Daily Rituals: How Great Minds Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work

Mason Currey

Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age

Jeff Goins

The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear

Ralph Keyes

Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders

Joshua Foer

How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking

Jordan Ellenberg

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (1) (Politics of Place)

Tim Marshall

Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Kathryn Schulz

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Oliver Sacks

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

Lynne Truss

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Frans de Waal

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Randall Munroe

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Mary Roach

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Joshua Foer