I can no more remember all the books I've read than the meals I've eaten. Nevertheless they have made me—some more than others.
- The Republic Plato | c. 375 BC
- Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle | c. 320 BC
- Moral Letters to Lucilius Seneca | c. 65
- Meditations Marcus Aurelius | c. 180
- Moralia Plutarch | c. 100
- Of the Education of Children Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | c. 1580
- Sonnet 53 William Shakespeare | 1609
- Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift | 1726
- U.S. Constitution U.S. State Papers | 1787
- Self-Reliance Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1841
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass | 1845
- Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau | 1849
- Walden Henry David Thoreau | 1854
- 507 Mechanical Movements Henry T. Brown | 1868
- Across the plank Friedrich Nietzsche | 1882
- The Meaning of a Liberal Education Everett Dean Martin | 1926
- Brave New World Alduous Huxley | 1932
- It Can't Happen Here Sinclair Lewis | 1935
- Animal Farm George Orwell | 1945
- Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury | 1953
- Silent Spring Rachel Carson | 1962
- I Have a Dream Martin Luther King Jr. | 1963
- How to Read a Book Mortimer J. Adler | 1972
- On Writing Well William Zinnser | 1976
- Doing A Job Admiral Hyman G. Rickover | 1982
- High Output Management Andy Grove | 1983
- The Design of Everyday Things Donald Norman | 1988
- Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose Francis-Noel Thomas, Mark Turner | 1994
- Europe: A History Norman Davies | 1998
- Managing Oneself Peter Drucker | 1999
- Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook Neil Sclater | 2001
- Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital Carlota Perez | 2002
- Universal Principles of Design William Lidwell | 2003
- The Economist Style Guide The Economist | 2005
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari | 2015
- Competing Against Luck Clayton Christensen | 2016
- Measure What Matters John Doerr | 2018
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zuboff | 2019