Bookshelf

Civilization, History, Economics, Sociology, Technology, Governance

Ordered based on what I find most meta, insightful, concise, true, and fun.

Who We Are and How We Got Here - Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Why Nations Fail - The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty - Daren Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
1493 - Uncovering the New World Columbus Created - Charles C. Mann
The Mystery of Capital - Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else - Hernando De Soto
The Secret of Our Success - How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter - Joseph Henrich
Against the Grain - A Deep History of the Earliest States - James C. Scott
The Information - A History, A Theory, A Flood - James Gleick
The Gene - An Infinite History - Siddhartha Mukherjee
Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
The WEIRDest People in the World - How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous - Joseph Henrich
Seeing Like a State - How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - James C. Scott
Guns, Germs, and Steel - The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus - Charles C. Mann
Scale - The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies - Geoffrey West
The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity - David Graeber and David Wengrow
Fall of Civilizations - Podcast - Paul M.M. Cooper
Europe - A History - Norman Davies
From Yao to Mao - 5000 Years of Chinese History - Kenneth J. Hammond
Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari
Blueprint - The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society - Nicholas A. Christakis
Debt - The First 5,000 Years - David Graeber
The Great Delusion - Liberal Dreams and International Realities - John J. Mearsheimer
The Tangled Tree - A Radical New History of Life - David Quammen
A History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Disunited Nations - The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World - Peter Zeihan
Ghengis Khan - and the Making of hte Modern World - Jack Weatherford
A People's History of the United States - 1492 - Present - Jeff Zinn
The Silk Roads - A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan
Red Flags - Why Xi's China is in Jeapordy - George Magnus
The Wizard and the Prophet - Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World - Charles C. Mann
Chaos - Making a New Science - James Gleick
The Storm Before The Storm - The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic - Mike Duncan
How the Internet Happened - From Netscape to the iPhone - Brian McCullough
The Exponential Age - How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society - Azeem Azhar
The Coming Generational Storm - What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future - Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns
Hardcore History - Dan Carlin
The Metaverse - And How it Will Revolutionize Everything - Luis Moreno
Das Kapital - Karl Marx

Thinking, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Education, Ideology, Culture, Spirituality

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Literature, Fiction, Drama

Ordered by eloquence, insight, beauty, and entertainment.

Science Fiction and Prehistoric Fiction

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Business, Career, Money, Skills, and Organizations

Ordered by insightuflness, practical usefulness, and clarity of writing

Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery

Ordered by entertainment factor and prose