Book List
A selection of books I am reading or have read recently, in no particular order.
Placement on this list indicates an endorsement of the book’s reading experience alone, not necessarily its author or its contents
No, these are not affiliate links. Last Updated on December 16th, 2023.
The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Tim Alberta 2023
ISBN-10 006322688X
ISBN-13 978-0063226883
The Power Broker Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro 1974
ISBN-10 0394480767
ISBN-13 978-0394480763
Streets of Gold America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success
Ran Abramitzky & Leah Boston 2022
ISBN-10 1541797833
ISBN-13 978-1541797833
Going Infinite The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Michael Lewis 2023
ISBN-10 1324074337
ISBN-13 978-1324074335
Mistrust Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Ethan Zuckerman 2021
ISBN-10 1324002603
ISBN-13 978-1324002604
The Cruelty Is The Point The Past, Present and Future of Trump’s America
Adam Serwer 2021
ISBN-10 0593230809
ISBN-13 978-0593230800
The New Geography of Jobs
Enrico Moretti 2013
ISBN-10 0544028058
ISBN-13 978-0544028050
After the Fall Being American in the World We’ve Made
Ben Rhodes 2021
ISBN-10 1984856057
ISBN-13 978-1984856050
Twitter and Tear Gas The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
Zeynep Tufecki 2018
ISBN-10 0300234171
ISBN-13 978-0300234176
The Sum of Us What Racism Costs Everyone and How We can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee 2021
ISBN-10 0525509569
ISBN-13 978-0525509561
The Scout Mindset Why Some People See Things Clear and Others Don’t
Julia Galef 2021
ISBN-10 0735217556
ISBN-13 978-0735217553
Dont Blame Us Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
Lily Geismer 2017
ISBN-10 069117623X
ISBN-13 978-0691176239
One Billion Americans The Case For Thinking Bigger
Matthew Yglesias 2020
ISBN-10 0593190211
ISBN-13 978-0593190210
Lords of the Realm The Real History of Baseball
John Heylar 1999
ISBN-10 0345465245
ISBN-13 978-0345465245
No Filter The Inside Story of Instagram
Sarah Frier September 2021
ISBN-10 1982126817
ISBN-13 978-1982126810
Give People Money How a Universal Basic Income would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Annie Lowrey July 2019
ISBN-10 1524758779
ISBN-13 978-1524758776
The Righteous Mind Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt February 2013
ISBN-10 0307455777
ISBN-13 978-0307455772
The Decadent Society How We Became Victims Of Our Own Success
Ross Douthat February 2020
ISBN-10 1476785244
ISBN-13 978-1476785240
Why We’re Polarized
Ezra Klein February 2020
ISBN-10 147670032X
ISBN-13 978-1476700328
Scarcity The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives
Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir November 2014
ISBN-10 125005611X
ISBN-13 978-1250056115
A Thousand Small Sanities The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
Adam Gopnik May 2019
ISBN-10 154169936X
ISBN-13 978-1541699366
The Second Mountain The Quest for a Moral Life
David Brooks April 2019
ISBN-10 0812993268
ISBN-13 978-0812993264
The Algebra of Happiness Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
Scott Galloway May 2019
ISBN-10 0593084195
ISBN-13 978-0593084199
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of PoweR
Shoshana Zuboff January 2019
ISBN-10 1610395697
ISBN-13 978-1610395694
Dear America Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas September 2018
ISBN-10 0062851357
ISBN-13 978-0062851352
Identity Crisis The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
John Sides, Michael Tesler, Lynn Vaverick October 2018
ISBN-10 0691174199
ISBN-13 978-0691174198
Sapiens A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari May 2014
ISBN-10 0062316095
ISBN-13 978-0062316110
Fear Trump in the White House
Bob Woodward September 2018
ISBN-10 1501175513
ISBN-13 978-9526532998
We Were Eight Years In Power An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates October 2017
ISBN-10 0241325234
ISBN-13 978-0-399-59056-6
Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou May 2018
ISBN-10 152473165X
ISBN-13 978-1524731656
Becoming Steve Jobs The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli, Marc Andreessen June 2016
ISBN-10 0385347421
ISBN-13 978-0385347426
The World Is Flat 3.0 A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman July 2007
ISBN-10 0312425074
ISBN-13 978-0312425074