Books Ones that shaped

• Oxygen: The Molecule that Made the World, Nick Lane
• Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, Nick Lane
• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, James Gleick
• Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
• The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant
• The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
• Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
• Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
• Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World, Jack Weatherford
• The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In, Hugh Kennedy
• Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, Trita Parsi
• 1984, George Orwell
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
• The Trial, Franz Kafka
• Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• La Fiesta del Chivo, Mario Vargas Llosa
• Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
• The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Metamorphoses, Ovid
• Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman
• Malazan Book of the Fallen, Steven Erikson