Shelf

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

The Samurai Detectives - Vol 1

Shotaro Ikenami

We Are What We Eat

Alice Waters

A slow-food manifesto that reads as a critique of convenience culture generally.

Chip Wars

Chris Miller

The race to design and manufacture semiconductor microchips

Material World

Ed Conway

Six materials that make the modern world; the copper chapter is the best thing I've read on the subject.

Zero to One

Peter Thiel