I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
The catalogue
Every book on the desk.
Long-form guides with a quick way in and enough depth to understand what matters.
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Paradiso
Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Beloved
Toni Morrison
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville, Tony Tanner
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas Père
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Odyssey
Homer, Daniel Mendelsohn
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
Not Quite Dead Yet
Holly Jackson
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Ultra 85
Logic
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
God Emperor of Dune
Frank Herbert
Heretics of Dune
Frank Herbert
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Art of War
Sunzi
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Deep Work
Cal Newport
The Martian
Andy Weir
Contact
Carl Sagan
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
Dune Genesis
Frank Herbert
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
James Clear
Influence
Robert B. Cialdini, PhD
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Animal Farm
George Orwell
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Dune
Frank Herbert
How to Take Smart Notes. One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
Sönke Ahrens
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen