Below is a push-down stack of titles I’ve read since starting this site. If the title is in italics, it’s a current read.
| Title | Author(s) | Sub-title |
|---|---|---|
| To Sir With Love | E. R. Braithwaite | |
| In the Wars | Dr Waheed Arian | "... a poignant story of the pwer of resilience" |
| Letters from a Stoic | Seneca | "A guide to the good life" |
| Doughnut Economics | Kate Raworth | "Seven ways to think like a 21st-century economist" |
| Megathreats | Nouriel Roubini | "Ten threats to our future and how to survive them" |
| Against Empathy | Paul Bloom | "The case for rational compassion" |
| Humble Pi | Matt Parker | "A comedy of maths errors" |
| Flying Blind | Peter Robison | "The 737 MAX tragedy and the fall of Boeing" |
| Life Lessons from a Brain Surgeon | Rahul Jandial | "The new science & stories of the brain" |
| Into the Black | Rowland White | "The electrifying true story of how the first flight of the Space Shuttle nearly ended in disaster" |
| Lives of the Stoics | Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman | "The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius" |
| What We Cannot Know | Marcus du Sautoy | "Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge |
| Exponential | Azeem Azhar | "How accelerating technology is leaving us behind and what to do about it" |
| Sad Little Men | Richard Beard | "How public schools failed Britain" |
| The History of Philosophy | A. C. Grayling | "Three millennia of thought from the West and beyond" |
| The Perfect Machine | Ronald Florence | "Building the Palomar telescope" |
| To Have or To Be? | Erich Fromm | |
| The Winning of the Carbon War | Jeremy Leggett | "Power and Politics on the Front Line of Climate and Clean Energy" |
| Rebel Ideas | Matthew Syed | "The Power of Diverse Thinking" |
| Built on a Lie | Owen Walker | "The Rise and Fall of Neil Woodford and the Fate of Middle England’s Money" |
| The Peace of Wild Things | Wendell Berry | "& Other Poems" |
| Doughnut Economics | Kate Raworth | "Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist" |
| A History of the Universe in 21 Stars | Giles Sparrow | "and 3 Imposters" |
| This Light in Oneself | J. Krishnamurti | "True Meditation" |
| The Edge of Physics | Anil Ananthaswamy | "Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology" |
| The Four Horsemen | Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel C. Dennett, Christopher Hitchens | "The Discussion that Sparked an Atheist Revolution" |