- Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
- The Beginning of Infinity – David Deutsch
- A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived – Adam Rutherford
- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth – Reza Aslan
- Small Gods – Terry Pratchett
- Faith and Wisdom in Science – Tom McLeish
- The Plot – Madeleine Bunting
- Strait is the Gate – André Gide
- The Future of Capitalism – Paul Collier
- Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
- The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Seven Types of Atheism – John Gray
- The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
- The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
- The Plague – Albert Camus
- Adventures in the Anthropocene – Gaia Vince
- The Madness of Crowds – Douglas Murray
- Voodoo Histories – David Aaronovitch
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
- Enlightenment Now – Steven Pinker
- The Myth Gap – Alex Evans
- Ethics – Benedict Spinoza
- God is Not Great – Christopher Hitchens
- The Darkening Age – Catherine Nixey
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
- Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
- What is Populism? – Jan-Werner Muller
- The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
- East West Street – Philippe Sands
- The Luck Factor – Richard Wiseman
- The Shipwrecked Mind – Mark Lilla
- Prisoners of Geography – Tim Marshall
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
- Candide – Voltaire
- On Being – Peter Atkins
- Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia – John Gray
- The Children Act – Ian McEwan
- Islam and the Future of Tolerance – Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz
- This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate – Naomi Klein
- Europe: In or Out? – David Charter
- Going Gently – David Nobbs
- Agnosticism: A Very Short Introduction – Robin Le Poidevin
- Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
- The Better Angels of Our Nature – Steven Pinker
- Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
- Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea – Barbara Demick
- Creation: The Origin of Life & The Future of Life – Adam Rutherford
- The Righteous Mind – Jonathan Haidt
- The Self Illusion – Bruce Hood
- Why does the world exist? – Jim Holz
- Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – Elizabeth Taylor
- What is Good? – A.C. Grayling
- The Rational Optimist – Matt Ridley
- Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War – Barbara Ehrenreich
- Zero Degrees of Empathy – Simon Baron-Cohen
- If This Is A Man – Primo Levi
- Why Orwell Matters – Christopher Hitchens
- A Universe from Nothing – Lawrence Krauss
- The Myths We Live By – Mary Midgley
- Free Will – Sam Harris
- Whole Earth Discipline – Stewart Brand
- Humanism: A Very Short Introduction – Stephen Law
- The Blank Slate – Steven Pinker
- The Demon-haunted World – Carl Sagan
- Multiculturalism: Some Inconvenient Truths – Rumy Hasan
- Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion Out of Politics – Mary Warnock
- The Spirit Level – Why Equality is Better for Everyone – Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
- The Age of Absurdity – Michael Foley
- Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide – Ben White
- What Should I Believe? – Dorothy Rowe
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
- How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World – Francis Wheen
- Our Inner Fish – Neil Shubin
- The Choice of Hercules – A.C. Grayling
- The Age of Reason – Thomas Paine
- The End of Faith – Sam Harris
- Six Impossible Things To Do Before Breakfast – Stephen Wolpert