♥️️ Highly recommended

2024

• Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
• ♥️ Angus Deaton, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
• Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
• Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
• George Orwell, Animal Farm
• ♥️ Hannah Ritchie, Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
• Jane Austen, Persuasion
• Luís Fróis, Européens et japonais : Traité sur les contradictions et différences de moeurs
• ♥️ Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
• Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
• Robert C. Allen, Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction
• Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality

2023

• Alison Green, Managing to Change the World: The Nonprofit Manager’s Guide to Getting Results
• Anthony B. Atkinson, Measuring Poverty Around the World
• Anthony B. Atkinson, Inequality: What Can Be Done?
• Charles C. Mann, The Wizard and the Prophet
• Johan Fourie, Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom: Lessons from 100 000 years of human history
• John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
• ♥️ Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem
• ♥️ Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest
• ♥️ Liu Cixin, Death’s End
• Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
• ♥️ Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
• Tyler Cowen, Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

2022

• Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management
• Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts
• Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
• Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
• ♥️ James Vincent, Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
• Julia Galef, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
• Julie Zhuo, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
• Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
• Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality

2021

• Abhijit V. Banerjee, Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
• Adeline Dieudonné, La Vraie Vie
• Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom
• Antonio Zadra, When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep
• ♥️ Carl Sagan, Cosmos
• ♥️ Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
• Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• ♥️ George Orwell, 1984
• Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
• Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
• Hervé Le Tellier, L’Anomalie
• Homer, The Odyssey
• James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
• ♥️ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• John Kaag, Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life
• John Kaag, American Philosophy: A Love Story
• John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
• Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
• ♥️ Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
• ♥️ Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
• ♥️ Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
• Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
• Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
• Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
• Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

2020

• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
• ♥️ Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
• Joe Sacco, Palestine
• Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza
• John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
• ♥️ José Saramago, Blindness
• Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
• Marguerite Duras, The Lover
• Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
• Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
• ♥️ Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
• Toby Ord, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
• William Golding, Lord of the Flies
• William MacAskill, Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
• Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind