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• The Infinity Machine

  Sebastian Mallaby

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• The Mom Test

  Rob Fitzpatrick

• The Player of Games

  Iain M. Banks

• Life 3.0

  Max Tegmark

• Dream of Reason

  Anthony Gottlieb

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• The Social Contract

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

  Julian Jaynes

• The Black Swan

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Napoleon

  Andrew Roberts

• Travels

  Michael Crichton

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  Autobiography

• The Modern Mind

  Peter Watson

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  One of the most comprehensive accounts of the progress of the humanities in the 20th century

The Abbé Faria Library

The Count of Monte Cristo is my favorite book of all time. In the book, the Abbé Faria educates Edmond Dantès using fewer than a hundred carefully chosen books during their years of imprisonment. Credit and inspiration to William Adams who assembled a modern canon in this spirit.

• History of the Peloponnesian War

  Thucydides

• The Education of Cyrus

  Xenophon

• Plutarch's Lives

  Plutarch

• The History of Rome

  Livy

• The Histories

  Tacitus

• The Histories

  Herodotus

• Caesar's Commentaries

  Gaius Julius Caesar

• The Histories of Polybius

  Polybius

• Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

  Donald A. Mackenzie

• The Sword and the Centuries

  Alfred Hutton

• Scientific Way of Warfare

  Antoine J. Bousquet

• The Complete Essays

  Michel de Montaigne

• Complete Works

  Baruch Spinoza

• Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy

  René Descartes

• Confessions

  Augustine of Hippo

• City of God

  Augustine of Hippo

• A Book of Five Rings

  Miyamoto Musashi

• The Continuity of Religion

  Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

• The Odyssey

  Homer

• The Iliad

  Homer

• Metamorphoses

  Ovid

• The Decameron

  Giovanni Boccaccio

• The Canterbury Tales

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• Faust

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Paradise Lost

  John Milton

• The Divine Comedy

  Dante Alighieri

• The Complete Works

  William Shakespeare

• Aesop's Fables

  Aesop

• Arabian Nights

  Traditional

• The Epic of Gilgamesh

  Anonymous

• The Faerie Queene

  Edmund Spenser

• The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

  John Steinbeck

• The Ten Books on Architecture

  Vitruvius

• Euclid's Elements

  Euclid

• American Practical Navigator

  Nathaniel Bowditch

• Standard Mathematical Tables

  Robert C. Weast

• Build Your Own Metal Working Shop From Scrap

  David J. Gingery

• The Wilderness First Aid Handbook

  Grant S. Lipman

• Thoughts on Art and Life

  Leonardo da Vinci

• The Daily Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible

  Douay-Rheims

Antilibrary

Umberto Eco believed the value of a library lies in its unread books. They represent the vastness of what we don't yet know.