Bookshelf
This list is my attempt to catalogue the books I read and I’ll try to update it monthly. I hope it might also provide some inspiration to those looking to find something new.
History
American Caesars - Nigel Hamilton
Berlin - Anthony Beever
Capitalism in America - Alan Greenspan & Adrian Wooldridge
City of Quartz - Mike Davis
Dominion - Tom Holland
Empireland - Sathnam Sanghera
Globalists - Quinn Slobodian
A Line in the Sand - James Barr
Putin’s People - Catherine Belton
Revolutionary Russia - Orlando Figes
Rollercoaster - Ian Kershaw
The Road to Unfreedom - Timothy Synder
The Rise & Fall of the British Nation - David Edgerton
Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe
A Short History of Neoliberalism - David Harvey
Politics/Sociology
The Upswing - Robert Putnam
Our Kids - Robert Putnam
When China Rules the World - Martin Jacques
The Tyranny of Merit - Michael Sandel
The Origins of Political Order - Francis Fukuyama
The Twilight of Democracy - Anne Applebaum
Seeing like a State - Jame C Scott
Where we are - Roger Scruton
Left Out - Gabriel Pogrund & Patrick Maguire
A Short History of Brexit - Kevin O’Rourke
Philosophy
AntiFragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Animal Liberation - Peter Singer
The Expanding Circle - Peter Singer
Green Philosophy - Roger Scruton
Fools, Frauds & Firebrands - Roger Scruton
Object Oriented Ontology - Grahram Harman
Art & Objects - Graham Harman
The Moral Landscape - Sam Harris
Hyperobjects - Timothy Morton
Being Ecological - Timothy Morton
Humankind - Timothy Morton
Better Never to Have Been - David Benatar
Cynical Theories - Helen Pluckrose & James Lindsay
Culture & Death of God - Terry Eagleton
Straw Dogs - John Gray
Down to Earth - Bruno Latour
Vibrant Matter - Jane Bennett
Marxist Thought & the City - Henri Lefebvre
Hermeneutics - John D Caputo
Wittgenstein’s Poker - David Edmonds & John Eidinow
The Medium is the Message - Robert McLuhan
Economics
Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth
Crashed - Adam Tooze
The Deluge - Adam Tooze
Austerity - Mark Blyth
Talking to my Daughter about Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis
Rentier Capitalism - Brett Christophers
The New Enclosure - Brett Christophers
Nature Writing, Ecology & Landscape
Space & Place - Yi Fu Tuan
Lines - Tim Ingold
Hollow Land - Eyal Weizman
Landmarks - Robert Macfarlane
The Living Mountain - Nan Shepard
The Perception of the Environment - Tim Ingold
Novacene - James Lovelock
Architecture & Urbanism
Capital City - Samuel Stein
The Death & Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
Learning from Las Vegas - Venturi Scott Brown
Municipal Dreams - John Boughton
Building & Dwelling - Richard Sennett
Ornament & Crime - Adolf Loos
The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture - Pier Vittorio Aureli
The Project of Autonomy - Pier Vittorio Aureli
Less is Enough - Pier Vittorio Aureli
Psychology
The Master and his Emissary - Iain McGilchrist
The Weirdest People in the World - Joe Henrich
The Bonobo & the Atheist - Frans de Waal