Long Books
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsWalkable City by Jeff SpeckThe Power Broker by Robert A. CaroThe Image of the City by Kevin LynchHappy City by Charles Montgomery
Top Urban Planning Books of All Time
18th out of 115 books — 158 voters
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsEvicted by Matthew DesmondDystopia by Archimedes MuzendaThe Urban Mystique by Josh StephensTriumph of the City by Edward L. Glaeser
Urban Studies for Everyone (nonfiction)
16th out of 65 books — 22 voters

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsA Pattern Language by Christopher W. AlexanderCity of Quartz by Mike DavisTriumph of the City by Edward L. GlaeserThe High Cost of Free Parking by Donald C. Shoup
Urban Planning and City History
75th out of 75 books — 33 voters
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinHappy City by Charles MontgomeryThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsPaved Paradise by Henry GrabarArbitrary Lines by M. Nolan Gray
Urban Studies & Planning
46th out of 57 books — 2 voters

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'BrienMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklCivilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund FreudThe Hard Life by Flann O'BrienThe Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
Blindboy Podcast books recommendations
6th out of 15 books — 5 voters
Human Action by Ludwig von MisesEconomics in One Lesson 1st edition by Henry Hazlitt (2008) H... by Henry HazlittMan, Economy, and State / Power and Market by Murray N. RothbardMoney, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles by Jesús Huerta de SotoWhy Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu
Best books on economics
51st out of 82 books — 16 voters

The Appointment by Herta MüllerAshanti to Zulu by Margaret MusgroveThe Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann WoodwardThe World Inside by Robert SilverbergDreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows
Books with 1,001 to 5,000 Ratings
228th out of 1,030 books — 63 voters
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
27th out of 113 books — 11 voters

The Long Twentieth Century by Giovanni ArrighiDebt by David GraeberCivilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1 by Fernand BraudelThe Color of Money by Mehrsa BaradaranThe Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
Heteredox Economic History
134th out of 136 books — 5 voters
The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinUrban Forests by Jill JonnesDetroit, I Do Mind Dying by Dan GeorgakasNinety Percent of Everything by Rose GeorgeThe Slaughter of Cities by E. Michael Jones
Urban Planning Histories (nonfiction)
37th out of 120 books — 9 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisLondon by Peter AckroydThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonSalonica, City of Ghosts by Mark MazowerLondon by Edward Rutherfurd
Histories of Cities
184th out of 261 books — 106 voters
The Warner Loughlin Technique by Warner LoughlinThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootActor for Life by Connie de VeerBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererSmoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Nonfiction by Female Authors
357th out of 365 books — 64 voters

The Human Use of Human Beings by Norbert WienerNeuromancer by William GibsonGravity's Rainbow by Thomas PynchonA Thousand Plateaus by Gilles DeleuzeNaked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
The Information Age: Cybernetics, Systems, Media
109th out of 139 books — 11 voters
Just Back Off and Let Us Teach by Caroline Alexander LewisIn Schools We Trust by Deborah MeierMiss Nelson Is Missing! by Harry AllardThe Rise of the Meritocracy by Michael Dunlop YoungSix Months to Doctor by Judi Cinéas
Best on Education and Society
17th out of 24 books — 15 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Outsiders by S.E. HintonCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best Books of the Decade: 1960s
1203rd out of 1,434 books — 1,776 voters
The Rise of the Meritocracy by Michael Dunlop YoungThe Harpole Report by J.L. CarrThe Economy of Cities by Jane JacobsIndependent People by Halldór LaxnessEducation and the Working Class by Dennis Marsden Brian Jackson
Books on Education and Society recommended by Alison Wolf
3rd out of 5 books — 1 voter

The Abundant Community by John McKnightThe Great Good Place by Ray OldenburgThe Great Neighborhood Book by Jay WalljasperBetter Together by Robert D. PutnamThe Careless Society by John McKnight
Best Community Building Books
51st out of 127 books — 7 voters
Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas PikettyCapitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph A. SchumpeterAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithAn Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert MalthusThe Competitive Advantage of Nations by Michael E. Porter
50 Economics Classics
37th out of 40 books — 10 voters

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinThe Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. HeinleinAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert SheaStarship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Literary Libertarians
177th out of 190 books — 45 voters
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. HayekDas Kapital by Karl MarxGeneral Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard KeynesDebt by David Graeber
Best Economics Books
396th out of 451 books — 523 voters

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand1984 by George OrwellThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. HayekEconomics in One Lesson by Henry HazlittThe Law by Frédéric Bastiat
Best Libertarian Books
362nd out of 387 books — 288 voters
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Abolition of Man by C.S. LewisWitness by Whittaker ChambersMere Christianity by C.S. LewisThe Civil War by Shelby Foote
National Review's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of the Century
48th out of 100 books — 5 voters

Walkable City by Jeff SpeckSidewalk by Mitchell DuneierMaid in India by Tripti LahiriWhy Old Places Matter by Thompson M. MayesEvicted by Matthew Desmond
Best Urban Sociology Books
9th out of 17 books — 4 voters
Dark Age Ahead by Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsVital Little Plans by Jane Jacobs101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickThe Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
5th out of 17 books — 4 voters


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