If I had to recommend one book: When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Rest, in no particular order of preference.
- The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
- If Not Winter…Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson
- Invention of Love by Tom Stoppard
- Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 by Katherine Park and Lorraine Daston
- The Idea of History with Lectures 1926-1928 by R. G. Collingwood
- Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World by Benjamin Wardhaugh
- The Meaning of Proofs, Mathematics as Storytelling by Gabriele Lolli (translation Bonnie McClellan-Broussard)
- Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony by Lewis Thomas
- The Red and the Black by Stendhal
- Emile, Or On Education by Rousseau’s