1. Stumbling on Happiness (Daniel Gilbert)
   

If you think you are quite good at predicting your future, read this excellently-written book. You will be surprised to learn how bad we are at predicting our future happiness, and how good we are at deluding ourselves. Daniel Gilbert makes us rethink the way we approach personal decisions.

1. Intuition (Allegra Goodman)
   

If you want to know what to be an scientist means, this is a very good novel. A good description of the daily life of a scientific lab. through contemporary fiction.

1. Freakonomics (Steven Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner)
   

The answer to thrilling common questions from economic analysis. Clever and fascinating book. Read a post that I wrote about it here.

1. Murder in Amsterdam (Ian Buruma)
   

An excellent book about Dutch tolerance through the analysis of the events that happened after the murder of Theo van Gogh by a dutch-born muslim. Read a post that I wrote about it here.

1. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Marjane Satrapi)
   

Marjane Satrapi’s autobiography in an comic-like form. The Islamic Revolution, the Iran-Irak war, and quotidian life in Iran as seen by a young girl. Extremely entertaining and of great cultural value.