- Music: Ways of Listening by Elliott Schwartz
- The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution
- Magic Hours by Tom Bissel
- How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
- The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
- Harlot by Jill Alexander Essbaum
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (must)
- In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Stewart
- The History of Jazz by Gioia
- A Brief History of Time by Hawking (must)
- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (must)
- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
- The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (must)
jul 18 2012 ∞
jun 2 2014 +