Interesting reads (non-academic). The list is unsorted.

1) Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari).
2) Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari).
3) Early Indians (Tony Joseph).
4) Brilliant Blunders (Mario Livio).
5) Man's Search For Meaning (Viktor Frankl).
6) Why I am an Atheist and Other Essays (Bhagat Singh).
7) The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin).
8) 12 Years A Slave (Solomon Northup).
9) Ambedkar's India (B.R.Ambedkar).
10) Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche).
11) Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Sigmund Freud).
12) Ashtavakra Gita.
13) Authentic Happiness (Martin Seligman).
14) Courage to be Disliked (Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi).
15) My stroke of Insight (Jill Bolte Taylor).
16) Forty Rules of Love (Elif Shafak).

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