Start Ups/Business:

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany  by Steve Blank
• The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
• Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingston
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
• Rework  by 37signals
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber
• The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" (Incerto) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson
• The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
• The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future by Chris Guillebeau
• The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
• Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business by Jeff Howe
• The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: A Guide to Growing More Profitably by Thomas Nagle, John Hogan, Joseph Zale
• Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children by John Wood
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! by Al Ries, Jack Trout
• Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert Kiyosaki
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated) by Timothy Ferriss
• The Success Principles(TM): How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How by Daniel Coyle
• How I Made My First Million on the Internet and How You Can Too!: The Complete Insider's Guide to Making Millions with Your Internet Business by Ewen Chia
• SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J Dubner
• Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs eBook by Norm Brodsky, Bo Burlingham
• Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto by Adam Werbach
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
• Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?: Leading a Great Enterprise through Dramatic Change by Louis V. Jr. Gerstner
• The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Defeating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization by Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the FinancialSystem--and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen
• The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth by Eric M. Jackson
• Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
• The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic by Dan Ariely
• Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age eBook by Clay Shirky
• Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way To Be Smart by Ian Ayres

Education - 

• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance: Josh Waitzkin
• How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development): John Holt
• Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture: Kirsten Olson, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Parker J. Palmer
• Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood: A. S. Neill, Albert Lamb
• Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas: Seymour A. Papert
• Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist: John Brockman
• Teaching as a Subversive Activity: Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner

Writing

• Hat Box: The Collected Lyrics of Stephen Sondheim: Stephen Sondheim.
• Clear and Simple as the Truth: Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner.

Theater

• A Practical Handbook for the Actor: Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previtio, Scott Zigler, David Mamet.
• The Actor and the Target: Declan Donnellan.
• How to Stop Acting: Harold Guskin.
• Different Every Night: Putting the play on stage and keeping it fresh: Mike Alfreds.
• Notes on Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair: Frank Hauser, Russell Reich.
• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre: Keith Johnstone.
• Shakespeare
• Thinking Shakespeare: A How-to Guide for Student Actors, Directors, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Feel More Comfortable With the Bard: Barry Edelstein.
• Hamlet in Purgatory: Stephen Greenblatt.
• Hamlet and Revenge: Eleanor Prosser.
• Shakespeare's Metrical Art: George T. Wright.