Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
The Dictator's HandbookNoam Chomsky
Understanding Power [media]Bruce Schneier
Data and Goliath [technology, surveillance]Michael Weiss, Hassan Hassan
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror [terrorism, security]Neal Stephenson
CryptonomiconLawrence Lessig
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity [open source, media]Chris Hadfield
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on EarthAndreas C. Mueller, Sarah Guido
Introduction to Machine Learning with Python [machine learning, programming]Sara Nović
Girl at WarDavid Mitchell
Cloud Atlas [novel]Gabriella Coleman
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous [technology, hacking]Marc Goodman
Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About ItSimon Monk
The Maker's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse [programming]Andrew Hodges
Alan Turing: The Enigma [biography, technology, history]Dave Maass
Pwning TomorrowNeal Stephenson
SevenevesGeorge Orwell
All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays [media]Jonathan L. Zittrain
The Future of the Internet and How to Stop ItFinn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum
Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and ProtestHarold Bloom
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle
Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for GodDan Riley
Generation AtheistDean Baker
False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble EconomyJim Whitehurst
The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and PerformanceMatt Taibbi, Mark Ames
The eXile: Sex, Drugs and Libel in the New RussiaMaurer
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence ManScott McCloud
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic NovelsTed Chiang
The Lifecycle of Software Objects