Book List to Understand the World
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2024 4:30 pm
In alphabetical order:
- Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
- Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
- Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans by Peter Schweizer
- Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption by Alex Marlow
- Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror by Erik Prince
- Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
- Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
- Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
- Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
- Emperors of the Deep: Sharks - The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians by William McKeever
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
- Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital by Elise Hu
- Fromms: How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers
- Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen
- Operation Pineapple Express by Scott Mann
- Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg
- Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou
- Putin's World by Angela Stent
- The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge in an Uncertain World: The Power of Political Knowledge in an Uncertain World by Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- The Outfit by Gus Russo
- The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- These are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs — and Wrecks — America by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- The Spymasters How the CIA's Directors Shape History and Guard the Future by Chris Whipple
- The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy by Charles Fishman
- Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
- We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter
- Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris
- Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill
- Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
- Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
- Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans by Peter Schweizer
- Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption by Alex Marlow
- Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror by Erik Prince
- Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
- Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
- Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
- Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
- Emperors of the Deep: Sharks - The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians by William McKeever
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
- Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital by Elise Hu
- Fromms: How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis by Gotz Aly and Michael Sontheimer
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers
- Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen
- Operation Pineapple Express by Scott Mann
- Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg
- Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou
- Putin's World by Angela Stent
- The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge in an Uncertain World: The Power of Political Knowledge in an Uncertain World by Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat
- The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- The Outfit by Gus Russo
- The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- These are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs — and Wrecks — America by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- The Spymasters How the CIA's Directors Shape History and Guard the Future by Chris Whipple
- The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy by Charles Fishman
- Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
- We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter
- Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris
- Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill