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