Homer, The Iliad
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
The Federalist Papers
Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Work Week
Sophocles, Oedipus
Ian McEwan, Atonement
David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and other essays
Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons
Ronald Brownstein, The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
Samuel Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity