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Reading List - Aure's Notes

This article contains a series of books I’m interested to read at some point. It’s regularly updated.

There are a lot of obvious books that I didn’t add because my purpose is to make you discover new books you wouldn’t have found otherwise.

Do you have any recommendations? Email them using the contact form.

The links either direct you to the summary of the book, or to Amazon where if you buy the book, I will earn a small commission. I haven’t read all of these books, but hopefully will someday.

Total number: 601

Also, you should check out my books Blogging Principles and The European Solopreneur’s Guide to Tax Optimization.

French-speaking readers should check out this book list.

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Business and Money

Zero to One, Peter Thiel
Unscripted, MJ DeMarco
The Millionaire Fastlane, MJ DeMarco
Efficiency, BowTiedBull
Venture Deals, Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel
The Tao of Charlie Munger, David Clark
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson
The Richest Man in Babylon, George S. Clason
The 10 Pillars of Wealth, Alex Becker
Delivering Happiness, Tony Hsieh
Fundraising, Ryan Breslow
The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
Will it Fly, Pat Flynn
Rework, Jason Friend, David Heinemeier Hansson
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars, Jim Paul and Brendan Moynihan
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, & Alan Eagle
Build, Tony Fadell
Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game, Walker Deibel
Ready Fire Aim, Michael Masterson
Wooden on Leadership, John Wooden and Steve Jamison
The Motive, Patrick Lencioni
Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole, Anthony Scaramucci
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, Jimmy Soni, Jonathan Todd Ross
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel, Tom Wainwright
Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do, Carl J. Schramm
Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore
How I Lost 170 Million Dollars: My Time as #30 at Facebook, Noah Kagan
How to Get Rich, Felix Denis
Founder: Meyer Amschel Rothschild and His Time, Amos Elon

Self-Development

The Inner Game of Tennis, Timothy Gallwey
The Science of Likability, Patrick King
Psycho-cybernetics, Maxwell Maltz
Personality Isn’t Permanent, Benjamin Hardy
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, Héctor García & Francesc Miralles
Essentialism, Greg McKeown
Mindset: The Psychology of Success, Carole Dweck
The 10X Rule, Grant Cardone
Can’t Hurt Me, David Goggins
Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson
Healing the Shame That Binds You, John Bradshaw
Wanting, Luke Burgis
Give and Take, Adam Grant
The 50th Law, Robert Greene
The Winner Effect, Ian H. Robertson
Dopamine Nation, Anna Lembke
Beyond Order, Jordan Peterson
The Magic of Thinking Big, David Schwartz
Your Brain on Porn, Gary Wilson
The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks
The Dip, Seth Godin
Atomic Habits, James Clear
The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz
The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene
Who Moved My Cheese, Spencer Johnson
The One Thing, Gary Keller
Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss
Quit, Annie Duke
Outwitting the Devil, Napoleon Hill
Addicted to Drama, Dr. Scott Lyons
Power: Why Some People Have It and Others Don’t, Jeffrey Pfeffer
Deep Work, Cal Newport
Mastery, Robert Greene
4-Hour Chef, Timothy Ferriss
The Art of Learning, Josh Waitzkin
Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior, Mark Goulston and Philip Goldberg
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got, Jay Abraham
Awaken the Giant Within, Tony Robbins
The Surrender Experiment, Michael A. Singer
The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery, Brianna Wiest
Change Your Brain Change Your Life, Daniel G. Amen
The Untethered Soul, Michael A. Singer
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Scott Adams
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Barry Schwartz
The Book of Mistakes: 9 Secrets to Creating a Successful Future, Skip Prichard
Going on Being, Mark Epstein
Undoing Yourself, Christopher S. Hyatt
Indistractable, Nir Eyal
The Master Game: Pathways to Higher Consciousness, Robert S. de Ropp
The Jealousy Cure, Robert L. Leahy
How Emotions Are Made, Lisa Feldman Barrett
Innate: How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are, Kevin J. Mitchell
The Happiness Hypothesis, Jonathan Haidt
Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable, Tim S. Grover
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel
The Art of Happiness, Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler
I Can’t Make This Up, Neil Strauss and Kevin Hart
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism, Olivia Fox Cabane
Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People, Vanessa Van Edwards
Reframe Your Brain: The User Interface for Happiness and Success, Scott Adams
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter, Scott Adams
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal, Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr
Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich, Jason Zweig
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise, Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool
The Eureka Factor, John Kounios & Mark Beeman
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, Scott H. Young
Never Eat Alone, Keith Ferrazzi
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart, Thich Nhat Hanh
Charisma on Command, Charlie Houpert

Psychology

Psychology, David G. Myers, C. Nathan DeWall
Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature, Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams
Maps of Meaning, Jordan Peterson
How to Be an Adult, David Richo
The Assertiveness Workbook, Randy J. Paterson
Games People Play: The Basic Handbook of Transactional Analysis, Eric Berne
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, Erich Neumann
Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos, Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam
The Elephant in the Brain, Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman
The Origins and History of Consciousness, Erich Neumann
Symbols of Transformation, Carl Gustav Jung
Psychological Types, Carl Jung
King Warrior Magician Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette
The Art of Being, Erich Fromm
Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis, Stephen A. Mitchell
Object Relations in Psychoanalytic Theory, Jay R. Greenberg and Stephen A. Mitchell
Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson
Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, Gregory Bateson
The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm
Childhood and Society, Erik Erikson

Trauma

How to Live 365 Days a Year, Dr. Schindler
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter A. Levine
Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, John E. Sarno
Somatics: Reawakening The Mind’s Control Of Movement, Flexibility, And Health, Thomas Hanna
The Body Never Lies, Alice Miller
When the Body Says No, Gabor Maté
The Biogenealogy Sourcebook: Healing the Body by Resolving Traumas of the Past, Christian Flèche
The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse, Steven Ray Ozanich
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, Peter A. Levine
Energy Medicine: How to Use Your Body’s Energies for Optimum Health and Vitality, Donna Eden
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma, Mark Wolynn
The Body Heals Itself: How Deeper Awareness of Your Muscles and Their Emotional Connection Can Help You Heal, Emily A. Francis
Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life, Christine Caldwell
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, Gabor Maté
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor
Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic, Paul Conti

Human Biology and Sciences

Relationships and Evolutionary Biology and Psychology

The Evolution of Desire, David Buss
Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind, David Buss
My Secret Garden, Nancy Friday
Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love, Helen Fisher
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships, Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, Esther Perel
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection, John T. Cacioppo & William Patrick
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, Vivek H. Murthy
Lost Connections: Why You’re Depressed and How to Find Hope, Johann Hari
The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, & the Problem of Domination, Jessica Benjamin
Attachment and Loss, John Bowlby
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love, Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community, Kenneth J. Gergen
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect, Matthew D. Lieberman
Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty, Nancy Etcoff
Warriors and Worriers: The Survival of the Sexes, Joyce F. Benenson
A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, Matt Ridley
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation, Richard Sennett
The Triune Brain in Evolution: Role in Paleocerebral Functions, Paul D. MacLean
Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations – From Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between), Cindy M. Meston, David M. Buss
Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships, by Robin Dunbar
Keeping Together in Time, William H. McNeill
Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage, Stephanie Coontz
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence, Dale Peterson, Richard Wrangham
The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime, Adrian Raine
The Dark Side of Man: Tracing the Origins of Male Violence, Michael P. Ghiglieri
The History Of Human Marriage, Edward Westermarck
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Edward O. Wilson

Genetics

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, David Epstein
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past, David Reich
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey, Spencer Wells
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings, Jean Manco
The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, Gregory Cochran & Henry Harpending
The History and Geography of Human Genes, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
Genes, Peoples, and Languages, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility, Gregory Clark
Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are, Robert Plomin
Not in Our Genes: Biology, Ideology, and Human Nature, Steven Rose, R. C. Lewontin, & Leon J. Kamin
The Anatomy of Violence, Adrian Raine
Human Genetics, Ricki Lewis
Behavioral Genetics, Valerie S. Knopik, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, John C. DeFries, Robert Plomin
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors, Nicholas Wade
The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Agile Gene: How Nature Turns on Nurture, Matt Ridley
The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics, David S. Moore
A Short History of Humanity: A New History of Old Europe, Johannes Krause, Thomas Trappe
How Humans Evolved, Robert Boyd and Joan B. Silk
Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life, Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb
Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations, Richard Lynn

Intelligence and Personality

Intelligence: All That Matters, Stuart Ritchie
The Neuroscience of Intelligence, Richard J. Haier
Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are, Daniel Nettle
Birth of Intelligence: From RNA to Artificial Intelligence, Daeyeol Lee
An Introduction to Personality, Individual Differences and Intelligence, Nick Haslam, Luke Smillie
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence, Carl Sagan
Making Sense of Heritability, Neven Sesardic
The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Judith Rich Harris
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History, Nicholas Wade
The Social Conquest of Earth, Edward O. Wilson
The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition, Michael Tomasello
Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities, Diane F. Halpern
At Our Wits’ End: Why We’re Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future, Edward Dutton, Michael A. Woodley of Menie Yr.
Genius: The Natural History of Creativity, Hans Eysenck

Socio-economic Inequalities

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, Walter Scheidel
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution, Cailin O’Connor
Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700, Peter H. Lindert, Jeffrey G. Williamson
A Brief History of Equality, Thomas Piketty
The Anatomy of Inequality: Its Social and Economic Origins- and Solutions, Per Molander
The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality, Kathryn Paige Harden

Biology and Health

Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, Robert M. Sapolsky
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert M. Sapolsky
Genius Food, Max Lugavere
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, John J. Ratey
Lies My Doctor Told Me, Ken D. Berry
The Great Plant Based Con, Jayne Buxton
Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, Antonio Damasio
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker
The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation, Peter Ulric Ulric Tse
Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will, Robert M. Sapolsky
Drink? The New Science of Alcohol and Your Health, David Nutt
Yoga and the Quest for the True Self, Stephen Cope

Male Psychology and Dating For Men

Of Boys and Men, Richard Reeves
The Game, Neil Strauss
Models, Mark Manson
The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed, Mystery
Practical Female Psychology for the Practical Man, Joseph, David, Franco
Dating Essentials for Men, Robert Glover
What Women Want, Tucker Max, Geoffrey Miller
The Art of Seduction, Robert Greene
The Way of the Superior Man, David Deida
No More Mr Nice Guy, Dr. Robert Glover
The Setup, Dan Bilzerian
The Multi-Orgasmic Man, Mantak Chia, Douglas Abrams
Iron John: A Book About Men, Robert Bly
To Be a Man, Robert Masters
The Rites of Passage, Arnold van Gennep
Man Up: How to Cut the Bullshit and Kick Ass in Business, Bedros Keuilian
Aspects of the Masculine, Carl Gustav Jung
When Men Behave Badly, David M. Buss
Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy, Mantak Chia and Michael Winn
Violence: Reflections on Our Deadliest Epidemic, James Gilligan
Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel, Bertrand Russell

Culture and Society

Pathways to Bliss, Joseph Campbell
The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve, Steve Stewart-Williams
The Network State, Balaji Srinivasan
How Culture Makes Us Human: Primate Social Evolution and the Formation of Human Societies, Dwight W Read
Everybody Lies, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking), Christian Rudder
The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt
The Status Game, Will Storr
A Billion Wicked Thoughts, Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam
On Writing Well, William Zinsser
The Art of War, Sun Tzu
Propaganda, Edward Bernays
I Make Things Happen, Gnomo Orzo
The Culture Transplant: : How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left, Garett Jones
The Culture of Shame, Andrew P. Morrison
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Eric Hoffer
The Tyranny of Experts, William Easterly
The Next 100 Years, George Friedman
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
Manufacturing Consent, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
The Innovators, Walter Isaacson
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, Ruth Benedict
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment, Francis Fukuyama
On Guilt: : The Force Shaping Character, History, and Culture, John Carroll
Freedom’s Delayed: Political Legacies of Islamic Law in the Middle East, Timur Kuran
Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson
Einstein, Walter Isaacson
Leonardo Da Vinci, Walter Isaacson
Evil Men, James Dawes
The Anatomy of Evil, Michael H. Stone
Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty, Roy F. Baumeister
The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
The Incerto, Nassim Taleb
- Fooled by Randomness
- The Black Swan
- The Bed of Procrustes
- Antifragile
- Skin in the Game
I See Satan Falling Like Lightning, René Girard
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, Bryan Caplan
The Mind and Society, Vol. 1: Treaty of General Sociology, Vilfredo Pareto
Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth, Peter Turchin
Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity, Samuel P. Huntington
The Essays of Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon
A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going, Michael Muthukrishna
Aelian: Historical Miscellany, Aelian
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous, Joseph Henrich
The Economy of Desire: Christianity and Capitalism in a Postmodern World, Daniel M. Bell Jr.
Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa, Keith B Richburg
Desire: A History of European Sexuality, Anna Clark

Storytelling

Poetics, Aristotle
Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting, Robert McKee
Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need, Blake Snyder
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, John Truby
Invisible Ink: A Practical Guide to Building Stories that Resonate, Brian McDonald
The Science of Storytelling: Why Stories Make Us Human and How to Tell Them Better, Will Storr
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction, Brian Boyd
Blogging Principles, Aure’s Notes
The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell
Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, Douglas Rushkoff

History

A Short Story of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
The Penguin History of the World, J. M. Roberts
A Political History of the World, Jonathan Holslag
The Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant
Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
The Changing World Order, Ray Dalio
A Little History of Art, Charlotte Mulins
Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall, Peter Turchin
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires, Peter Turchin
Secular Cycles, Peter Turchin
Slavery: A New Global History, Jeremy Black
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000, Paul Kennedy
Bibliotheca historica, Diodorus Siculus
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC, Steven Mithen
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World, Gregory Clark
War Before Civilization, Lawrence H. Keeley
The Civilizing Process, Norbert Elias

Asian History

The Rape of Nankin, Iris Chang
A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood, Raymond P. Scheindlin
Jerusalem: The Biography, Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Ottoman Empire – Sultan, Society and Economy, Halil Inalcik

Americas

The Penguin History of Latin America, Edwin Williamson
The Conquest of New Spain, Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

Africa

Africa: A Biography of the Continent, John Reader

European History

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945, Tony Judt
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer
The Penguin History of Europe, J. M. Roberts
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, Mary Beard
The Oxford History of Byzantium, Cyril Mango
A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich
A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Warren Treadgold
The Shortest History of Greece, John Freely
The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God’s Holy Warriors, Dan Jones
War and Social Change in Modern Europe: The Great Transformation Revisited, Sandra Halperin
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome, Susan Wise Bauer
Memoirs, Mikhail Gorbachev
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning, Nigel Biggar
The Case For Colonialism, Bruce Gilley
Napoleon: A Life, Andrew Roberts
Saddam Hussein: A Biography, Shiva Balaghi
Stalin: A Biography, Robert Service
The Birth of the West, Paul Collins
Sacred Foundations, Anna Grzymala
The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
The History of Religious Ideas, Mircea Eliade
- Vol. 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
- Vol. 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity
- Vol. 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
The Dutch Seaborne Empire: 1600-1800, Charles Ralph Boxer
Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, Timothy Brook
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company, William Dalrymple
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, Christopher Clark
Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950, Charles Murray
The House of Rothschild, Niall Ferguson
- Volume 1: Money’s Prophets 1798-1848
- Volume 2: The World’s Banker: 1849-1999
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, Amin Maalouf
Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World, Roger Crowley
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt

The Enlightenment

Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, John Ralston Saul
A Secular Age, Charles Taylor
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790, Ritchie Robertson
Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752, Jonathan I. Israel

Individualism

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Charles Taylor
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism, Larry Siedentop
Individualism and Economic Order, Friedrich Hayek
The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom, Robert Nisbet
Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam

Decadence

Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age, Eugene (Seraphim) Rose
The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler
Sex and Culture, Joseph Daniel Unwin
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, Ross Douthat
The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia
The Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch
After Virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre
The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud, Philip Rieff
The Revolt of the Masses, José Ortega y Gasset
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
The Betrayal of Tradition: Essays on the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity, by Harry Oldmeadow
Modernity and Cultural Decline: A Biobehavioral Perspective, Matthew Alexandar Sarraf, Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie, Colin Feltham
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, Jacques Barzun

Religion and Mythology

Christianity

The Story of Christianity, David Bentley Hart
The Orthodox Church, Timothy Ware (also known as Kallistos Ware)
The Orthodox Way, Kallistos Ware
How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization, Mary Eberstadt
The Confessions, Saint Augustine
The City of God, Saint Augustine
Summa Theologica, Saint-Thomas d’Aquin
The Way of Perfection, Saint Theresa of Avila
The Bible
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Karen Armstrong
What Is Christianity, Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict XVI
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, David Bentley Hart
The Origins of the Liturgical Year, Thomas J. Talley
Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices, Frank Viola, George Barna
Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, Robert Barron
The Formation of Christendom, Judith Herrin
Cochem’s Explanation of the Holy Sacrifice of the Masses, Martin von Cochem

Mythology

Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, Richard H. Wilkinson
The Library of Greek Mythology, Apollodorus
The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes, Jackson Crawford
The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology, Snorri Sturluson
The Saga of the Volsungs, Snorri Sturluson
The Saga of the Ynglings, Snorri Sturluson
Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson
The History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth
Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales, Grimm Brothers

Paganism and Others

In the Buddha’s Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon, The Dalai Lama, Bhikkhu Bodhi
European Paganism, Ken Dowden
A Little History of Religion, Richard Holloway
The World’s Religions, Oliver Sacks
The House of Islam: A Global History, Ed Husain
Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong
Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past, Firas Alkhateeb
Introduction to Islam: Beliefs and Practices in Historical Perspective, Carole Hillenbrand
Islam: A New Historical Introduction, Carole Hillenbrand
Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism, and Slavery, M.A. Khan
The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade
The Pagan Book of Days: A Guide to the Festivals, Traditions, and Sacred Days of the Year, Nigel Pennick

Political Science

The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Panné, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, and Jean-Louis Margolin
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk
Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke
Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition, Roger Scruton
Ideas Have Consequences, Richard M. Weaver
The Left in Europe Since 1789, David Caute
The Red Flag: A History of Communism, David Priestland
Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre, Jonathan Israel
The Old Regime and the French Revolution, Alexis de Tocqueville
A History of Political Theory, George Sabine
Political Philosophy: A Complete Introduction, Phil Parvin, Clare Chambers
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution and Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama
The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt
Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left, Roger Scruton
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, Christopher Lasch
Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia’s Surplus Male Population, Valerie M. Hudson, Andrea M. den Boer
The Fourth Political Theory, Aleksander Dugin (the book is banned in the West, for some reason).
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, Peter Turchin
Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac, Steven D. Smith
Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies, Kristian Niemietz

Feminism

In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development, Carol Gilligan
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution, Louise Perry
A Brief History of Feminism, Antje Schrupp
Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights, Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Philosophy

Being and Time, Martin Heidegger
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers, Will Durant
Phenomenology of Perception, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Mind, Self, and Society, George Herbert Mead
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, David Benatar
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, René Girard
Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Shortness of Life, Seneca
Tao te Ching, Lao Tzu
Evil: A Philosophical Investigation, Luke Russell
Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy, Costin Alamariu
What’s Wrong with Rights?, Nigel Biggar

Tech, Science, and Economics

The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch
The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe, Roger Penrose
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
The Future Is Faster Than You Think, Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy, George Gilder
Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari
The Sovereign Individual: Jacob Rees-Mogg, James Dale Davidson
How to Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, And Vanish Without A Trace, Frank M. Ahearn and Eileen C. Horan
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Jordan Ellenberg
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew, Alan Lightman
The Ten Equations That Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too, David Sumpter
Why Most Things Fail, Paul Ormerod
Don’t Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Where Is My Flying Car? A Memoir of Future Past, J. Storrs Hall
Keeping at It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government, Paul A. Volcker, Christine Harper
Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps, Daniel Drescher
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, Saifedean Ammous
Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, Nathaniel Popper
Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, Thomas Sowell
Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics, Henry Hazlitt
The Great Stagnation, Tyler Cowen
Taxation: A Very Short Introduction, Stephen Smith
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, Matt Ridley
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, Richard Courant

Energy, Trade, and Climate Change

Global Energy Politics, Thijs Van de Graaf, Benjamin K. Sovacool
How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going, Vaclav Smil
Oil 101, Morgan Downey
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, Daniel Yergin
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, Daniel Yergin
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations, Daniel Yergin
Energy: A Beginner’s Guide, Vaclav Smil
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources, Javier Blas, Jack Farchy
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, Steven E. Koonin
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All, Michael Shellenberger
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, Bjorn Lomborg
Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas – Not Less, Alex Epstein
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate, Rose George
Dynamic Shipping and Port Development in the Globalized Economy, Paul Tae-Woo Lee, Kevin Cullinane
The Geography of Transport Systems, Jean-Paul Rodrigue
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson
The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, Pietra Rivoli
Logistics Clusters: Delivering Value and Driving Growth, Yossi Sheffi
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization, Richard Baldwin

Foreign

French language books

La Grande Histoire de la Belgique, Patrick Weber
Le Péché et la Peur, Jean Delumeau
La Tyrannie de la Pénitence, Pascal Bruckner
Pour l’Histoire, Léopold III
Armes de déstabilisation massive, Pierre Gastineau
L’Arabie Saoudite en 100 questions, Fatiha Dazi-Héni
Africanistan: L’Afrique en crise va-t-elle se retrouver dans nos banlieues ?, Serge Michaïlof
L’identité malheureuse, Alain Finkielkraut
La crise de la masculinité, Francis Dupuis-Déri
Le petit terroriste, Omar Youssef Souleimane
Le dinosaure: Le Zaïre de Mobutu, Colette Braeckman
L’offensive chinoise en Europe, Philippe Le Corre
L’invention de Dieu, Thomas Römer
Qatar papers, Georges Malbrunot et Christian Chesnot
La dictature des identités, Laurent Dubreuil
Le sabordage de la noblesse: Mythe et réalité d’une décadence, Fadi El Hage
Les guerres de l’ombre de la DGSI, Alex Jordanov
Histoire de l’Europe de l’Est, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale à nos jours, Jean-François Soulet
L’art de la méditation, Matthieu Ricard
La France made in China, Régis Soubrouillard et Pierre Tissens
Les ingénieurs du chaos, Giuliano da Empoli
Le siècle des dictateurs, Olivier Guez
L’Iran, une histoire de 4000 ans, Yves Bomati et Houchang Nahavandi
La fin de l’individu: Voyage d’un philosophe au pays de l’intelligence artificielle, Gaspard Koenig
Une escroquerie légalisée, Alain Deneault
La Suisse et l’argent sale: 60 ans d’affaires bancaires, Roland Rossier
Pour en finir avec la colonisation, Bernard Lugan
Le Labyrinthe des égarés. L’Occident et ses adversaires, Amin Maalouf
Atlas du Mondialisme, Pierre Hillard
La Fin du Sacré, Sylvain Durain
Le Livre noir de la psychanalyse, Catherine Meyer
L’Invention de Dieu, Thomas Römer
Histoire des idées politiques, Olivier Nay
Le livre d’or des légendes de Belgique, Michel Elsdorf
Histoire des Habsbourg: Des origines à nos jours, Henry Bogdan
Eloge du duel: L’honneur au-dessus de la vie, Bernard Lugan
Histoire de l’Afrique – Des origines à nos jours, Bernard Lugan
Le Siècle de 1914: utopies, guerres et révolutions en Europe au XXe siècle, Dominique Venner
Grandeur et décadences de l’Europe, Dominique Venner
La guerre civile européenne: 1917-1945, Ernst Nolte
L’Europe des Lumières, cosmopolitisme et unité européenne au XVIII^e siècle, René Pomeau
Le Vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes, Émile Benveniste

Dutch language books

De Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie de V.O.C., Gerard Strijards

Research and Methodology

Research Design in the Social Sciences, Blair Graeme, Coppock Alexander, Humphreys Macartan

Theater Plays

The Complete Greek Tragedies
Pour un oui, pour un non, Nathalie Sarraute
Le dialogue des carmélites, George Bernanos

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