Absolute must reads 

• Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson
• Poor Economics – Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo
• Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and Life – Brendan Brazier
• How to Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie
• The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin – Masha Gessen
• The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and the Undiscovered Economies of Everyday Life – Uri Gneezy & John List
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate – Naomi Klein
• The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
• Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics – Tim Marshall
• Born to Run – Christopher McDougall
• Taliban – Ahmed Rashid
• Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World – Nicholas Shaxson
• The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power – Daniel Yergin
• Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepeneur’s Quest to Educate the World’s Children – John Wood

Simply amazing  

• Gulag: A History – Anne Applebaum
• Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography – Richard Branson
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life – Walter Isaacson
• Leonardo da Vinci: The Biography – Walter Isaacson
• Einstein: His Life and Universe – Walter Isaacson
• A Promised Land – Barack Obama
• The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money – Bastian Obermayer & Frederik Obermaier
• Merchants of Doubt: How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming – Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
• The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man – John Perkins
• Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist – Kate Raworth
• Factfulness – Hans, Ola & Anna Rosling
• Justice: What’s the Right Thing To Do? – Michael Sandel
• Perfect Pitch: The Art of Selling Ideas and Winning New Business – Jon Steel
• Zero To One – Blake Masters & Peter Thiel
• The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade – Cecil Woodham-Smith

Recommend – (just read the ones above first)

• The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It – Anat Admati & Martin Hellwig
• Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street – Peter L. Bernstein
• Taking The Floor: Models, Morals, and Management in a Wall Street Trading Room – Daniel Beunza
• The World for Sale – Javier Blas & Jack Farchy
• Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism – Richard Brooks
• Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit – Charles Calomiris & Stephen Haber
• Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World – William Cohan
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change – Stephen R. Covey
• The Great Escape: health, wealth, and the origins of inequality – Angus Deaton
• The Unseen Revolution – Peter Drucker
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge
• How Not to be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life – Jordan Ellenberg
• Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World – David Epstein
• The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich – Timothy Ferriss
• Ethical Asset Valuation and The Good Society – Christian Gollier
• Mindfulness in Plain English – Henepola Gunaratana
• 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works – Dan Harris
• Switch – Chip Heath & Dan Heath
• Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right – Arlie Russell Hochschild
• How Culture Shapes The Climate Change Debate – Andrew Hoffman
• Endure: Mind, Body and The Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance – Alex Hutchinson
• A Certain Idea of France – Julian Jackson
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• Shah of Shahs – Ryszard Kapuscinski
• This Is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
• The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy – Mervyn King
• Flash Boys – Michael Lewis
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life – Mark Manson
• The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (paperback) – Tim Marshall
• China’s Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle – Dinny McMahon
• Invest for Good: A Healthier World and a Wealthier You – Mark Mobius, Carlos von Hardenberg, and Greg Konieczny
• Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough – Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldat Shafir
• Africa’s Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent – Leonce Ndikumana & James Boyce
• A Voyage For Madmen – Peter Nichols
• The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone – Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson
• The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality – Katharina Pistor
• The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay – Emmanuel Saez & Gabriel Zucman
• Power: Why Some People Have It-and Others Don’t – Jeffrey Pfeffer
• AIQ: How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world – Nick Polson & James Scott
• The Corporation That Changed the World – Second Edition: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational – Nick Robins
• Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits – Kevin Roose
• Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago – Mike Royko
• Dirty Wars: The World Is A Battlefield – Jeremy Scahill
• The Prince of Kone: The Life of Pekka Herlin – John Simon
• The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them – Joseph Stiglitz
• The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Making of Behavioral Economics: Misbehaving – Richard H. Thaler
• Economics for the Common Good – Jean Tirole
• The Uninhabitable Earth – David Wallace-Wells
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World – Jack Weatherford
• Educated – Tara Westover
• China’s Guaranteed Bubble – Ning Zhu
• A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity – Luigi Zingales
• The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters – Gregory Zuckerman

To consider

• Armanin Maailma – Arman Alizad & Kauko Royhka
• Stand Firm – Svend Brinkmann
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies – Nick Bostrom
• Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants (Rutgers University Press Classics) – John D. Clark
• Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Surrounded by Idiots – Thomas Erikson
• The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century – Thomas L. Friedman
• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World – Anand Giridharadas
• Mindfulness in Plain English – Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
• Home Going – Yaa Gyasi
• The Shortest History of Germany – James Hawes
• The Road to Serfdom – Friedrich Hayek
• I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic – Zlatan Ibrahimovic
• Other People’s Money: Master’s of The Universe or Servants of The People? – John Kay
• Conscious Capitalism – John Mackey & Rajendra Sisodia
• News of a Kidnapping – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• The Human Web: A Bird’s-Eye View of World History – John & William McNeill
• The Mating Mind – Geoffrey Miller
• The Inflation Myth and the Wonderful World of Deflation – Mark Mobius
• Enlightement Now – Steven Pinker
• Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better – Rob Reich
• Ville Haapasalo – Kauko Royhka & Juha Metso
• Monkey Business – John Rolfe & Peter Troob
• The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program – Jeremy Scahill
• Environmental Economics: A Very Short Introduction – Stephen Smith
• Alex – Alexander Stubb & Karo Hamalainen
• Loiri – Jari Tervo
• Elon Musk – Ashlee Vance

Must watch

1. What the Health (2017)
2. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
3. A Plastic Ocean (2016)
4. The Breakthrough in Renewable Energy (2016)
5. Before the Flood (2016)
6. Panama Papers: The Shady World of Offshore Companies (2016)
7. Eddie the Eagle (2016)
8. Racing Extinction (2015)
9. Fed Up (2014)
10. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)
11. Blackfish (2013)
12. Forks Over Knives (2011)
13. Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (2007)
14. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
15. Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
16. The Fog of War (2003)
17. The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000)