Genre
history
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Hunter S. Thompson
1973
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
1986
The Republic
Plato
375 BC
In the Garden of Beasts
Erik Larson
2011
The Golden Thread, Vol. I
Allen Guelzo and James Hankins
2025
From Dawn to Decadence
Jacques Barzun
2000
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson
2010
Saint Thomas Aquinas
G.K. Chesterton
1923
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
RenΓ© Girard
1978
β
The Conservative Mind
Russell Kirk
1953
β
The Roots of American Order
Russell Kirk
1974
Works and Days
Hesiod
700 BC
β
The Great Debate
Yuval Levin
2013
β
American Covenant
Yuval Levin
2024
Informed Common Sense
Albert Jay Nock
2013
How to Listen to Jazz
Ted Gioia
2016
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
2011
β
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
2011
β
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
1951
β
Dominion
Tom Holland
2019
β
The Wright Brothers
David McCullough
2015
β
The WEIRDest People in the World
Joseph Henrich
2020
The Pioneers
David McCullough
2019
Liberal Fascism
Jonah Goldberg
2007
β
Where Is My Flying Car?
J. Storrs Hall
2021
β
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
1960
β
Underland
Robert Macfarlane
2019
Knowledge and Decisions
Thomas Sowell
1979
The Conservative Sensibility
George Will
2019
β
The Nature of Technology
W. Brian Arthur
2009
The Infinite Machine
Camila Russo
2020
β
The Open Society and its Enemies
Karl Popper
1945
The Tyranny of Cliches
Jonah Goldberg
2012
β
The Lessons of History
Will and Ariel Durant
1968
The Evolution of Everything
Matt Ridley
2015
Sid Meier's Memoir!
Sid Meier
2020
β
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
1998
The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
2020
Mythos
Stephen Fry
2017
β
How Innovation Works
Matt Ridley
2020
β
The Dream Machine
M. Mitchell Waldrop
2001
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Katie Hafner
1996
β
Mythology
Edith Hamilton
1942
The End is Always Near
Dan Carlin
2019
β
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
1981
β
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
1787
The Fatal Conceit
F.A. Hayek
1988
The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson
2007
β
Pacific
Simon Winchester
2015
Wayfinding
M.R. O'Connor
2019
β
The Etymologicon
Mark Forsyth
2011
America Before
Graham Hancock
2019
Blueprint
Nicholas A. Christakis
2019
β
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
1946
β
1776
David McCullough
2005
How the Internet Happened
Brian McCullough
2018
The Story of Maps
Lloyd A. Brown
1949
β
Team of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin
2005
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
2018
The Map That Changed the World
Simon Winchester
2001
Energy
Richard Rhodes
2018
β
Chaos
James Gleick
1987
Suicide of the West
Jonah Goldberg
2018
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell
1949
β
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
1980
β
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
2017
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2018
β
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari
2015
β
Political Order and Political Decay
Francis Fukuyama
2014
The Box
Marc Levinson
2006
The Grid
Gretchen Bakke
2016
The Upstarts
Brad Stone
2017
β
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
2004
β
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
2014
β
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
2016
The Game
Jon Pessah
2015
The Second World
Parag Khanna
2008
β
The Origins of Political Order
Francis Fukuyama
2011
β
Annals of the Former World
John McPhee
1998
The Ball is Round
David Goldblatt
2006
β
The Summer Game
Roger Angell
1972
The Way of the Knife
Mark Mazzetti
2013
β
Men at Work
George Will
1990
β
A Nice Little Place on the North Side
George Will
2014
β
The Control of Nature
John McPhee
1990
The Last Refuge
Gregory D. Johnsen
2012
In the Plex
Steven Levy
2011
β
Ghost Wars
Steve Coll
2004
Operation Mincemeat
Ben MacIntyre
2010
See No Evil
Robert Baer
2002
β
War
Sebastian Junger
2010
Spying With Maps
Mark Monmonier
2002
The Big Short
Michael Lewis
2009