History
- Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money
- Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers
- Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August
Economics
- Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
- Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions
- John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
Technical
- Michael Sipser, Introduction to the Theory of Computation
- David MacKay, Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
- Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. 1
Classical
- Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Virgil, Aeneid