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Carl Sagan, 1980

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Any non-fiction books that taught you something that made you understand the world better

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Cosmos

Carl Sagan, 1980

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Perez, 2019

So You Want to Talk about Race

Ijeoma Oluo, 2018

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, 2001

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins, 1976

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander, 2010

I Am Malala

Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb, 2012

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn, 1980

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty, 2014

Sophie's World

Jostein Gaarder, 1905

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Brené Brown, 2012

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

Amanda Montell, 2021

Careless People

Sarah Wynn-Williams, 2025

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick, 2009

The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Amanda Lee, 1848

Humankind: A Hopeful History

Rutger Bregman, 2019

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

Chris van Tulleken, 2023

Non Violent Communication: A Language of Life

Marshall B. Rosenberg, 1999

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber, David Wengrow, 2021

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin, 1859

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport, 2024

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

Mary L. Trump, 2020

Logicomix

Christos H. Papadimitriou, Apostolos Doxiadis, Χρίστος Χ. Παπαδημητρίου

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky, 1980

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