From the ones assigned in high school to the ones I picked up just because, they all made the list for a reason.
Some of these books helped me understand questions I already had, while others introduced me to ideas I had never considered before. I included them here because they were thoughtful, memorable, and genuinely worth reading.
by Cory Doctorow
by Sue Armstrong
by Merlin Sheldrake
by Katalin Karikò
by Walter Isaacson
by Caroline Criado Perez
by Richard Prum
by Bein Rein
by Glennon Doyle
by John Green
by Thomas R. Cech
by Daisy Henrandez
by Adam Higginbotham
by Hamid Ghanadan
by Kate Zernike
by Kelly Clancy
by Ed Young
by Jonathan Haidt
by Sy Montgomery
by David Deutsch
by Adam Rutherford
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
by Loren Grush
by Barry Werth
by Deborah M. Shlian
by Paris H. Grey, David G. Oppenheimer
by McFadden, Jim Al-Khalili
by Nathan Vardi
by Gary P. Pisano
by Ed Yong
by Richard Dawkins
by Matthew Ball
by Venki Ramakrishnan
by Sally Smith Hughes
by Gordon Binder
by Rebecca Skloot
by John Carreyrou
by Dan Egan
by Marc Kuchner
by Yuval Noah Harari
by Jorge Contreras
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