Updated February 2026
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond
The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life | Sophia Rosenfeld
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream | Paulo Coelho
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work | John M. Gottman
A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going | Michael Muthukrishna
10 Principles of Godly Leadership | Andrew Wommack
Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class | Charles Murray
Recommendations
The Science of Self-Control | Howard Rachlin
Optimally Irrational: The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do | Lionel Page
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed | James C. Scott
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa | Walter Rodney
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap | Yuen Yuen Ang
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World | Gregory Clark
The Lessons of History | Will & Ariel Durant
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good | William Easterly
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy | Joel Mokyr
The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor | Martin Meredith
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution | Francis Fukuyama
Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture | Marvin Harris
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst | Robert M. Sapolsky
The WEIRDest People in the World | Joseph Henrich
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion | Jonathan Haidt
Basic Economics | Thomas Sowell
A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future | Charles Van Doren
The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog | James W. Sire
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody | Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization | Arthur Herman
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe | Elizabeth Eisenstein
Christian Living / Faith
The Holy Bible | New Living Translation
The Heidelberg Catechism | Zacharius Ursinus
You’ve Already Got It! (So Quit Trying To Get It) | Andrew Wommack
How to Find, Follow, Fulfill God’s Will | Andrew Wommack
The Believer’s Authority: What You Didn’t Learn in Church | Andrew Wommack
Effortless Change: The Word Is the Seed That Can Change Your Life | Andrew Wommack
Spirit, Soul and Body |Andrew Wommack
Harnessing Your Emotions | Andrew Wommack
The Hidden Man: The Secret to Living in the Spirit Realm | E. W. Kenyon
How to Hear from God: Learn to Know His Voice and Make Right Decisions | Joyce Meyer
E.W. Kenyon and His Message of Faith: The True Story | Joe McIntyre
Play the Man: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be | Mark Batterson
The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears | Mark Batterson
Personal Development
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | Stephen R. Covey
The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime | MJ DeMarco
Mastery | Robert Greene
Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work | John C. Maxwell
The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential | John C. Maxwell
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos | Jordan B. Peterson
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World | Cal Newport