Sam Kean
The Disappearing Spoon & Love Other True Tales of Madness & the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Less Than Human
David Livingstone Smith
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Neil MacGregor
The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
Douglas R. Hofstadter & Daniel C. Dennet (ed.s)