Recommendations

The Environment / Climate Change / Food Systems

• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
• The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
• The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner
• This Land by Christopher Ketchum
• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Being Human / Humans Being / Human Beings

• The Last Question by Isaac Asimov
• The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu (and the rest of the trilogy)
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Moneyball by Michael Lewis
• Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
• Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by Frank Arthur Worsley
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

History-ish

• The Black Count by Tom Reiss
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

Money / Simple Living

• Essentialism by Greg McKeown
• The Simple Path to Wealth by J.L. Collins
• Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin

Writing

• On Writing by Stephen King

General Good Reads

• Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
• The Master and Margerita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien