The full 500-book reading order

All 500 books, sequenced as a single staircase across 4 phases.

Nothing here is locked — this is a first pass, built to be revised once a few years into actually reading it. Each book is placed to prepare you for the next, sometimes crossing category lines when a thread justifies it.

Phase 1

#1 Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari World History owned
#2 The Isles — Norman Davies British History
#3 Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant — Ulysses S. Grant Biography
#4 Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen Novels
#5 The Interpretation of Dreams — Sigmund Freud Psychology
#6 Meditations on First Philosophy — René Descartes Modern Philosophy
#7 Iliad — Homer Ancient Philosophy
#8 The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald Novels owned
#9 The Hebrew Bible (selected books) — Various Religion & Mythology
#10 Basic Economics — Thomas Sowell Politics & Economics
#11 The Practice of Management — Peter Drucker Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#12 Nineteen Eighty-Four — George Orwell Novels owned
#13 On War — Carl von Clausewitz Military History
#14 A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson Science
#15 Code — Charles Petzold Technology & AI
#16 Animal Farm — George Orwell Novels owned
#17 Timefulness — Marcia Bjornerud Nature, Geography & Environment
#18 The Story of the Human Body — Daniel Lieberman Health & Longevity
#19 The Histories — Herodotus Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#20 Treasure Island — Robert Louis Stevenson Novels owned
#21 Guns, Germs, and Steel — Jared Diamond World History owned
#22 Britain BC — Francis Pryor British History
#23 Team of Rivals — Doris Kearns Goodwin Biography
#24 Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë Novels
#25 The Principles of Psychology — William James Psychology
#26 Ethics — Baruch Spinoza Modern Philosophy
#27 Oedipus the King — Sophocles Ancient Philosophy
#28 The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger Novels owned
#29 The New Testament — Various Religion & Mythology
#30 Freakonomics — Levitt & Dubner Politics & Economics
#31 Managing Oneself — Peter Drucker Leadership, Business & Decision Making owned
#32 Lord of the Flies — William Golding Novels
#33 The History of the Peloponnesian War — Thucydides Military History
#34 The Demon-Haunted World — Carl Sagan Science
#35 The Soul of a New Machine — Tracy Kidder Technology & AI
#36 Frankenstein — Mary Shelley Novels
#37 Krakatoa — Simon Winchester Nature, Geography & Environment
#38 Outlive — Peter Attia Health & Longevity
#39 The Travels of Marco Polo — Marco Polo Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#40 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams Novels owned
#41 The Dawn of Everything — Graeber & Wengrow World History
#42 Roman Britain — Guy de la Bédoyère British History
#43 Churchill — Andrew Roberts Biography
#44 Great Expectations — Charles Dickens Novels
#45 Man and His Symbols — Carl Jung Psychology
#46 Leviathan — Thomas Hobbes Modern Philosophy
#47 Works and Days — Hesiod Ancient Philosophy
#48 Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier Novels
#49 Confessions — St. Augustine Religion & Mythology
#50 The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli Politics & Economics
#51 The Effective Executive — Peter Drucker Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#52 To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee Novels
#53 The Anabasis — Xenophon Military History
#54 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Kuhn Science
#55 The Mythical Man-Month — Frederick Brooks Technology & AI
#56 Brave New World — Aldous Huxley Novels owned
#57 Annals of the Former World — John McPhee Nature, Geography & Environment
#58 Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker Health & Longevity
#59 The Journals of Captain James Cook — James Cook Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#60 Watership Down — Richard Adams Novels
#61 Why the West Rules—For Now — Ian Morris World History
#62 The Anglo-Saxons — Marc Morris British History
#63 Long Walk to Freedom — Nelson Mandela Biography
#64 Persuasion — Jane Austen Novels owned
#65 Science and Human Behavior — B.F. Skinner Psychology
#66 Two Treatises of Government — John Locke Modern Philosophy
#67 Theogony — Hesiod Ancient Philosophy
#68 Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro Novels
#69 The Quran — Various Religion & Mythology
#70 The Wealth of Nations — Adam Smith Politics & Economics
#71 Good to Great — Jim Collins Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#72 The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck Novels
#73 The Campaigns of Alexander — Arrian Military History
#74 The Logic of Scientific Discovery — Karl Popper Science
#75 Crypto — Steven Levy Technology & AI
#76 Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury Novels
#77 The Control of Nature — John McPhee Nature, Geography & Environment
#78 The Blue Zones — Dan Buettner Health & Longevity
#79 Endurance — Alfred Lansing Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#80 All Quiet on the Western Front — Erich Maria Remarque Novels
#81 Prisoners of Geography — Tim Marshall World History owned
#82 The Norman Conquest — Marc Morris British History
#83 Gandhi — Mohandas Gandhi Biography
#84 Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad Novels
#85 The Nature of Prejudice — Gordon Allport Psychology
#86 Hamlet — William Shakespeare Modern Philosophy
#87 Fragments (Presocratics) — Various Ancient Philosophy
#88 Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe Novels
#89 No god but God — Reza Aslan Religion & Mythology
#90 The Federalist Papers — Hamilton, Madison & Jay Politics & Economics
#91 Built to Last — Collins & Porras Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#92 The Stranger — Albert Camus Novels
#93 The Influence of Sea Power upon History — Alfred Thayer Mahan Military History
#94 The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch Science
#95 Algorithms to Live By — Christian & Griffiths Technology & AI owned
#96 Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut Novels
#97 Desert Solitaire — Edward Abbey Nature, Geography & Environment
#98 Ikigai — García & Miralles Health & Longevity
#99 The Worst Journey in the World — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#100 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy — John le Carré Novels
#101 1177 B.C. — Eric Cline World History
#102 The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England — Ian Mortimer British History
#103 Einstein — Walter Isaacson Biography
#104 Dune — Frank Herbert Novels
#105 Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman Psychology
#106 An Essay Concerning Human Understanding — John Locke Modern Philosophy
#107 Euthyphro — Plato Ancient Philosophy
#108 A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini Novels
#109 The Bhagavad Gita — Various Religion & Mythology
#110 Democracy in America — Alexis de Tocqueville Politics & Economics
#111 Leaders Eat Last — Simon Sinek Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#112 The Godfather — Mario Puzo Novels
#113 Commentaries on the Gallic War — Julius Caesar Military History
#114 Six Easy Pieces — Richard Feynman Science
#115 Where Wizards Stay Up Late — Hafner & Lyon Technology & AI
#116 The Road — Cormac McCarthy Novels owned
#117 The Weather Machine — Andrew Blum Nature, Geography & Environment
#118 Exercised — Daniel Lieberman Health & Longevity
#119 Scott's Last Expedition — Robert Falcon Scott Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#120 Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver Novels
#121 SPQR — Mary Beard World History
#122 Magna Carta — David Carpenter British History
#123 The Double Helix — James Watson Biography
#124 White Teeth — Zadie Smith Novels
#125 Influence — Robert Cialdini Psychology owned
#126 A Treatise of Human Nature — David Hume Modern Philosophy
#127 Apology — Plato Ancient Philosophy
#128 The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde Novels
#129 The Upanishads — Various Religion & Mythology
#130 On Liberty — John Stuart Mill Politics & Economics
#131 Start with Why — Simon Sinek Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#132 The Handmaid's Tale — Margaret Atwood Novels
#133 The Face of Battle — John Keegan Military History
#134 A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking Science
#135 The Cuckoo's Egg — Clifford Stoll Technology & AI
#136 The Complete Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle Novels
#137 Six Degrees — Mark Lynas Nature, Geography & Environment
#138 Spark — John Ratey Health & Longevity
#139 Alone — Richard Byrd Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#140 A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles Novels owned
#141 The Silk Roads — Peter Frankopan World History
#142 The Black Death — John Kelly British History owned
#143 Rosalind Franklin — Brenda Maddox Biography
#144 Tess of the d'Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy Novels
#145 Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely Psychology
#146 The Social Contract — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Modern Philosophy
#147 Crito — Plato Ancient Philosophy
#148 The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett Novels
#149 The Dhammapada — Buddha (attributed) Religion & Mythology
#150 The Open Society and Its Enemies — Karl Popper Politics & Economics
#151 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen Covey Leadership, Business & Decision Making owned
#152 The Big Sleep — Raymond Chandler Novels
#153 The Campaigns of Napoleon — David Chandler Military History
#154 The Elegant Universe — Brian Greene Science
#155 This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends — Nicole Perlroth Technology & AI
#156 The Call of the Wild — Jack London Novels
#157 The Uninhabitable Earth — David Wallace-Wells Nature, Geography & Environment
#158 Built to Move — Kelly Starrett Health & Longevity
#159 Into Thin Air — Jon Krakauer Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#160 My Ántonia — Willa Cather Novels

Phase 2

#161 1491 — Charles C. Mann World History
#162 The Plantagenets — Dan Jones British History
#163 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard Feynman Biography
#164 Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys Novels
#165 Nudge — Thaler & Sunstein Psychology
#166 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals — Immanuel Kant Modern Philosophy
#167 Phaedo — Plato Ancient Philosophy
#168 Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky Novels
#169 The Tibetan Book of the Dead — Various Religion & Mythology
#170 The Tyranny of Merit — Michael Sandel Politics & Economics
#171 Turn the Ship Around! — L. David Marquet Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#172 The Lord of the Rings — J.R.R. Tolkien Novels
#173 Battle Cry of Freedom — James McPherson Military History
#174 The First Three Minutes — Steven Weinberg Science
#175 Sandworm — Andy Greenberg Technology & AI
#176 Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy Novels
#177 The Water Will Come — Jeff Goodell Nature, Geography & Environment
#178 Younger Next Year — Crowley & Lodge Health & Longevity
#179 Touching the Void — Joe Simpson Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#180 A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway Novels
#181 Africa — John Reader World History
#182 The Wars of the Roses — Dan Jones British History
#183 The Wright Brothers — David McCullough Biography
#184 On the Road — Jack Kerouac Novels owned
#185 Blink — Malcolm Gladwell Psychology
#186 Faust — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Modern Philosophy
#187 Symposium — Plato Ancient Philosophy
#188 Madame Bovary — Gustave Flaubert Novels
#189 Autobiography of a Yogi — Paramahansa Yogananda Religion & Mythology
#190 The Road to Serfdom — F.A. Hayek Politics & Economics
#191 The Five Dysfunctions of a Team — Patrick Lencioni Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#192 Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison Novels
#193 The Guns of August — Barbara Tuchman Military History
#194 What Is Life? — Erwin Schrödinger Science
#195 The Art of Deception — Kevin Mitnick Technology & AI
#196 His Dark Materials — Philip Pullman Novels
#197 Under a White Sky — Elizabeth Kolbert Nature, Geography & Environment
#198 The Joy of Movement — Kelly McGonigal Health & Longevity
#199 Annapurna — Maurice Herzog Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#200 The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy Novels
#201 The Inheritance of Rome — Chris Wickham World History
#202 The Six Wives of Henry VIII — Alison Weir British History
#203 The Power Broker — Robert Caro Biography
#204 A House for Mr Biswas — V.S. Naipaul Novels
#205 Flow — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychology owned
#206 Utilitarianism — John Stuart Mill Modern Philosophy
#207 The Republic — Plato Ancient Philosophy
#208 Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston Novels
#209 Epic of Gilgamesh — Anonymous Religion & Mythology
#210 The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money — John Maynard Keynes Politics & Economics
#211 Competitive Strategy — Michael Porter Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#212 All the King's Men — Robert Penn Warren Novels
#213 The Sleepwalkers — Christopher Clark Military History
#214 On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin Science
#215 Artificial Intelligence — Melanie Mitchell Technology & AI
#216 Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson Novels owned
#217 Silent Spring — Rachel Carson Nature, Geography & Environment
#218 In Defense of Food — Michael Pollan Health & Longevity
#219 Travels with Charley — John Steinbeck Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#220 Half of a Yellow Sun — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Novels
#221 Destiny Disrupted — Tamim Ansary World History
#222 Elizabeth — David Starkey British History
#223 Titan — Ron Chernow Biography
#224 Nervous Conditions — Tsitsi Dangarembga Novels
#225 Emotional Intelligence — Daniel Goleman Psychology owned
#226 The World as Will and Representation — Arthur Schopenhauer Modern Philosophy
#227 Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle Ancient Philosophy
#228 Homegoing — Yaa Gyasi Novels
#229 The Odyssey — Homer Religion & Mythology owned
#230 Capitalism and Freedom — Milton Friedman Politics & Economics
#231 The Dispossessed — Ursula K. Le Guin Novels
#232 The Innovator's Dilemma — Clayton Christensen Leadership, Business & Decision Making owned
#233 Diary of a Madman and Other Stories — Lu Xun Novels
#234 Seven Pillars of Wisdom — T.E. Lawrence Military History
#235 The Selfish Gene — Richard Dawkins Science
#236 The Alignment Problem — Brian Christian Technology & AI
#237 The Left Hand of Darkness — Ursula K. Le Guin Novels
#238 The Sixth Extinction — Elizabeth Kolbert Nature, Geography & Environment
#239 How Not to Age — Michael Greger Health & Longevity
#240 Blue Highways — William Least Heat-Moon Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#241 Oryx and Crake — Margaret Atwood Novels
#242 The Crusades Through Arab Eyes — Amin Maalouf World History
#243 The English Civil War — Diane Purkiss British History
#244 The Snowball — Alice Schroeder Biography
#245 Gulliver's Travels — Jonathan Swift Novels
#246 Games People Play — Eric Berne Psychology
#247 Phenomenology of Spirit — G.W.F. Hegel Modern Philosophy
#248 Politics — Aristotle Ancient Philosophy
#249 Candide — Voltaire Novels
#250 The Mahabharata — Vyasa (attributed) Religion & Mythology
#251 Capital in the Twenty-First Century — Thomas Piketty Politics & Economics
#252 Blue Ocean Strategy — Kim & Mauborgne Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#253 Brideshead Revisited — Evelyn Waugh Novels
#254 The First World War — John Keegan Military History
#255 The Gene — Siddhartha Mukherjee Science
#256 Life 3.0 — Max Tegmark Technology & AI owned
#257 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie — Muriel Spark Novels
#258 A Sand County Almanac — Aldo Leopold Nature, Geography & Environment
#259 The Diet Myth — Tim Spector Health & Longevity
#260 The Great Railway Bazaar — Paul Theroux Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#261 Kim — Rudyard Kipling Novels
#262 A Distant Mirror — Barbara Tuchman World History
#263 A Monarchy Transformed — Mark Kishlansky British History
#264 Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson Biography
#265 For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway Novels
#266 Quiet — Susan Cain Psychology owned
#267 King Lear — William Shakespeare Modern Philosophy
#268 Metaphysics — Aristotle Ancient Philosophy
#269 A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess Novels
#270 One Thousand and One Nights — Anonymous Religion & Mythology
#271 Debt — David Graeber Politics & Economics
#272 The E-Myth Revisited — Michael Gerber Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#273 Ragtime — E.L. Doctorow Novels
#274 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich — William Shirer Military History
#275 The Vital Question — Nick Lane Science
#276 The Master Algorithm — Pedro Domingos Technology & AI
#277 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain Novels
#278 The Diversity of Life — E.O. Wilson Nature, Geography & Environment
#279 Lifespan — David Sinclair Health & Longevity
#280 In Patagonia — Bruce Chatwin Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#281 The Three Musketeers — Alexandre Dumas Novels
#282 The Anarchy — William Dalrymple World History
#283 Samuel Pepys — Claire Tomalin British History
#284 The Everything Store — Brad Stone Biography
#285 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe — C.S. Lewis Novels
#286 The Marshmallow Test — Walter Mischel Psychology
#287 Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers — Diogenes Laërtius Ancient Philosophy
#288 The Good Soldier — Ford Madox Ford Novels owned
#289 The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri Religion & Mythology
#290 The Bottom Billion — Paul Collier Politics & Economics
#291 Team of Teams — Stanley McChrystal Leadership, Business & Decision Making owned
#292 A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens Novels owned
#293 The Second World War — Antony Beevor Military History owned
#294 The Lives of a Cell — Lewis Thomas Science
#295 Human Compatible — Stuart Russell Technology & AI
#296 Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse Novels
#297 The Hidden Life of Trees — Peter Wohlleben Nature, Geography & Environment
#298 The Telomere Effect — Blackburn & Epel Health & Longevity
#299 Arabian Sands — Wilfred Thesiger Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#300 Birdsong — Sebastian Faulks Novels

Phase 3

#301 Empires of the Sea — Roger Crowley World History
#302 The Making of the English Working Class — E.P. Thompson British History
#303 The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin Biography
#304 Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov Novels
#305 Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl Psychology
#306 Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard Modern Philosophy
#307 Enchiridion — Epictetus Ancient Philosophy
#308 Midnight's Children — Salman Rushdie Novels
#309 The World's Religions — Huston Smith Religion & Mythology
#310 The Communist Manifesto — Marx & Engels Politics & Economics
#311 Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#312 The Trial — Franz Kafka Novels
#313 Stalingrad — Antony Beevor Military History
#314 How Not to Be Wrong — Jordan Ellenberg Science
#315 The Innovators — Walter Isaacson Technology & AI
#316 Bleak House — Charles Dickens Novels
#317 King Solomon's Ring — Konrad Lorenz Nature, Geography & Environment
#318 Breath — James Nestor Health & Longevity
#319 Full Tilt — Dervla Murphy Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#320 Sons and Lovers — D.H. Lawrence Novels
#321 The Wealth and Poverty of Nations — David Landes World History
#322 Britons — Linda Colley British History
#323 Leonardo da Vinci — Walter Isaacson Biography owned
#324 One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez Novels
#325 Mindset — Carol Dweck Psychology owned
#326 Beyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Nietzsche Modern Philosophy owned
#327 Discourses — Epictetus Ancient Philosophy
#328 To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf Novels
#329 A History of God — Karen Armstrong Religion & Mythology
#330 The Origins of Totalitarianism — Hannah Arendt Politics & Economics
#331 Superforecasting — Tetlock & Gardner Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#332 The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov Novels
#333 D-Day — Antony Beevor Military History
#334 Fermat's Last Theorem — Simon Singh Science
#335 Chip War — Chris Miller Technology & AI
#336 Doctor Zhivago — Boris Pasternak Novels
#337 The Soul of an Octopus — Sy Montgomery Nature, Geography & Environment
#338 The Circadian Code — Satchin Panda Health & Longevity
#339 A Time of Gifts — Patrick Leigh Fermor Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#340 I, Claudius — Robert Graves Novels
#341 The Age of Revolution 1789–1848 — Eric Hobsbawm World History
#342 Empire — Niall Ferguson British History
#343 Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow Biography
#344 Beloved — Toni Morrison Novels
#345 Self-Efficacy — Albert Bandura Psychology
#346 Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant Modern Philosophy
#347 Meditations — Marcus Aurelius Ancient Philosophy owned
#348 Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf Novels
#349 The Great Transformation — Karen Armstrong Religion & Mythology
#350 The Gulag Archipelago — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Politics & Economics
#351 The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#352 Ficciones — Jorge Luis Borges Novels
#353 Band of Brothers — Stephen Ambrose Military History
#354 The Drunkard's Walk — Leonard Mlodinow Science
#355 The Idea Factory — Jon Gertner Technology & AI
#356 Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev Novels
#357 H is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald Nature, Geography & Environment
#358 The Comfort Crisis — Michael Easter Health & Longevity
#359 Kon-Tiki — Thor Heyerdahl Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#360 Memoirs of Hadrian — Marguerite Yourcenar Novels
#361 The Age of Capital 1848–1875 — Eric Hobsbawm World History
#362 The Victorians — A.N. Wilson British History
#363 Shoe Dog — Phil Knight Biography
#364 Catch-22 — Joseph Heller Novels owned
#365 Learned Optimism — Martin Seligman Psychology
#366 On the Genealogy of Morality — Friedrich Nietzsche Modern Philosophy
#367 Letters from a Stoic — Seneca Ancient Philosophy
#368 Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë Novels
#369 God Is Not One — Stephen Prothero Religion & Mythology
#370 Why Nations Fail — Acemoglu & Robinson Politics & Economics
#371 The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#372 The Tale of Genji — Murasaki Shikibu Novels
#373 With the Old Breed — Eugene Sledge Military History
#374 Infinite Powers — Steven Strogatz Science
#375 Hackers — Steven Levy Technology & AI
#376 A Passage to India — E.M. Forster Novels
#377 The Genius of Birds — Jennifer Ackerman Nature, Geography & Environment
#378 Grit — Angela Duckworth Health & Longevity owned
#379 The Snow Leopard — Peter Matthiessen Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#380 From Here to Eternity — James Jones Novels
#381 The Age of Empire 1875–1914 — Eric Hobsbawm World History
#382 The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain — Ian Mortimer British History
#383 Personal History — Katharine Graham Biography
#384 The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner Novels
#385 Phantoms in the Brain — V.S. Ramachandran Psychology
#386 Being and Time — Martin Heidegger Modern Philosophy
#387 On the Shortness of Life — Seneca Ancient Philosophy
#388 Regeneration — Pat Barker Novels
#389 Religion for Atheists — Alain de Botton Religion & Mythology
#390 The End of History and the Last Man — Francis Fukuyama Politics & Economics
#391 Zero to One — Peter Thiel Leadership, Business & Decision Making owned
#392 Children of Gebelawi — Naguib Mahfouz Novels
#393 The Best and the Brightest — David Halberstam Military History
#394 Chaos — James Gleick Science
#395 The Second Machine Age — Brynjolfsson & McAfee Technology & AI
#396 The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane Novels
#397 Beyond Words — Carl Safina Nature, Geography & Environment
#398 Lost Connections — Johann Hari Health & Longevity
#399 Into the Wild — Jon Krakauer Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#400 Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel Novels
#401 Eye of the Needle — Ken Follett Novels
#402 The Age of Extremes 1914–1991 — Eric Hobsbawm World History
#403 Forgotten Voices of the Great War — Max Arthur British History
#404 The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank Biography
#405 The Magic Mountain — Thomas Mann Novels
#406 The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat — Oliver Sacks Psychology
#407 Existentialism Is a Humanism — Jean-Paul Sartre Modern Philosophy
#408 The Analects — Confucius Ancient Philosophy
#409 The Sound of the Mountain — Yasunari Kawabata Novels
#410 The Power of Myth — Joseph Campbell (with Bill Moyers) Religion & Mythology
#411 The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers — Paul Kennedy Politics & Economics
#412 Getting to Yes — Fisher, Ury & Patton Leadership, Business & Decision Making owned
#413 The Golden Notebook — Doris Lessing Novels
#414 Black Hawk Down — Mark Bowden Military History
#415 The Emperor of All Maladies — Siddhartha Mukherjee Science
#416 The Shallows — Nicholas Carr Technology & AI owned
#417 A Suitable Boy — Vikram Seth Novels
#418 Collapse — Jared Diamond Nature, Geography & Environment owned
#419 Atomic Habits — James Clear Health & Longevity owned
#420 Sailing Alone Around the World — Joshua Slocum Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#421 The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas Novels
#422 Go Tell It on the Mountain — James Baldwin Novels
#423 Postwar — Tony Judt World History
#424 Five Days in London, May 1940 — John Lukacs British History
#425 Unbroken — Laura Hillenbrand Biography
#426 The Decameron — Giovanni Boccaccio Novels
#427 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life — Erving Goffman Psychology
#428 The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir Modern Philosophy
#429 Mencius — Mencius Ancient Philosophy
#430 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy — Laurence Sterne Novels
#431 Mythos — Stephen Fry Religion & Mythology owned
#432 The Clash of Civilizations — Samuel Huntington Politics & Economics
#433 Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss Leadership, Business & Decision Making owned
#434 The Tin Drum — Günter Grass Novels
#435 Strategy — Lawrence Freedman Military History
#436 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks — Rebecca Skloot Science
#437 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — Shoshana Zuboff Technology & AI
#438 Pedro Páramo — Juan Rulfo Novels
#439 Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer Nature, Geography & Environment
#440 Deep Work — Cal Newport Health & Longevity owned
#441 West with the Night — Beryl Markham Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#442 Neuromancer — William Gibson Novels
#443 21 Lessons for the 21st Century — Yuval Noah Harari World History
#444 A History of Modern Britain — Andrew Marr British History owned
#445 Catherine the Great — Robert K. Massie Biography
#446 The Plague — Albert Camus Novels
#447 The Lucifer Effect — Philip Zimbardo Psychology
#448 The Problems of Philosophy — Bertrand Russell Modern Philosophy
#449 After Virtue — Alasdair MacIntyre Modern Philosophy
#450 Zhuangzi — Zhuangzi Ancient Philosophy
#451 A Short History of Myth — Karen Armstrong Religion & Mythology
#452 The Stand — Stephen King Novels
#453 The Spirit Level — Wilkinson & Pickett Politics & Economics
#454 How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie Leadership, Business & Decision Making owned
#455 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold — John le Carré Novels
#456 Makers of Modern Strategy — Peter Paret (ed.) Military History
#457 The Disappearing Spoon — Sam Kean Science
#458 The Coming Wave — Mustafa Suleyman Technology & AI
#459 The Quiet American — Graham Greene Novels owned
#460 The Future We Choose — Figueres & Rivett-Carnac Nature, Geography & Environment
#461 The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk Health & Longevity
#462 Wild — Cheryl Strayed Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#463 Darkness at Noon — Arthur Koestler Novels

Phase 4

#464 The Cold War — Odd Arne Westad World History
#465 SAS — Ben Macintyre British History
#466 Marie Curie — Susan Quinn Biography
#467 Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes Novels
#468 Obedience to Authority — Stanley Milgram Psychology
#469 A Theory of Justice — John Rawls Modern Philosophy
#470 Tao Te Ching — Laozi Ancient Philosophy owned
#471 The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky Novels
#472 The Hero with a Thousand Faces — Joseph Campbell Religion & Mythology
#473 Bowling Alone — Robert Putnam Politics & Economics
#474 Execution — Bossidy & Charan Leadership, Business & Decision Making
#475 Middlemarch — George Eliot Novels
#476 The Utility of Force — Rupert Smith Military History owned
#477 The Code Breaker — Walter Isaacson Science
#478 Technopoly — Neil Postman Technology & AI
#479 Ulysses — James Joyce Novels
#480 This Changes Everything — Naomi Klein Nature, Geography & Environment
#481 When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi Health & Longevity
#482 Wind, Sand and Stars — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#483 Moby-Dick — Herman Melville Novels
#484 The Lessons of History — Will & Ariel Durant World History
#485 War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy Novels
#486 Bloody Foreigners — Robert Winder British History
#487 Becoming — Michelle Obama Biography owned
#488 The Righteous Mind — Jonathan Haidt Psychology
#489 Practical Ethics — Peter Singer Modern Philosophy
#490 The Art of War — Sun Tzu Ancient Philosophy owned
#491 The Golden Bough — James Frazer Religion & Mythology
#492 Factfulness — Hans Rosling Politics & Economics
#493 The Lean Startup — Eric Ries Leadership, Business & Decision Making owned
#494 Supplying War — Martin van Creveld Military History
#495 Cosmos — Carl Sagan Science
#496 Superintelligence — Nick Bostrom Technology & AI owned
#497 Prisoners of Geography — Tim Marshall Nature, Geography & Environment owned
#498 Being Mortal — Atul Gawande Health & Longevity
#499 The Long Walk — Sławomir Rawicz Exploration, Adventure & Travel
#500 In Search of Lost Time (Swann's Way) — Marcel Proust Novels