Here are some nonfiction books that I’ve read and kept track of. They are roughly in the order of when I read them. The ones with stars (*) beside them are the ones I would recommend the most.

• Sync *
• Joy of X
• The Truffle Underground
• An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth *
• American Wolf *
• Guns Germs and Steel *
• SPQR *
• The Trojan War: A New History *
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! *
• The Everyday Life of Rome
• Leonardo Da Vinci *
• Thinking Fast and Slow
• Infinite Powers *
• What if *
• Learning to See Creatively
• Failure is Not an Option *
• Thing Explainer
• How to
• Classic Brainteasers (Gardner, Martin)
• Fermat’s Enigma *
• The Rise of the Pun *
• Death of Caesar
• The Cuckoo’s Egg *
• A Brief History of Time *
• The Mathematical Tourist
• Beyond Numeracy
• Mind and Matter *
• It’s a Numberful World
• On Writing Well *