It is truly the disciplined pursuit of less. Developing abilities to identify right things and focus on value addition. The book will challenge your thinking of doing everything to have everything. Note, the term essentialism here is different than the one used in philosophical or psychological context.

The book explore single question of why history evolved differently on different continents. In this masterpiece, the last 13,000 years analyzed. You will have new perspective on any historical encounters (as simple as your native place). Author uses simple examples to connect logical and scientific dots. The key idea is how certain human societies benefited from environmental differences that further amplified by positive feedback loop; and not from genetic inheritance.

The book is the definitive guide to breaking bad behaviors and adopting good ones in four steps, showing you how small, incremental, everyday routines compound into massive, positive change over time. In his own words "Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement"

Here Stephen Hawing, a theoretical physicist/cosmologist, explains the most complex concepts of physics such space and time, black holes, stars and gravity in layman's terms. So any person with no background in physics could understand how our planet was created, what is universe, and where it is heading!

To summarize: Write Concisely, Write Actively, and Write Positively. Though brief, it is indispensable till date. It contains eight rules of usage, ten rules of composition, some notes on miscellaneous matters of form in writing (such as headings, numerals, and quotations), and lists of commonly misused and misspelled words.

There have been five great extinctions in the earth’s history, and now we are witnessing a sixth caused by humans. The rate of biodiversity is shrinking today on an unprecedented scale due to human activity. This award-winning book is a straightforward, entertaining, and sobering account of what may very well be mankind’s lasting legacy.

This is the book that started global grassroots environmental movement in 1962. It explains how chemical pesticides work and how their drawbacks affects the entire ecosystem. The author offers several safe and natural ways to protect crops in sustainable way.

It is the foundational book for modern evolutionary biology that became a turning point about our views on the beginning of humankind. It has introduced legendary concepts such as "survival of the fittest" and "descent with modification".

You will meet great mind while reading these best single volume collection of essays. The essays are more than a stimulation to enjoy the fruits of others' experience. They are essays in order, exercises in the discipline of facts and the precision of thinking and feeling. Favorite quote "the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past."

Thomas Stearns Eliot won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.

The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast, The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms, Green Hills of Africa, Death in the Afternoon

There is nothing much to say about these literature master pieces!

It shows how we our brains has two systems (one that think fast: impulsive/automatic and the one that think slow: conscious/aware). There is a constant struggle between two over controlling our behavior and actions. The book teaches how this lead to error in memory, judgment, and decisions.

Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics.

What does it mean to be human? In a sweeping narrative spanning two and half million years of human evolution, Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari weaves insights from science and the humanities together to answer to what it means to be human. The book is inspired by Jared Diamond’s epic and influential book 'Guns, Germs and Steel'. See above in the list.