Educational Books

I've been consuming books in recent times, often speed-reading them, getting suggestions from the Open Syllabus Explorer and my Canon of Humanity ebook project, and also getting through my wishlist that had been getting rather long (many of the books were ones I had shortlisted from my project).

This is a list of non-fiction books that I consider especially educational, informative, or otherwise present a new way of looking at things (at least from my perspective) (these are books I give 9 or 10 stars out of 10, or 5 stars on the goodreads scale). It would be good if others could also make suggestions!

Steven Johnson: Where Good Ideas Come From (The Natural History of Innovation)
Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist
Heath Chip: Made to Stick (Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die)
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Nate Silver: The Signal and the Noise (Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't)

Some others
(I put these separately because they cover more of a niche, or because they are "political" or contentious in some way, but I nonetheless think they provide food for thought)

Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century (this introduced me to new ways of conceptualising economic matters)
Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature (Why Violence Has Declined)
Paul Krugman: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (actually this is not really a "neutral" book: it just gives you Krugman's view on how economic markets should be managed & gives a history)

Textbooks
(Essentially. These books are often rather large, and often expensive in their most recent edition, although of course earlier editions will be cheaper. I think these cover their subjects well).

Neil Campbell: Biology
Theodore Brown: Chemistry (The Central Science)
David Halliday: Fundamentals of Physics
Elaine Marieb: Human Anatomy & Physiology

Marilyn Stokstad: Art History
David Bordwell: Film Art (An Introduction)
(I put the above two separate from the others as these are especially aesthetically pleasing and thus not anything like typical textbooks).

Stock market
Tweedy, Browne Company LLC: What Has Worked in Investing (pdf link)
James O'Shaughnessy: What Works On Wall Street
Christopher Browne: The Little Book of Value Investing
Charlie Munger: Poor Charlie's Almanack (The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger)

History
(in progress)

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Educational Books