Reading List
To Read
- Wilson - The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy
- Morgan - Pacific Gibraltar: U.S.-Japanese Rivalry Over the Annexation of Hawaii, 1885-1898
- Goodhart - The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality and an Inflation Revival
- Halliday, Thrasher - The Ethics of Capitalism: An Introduction
- Newey - How To Build A Car: An Autobiography Of The World's Greatest Formula 1 Designer
- Hongoltz-Hetling - A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate An American Town (And Some Bears)
- Keen, Slemrod - Rebellion, Rascals and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom Through The Ages
- Azizi - The Shadow Commander: Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions
- Ang - China's Gilded Age: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption
- Tapper - The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor
- Naylor - Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
- Vaughan - Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture and Deviance at NASA (reread)
- Clark - Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600—1947
- Weiner - Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
- Braumoeller - Only The Dead: The Persistence of War in the Modern Age
- Wertheim - Tomorrow, The World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy
- Mobley - Progressives In Navy Blue: Maritime Strategy, American Empire and the Transformation of US Naval Identity, 1873-1898
- Lind - The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Managerial Elite
- Forman - Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
- Gordon - Losing The Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change In The Middle East
- Higginbotham - Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
- Westwick - Stealth: The Secret Contest To Invent Invisible Aircraft
- Loveless - Between the State and the Schoolhouse: Understanding the Failure of Common Core
- Bacevich - The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
- Acheson - Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
- Urbina - The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across The Last Untamed Frontier
- Waldman - Rust: The Longest War
- Cohn - The Ten Year War: ObamaCare and the Unfinished Crusade For Universal Coverage
- Barno, Bensahel - Adaptation Under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime (Bridging The Gap)
- Thornill - Demystifying the American Military: Institutions, Evolution and Challenges since 1798
- Corbett - Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
- Dalrymple - The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- Scharre - Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
- Drucker - The Concept of the Corporation
- Lee - Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign
- Dalrymple - Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
- Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- Lindsey, Teles - The Captured Economy: How The Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth and Increase Inequality
- Mao, Lawson - The Qing Empire and the Opium War: The Collapse of the Heavenly Dynasty (Cambridge China Library)
- Kuran - Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
- Tuchman - The Guns of August
- Furet - The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
- Smith - Russia In Revolution: An Empire In Crisis 1890-1928
- van Buren - We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People
- Kaplan - The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War
- Scott - Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes To Improve The Human Condition Have Failed
- Graeber - Debt: The First 5000 Years
- Eubanks - Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish The Poor
- Wrong - In The Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living On The Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo
- Callahan - The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
- Edgerton - Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900
- Dasgupta - Capital: The Explosion of Delhi
- Gleick - Chaos
- Danielsen - Making Warriors in a Global Era: An Ethnographic Study of the Norwegian Special Operations Commando
- Principe - Secrets of Alchemy
- Beard - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
- Lee - Insecure Majorities: Congress and the Perpetual Campaign
- Glantz - When Titans Clashed
- Bellamy - Red God of War: Soviet Artillery and Rocket Forces
- Caro - The Path To Power
- Caro - Means of Ascent
- Caro - Master of the Senate
- Caro - The Passage of Power
- Marra - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
- Naval History and Heritage Command - War in the Shallows: US Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam: 1965-1986
- Nagl - Learning To Eat Soup With A Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons From Malaysia and Vietnam
- Afzal - Pakistan Under Seige: Extremism, Society and the State
- Biddle - Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle
- Anderson - Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It)
- Burroughs - Days of Rage
- Deming - The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education
- Achen Bartels - Democracy of Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government
- Varble - The Suez Crisis 1956 (Essential Histories)
- Vaishnav - When Crime Pays
- Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism
- Bostrom - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
- Mahan - The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
- Robb - The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography
- Jacobs - The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- Hofstadter - Goedel Escher Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid (reread)
- Rawls - A Theory of Justice
- Keegan - The Face of Battle (reread)
- George - Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes On Your Back, Gas In Your Car and Food On Your Plate
- Hamid - How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia: A Novel (reread)
- Shambaugh - China's Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation
- Dekker - The Field Guide To Understanding Human Error
- Robins - The Corporation That Changed The World
- Cohen - Rescuing Justice and Equality
- Stiglitz - Globalization and Its Discontents
- Whyte - The Organization Man
- Maine - Ancient Law and its Connection To The History of Early Society
- Maine - Popular Government
- Ferguson - When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Devaluation, Deficit Spending and Hyperinflation In Weimar Germany
- Chopra, White - A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents
- Ellickson - Order Without Law
- Posner - Law and Social Norms
- Posner - How Judges Think
- Luttwak - Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook
- Pinker - The Better Angels of our Nature
- Friedman, Kraus - Engineering The Financial Crisis
- Porter - The Competitive Advantage of Nations
- Hartcher - The Ministry: The Inside Story of Japan's Ministry of Finance
- Clark - The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
- Ferguson - The Pity of War
- Israel - Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution and Human Rights 1750 - 1790
- Steiner - Triumph of the Dark: European International History: 1933-1939
- Weinberger - Too Big To Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That The Facts Aren't The Facts, Experts Are Everywhere and the Smartest Person In The Room Is The Room
- Bhide - A Call For Judgement
- Dodge - Schelling's Game Theory: How To Make Decisions
- Self - American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
- Nozick - Anarchy, State and Utopia
- Acemoglu, Robinson - Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, Poverty
- Spufford - Red Plenty
- Johnson - Thirteen Bankers
- Desrochers, Shimizu - The Locavore's Dilemma - In Praise of the 10,000 Mile Diet
- Blum - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
- Ho - Liquidated
- Christensen - The Innovator's Dilemma
- Henwood - Wall Street
- Bobbitt - The Shield of Achilles - War, Peace and the Course of History
- Matias - Bartleby & Co
- Arnold - Everyday Technology - Machines and the Making of India's Modernity
- Drescher - Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics
- Studwell - How Asia Works
- Leibovich - This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral Plus Plenty of Valet Parking In America's Gilded Capital
- Shapiro - The Terrorists' Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
- Turse - Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
- Simpson - War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat As Politics
- Mishra - From The Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
- Perkins - East Asian Development: Foundations And Strategies
- Posner - Reflections On Judging
- Feldman - The Great Disorder: Politics, Economics and Society in the Great German Inflation: 1914-1924
- Lewis - The Big Short
- Lewis - Liar's Poker
- Sorkin - Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought To Save The Financial System and Themselves
- Harrison - Light
- Bass - The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide
- Roberts - Shantaram
- Sanderson - The Way of Kings
- Sanderson - Words of Radiance
- Hayek - The Market and Other Orders
- Weil - The Fissured Workplace: Why Work Became So Bad For So Many And What Can Be Done To Improve It
- Lieven - Ukraine and Russia: A Fraternal Rivalry
- Figes - The Crimean War
- Akysyonov - The Island of Crimea
- Freedman - Strategy: A History
- Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow
- Armstrong - Paying For the Party: How Colleges Maintain Inequality
- Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora
- Piketty - Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Roy - Capitalism: A Ghost Story
- Doniger - The Hindus: An Alternative History
- Gall - The Wrong Enemy: American in Afghanistan: 2001-2014
- Taylor - The People's Platform
- Brook - The Quelling of the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement
- Lim - The People's Republic of Amnesia
- Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel (reread)
- Kay - The Lions of Al-Rassan
- Zweig - Invisibles: The Power of Anonymous Work in an Age of Relentless Self-Promotion
- Davies - Europe: A History
- Mak - In Europe: Travels Through The Twentieth Century
- Schlosser - Command And Control
- Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
- Meek - Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else
- al-Ali - The Struggle for Iraq's Future
- Reynolds - The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century
- Dawisha - Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia
- Remnick - Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- Johennsen - The Tigers and the Taliban: Risking Everything for Afghanistan
- Armstrong - A History of God
- Rajaniemi - The Quantum Thief
- Rotman - Advanced Modern Algebra
- Xenophon - Anabasis
- Arian - Anabasis Alexander
- Karnad - Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
- Sky - The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
- Stern, Berger - ISIS: The State of Terror
- Hayton - The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia
- O'Malley - The Two State Delusion: Israel And Palestine: A Tale of Two Narratives
- Kilcullen - The Accidental Guerilla: Fighting Small Wars In The Midst of a Big One
- Hoffman - Why Did Europe Conquer The World
- Walzer - The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolution and Religious Counterrevolutions
- Cherry-Garrard - The Worst Journey in the World
- Sumner - The Midas Paradox
- Taleb - Fooled By Randomness
- Allison, Blackwill, Wyne - Lee Kyuan Yew
- Polyani - The Great Transformation
- Berlin - Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
- Wilson - The Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire
- Macaes - The Dawn of Eurasia
- Preston - The World's Worst Warships: The Failures and Repercussions of Naval Design and Construction
- Hastings - The Battle for the Falklands
- Michishita - North Korea's Military-Diplomatic Campaigns, 1966-2008
- Girard - Things Hidden Since The Foundation of the World
- Williams - Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art And Soul in Video Games
- Hansen - Notes on a Foreign Country
- Hirschman - Exit Voice and Loyalty
- Crabtree - The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
- Edgerton - The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A 20th Century History
- Clapham - The Horn of Africa: State Formation and Decay
- Goldstein - Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path To War in Vietnam
- Sorley - A Better War: Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam
- Smith - The Scramble for Europe: Young Africa on Its Way to the Old Continent
- Bracken - The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger and the New Power Politics
- Rajan - The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
- Bolger - Why We Lost: A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
- Jones - Still Ours To Lead: America, Rising Powers, and the Tension Between Rivalry and Restraint
- Campanella - Brooklyn: The Once and Future City
- Spears - Where India Goes
- Spears - Air
- Milanovic - Capitalism Alone
Reading
- Adiga - The White Tiger
- Ricks - The Generals: American Military Command From World War II To Today
- Slobodian - Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
- Ousterhout - A Philosophy of Software Design
Done
- Holiday - Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
