise of Capitalism

The Chocolate War

Beyond The Chocolate War

Fight Club

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

His Dark Materials Trilogy

The Lord Of The Rings

The Earthsea Series by Ursula Le Guin

The Time Machine by HG Wells

The War of the Worlds by HG Wells

The Chrisalids

- Brave New World

- 1984

- Fahrenheit 451

- Utopia, by Thomas Moore

Of Mice And Men

The Prince (Machiavelli)

The Discourse

Dracula

"Slaughterhouse Five," by Kurt Vonnegut

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Atlas Shrugged

A Clockwork Orange

The Last Of The Mohicans

The Call Of The Wild

Flatland

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Don Quixote

Jane Eyre

Comics/Graphic Novels:

V for Vendetta

The Watchmen

Neil Gaiman's Sandman