In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg – he of the social media leviathan and the sweaters – started a book group on Facebook, the idea being to open up a publish (ish) discussion of a book a fortnight for a year. The final list is pretty interesting – you can get more details on it here.
Creativity, Inc -?Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
Sapiens -?Dr. Yuval Noah Harari
The Rational Optimist?– Matt Ridley
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – Thomas Kuhn
Why Nations Fail -?Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
The End of Power -?Mois?s Na?m
The New Jim Crow?-?Michelle Alexander
Genome -?Matt Ridley
Portfolios of the Poor -?Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford
Dealing with China -?Henry M Paulson
The Varieties of Religious Experience -?William James
The Better Angels of our Nature -?Steven Pinker
The Three-Body Problem -?Cixin Liu
Gang Leader for a Day –?Sudhir Venkatesh
Energy: A Beginner?s Guide -?Vaclav Smil
Orwell?s Revenge – Peter Huber
Rational Ritual -?Michael Suk-Young Chwe
The Muqaddimah –?Ibn Khald?n
The Player of Games – Iain M Banks
On Immunity: An Inoculation -?Eula Biss
The Beginning of Infinity –?David Deutsch
World Order -?Henry Kissinger
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation -?Jon Gertner
Lloyd Shepherd, writes a bit, does digital things a bit 