Books more people should read
(In my opinion.) Listed alphabetically by title. Also see my annual favorite books posts.
- Brunelleschi’s Dome / Ross King
- Caste / Isabel Wilkerson
- Dark Money / Jane Mayer
- The Dawn of Everything / David Graeber & David Wengrow
- The Dream Machine / M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Extra Life / Steven Johnson
- How Big Things Get Done / Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner
- How the Word Is Passed / Clint Smith
- The Idea Factory / Jon Gertner
- An Immense World / Ed Yong
- Indigenous Continent / Pekka Hämäläinen
- In the Garden of Beasts / Erik Larson
- In Praise of Slowness / Carl Honoré
- The Invention of Nature / Andrea Wulf
- Leadership / Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Let’s Talk about Race and Priesthood / W. Paul Reeve
- Longitude / Dana Sobel
- The Notebook / Roland Allen
- The Perfectionists / Simon Winchester
- The Power Broker / Robert Caro
- The River of Doubt / Candice Millard
- The Sixth Extinction / Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Small and the Mighty / Sharon McMahon
- This Changes Everything / Naomi Klein
- The Wager / David Grann
- Ways of Being / James Bridle