Introduction
Chronological list of every book I’ve read from cover to cover, organised by year.
Excludes any books that I only skimmed, used as a reference, or didn’t finish.
Includes audiobooks and rereads.
Each title is linked to the most convenient place to find it (usually Amazon, and usually the specific edition I read).
Titles are bolded if they particularly stood out amongst the books I read that year.
Reading or highlighting a book does not necessarily imply endorsement of its thesis or its author. Obviously.
2025
2024
GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of All Time and Why Does It Matter?, by Tyler Cowen
Ludwig von Mises - A Primer, by Eamonn Butler
The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
What is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?, by Stephen Wolfram
Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres and the Professor's Games, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres and the Shadows of Death, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Autobiography, by John Stuart Mill
The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, by Jimmy Soni
Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI, by Reid Hoffman
George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor, by Janan Ganesh
Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it, by Lars Doucet
The Case for the Centre Right, by David Gauke et al.
The Economics and Politics of Brexit: The Realignment of British Public Life, by Stephen Davies
Mill on Liberty: A Defence, by John Gray
Letters to a Young Contrarian, by Christopher Hitchens
The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History, by Isaiah Berlin
Hayek on Liberty, by John Gray
The Concept of the Political, by Carl Schmitt (trans. C.J. Miller)
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes - and Its Implications, by David Deutsch
In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work, by Kyla Scanlon
Map and Territory (Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Book 1), by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Thinking About Mathematics: The Philosophy of Mathematics, by Stewart Shapiro
Liberalism, by John Gray
How to Actually Change Your Mind (Rationality: From AI to Zombies, Book 2), by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Bitcoin is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism, by Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World, by Tyler Cowen & Daniel Gross
The Fifth Science, by exurb1a
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals, by Tyler Cowen
Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, by Fareed Zakaria
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, by Nate Silver
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age, by James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg
National Economic Planning: What Is Left?, by Don Lavoie
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, by Toby Ord
Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal, by Heather Widdows
Hitch-22: A Memoir, by Christopher Hitchens
Manufacturing Militarism: U.S. Government Propaganda in the War on Terror, by Christopher J. Coyne & Abigail R. Hall
Unleashed, by Boris Johnson
On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century, by Tony Blair
The Struggle for a Better World, by Peter Boettke
All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class, by Tim Shipman
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem, by Tim Shipman
Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?, by Ginny Seung Choi & Virgil Henry Storr
No Way Out: Brexit (From the Backstop to Boris), by Tim Shipman
Out: How Brexit Got Done and Four Prime Ministers were Undone, by Tim Shipman
What Kind of Creatures Are We?, by Noam Chomsky
How to Think About Abstract Algebra, by Lara Alcock
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck, by Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better, by Tyler Cowen
2023
A View From the Bridge, by Arthur Miller
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, by Cheryl Misak
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
A View From the Bridge, by Arthur Miller
The Republic, by Plato (trans. Desmond Lee)
Plato’s Republic (Edinburgh Philosophical Guide), by Darren Sheppard
But What Can I Do?: Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It, by Alastair Campbell
Apology, by Plato (trans. Benjamin Jowett)
Theaetetus, by Plato (trans. Benjamin Jowett)
Meno, by Plato (trans. Georges Grube)
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. David McDuff)
Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within, by Rory Stewart
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann, by Ananyo Bhattacharya
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, by Nassim Taleb