Philosophy

• Common Sense – Thomas Paine [2024]
• First Principles What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks – Thomas E. Ricks [2023]

Technology

• Brotopia – Emily Chang [2025]

Financial

• The Big Short – Michael Lewis
  • Liars Poker – Michael Lewis
  • Moneyball – Michael Lewis
  • Flash Boys – Michael Lewis
  • The End of Alchemy – Mervyn King
• Too Big To Fail – Andrew Ross Sorkin
• Barbarians at the Gate – Bryan Burrough
• When Genius Failed – Roger Lowenstein
• Conspiracy of Fools – Kurt Eichenwald

Government

• Illiberal America -Stephen Hahn
• Autocracy – Anne Applebaum
• Surviving Autocracy – Masha Gessen
• On Freedom – Timothy Snyder
• The Social Contract – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Legal

• Over Ruled: Neil Gorsuch [2025]
• Guilty – Judge Harold J Rothwax

Military History

• The Guns at Last Light – Rick Atkinson [2025]
• The Day of Battle – Rick Atkinson [2025]
• An Army at Dawn – Rick Atkinson [2025]
• Master and Commander – Patrick O’Brien (I occasionally binge this series, 23 books in all)
• The Art of War – Sun Tzu
• The Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Mushashi

Politics

• American Carnage – Tim Alberta [2025]
• It was all a Lie – Stuart Stevens [2025]
• Authoritarian Nightmare – John Dean [2025]
• Rebellion: How Antiliberalism is Tearing America Apart-Again – Robert Kagan [2025]
• Our Own Worst Enemy – Tim Nichols [2025]
• Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything – Jeremy Peters [2025]
• Why We Did It: A Travelogue From the Republican Road to Hell – Tim Miller [2025]
• American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy – David Corn [2025]
• Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Liars – Bill Adair [2025]
• The Wolves of K Street – Brady and Luke Mullins [2025]
• Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists – Dana Milbank [2025]
• *Why Parties?: The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America

Social Science

• Hillbilly Elegy – Vance
• *The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Du Bois
• *Fist Stick Knife Gun – Geoffrey Canada

Economics

• The Box: How the Shipping Container… – Levinson
• *The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society – Joseph Siglitz
• The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith

Fiction

• The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
• Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand

In the Queue

• Good Profit: How creating value for others built…. – Koch
• Raising the Floor: How a universal income can renew… – Stern
• Viking Economics – Lakey
• Weapons of Math Destruction – O’Neil
• Labor’s Love Lost – Cherlin
• The Future of Man – Myers
• Man behind the curtain – Greenspan
• Non violent communication – Nadella
• Thank you for being late – Friedman
• Why president’s fail – Kamarack
• Moore’s Law vs Murphy’s Law – Karelenko
• An extraordinary time – Levinson
• The Rise and Fall of American Growth – Gordon
• Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism – Anne Applebaum
• The Soul of America: The battle for our better angels – Jon Meachem
• The Conspiracy to End America – Stuart Stevens
• The Collected Readings of John Locke – John Locke