Below is a list of books and papers we found to be thought provoking.
12 Rules for Life Jordan Peterson
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order Kai-Fu Lee
Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back Elisabeth Rosenthal
American Diplomacy George Kennan
Andrew Carnegie Joseph Frazier Wall
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
The Art of Thinking Clearly Rolf Dubelli
Ashley's War: The Untold Story of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield Gayle Lemmon
Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific Robert Kaplan
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
The Awakening Kate Chopin
The Battle for New York Barnet Schecter
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson
Big Data Viktor Mayer-Schonberger
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Michael Lewis
Blink Malcolm Gladwell
The Brain That Changes Itself Norman Doidge, MD
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist Roger Lowenstein
Casino Royale Ian Fleming
A Charge to Keep George W. Bush
The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right Atul Gawande
Churchill Paul Johnson
The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History Boris Johnson
Civilization: The West and The Rest Niall Ferguson
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee Michael Korda
Comeback Dave Dravecky
Crime and Punishment Fydor Dostoyevsky
The Crisis of Global Capitalism George Soros
The DaVinci Code Dan Brown
88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary Robert L. Grenier
Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism Jeff Gramm
The Decline of Bismarck's European Order George Kennan
Democracy In America Alexis De Tocqueville
Destined for War Graham Allison
The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns Mohnish Pabrai
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Duty Robert Gates
The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment Guy Spier
Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Peter Drucker
Ego is the Enemy Ryan Holiday
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Ashlee Vance
Emotions Revealed Paul Ekman
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee
Empire Falls Richard Russo
Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power Niall Ferguson
Every War Must End Fred Charles Ikle
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Brad Stone
The Evolution of Cooperation Robert Axelrod
Faith of My Fathers John McCain
Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader Frank Partnoy
Finnegan's Wake James Joyce
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression Amity Shlaes
The Fountainhead Ayn Rand
The Fourth Turning William Strauss and Neil Howe
Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt
Freedom at Midnight Larry Collins
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story Lee Kuan Yew
A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring John Wooden
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Matt Ridley
George F. Keenan: An American Life John Lewis Gaddis
George Washington's America: A Biography Through His Maps Barnet Schecter
Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell
Good to Great Jim Collins
Grant Ron Chernow
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge David McCullough
Grit Angela Duckworth
Hamilton Ron Chernow
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia Michael Korda
The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell
The Hidden Messages in Water Masaru Emoto
High Performance Habits Brendon Burchard
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari
The House of the Dead Fyodor Dostoyevsky
How the Other Half Banks Mehrsa Baradaran
Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know that Brilliant Machines Never Will Geoff Colvin
Ice Age: The Theory That Came In From The Cold! John and Mary Gribbin
In an Uncertain World Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Robert Cialdini
In Love and War Admiral James Stockdale
In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of The Twentieth Century Anthony Mayo and Nitin Nohria
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing Benjamin Graham
Into Thin Air Jon Karkauer
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Sheryl Sandberg
Lenin: A Biography Robert Service
Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson
The Lesson of History Will & Ariel Durant
Lessons of the Lotus: Practical Spiritual Teachings of a Travelling Buddhist Monk Bhante Wimala
Life Keith Richards
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Re-Made American Garry Willis
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Marcus Lattrell
Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way Richard Branson
Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl
Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor Seth Klarman
Marlon Brando Patricia Bosworth
Meditations Marcus Aurelius
Memoirs David Rockefeller
Models of My Life Herbert Simon
The Mountain Shadow Gregory David Roberts
The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor Howard Marks
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
Mushashi: An Epic Movel of the Samurai Era Eiji Yoshikawa
My Share of the Task General Stanley McChrystal
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else Hernando De Soto
A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat Zell Miller
Night Elie Wiesel
No Lost Causes Alvaro Uribe Velez
The Obstacle is the Way Ryan Holiday
On China Henry Kissenger
On Kindness Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future Karen Elliot House
On The Road Jack Kerouac
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Only the Paranoid Survive Andy Grove
Outsiders: 8 Unconventional CEO's and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success William Thorndike Jr.
Personal History Katherine Graham
Personal Transformation: An Executive's Story of Struggle and Spiritual Awakening Kiril Sokoloff
Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger Peter D. Kaufman
The Power of Positive Thinking Norman Vincent Peale
Principles Ray Dalio
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power Daniel Yergin
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife Eben Alexander
The Rational Optimist Matt Ridley
The Revenge of Geography Robert Kaplan
The Road to Character David Brooks
The SAIC Solution Dr. J Robert Beyster
Sam Walton: Made in America John Huey & Sam Walton
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari
The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins
The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks Joshua Cooper Ramo
Shantaram Gregory David Roberts
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Ray Kurweil
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Christopher Clark
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life Alice Schroeder
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage Ernest Shackleton
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting Robert McKee
The Story of My Life Helen Keller
The Strong Shall Live Louis L'Amour
A Study of History Arnold Toynbee
Teams of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World General Stanley McChrystal
Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in the Age of Information Robert Wright
A Time is Born Garet Garrett
The Time of Our Lives: Collected Writings Peggy Noonan
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Ron Chernow
Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
There's No Such Thing as a Dragon Jack Kent
The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell
To Tame a Land Louis L'Amour
The Trouble With Prosperity: A Contrarian's Tale of Moon, Bust, and Speculation James Grant
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership Bill George
Truman David McCullough
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis
Ulysses James Joyce
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand
Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment David Swenson
The Violent Bear it Away Flannery O'Connor
War and Peace Leo Tolsey
Washington: A Life Ron Chernow
The Washingtons: George and Martha Flora Fraser
The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction Rebecca Costa
W. E. B. Du Bois 1919-1963: The Fight For Equality and the American Century David Levering Lewis
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management Roger Lowenstein
When Men Were Boys: An Informal Portrait of Dean William Tate John W. English and Rob Williams
Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family Gary Pomerantz
WHO Geoff Smart
What Makes and Effective Executive (Harvard Business Review Article) Peter Drucker
The Wild Wheel Garet Garett
Wooden on Leadership John Wooden and Steve Jameson
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court John Wooden and Steve Jameson