Books

Addiction

• Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari

Anthropology and Sociology

• The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
• On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries) by Alice Goffman
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
• Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic by James Gilligan
• The Dance of Life: The Other Dimension of Time by Edward T. Hall
• The Silent Language by Edward T. Hall
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
• Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men by John A. Rich MD MPH
• The Open and Closed Mind: Investigations into the Nature of Belief Systems and Personality Systems by Milton Rokeach

Assassin Literature

• "I Heard You Paint Houses", Updated Edition: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt
• The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo
• The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath by Philip Carlo

Business, Money & The Workplace

• Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
• Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy by Robert H. Frank
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• Corporate Mystic - Guidebook For Visionaries With Their Feet On The Ground by Gay Ludeman, Kate Hendricks
• One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making by Steven Sinofsky
• The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley

Economics

• Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
  by Robert H. Frank
• Global Mind Change: The Promise of the 21st Century by Willis Harman
• Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty
• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

Evolutionary Analysis

• The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
• The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins
• Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
• The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins
• Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick
• The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
• A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality by Ken Wilber
• The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
• Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright

Habit

• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by Charles Duhigg
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones  by James Clear

Neuroscience & Psychology

• Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength by Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney
• Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain by Michael S. Gazzaniga
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman
• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -and Keep- Love by Amir Levine, Rachel Heller
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View by Stanley Milgram
• How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist by Andrew Newberg M.D., Mark Robert Waldman
• A Way of Being by Carl Rogers
• On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy by Carl Rogers
• The Open and Closed Mind: Investigations into the Nature of Belief Systems and Personality Systems by Milton Rokeach
• Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.
• Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz Ph.D.
• Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being by Martin E. P. Seligman
• What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement by Martin E.P. Seligman
• Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin E. P. Seligman by Martin E. P. Seligman
• Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman

Nontheism

• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel Dennett
• The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
• Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
• The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris
• Free Will by Sam Harris
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
• God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

NVC

• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World by Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD

Parenting & Families

• Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn

Philosophy & Spiritual Traditions

• The Gateless Barrier: The Wu-Men Kuan (Mumonkan) by Robert Aitken  (Translator)
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
• Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by Epictetus
• The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
• The Three Pillars of Zen by Roshi Philip Kapleau
• Daily Wisdom: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad by Abdur Raheem Kidwai
• Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982 by Peter Matthiessen
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
• The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth by M. Scott Peck
• Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Chogyam Trungpa
• Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa
• Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42) by H.R. Maturana, F. J. Varela
• The View from Within: First-person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness by Francisco J Varela (Editor), Jonathan Shear (Editor)
• Words of the Prophet Muhammad compiled by Maulana Khan Wahiduddin
• The Powers That Be: Theology for a New Millennium by Walter Wink

Science

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
• The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner

Self-Help & Personal Growth (Mindfulness, Meditation & Self-Care)

• The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
• Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams

Sex, Marriage, Relationships

• What Men Want in Bed by Bettina Arndt
• The Relationship Cure: A 5 Step Guide to Strengthening Your Marriage, Family, and Friendships by John Gottman
• Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha

Sleep and Health

• Take a Nap! Change Your Life by Mark Ehrman, Sara Mednick
• Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain by Pete Egoscue and Roger Gittines
• The Harvard Medical School Guide to a Good Night's Sleep by Lawrence Epstein, Steven Mardon
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky

Warrior Literature

• Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
• On Combat, The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace
  by Dave Grossman, Loren W. Christensen
• On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
• The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
• The Art Of War by Sun Tzu
• Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo

World History & Politics

• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt, Amos Elon (Introduction)
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge by Edward Kritzler
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Pablo Freire
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
  
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• Islam and the Future of Tolerance by Sam Harris
• Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
• A Brief History of Everything by Ken Wilber
• Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination by Walter Wink

Yoga & Martial Arts

• Aikido in Everyday Life: Giving in to Get Your Way by Terry Dobson and Victor Miller
• Light on Yoga: Yoga Dipika by B. K. S. Iyengar
• Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times by Judith Hanson Lasater
• Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in Everyday Life by Judith Hanson Lasater
• A Year of Living Your Yoga: Daily Practices to Shape Your Life by Judith Hanson Lasater
• Yogabody: Anatomy, Kinesiology, and Asana by Judith Hanson Lasater
• 30 Essential Yoga Poses: For Beginning Students and Their Teachers by Judith Lasater