Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds

Jess Zafarris

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Lulu Miller

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn

Metaphors We Live By

George Lakoff

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin A. Abbott

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas R. Hofstadter

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

Andrea Wulf

The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself

Daniel J. Boorstin

How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics

Eugenia Cheng

The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher

Julian Baggini

The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity

Steven H. Strogatz

A History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell