This book helped me understand what mathematics really is: how mathematicians think, what intuition means to them, and the role logic plays in their thinking.

This book helped me understand how relative our sense of normal is. Your normal and someone else’s normal might not be the same.

This book is a software upgrade for the mind, and I don’t say that lightly. I don’t agree with everything Deutsch says, but some chapters are amazing—especially ‘The Reach of Explanations’ and ‘Why are Flowers Beautiful?’

Some books break your heart in one chapter and warm it in the next. A Man Called Ove is one of them. Ove feels like someone you rarely meet anymore.

Conversation is a skill you can learn, and it has a lot in common with improv. This book helps you see conversation through that lens and get better at it in the process.