Machine Learning / AI

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
– Mitchell, Melanie

The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity
– Miller, Arthur, I.

Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
– Agrawal, Ajay

You Look Like A Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place
– Shane, Janelle

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
– Kurzweil, Ray

Climate Change

The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
– Ghosh, Amitav

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
– Wallace-Wells, David

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
– Orestes, Naomi & Conway, Erik M.

The Ministry for the Future
– Robinson, Kim Stanley

Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life
– Ali, Saleem H.

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future
– Orestes, Naomi

Stats

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
– Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth

The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
– Spiegelhalter, David

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
– Mlodinow, Leonard

The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future
– Mesquita, Bruce Bueno De

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail–but Some Don’t
– Silver, Nate

How to Lie with Statistics
– Huff, Darrell

Numsense! Data Science for the Layman: No Math Added
– Ng, Annalyn

Data and Privacy

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
– Schneier, Bruce

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
– O’Neil, Cathy

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
– Zuboff, Shoshana

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
– Singer, P. W., and Brooking, Emerson T.

Kill All Norms: Online Culture Wars from 4CHAN and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
– Nagle, Angela

True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News
– Otis, Cindy L.

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
– Newport, Cal

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
– Newport, Cal

Science

How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going
– Smil, Vaclav

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
– Tyson, Neil deGrasse

Parallel Worlds: A Journey through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
– Kaku, Michio

A Briefer History of Time
– Hawking, Stephen

Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction
– Coles, Peter

The Perfect Swarm: The Science of Complexity in Everyday Life
– Fisher, Len

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
– Kaku, Michio

Math

Letters to a Young Mathematician
– Stewart, Ian

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
– Paulos, John Allen

Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction
– Binmore, Ken

A Tour of the Calculus
– Berlinski, David

e: the Story of a Number
– Maor, Eli

Street-Fighting Mathematics: The Art of Educated Guessing and Opportunistic Problem Solving
– Mahajan, Sanjoy

Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart
– Ayres, Ian

Politics

Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
– Mooney, Chris C.

Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
– Levitan, Dave

Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction
– Berry, Christopher J.

Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction
– Fulcher, James

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction
– Clapham, Andrew

This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
– Pomerantsev, Peter

History

Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone)
– Wineburg, Sam

In The Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power
– McCoy, Alfred W.

While Reason Slept
– Brier, Thomas F. Jr.

Targeted: The Cambrdige Analytica Whistleblower’s Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
– Kaiser, Brittany

Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
– Wylie, Christopher

WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
– Sifry, Micah L.

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
– Stanley, Jason

Philosophy and Humanity

The Machine Stops
– E.M. Forster

The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
– Sagan, Carl

The God Delusion
– Dawkins, Richard

Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
– Okasha, Samir

Worldviews: An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science
– DeWitt, Richard