Aerospace

  • Kraft, Christopher. Flight: My Life in Mission Control. Plume, 2002.
  • Berger, Eric. Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX. William Morrow, 2021.
  • Michaels, Kevin. AeroDynamic: Inside the High-Stakes Global Jetliner Ecosystem. American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA), 2018.
  • Sandlas, V. P. The Leapfroggers: An Insider's Account of ISRO. HarperCollins, 2018.
  • R. Aravamudan. ISRO: A Personal History. HarperCollins, 2017.
  • Merlin, Peter W. From Archangel to Senior Crown: Design and Development of the Blackbird. American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, 2008.
  • Clark, John Drury. Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants. Rutgers University Press, 1972.
  • Sutter, Joe and Jay Spenser. 747: Creating the World's first Jumbo Jet and other adventures from a life in aviation. HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
  • Anderson Jr., John David. The airplane, a history of its technology. AIAA, 2002.

Business and Economics

  • Wheelan, Charles J. Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
  • Wheelan, Charles J. Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
  • Ries, Eric. The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. Crown Business, c2011.
  • Pattanaik, Devdutt. Business Sutra: A Very Indian Approach to Management. Aleph Book Company, 2013.
  • Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-first Century. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
  • Raworth, Kate. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2017.
  • Schwab, Klaus. The fourth industrial revolution. Crown Business, 2017.
  • Stanley, Thomas J., and William D. Danko. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy. Longstreet Press, 1996.
  • Eckert, Carolyn. Your idea starts here: 77 mind-expanding ways to unleash your creativity. Storey Publishing, 2016.
  • Kiyosaki, Robert T., John Fleming, and Kim Kiyosaki. The Business of the 21st century. DreamBuilders, 2010.

Fantasy

  • Pratchett, Terry. Hogfather. (Discworld, #20, Death, #4) Harper, 2014, c1996.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Soul Music. (Discworld, #16, Death, #3) Harper, 2013, c1994.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Reaper Man. (Discworld, #11, Death, #2) HarperTorch, 2002, c1991.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Mort. (Discworld, #4, Death #1) HarperTorch, 2001, c1987.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Carpe Jugulum. (Discworld, #23, Witches, #6) Harper Collins, 1999, c1998.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Maskerade. (Discworld, #18, Witches, #5) HarperPrism, 2008, c1995.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Lords and Ladies. (Discworld, #14, Witches, #4) HarperPrism, c1994.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Wyrd Sisters. (Discworld #12, Witches #3) HarperTorch, 2002,c1991.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Wyrd Sisters. (Discworld #6, Witches #2) HarperTorch, 2001,c1988.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Equal Rites. (Discworld #3, Witches #1) Harper Paperbacks, 2008, c1987.
  • Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples). The Last Battle. (Chronicles of Narnia, #7) HarperCollins, 1994, c1956.
  • Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples). The Magician's Nephew. (Chronicles of Narnia, #6) HarperCollins, 1994, c1955.
  • Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples). The Horse and His Boy. (Chronicles of Narnia, #5) HarperCollins, 1994, c1954.
  • Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples). The Silver Chair. (Chronicles of Narnia, #4) HarperCollins, 1994, c1953.
  • Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples). The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) HarperCollins, 1994, c1952.
  • Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples). Prince Caspian. (Chronicles of Narnia, #2) HarperCollins, 1994, c1951.
  • Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples). The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. (Chronicles of Narnia, #1) HarperCollins, 1994, c1950.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Raising Steam. (Discworld, #40; Moist Von Lipwig, #3) Doubleday, 2013.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Making Money. (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2) HarperCollins, c2007.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Going Postal. (Discworld, #33; Moist von Lipwig, #1) HarperCollins, c2004.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Monstrous Regiment. (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3) HarperCollins, c2003.
  • Pratchett, Terry. The Truth. (Discworld #25, Industrial Revolution #2) HarperCollins, 2000.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Moving Pictures. (Discworld #10, Industrial Revolution #1) Harper, 1990.
  • Pratchett, Terry. The Shepherd's Crown. (Discworld #41, Tiffany Aching #5) Doubleday, 2015.
  • Pratchett, Terry. I Shall Wear Midnight. (Discworld #38, Tiffany Aching #4) Doubleday, 2010.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Wintersmith. (Discworld #35, Tiffany Aching #3) Doubleday, 2006.
  • Pratchett, Terry. A Hat Full of Sky. (Discworld #32, Tiffany Aching #2) Doubleday, 2004.
  • Pratchett, Terry. The Wee Free Men. (Discworld #30, Tiffany Aching #1) Doubleday, 2003.
  • Pratchett, Terry. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. (Discworld #28) Doubleday, 2001.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Unseen Academicals. (Discworld #37, Rincewind #8) Doubleday, 2009.
  • Pratchett, Terry. The last hero. (Discworld #27, Rincewind #7) Victor Gollancz, 2001.
  • Pratchett, Terry. The last continent. (Discworld #22, Rincewind #6) Doubleday, 1998.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Interesting times. (Discworld #17, Rincewind #5) Victor Gollancz, 1994.
  • Pratchett, Terry, and Josh Kirby. Eric. (Discworld #9, Rincewind #4) Corgy, 1990.
  • Pratchett, Terry. Sourcery. (Discworld #5, Rincewind #3) Colin Smythe, 1988.
  • Pratchett, Terry. The Light Fantastic. (Discworld #2, Rincewind #2) Colin Smythe, 1986.
  • Pratchett, Terry. The colour of magic. (Discworld #1, Rincewind #1) Colin Smythe, 1983.
  • Gaiman, Neil. Norse mythology. WW Norton & Company, 2017.

Fiction

  • Massey, Sujata. The Widows of Malabar Hill. Soho Crime, 2018.
  • Dixon, Franklin W. The Tower Treasure. (The Hardy Boys, #1) Grosset & Dunlap, 1998, c1927.
  • Turton, Stuart. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. Sourcebooks Landmark, 2018.
  • Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud). Anne of Green Gables. (Anne of Green Gables #1) Puffin Books, 2015, c1908.
  • Christie, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Bantam Books, 1983, c1954.
  • White, E. B. Charlotte's Web. HarperCollins, 1999.
  • Clancy, Tom. The hunt for red October. Penguin, 1985.
  • Christie, Agatha. And then there were none. Macmillan, 2004.
  • Heller, Joseph. Catch-22: a novel. Vol. 4. Simon and Schuster, 1999.
  • Pratchett, Terry, and Neil Gaiman. Good Omens: The nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch. Random House, 2011.
  • Goscinny, Rene, and Albert Uderzo. Asterix the Gladiator. Asterix #4.
  • Ferri, Jean-Yves, Didier Conrad and Anthea Bell. Asterix and the Picts. Asterix #35.
  • Carroll, Lewis. Alice's adventures in wonderland. Broadview Press, 2011.
  • Brosh, Alexandra. Hyperbole and a half: Unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened. Random House, 2013.
  • Padua, Sydney. The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: the (mostly) true story of the first computer. Penguin UK, 2015.
  • Saint-Exupéry, Antoine, and Katherine Woods. The Little Prince. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1943.

Health and Fitness

  • Greger, Michael. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease. Flatiron Books, 2015.
  • Bercovici, Jeff. Play on: The New Science of Elite Performance at Any Age. Penguin Books, 2018.

History

  • Lapierre, Dominique and Collins, Larry. Freedom At Midnight. HarperCollins, 1997, c1975.
  • Dalrymple, William. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
  • Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens: A brief history of humankind. Random House, 2014.
  • Harari, Yuval Noah. Homo Deus: A brief history of tomorrow. Random House, 2016.
  • Loftis, Larry. Into the Lion's Mouth: The True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life Inspiration for James Bond. Penguin, 2016.
  • Johnson, Clarence L. Kelly: more than my share of it all. Smithsonian Institution, 2012.
  • Yeager, Chuck, and Leo Janos. Yeager: An Autobiography. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985.

Non-Fiction

  • McChrystal, Stanley A. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. Portfolio/Penguin, 2015.
  • Saha, Anju. Our Heritage Revisited: A glimpse into Ancient Indian texts. Anju Saha, 2015.
  • Stoll, Clifford. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage. Pocket Books, c1990.
  • Pratchett, Terry. A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction. Doubleday, 2014.
  • Montgomery, Charles. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
  • Dennis Jr., Daniel J. Gems: A Lively Guide for the Casual Collector. Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
  • Marshall, Tim. Prisoners of geography: Ten maps that tell you everything you need to know about global politics. Elliot and Thompson, 2015.
  • Miodownik, Mark. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-made World. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
  • Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • Lansing, Alfred. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. Basic Books (AZ), 2014.
  • Poundstone, William. Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? Oneworld Publication, 2013.

Science

  • Mack, Katie. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking). Scribner, 2020.
  • Meadows, Donella H., Meadows, Dennis L., and Randers Jørgen. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2004.
  • Wheelan, Charles J. Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread From the Data. W.W. Norton, 2013.
  • Bryson, Bill. The Body: A Guide for Occupants. Doubleday, 2019.
  • Aaronson, Scott. Quantum computing since Democritus. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • Munroe, Randall. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Hachette UK, 2014.
  • Nordgren, Tyler. Sun Moon Earth: The History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets. Basic Books, 2016.
  • Rovelli, Carlo. Seven brief lessons on physics. Riverhead Books (Hardcover), 2016.
  • Singh, Simon. Big Bang: The origin of the universe. Harper Perennial, 2004.
  • Gonick, Larry, and Woollcott Smith. The cartoon guide to statistics. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.
  • Gardner, Martin. Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi: Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Hadfield, Chris. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth. 2013.
  • Navarro, Joe, and Marvin Karlins. What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-Fbi Agent's Guide to Speed Reading People. New York, NY: Collins, 2008.
  • Hawkins, Jeff, and Sandra Blakeslee. On intelligence: How a new understanding of the brain will lead to the creation of truly intelligent machines. Macmillan, 2007.

Science Fiction

  • Herbert, Frank. Dune. Penguin Books, 2016.
  • Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's Cradle. Dial Press, 1998.
  • Wells, Herbert George. The First Men in the Moon. Magnum, 1968.
  • Bradbury, Ray. The martian chronicles. Simon and Schuster, 2012.