Recommended

Eclectic Non-fiction

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn

Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl

The Psychology of Self-Esteem, by Nathaniel Branden

Psychotherapy East and West, by Alan Watts

The Lessons of History, by Will and Ariel Durant

The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome, by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Plato’s Republic, translated and commentary by Allan Bloom

Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Religions of Man, by Huston Smith

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer

The Ordeal of Change, by Eric Hoffer

The Road to Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, by Ayn Rand

Econoclasts, by Brain Domitrovic

Racial Paranoia by John L. Jackson

The Book of the Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi

Memoirs

Revolt in the Desert, by T. E. Lawrence

Roughing It, by Mark Twain

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Commentaries on the Gallic War, by Julius Caesar

Anabasis, by Xenophon

History

Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus, by Thomas Cahill

Galileo’s Daughter, by Dava Sobel

A Time for Trumpets: The Untold Story of the Battle of the Bulge, by Charles B. MacDonald 

Fiction

Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A. Heinlein

The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand

The Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison

Shibumi, by Trevanian