Books
This list includes books, plays, and book-length essays or papers that I have read, in roughly reverse chronological order. My memory gets fuzzy the further back we go.
2024
Cities Unlimited - Tim Leunig & James Swaffield & Oliver Marc Hartwich
Success and the City - Tim Leunig & James Swaffield & Oliver Marc Hartwich
Cities Limited - Tim Leunig & James Swaffield & Oliver Marc Hartwich
Scaling Through Chaos: The Founder’s Guide to Building and Leading Teams from 0 to 1,000 - Index Ventures
Henry V - William Shakespeare
Destination USA: The Founder's Guide to US Expansion - Index Ventures
The Power of Go: Tools - John Arundel
Destination Europe: The Founder's Guide to European Expansion - Index Ventures
For the Love of Go - John Arundel
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol II - Edward Gibbon
Rewarding Talent: The Founder’s Guide to Stock Options - Index Ventures
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol I - Edward Gibbon
Concert Masterworks - Robert Greenberg
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
London in the Time of Dickens - Lillian Nayder
A Brief History of Brief Lives of the English Monarchs - Carolly Erickson
Master Humphrey's Clock - Charles Dickens
Poor Charlie’s Almanack - Charles T. Munger
Henry IV Part II - William Shakespeare
Geoprocessing with Python - Chris Garrard
Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
The Life & Times of Beethoven: The First Angry Man - Robert Greenberg
Henry IV Part I - William Shakespeare
A Brief History of British Kings and Queens - Mike Ashley
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd Edition - Charles Petzold
Sketches by Boz - Charles Dickens
2023
The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small - Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell
Shakespeare's Tragedies - Clare R. Kinney
The Symphonies of Beethoven - Robert Greenberg
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain - Michael Paterson
Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO - Elizabeth Joy Zalman & Jerry Neumann
The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers & Learn If Your Business Is a Good Idea When Everyone Is Lying to You - Rob Fitzpatrick
Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy - Joan Magretta
The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
A Brief History of Britain 1851 to 2010 - Jeremy Black
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn - Richard W. Hamming
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco - Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. - William D. Cohan
Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
The Complete Essays of Montaigne - Michel de Montaigne (translated by Donald M. Frame)
The String Quartets of Beethoven - Robert Greenberg
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - Michael Lewis
The King's Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein - Franny Moyle
A Brief History of Britain 1660 - 1851 - William Gibson
The Life and Works of Jane Austen - Devoney Looser
Rural Rides - William Cobbett
Microeconomics for Managers - David M. Kreps
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building - Claire Hughes Johnson
The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex - Murray Gell-Mann
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality - Nick Huntington-Klein
High Growth Handbook: Scaling startups from 10 to 10,000 people - Elad Gil
Where Is My Flying Car? - J. Storrs Hall
Autumn Journal - Louis MacNeice
The Big Score: The Billion-Dollar Story of Silicon Valley - Michael S. Malone
Number: The Language of Science - Tobias Dantzig
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution - Yuri Slezkine
Beethoven's Piano Sonatas - Robert Greenberg
The Talisman - Sir Walter Scott
A Brief History of Britain: 1485-1660 - Ronald Hutton
Pieces of the Action - Vannevar Bush
Kenilworth - Sir Walter Scott
A Brief History of the Wars of the Roses - Desmond Seward
A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution - Orlando Figes
Interpretable Machine Learning: A Guide for Making Black Box Models Explainable - Christoph Molnar
Great Masters: Beethoven - His Life and Music - Robert Greenberg
The Antiquary - Sir Walter Scott
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption - Sebastian Mallaby
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages - Martyn Whittock
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan - Sebastian Mallaby
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
A Brief History of King Arthur - Mike Ashley
Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization - Donald W. Braben
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software - Nadia Eghbal
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management - Will Larson
The Operas of Mozart - Robert Greenberg
A Brief History of Britain: 1066 - 1485 - Nicholas Vincent
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers - Loung Ung
The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985 - 1993 - Jordan Mechner
The Bride of Lammermoor - Sir Walter Scott
Flash Boys - Michael Lewis
A Brief History of the Normans - Francois Neveux
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour - Michael Lewis
The Apochrypha
King John - William Shakespeare
A Brief History of the Vikings - Johnathan Clements
Mathematics for the Nonmathematician - Morris Kline
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite - Sebastian Mallaby
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons - Geoffrey Hindley
Don Juan - George Byron
2022
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Michael Lewis
Get Together: How to Build a Community with Your People - Bailey Richardson & Kevin Huynh & Kai Elmer Sotto
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street - Michael Lewis
Richard II - William Shakespeare
A Brief History of Roman Britain - Joan P. Alcock
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Katherine Rundell
Waverley - Sir Walter Scott
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy - Adam Tooze
The Fall of Númenor - J.R.R. Tolkien
A Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends - Martyn Whittock
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - George Byron
The Chamber Music of Mozart - Robert Greenberg
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects - Mary Wollstonecraft
Complexity: A Guided Tour - Melanie Mitchell
Formation: The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation - Fola Fagbule & Feyi Fawehinmi
A Brief History of the Celts - Peter Berresford Ellis
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World - Deirdre N. McCloskey
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year - Eleanor Parker
Mozart: His Life and Music - Robert Greenberg
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World - Deirdre N. McCloskey
In a Glass Darkly - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
How to Be a Founder: How Entrepreneurs Can Identify, Fund and Launch Their Best Ideas - Alice Bentinck & Matt Clifford
Troilus and Cressida - William Shakespeare
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation - David Edgerton
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce - Deirdre N. McCloskey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Thomas De Quincey
Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England - Eleanor Parker
Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy - Johnathan Haskel & Stian Westlake
Richard II - William Shakespeare
Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To - David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation - Anton Howes
Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy - Johnathan Haskel & Stian Westlake
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Timon of Athens - William Shakespeare
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy - Adam Tooze
The Laws of Trading: A Trader's Guide to Better Decision-Making for Everyone - Agustin Lebron
Gaston de Blondeville - Ann Radcliffe
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City - Tom Chivers
The Northumbrians: North-East England and Its People - Dan Jackson
King John - William Shakespeare
Camilla - Frances Burney
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science - Stuart Ritchie
The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding - Eric Nelson
Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through - Duncan Weldon
Intelligence: All That Matters - Stuart Ritchie
Love's Labour's Lost - William Shakespeare
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare
1867 & all that - Christopher Dummitt
The Adventures of Roderick Random - Tobias Smollett
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England - Graham Robb
Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control - Stuart Russell
Piers Plowman - William Langland
Intelligent Credit Scoring: Building and Implementing Better Credit Risk Scorecards - Naeem Siddiqi
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect - Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
Statistical Rethinking - Richard McElreath
Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War - Thomas B. Allen
Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in French Village 1294-1324 - Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Data Science from Scratch - Joel Grus
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris - Graham Robb
Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Eloquent Javascript - Marijn Haverbeke
The English Novel - Timothy Spurgin
Richard III - William Shakespeare
Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture - Ken Jennings
The Audacity to Win - David Plouffe
2021
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
History Has Begun - Bruno Maçães
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction - Beth Shapiro
Henry VI part iii - William Shakespeare
Mother Courage and Her Children - Bertolt Brecht
The Discovery of France - Graham Robb
Emma - Jane Austen
New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
QuickStart Molecular Biology: An Introductory Course for Mathematicians, Physicists, and Engineers - Philip N. Benfey
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Henry VI part ii - William Shakespeare
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund Burke
Henry VI part i - William Shakespeare
The Female Quixote - Charlotte Lennox
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful - Edmund Burke
The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
The Radicalism of the American Revolution - Gordon S. Wood
Love's Labour's Lost - William Shakespeare
Haydn - His Life and Music - Robert Greenberg
The Vampyre and Other Short Gothic Tales - John Polidori and others
Zofloya - Charlotte Dacre
Lady Windermere’s Fan - Oscar Wilde
The Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare
The Italian - Ann Radcliffe
King Lear - William Shakespeare
The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology - Horace Freeland Judson
The Monk - Matthew Lewis
Lear: The Great Image of Authority - Harold Bloom
A Casino Odyssey in Cyberspace - Roger Williams
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect - Roger Williams
Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (1818) - Mary Shelley
She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith
Unfinished Tales - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster - Helen Carr
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
Descartes: A Very Short Introduction - Tom Sorrell
Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition - Alan Charles Kors, Darren Staloff, Dennis Dalton, Douglas Kellner
Mastering spaCy: An end-to-end practical guide to implementing NLP applications using the Python ecosystem - Duygu Altinok
Meditations on First Philosophy and Discourse on the Method - René Descartes
A General History of the Pyrates: From Their First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time - Daniel Defoe
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Samuel Johnson
Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old - Andrew Steele
Illusionism as a Theory of Consciousness - Keith Frankish
The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters - Gregory Zuckerman
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress - Daniel Defoe
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo - Paul Strathern
Introduction to Bioinformatics - Arthur M. Lesk
Introduction to Genomics - Arthur M. Lesk
Bioinformatics with Python Cookbook - Tiago Antao
Machiavelli in Context - William R. Cook
The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli (translated by George Bull)
Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum - Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky
The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (translated by Robin Kirkpatrick)
La Vita Nuova - Dante Alighieri (translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
Small Men on the Wrong Side of History - Ed West
Six Easy Pieces - Richard P. Feynman
Arcadia - Tom Stoppard
Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding - George Monbiot
English Pastoral - James Rebanks
Empty Planet - Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson
The Shepherd's Life - James Rebanks
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by Nevill Coghill)
A Heart so White - Javier Marías
The Georgics - Virgil (translated by Cecil Day-Lewis)
The Eclogues - Virgil (translated by Cecil Day-Lewis)
Chaucer: A European Life - Marion Turner
Fifty-Fifty - Steve Cavanagh
Beowulf - (translated by Michael Alexander)
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays - J.R.R. Tolkien
Hillbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance
Beowulf - (translated by Seamus Heaney)
The Country and the City - Raymond Williams
Beowulf - (translated by J.R.R. Tolkien)
Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues - Michael Sugrue
Parmenides (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Cratylus (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Phaedrus (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Phaedo (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Theaetetus (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Symposium (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Greater Hippias (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Lesser Hippias (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Euthydemus (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Meno (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Protagoras (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Gorgias (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Ion (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Menexenus (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Lysis (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Laches (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Charmides (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Crito (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
The Apology (Socratic Dialogues) - Plato
Antigone - Sophocles (translated by Don Taylor)
Ajax - Sophocles
Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus (attr)
The Eumenides (Oresteia) - Aeschylus (translated by Tony Harrison)
The Libation Bearers (Oresteia) - Aeschylus (translated by Tony Harrison)
Agamemnon (Oresteia) - Aeschylus (translated by Tony Harrison)
The World We Have Lost - Peter Laslett
Greek Tragedy - Elizabeth Vandiver
Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England - Eleanor Parker
The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science - James Hannam
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
2020
The Iliad - Homer (translated by E.V. Rieu)
The Fall of Gondolin - J.R.R. Tolkien
Linked - Albert-Laszio Barabasi
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Beren and Luthien - J.R.R. Tolkien
AI Powered Search - Trey Grainger
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton
Memoirs of a Cavalier - Daniel Defoe
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Children of Hurin - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Romance of the Forest - Ann Radcliffe
Solving Mathematical Problems - Terence Tao
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
A Sicilian Romance - Ann Radcliffe
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Last Ringbearer - Kirill Eskov
Consilience - Edward O. Wilson
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Jimmy Maher
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano - Olaudah Equiano
The Oracle of Delphi - Jimmy Maher
Smith of Wootton Major - J.R.R. Tolkien
Leaf by Niggle - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil - J.R.R. Tolkien
Farmer Giles of Ham - J.R.R. Tolkien
Roverandom - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - Ann Radcliffe
The Joy of X - Steven Strogatz
The Life, Adventures and Piracies of Captain Singleton - Daniel Defoe
Letters From Father Christmas - J.R.R. Tolkien
Mr Bliss - J.R.R. Tolkien
Learn You a Haskell For Great Good - Miran Lipovača
Vathek - William Beckford
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - J.R.R. Tolkien
Reckoning with Risk - Gerd Gigerenzer
Bach and the High Baroque - Robert Greenberg
The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
Reinventing Organisations - Frederic Laloux
Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch - Jeremy Howard & Sylvain Gugger
Evelina - Frances Burney
The Opinionated Guide to React - Sara Vieira
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution - Bernard Bailyn
Globalists - Quinn Slobodian
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium - Martin Gurri
The Infidel and the Professor - Dennis C. Rasmussen
New Atlantis - Francis Bacon
The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop
The Banbury to Verney Junction Branch - Bill Simpson
The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
Henry V - William Shakespeare
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Roddy Doyle
The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
Consciousness - Christof Koch
The Madness of George III - Alan Bennett
The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R Tolkien
Try This at Home - Frank Turner
The Book of Merlin - T.H. White
The Candle in the Wind - T.H. White
The Missing £4 Billion - Tom Forth, Richard Jones
The Ill-Made Knight - T.H. White
The Witch in the Wood - T.H. White
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
The Sword in the Stone - T.H. White
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Henry IV Part II - William Shakespeare
The Two Noble Kinsmen - William Shakespeare
The Idylls of the King - Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Last Days of Steam in Northamptonshire - John M. C. Healy
Fleabag - Phoebe Waller-Bridge
A Survey of Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery - Maithra Raghu, Eric Schmidt
Complex Contagions: A Decade in Review - Douglas Guilbeault, Joshua Becker, Damon Centola
The Old English Baron - Clara Reeve
Henry IV Part I - William Shakespeare
The Western Cannon - Harold Bloom
What You Should Know About Megaprojects, and Why - Bent Flyvbjerg
The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker - Tobias Smollett
Richard II - William Shakespeare
One Man Two Governors - Richard Bean
The Bridge Across Forever - Richard Bach
Crashed, How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World - Adam Tooze
A Sentimental Journey - Lawrence Sterne
The Vicar of Wakefield - Oliver Goldsmith
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
Classics of British Literature - John Sutherland
Rosslyn Chapel - The Earl of Rosslyn
Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe
Dealers of Lightning - Michael Hiltzik
Innumeracy - John Allen Paulos
Tristram Shandy - Lawrence Sterne
The Idea Factory - Jon Gertner
Doing the Impossible - Arthur L. Slotkin
One Giant Leap, the impossible mission that flew us to the moon - Charles Fishman
Human in the Loop Machine Learning - Robert Munro
The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes
Collaborative Circles - Warren Bennis and Patrcia Ward Biederman
The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith
Mathematics, A very Short Introduction - Timothy Gowers
Fanny Hill - John Cleland
Wilding - Isabella Tree
The Rise and Fall of American Growth - Robert Gordon
Measure for Measure - - William Shakespeare
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
Ludvig Von Mises - Eamon Butler
The Law - Frédéric Bastiat
Adam Smith - Eamon Butler
2019
The Pyramids of Giza - Jimmy Maher
Equus - David Hare
The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
The Analects - Confucius
Old School - Tobias Wolff
The Future of the Commons - Elinor Ostrom
Meet the People - James Frayne
Reading in the Dark - Seamus Deane
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Path of the Martyrs - Ed West
Saxons and Vikings - Ed West
Translations - Brian Friel
The Provoked Wife - John Vanbrugh
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Collected Writings - Johnathan Swift
Reinventing Discovery - Michael Nielson
A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins - Thomas Crean
The Son Also Rises - Gregory Clarke
The Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare
Power over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory - Dennis Dalton
Tom Jones- Henry Fielding
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
The Works and Days - Hesiod
The Isles - Norman Davies
A Tale of a Tub - Johnathan Swift
Bound Away, Virginia and the westward movement - David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly
Clarissa - Samuel Richardson
Three Men on the Bummel - Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome k. Jerome
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham
Quantum Computing Since Democritus - Scott Aaronson
Belt and Road - Bruno Maçães
The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
King Arthur: History and Legend - Dorsey Armstrong
Le Morte D'Arthur - Thomas Malory
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
Merlin and the Grail - Robert de Boron and others
Perceval and its continuations - Chrétien de Troyes and others
The Peloponnesian War - Kenneth W. Harl
The Mabinogion - Charlotte Guest (translator)
The Greek and Persian Wars - John R. Hale
Herodotus: The Father of History - Elizabeth Vandiver
The Histories - Herodotus
On War - Carl von Clausewitz
Presuasion - Robert Cialdini
The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver
The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch
A Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
2018
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals - Tyler Cowen
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Richard III - William Shakespeare
Henry VI - part iii - William Shakespeare
Henry VI - part ii - William Shakespeare
Henry VI - part i - William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
Anthony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare
Julius Ceasar - William Shakespeare
The Dawn of Eurasia - Bruno Maçães
A Farewell to Alms - Gregory Clarke
The Song of Roland - Michael A. H. Newth (translator)
Ending Aging - Aubrey de Grey
Four Arthurian Romances - Chrétien de Troyes
Geoffrey of Monmouth - The History of the Kings of Britain
Nennius - Historia Brittonum
St Gildas - De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae,
Jonathan Wild - Henry Fielding
A Kestrel for a Knave - Barry Hines
Animal Farm - George Orwell
The Vanquished - Robert Gerwath
The Symphony - Robert Greenberg
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Joseph Andrews - Henry Fielding
The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
Biology: The Science of Life - Stephen Nowicki
The Age of Em - Robin Hanson
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas
Conquerers: how Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and forged the first global empire - Roger Crowley
An Inspector Calls - J.B Priestley
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Shamela - Henry Fielding
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
Pamela - Samuel Richardson
On the Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How to Read and Understand Shakespeare - Marc C. Conner
Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
Lady Susan - Jane Austen
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Messy - Tim Harford
Treatise on Law - Thomas Aquinas
Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Fatal Purity, Robespierre and the French Revolution - Ruth Scure
1000 Years of Annoying the French - Stephen Clarke
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - Eliezer Yudkowsky
2017
Deep Learning with Python - François Chollet
Learn C the Hard Way - Zed A. Shaw
Learn More Python 3 the Hard Way - Zed A. Shaw
Learn Python 3 the Hard Way - Zed A. Shaw
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - Edward Albee
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
Think Tank, the Story of the Adam Smith Institute - Madsen Pirie
You Talkin' to Me - Sam Leith
Watching the English - Kate Fox
The Sequences - Eliezer Yudkowsky
Evolving Economics - Agnar Sandmo
The Grand Tour - Christopher Hibbert
Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik
Superintelligence - Nick Bostrom
The Complacent Class - Tyler Cowen
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard P. Feynman
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions - Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
The Life and Writings of John Milton - Seth Lerer
Samson Agonistes - John Milton
Empress Dowager Cixi - Jung Chang
Mao's Great Famine - Frank Dikötter
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America - David Hackett Fischer
Paradise Regained - John Milton
The Peloponnesian War - Kenneth W. Harl
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Two Treatises of Government - George H. Smith and Wendy McElroy
Stoics and Epicureans - Daryl Hale
Origins of the Universe - Jack Arnold
Einstein's Revolution - John T. Sanders
A New Understanding of the Atom - John T. Sanders
Natural Science and the Planet Earth - Jack Sommer
Astronomy: The Heavenly Challenge - Jack Arnold
The Family - Lawrence D. Houlgate
The Persian Gulf States - Wendy McElroy and Sheldon Richman
The German Historical School of Economics - Nicholas Balabkins
Thorstein Veblen and Institutionalism - William Peterson
The Vision of Leon Walras - Donald Walker
Joseph Schumpeter and Dynamic Economical Change - Laurence S. Moss
Monetarism and Supply Side Economics - Arjo Klamer and Alan Reynolds
Frank Knight and the Chicago School - Arthur Diamond
Struggle Over the Keynesian Heritage - Paul Davidson
The Keynesian Revolution - Fred Glahe and Frank Vorhies
Alfred Marshall and Neoclassicism - Robert Hebert
Wild Swans - Jung Chang
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters - Richard P. Rumelt
The King James Bible
Early Austrian Economics - Israel Kirzner
Karl Marx - David Ramsay Steele
The Classical Economists - E.G. West
The Wealth of Nations - George H. Smith
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns - Sasha Issenberg
The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine - Francis S. Collins
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion - Robert B. Cialdini
How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Gerald J. Davis (Translator)
The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
The Great Works of Sacred Music - Charles Edward McGuire
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed - Eric H. Cline
2016
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe - George Dyson
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - James Gleick
The Civil War - Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
How to Listen to and Understand Opera - Robert Greenberg
Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer - Seth Lerer
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by J.U. Nicolson)
Troilus and Criseyde - Geoffrey Chaucer (translated by Nevill Coghill)
The English and Their History - Robert Tombs
The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
Dante's Divine Comedy - Ronald B. Herzman and William R. Cook
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri (translated by Carlyle Okey-Wicksteed)
The Box - Marc Levinson
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Zero to One - Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
Bede - Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Beowulf - Anon (translated by Benedict Flynn)
Antigone - Sophocles (translated by Ian Johnston)
Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles (translated by Ian Johnston)
Oedipus Rex - Sophocles (translated by Ian Johnston)
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Aeneid of Virgil - Elizabeth Vandiver
The Aeneid - Virgil (translated by Cecil Day Lewis)
The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Art of War - Sun-Tzu
The Odyssey of Homer - Elizabeth Vandiver
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction - Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
The Odyssey - Homer (translated by Ian Johnston)
An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies - Tyler Cowen
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music - Robert Greenberg
2015
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Richard II - William Shakespeare
Othello - William Shakespeare
Henry V - William Shakespeare
The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
The Road Beneath My Feet - Frank Turner
Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman: A Guide to His Economic Thought - Eamonn Butler
An Essay on the Principle of Population - Thomas Malthus
Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister - Andro Linklater
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in the Blink of an Eye - Will Gompertz
The Iliad of Homer - Elizabeth Vandiver
The Second Machine Age - Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
The Iliad - Homer (translated by Ian Johnston)
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Expert Political Judgement - Philip Tetlock
Attention All Shipping - Charlie Connelly
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto - Stewart Brand
Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius
The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure - Tim Harford
2014
The Spirit Level Delusion - Christopher Snowdon
The Spirit Level - Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Money: The Unauthorised Biography - Felix Martin
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals - Immanuel Kant
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back - Tim Harford
The Undercover Economist - Tim Harford
Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy - Simon Blackburn
Hayek: His Contribution to the Political and Economic Thought of Our Time - Eamonn Butler
The Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves - Matt Ridley
Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty
Two Treatises of Government - John Locke
The Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche - Kathleen M. Higgins and Robert C. Solomon
The Republic - Plato
The Magic of Reality - Richard Dawkins
The Art of Strategy - Barry J. Nalebuff and Avinash K. Dixit
Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
Keynes: The Return of the Master - Robert Skidelsky
A History of the World - Andrew Marr
Nudge - Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
The Story of India - Michael Wood
The Great Turning Points in British History - Michael Wood
2013
Autumn Journal - Louis MacNeice
What Does it all Mean? - Thomas Nagal
The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli (translated by Peter Bondanella)
Coriolanus - William Shakespeare
The Thirty-Nine Steps - John Buchan
The Vietnam War - Neil Smith
The Cold War - Rupert Colley
The Siege of Leningrad - Rupert Colley
World War Two - Rupert Colley
Stalin - Rupert Colley
The Russian Revolution - Rupert Colley
World War One - Rupert Colley
The American Civil War - Kat Smutz
The Afghan Wars - Rupert Colley
Dickens - Kaye Jones
Derrida - Paul Strathern
Dewey - Paul Strathern
Foucault - Paul Strathern
Sartre - Paul Strathern
Wittgenstein - Paul Strathern
Bertrand Russell - Paul Strathern
Heidegger - Paul Strathern
Kierkegaard - Paul Strathern
J.S. Mill - Paul Strathern
Nietzsche - Paul Strathern
Marx - Paul Strathern
Schopenhauer - Paul Strathern
Hegel - Paul Strathern
Kant - Paul Strathern
Hume - Paul Strathern
Rousseau - Paul Strathern
Locke - Paul Strathern
Leibniz - Paul Strathern
Berkeley - Paul Strathern
Spinoza - Paul Strathern
Descartes - Paul Strathern
Machiavelli - Paul Strathern
Thomas Aquinas - Paul Strathern
St Augustine - Paul Strathern
Aristotle - Paul Strathern
Plato - Paul Strathern
Confucius - Paul Strathern
Socrates - Paul Strathern
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Burmese Days - George Orwell
Metamorphoses - Ovid
For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Volpone - Ben Jonson
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes
Megachange - The Economist
The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills - David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu
Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress - and a Plan to Stop It - Lawrence Lessig
Candide - Voltaire
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
A Brief History of Britain 1066-1485 - Nicholas Vincent
No Such Thing as Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s - Andy McSmith
2012
Utopia - Thomas More
Henry IV part ii - William Shakespeare
Henry IV part i - William Shakespeare
Tribal Peoples for Tomorrow's World - Stephen Corry
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
A Short History of Ireland - Jonathan Bardon
The Dead School - Patrick McCabe
Molloy - Samuel Beckett
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Dubliners - James Joyce
2011
Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
Richard III - William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Ethan From - Edith Wharton
2010 and before
The Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling