Dune by Frank HerbertGödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterImpro by Keith Johnstone"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. FeynmanSeeing Like a State by James C. Scott
Ingroup
5th out of 179 books — 56 voters
Development as Freedom by Amartya SenThe Bottom Billion by Paul CollierWhy Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
International Development Book Club
12th out of 120 books — 79 voters

Seeing Like a State by James C. ScottCrowds and Power by Elias CanettiDancing in the Streets by Barbara EhrenreichThe Face of Battle by John KeeganContingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty
Brian Eno's Reading List
1st out of 20 books — 5 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariCollapse by Jared DiamondDebt by David GraeberKon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Best Popular Anthropology Books on Goodreads
16th out of 362 books — 46 voters

Uprooted by Peter J. BoniSeeing Like a State by James C. ScottInformation Doesn't Want to Be Free by Cory DoctorowEating Ethically by Jonathan K. CraneThe Ugly Fight by R.S. Amblee
Science and Tech Ethics
2nd out of 32 books — 13 voters
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanWhat If? by Randall MunroeQuantum Computing Since Democritus by Scott AaronsonThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanSuperforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock
Books metioned in rationally speaking podcast
30th out of 118 books — 22 voters

The New York Trilogy by Paul AusterThe Sot-Weed Factor by John BarthThe Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid BanksMy Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles GannettQ by Quincy Jones
Dead in 2024: The Authors We Lost
175th out of 747 books — 27 voters
Markets Not Capitalism by Gary ChartierAnarchy by Errico MalatestaFuture Primitive by John ZerzanAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchy 101
5th out of 98 books — 6 voters

Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé CésaireNecropolítica by Achille MbembeThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiTeaching to Transgress by bell hooksAmusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
anticap
79th out of 100 books — 2 voters
Quality Software Management by Gerald M. WeinbergQuality Software Management by Gerald M. WeinbergQuality Software Management, Vol. 3 by Gerald M. WeinbergQuality Software Management by Gerald M. WeinbergAn Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg
Software Testing
69th out of 72 books — 1 voter

Human, All Too Human by Friedrich NietzscheThe Riddle of the Sands / In The Ranks of the C.I.V. / The Fr... by Erskine ChildersCivil Disobedience and Other Essays by Henry David ThoreauThe Art of Literature and the Art of Controversy by Arthur SchopenhauerPolitics and the English Language by George Orwell
Manifesto Essentials
10th out of 100 books — 1 voter
The Desktop Regulatory State by Kevin A. CarsonSeeing Like a State by James C. ScottDesigning Freedom by Stafford Beer
cybernetics with an anarchist bent
2nd out of 3 books — 1 voter

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Best Books To Frame Thinking
778th out of 1,297 books — 1,422 voters
After Liberalism by Paul Edward GottfriedSex and Power in History by Amaury De RiencourtAsian Waters by Humphrey HawksleyThe Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley by Carroll QuigleyDisunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
Whatifalthist books
259th out of 266 books — 4 voters

Atomic Habits by James ClearThe Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric JorgensonTools of Titans by Timothy FerrissThe Network State by Balaji S. SrinivasanThe Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson
Network School Curriculum
28th out of 56 books — 1 voter

Communities of Practice by Etienne WengerCrafting Science by Joan FujimuraScience as Practice and Culture by Andrew PickeringContingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard RortyThe Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis
Books From Brian Marick's Oddly Influenced
21st out of 24 books — 1 voter
Macroeconomics (7th Edition) by Olivier Blanchard by Unknown AuthorLectures on Public Economics by Anthony B. AtkinsonPrinciples of Corporate Finance by Richard A BrealeyThe Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets (11th E... by Unknown AuthorForecasting by Rob J. Hyndman
Econ-Fin Roadmap
24th out of 38 books — 1 voter

The Dawn of Everything by David GraeberSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariThe First Signs by Genevieve von PetzingerThe Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Émile DurkheimThe Wayfinders by Wade Davis
Predictive History Reading List
35th out of 55 books — 1 voter
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley1984 by George OrwellWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinIt Can't Happen Here by Sinclair LewisTen Days that Shook the World by John   Reed
A Long Century of Disillusion
87th out of 107 books — 4 voters

Web Hacking Arsenal by Rafay  BalochPython Handbook For Beginners. A Hands-On Crash Course For Ki... by Roman GurbanovStructure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold AbelsonClean Architecture by Robert C. MartinClean Code by Robert C. Martin
Computer Science and Programming
76th out of 109 books — 34 voters
The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error by Sidney DekkerSeeking SRE by David N. Blank-EdelmanBehind Human Error by David D. WoodsChaos Engineering by Casey RosenthalThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Safety Science and Resilience Engineering
13th out of 75 books — 6 voters

Topophilia by Yi-Fu TuanThe Dominant Animal by Paul R. EhrlichNature and Society in Historical Context by Mikulás TeichCultural Adaptation to Mountain Environments by Patricia D.; Purrington Bur...The Progress of This Storm by Andreas Malm
Human-Environment Relations
10th out of 12 books — 2 voters
Ending Medical Reversal by Vinayak K. PrasadFoundations of Ethics by Russ Shafer-LandauThe Big Con by David W. MaurerThe Confidence Game by Maria KonnikovaMissing, The Execution of Charles Horman by Thomas Hauser
almost all of the books in Rationally Speaking-2
56th out of 100 books — 1 voter

Doing Good Better by William MacAskillSuperintelligence by Nick BostromThe Life You Can Save by Peter SingerThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer
Effective Altruism Books
219th out of 261 books — 154 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XUnderstanding Power by Noam ChomskyLess Is More by Jason HickelWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisFeminism Is for Everybody by bell hooks
Leftist Audiobooks
19th out of 72 books — 4 voters
The Network State by Balaji S. SrinivasanThe Sovereign Individual by James Dale DavidsonDeng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. VogelSeeing Like a State by James C. ScottWhere Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall
Balaji Srinivasan Mentions
4th out of 90 books — 1 voter

The Power Broker by Robert A. CaroA Pattern Language by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsPalaces for the People by Eric KlinenbergThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Urban Planning/Social Ecology
85th out of 113 books — 11 voters
A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1 by David HarveyThe Rise of Technosocialism by Brett KingAn Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital by Michael HeinrichProgress and Poverty by Henry GeorgeThe Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
Political Economy Reading Group
13th out of 15 books — 2 voters

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