Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested:
that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few
to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
~Francis Bacon

Literature

Philosophy

History

Science

Mathematics

Religion

Aesop's Fables

Shakespeare: Invention of the Human ~ Harold Bloom

The Western Cannon:The Books and School of the Ages ~ Harold Bloom

Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? ~ Harold Bloom

Heart of Darkness ~ Joseph Conrad

Invisible Man ~ Ralph Ellison

Faust ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare ~ Stephen Greenblatt

The Old Man and the Sea ~ Ernest Hemingway

Dubliners ~ James Joyce

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ~ James Joyce

On the Road ~ Jack Kerouac

To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Harper Lee

1984 ~ George Orwell

No Exit and Three Other Plays ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy

City of God ~ St. Augustine

The Tao of Poo ~ Benjamin Hoff

Utopia ~ Sir. Thomas Moore

The Question of God ~ Armand M. Nicholi Jr.

The Social Contract and the Discourses ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Existentialism and Human Emotions ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Tao Te Ching ~ Lao Tzu translated by Stephen Mitchell

The Ascent of Man ~ Jacob Bronowski

The Great War for Civilisation ~ Robert Fisk

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

A World Lit Only by Fire ~ William Manchester

No Place to Hide:Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society ~ Robert O'Harrow

The Elegant Universe ~ Briane Greene

A Brief History of Time ~ Stephen Hawking

Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers ~ Georg Cantor

Gregor Cantor ~ Joseph Warren Dauben

No god but God ~ Reza Aslan

Misquoting Jesus ~ Bart Ehrman