• Beyond Words – Carl Safina
  • The Swerve – Stephen Greenblatt
  • Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
  • 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