25 Books You Really Should Read
The Two Most Important Books for Understanding our Modern Age
1) The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Jonathan Haidt, Pantheon Books, Random House 2012, ISBN 978-0-307-90703-5.
2) The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan, Harper Business, June 14, 2022, ISBN 978-0-06-323047-7.
The Rest of the 25 – In NO particular Order
3) The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages, Tom Bethell, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1999, ISBN 0-312-22337-4.
4) The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Paul Collier, Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-531145-7.
5) The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are So Rich and Some are So Poor, David S. Landes, W.W.Norton Company, 1998, ISBN 0-393-04017-8.
6) Toward The Light of Liberty: The Struggle for Freedom and Rights that Made the Modern Western World, A.C. Graying, Walker & Company, 2007, ISBN 978-0-802-71886-0.
7) Free to Choose: A Personal Statement, Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman, A Harvest Book, Harcourt Inc., 1990, ISBN 0-15-633460-7.
8) Why Government is the Problem, Milton Friedman, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1993, ISBN 978-0-8179-5442-0.
9) Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Mark Blyth, Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-982830-2.
10) Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One (2nd Edition), Thomas Sowell, Basic Books, Perseus Books Group, 2008, ISBN 978-0-4650-0345-7.
11) Darwin’s Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated, Steve Jones, Doubleday of Canada Random House, 1999, ISBN 0-385-25909-3.
12) Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Daniel C. Dennett, Touchstone Book, Simon & Schuster, 1995, ISBN 0-684-82471-x.
13) The Selfish Gene (40th Anniversary Edition), Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0-19-878860-7.
14) The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene, Richard Dawkins, Oxford University Press, 1982, ISBN 0-19-286088-7.
15) The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, Sam Harris, Free Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-439-17122-6.
16) An Introduction to Evolutionary Ethics, Scott M. James, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4051-9397-9.
17) Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It, Craig Biddle, Glenn Allen Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-9713737-0-9.
18) Morality and Self-Interest, Paul Bloomfield, Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-530584-5.
19) Conscious Explained, Daniel C. Dennett, Little Brown and Company, 1991, ISBN 0-316-18065-3.
20) The Intentional Stance, Daniel Dennett, A Bradford Book, MIT Press, 1989, ISBN 0-262-54053-3.
21) Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus, John Grey, Harper Perennial, Harper Collins Publishers, 1992, ISBN 0-06-092642-2.
22) The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel P. Huntington, Simon & Schuster, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4165-6124-8.
23) Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington Eds., Basic Books Perseus Books Group, 2000, ISBN 0-465-03176-5.
24) The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker, Penguin Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1-1015-4464-8.
25) Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Steven Pinker, Viking Penguin Random House, 2018, ISBN 978-0-6981-7788-8.
Honourable Mentions
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Signet, Penguin Group, 1957, ISBN 978-1-101-13719-2.
The Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle (Translated by David Ross), Oxford World Classics, Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0-192-83407-2.
The Economics of Freedom: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You, Selected Works by Frederic Bastiat, Frederic Bastiat, Jameson Books Inc., 2009, ISBN 978-0-89803-169-0.
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Charles Darwin, Avenel Books, Penguin Books, 1979 ISBN 0-571-30978-5.
The Trouble with Democracy: A Citizen Speaks Out, William D. Gairdner, Stoddard Publishing Company Ltd., 2001, ISBN 0-7737-3282-9.
The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy (2nd Edition), Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Ludwig Von Mises Institute, 2008, ISBN 978-0-945466-40-6.
On The Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche (Translated by Maudemare Clark and Alan J. Swensen), Hackett Publishing Company Inc., 1998, ISBN 0-87220-284-4.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith, The Modern Library Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-679-42473-3.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber (Translated by Talcott Parsons), Wilder Publications, 2010, ISBN 978-1-60459-930-5.