Recommended Books

Art

The Blaue Reiter Almanac (Kandinsky/Marc)
Making Meaning (Bordwell)
Languages of Art (Goodman)
Laocoon (Lessing)
Music and the Ineffable (Jankélévitch)
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Barthes)
Film Art: An Introduction (Bordwell/Thompson)
Planet Hong Kong (Bordwell)
John Ford: The Man and His Films (Gallagher)
Storia del cinema mondiale (5 volumes) (Brunetta)
The Western Canon (Bloom)
Against the American Grain (Macdonald)
Exploring Visual Culture (Rampley)
Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke)
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Frye)
The Notenki Memoirs (Takeda)
Rock and the Pop Narcotic (Carducci)
Our Band Could Be Your Life (Azerrad)
Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (Carroll)
A Philosophy of Mass Art (Carroll)
Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life (Charney)
Sculpting in Time (Tarkovsky)
The Tradition of the New (Rosenberg)
De Architectura (Vitruvius)
The Rest Is Noise (Ross)

Economics & PoliSci

Political Economy (Phelps)
Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
Microeconomics (Perloff)
Economics (Samuelson/Nordhaus)
Neuroeconomics (Glimcher/Fehr)
The Theory of Economic Development (Schumpeter)
Economy and Society (Weber)
The New Geography of Jobs (Moretti)
Against Intellectual Monopoly (Boldrin/Levine)
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (Rajan/Zingales)
The Theory of the Leisure Class (Veblen)
The Use of Knowledge in Society (Hayek)
Misbehaving (Thaler)
The Myth of the Rational Voter (Caplan)
Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 4a & B Set (Ashenfelter/Card)
Handbook of Macroeconomics, 2A & 2B Set (Taylor/Uhlig)
The Economics of Growth (Aghion/Howitt)
Macroeconomics (Scarth/Mankiw)
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 (Friedman/Schwartz)
History of Economic Analysis (Schumpeter)
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Von Neumann/Morgenstern)
Lombard Street (Bagehot)
Liberalism Against Populism (Riker)
The Federalist Papers (Hamilton/Madison/et al.)
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State (Gelman)
The Citizen and the State: Essays on Regulation (Stigler)
Modern Principles of Economics (Cowen/Tabarrok)
The Great Reversal (Philippon)
Economics for the Common Good (Tirole)

Rationality

Factfulness (Rosling)
The Psychology of Human Misjudgement (Munger)
The Great Mental Models vol. 1 (Parrish)
Mindware (Nisbett)
The Elephant in the Brain (Hanson/Simler)
Doing Good Better (MacAskill)
Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air (MacKay)
Intellectual Impostures (Sokal/Bricmont)
Rational Choice in an Uncertain World (Hastie/Dawes)
The Art of Strategy (Dixit/Nalebuff)

Behavioral & Cognitive Sciences

Behave (Saposlky)
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
Influence (Cialdini)
Intelligence: A Very Short Introduction (Deary)
Individual Differences and Personality (Ashton)
Cultures and Organizations (Hofstede)
The Social Dimension of Sex (Baumeister/Tice)
The WEIRDest People in the World (Henrich)
100 Years of Happiness (Carlin)
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Mackay)
The Crowd (Le Bon)
Cognition (Ashcraft/Radvansky)
The Origin of Species (Darwin)
Evolutionary Psychology (Buss)
Human Evolutionary Psychology (Barrett et al.)
The Tree of Knowledge (Maturana/Varela)
The Embodied Mind (Varela/Thompson/Rosch)
Fundamentals of Cognition (Eysenck/Brysbaert)
A Companion to Cognitive Science (Bechtel/Graham)
Handbook of Social Psychology, vol. 1&2 (Fiske et al.)
Social Cognition (Fiske/Taylor)
Affective Neuroscience (Panksepp)

Philosophy

The Apology of Socrates (Plato)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
The Dhammapada (Buddha)
Invariances (Nozick)
Philosophical Explanations (Nozick)
Mortal Questions (Nagel)
Must We Mean What We Say? (Cavell)
The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Seneca)
The Open Society and Its Enemies (Popper)
The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Popper)
In Search of a Better World (Popper)
Conjectures and Refutations (Popper)
Illuminations (Benjamin)
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant)
Critique of Judgment (Kant)
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Galilei)
History of Western Philosophy (Russell)
Sceptical Essays (Russell)
Prophets of Extremity (Megill)
Parerga and Paralipomena (Schopenhauer)
Human, All Too Human (Nietzsche)
The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoproblems in Philosophy (Carnap)
Politics (Aristotle)
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Nozick)
Two Treatises of Government (Locke)
The Opium of the Intellectuals (Aron)
On Liberty (Mill)
The Politics of Obedience (De La Boétie)
The Complete Essays (Montaigne)
Truth and Beauty (Chandrasekhar)
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)
Reasons and Persons (Parfit)

Business, Marketing & Management

Hacking Growth (Ellis)
Running Lean (Maurya)
Lean Analytics (Croll/Yoskovitz)
Zero to One (Thiel/Masters)
ReWork (Fried/Hansson)
Remote (Fried/Hansson)
The Product Book (Product School)
The pmarca blog Archives (Andreessen)
How to Get Rich (Dennis)
Getting Things Done (Allen)
So Good They Can’t Ignore You (Newport)
A World Without Email (Newport)

Data

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data (Wheelan)
All of Statistics (Wasserman)
Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century (Poldrack)

Personal Finance & Investing

The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing (Larimore)
The Four Pillars of Investing (Bernstein)
All About Asset Allocation (Ferri)
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing (Bogle)
The Millionaire Next Door (Stanley)
Beyond Greed and Fear (Shefrin)
The Psychology of Money (Housel)

History

Postwar (Judt)
The Ancien Régime and the Revolution (Tocqueville)
The History and Geography of Human Genes (Cavalli-Sforza/Menozzi/Piazza)
La Création des Identités Nationales: Europe, XVIIIe-XXe Siècle (Thiesse)
The Habsburg Empire: A New History (Judson)
Dividing Lines (Tichenor)
If This Is a Man & The Truce (Levi)
The Histories (Herodotus)
The Annals & The Histories (Tacitus)
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story – 1965-2000 (Lee)
The Lost History of Liberalism (Rosenblatt)
The Forgotten Revolution (Russo)