Below I have listed a few books that I found interesting at the time. Needless to say, I don’t agree with everything in these books and may have changed my mind about some of them.

Keep in mind that recommending books is difficult: you need the right book for the right person at the right time.

2024

• The Rise and Fall of the Elites - Vilfredo Pareto
• The Case for Colonialism - Bruce Gilley
• Der Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
• Dancing Naked in the Mind Field - Kary Mullis
• When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut
• Knots - R.D. Laing
• Platform - Michel Houellebecq
• Days of Rage - Bryan Burrough
• Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers - Tom Wolfe
• Xenosystems - Nick Land

2023

• Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsing
• The Culture of Narcissism - Christopher Lash
• The Burden of Brown - Raymond Wolters
• Unsettled - Steven Koonin
• When Reason Goes on Holiday - Neven Sesardić
• The Passion and the Interests - Albert Hirschman
• Sexual Utopia in Power - Roger Devlin
• Barbarian Days - William Finnegan
• Sun in a Bottle - Charles Seife
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami

2022

• Heretics - G. K. Chesterton
• Orthodoxy - G. K. Chesterton
• The Everlasting Man - G. K. Chesterton
• The Gray Lady Winked - Ashley Rindsberg
• Sadly, Porn - Edward Teach (The Last Psychiatrist)
• A Mathematician’s Apology - G. H. Hardy
• The Anatomy of the State - Murray N. Rothbard
• The Captive Mind - Czeslaw Milosz
• Democracy: The God That Failed - Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• Eine Abhandlung über aristokratischen Radikalismus - Georg Brandes
• The Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas S. Szasz
• Sämtliche Scholien zu einem inbegriffenen Text - Nicolás Dávila

2021

• Exhalation - Ted Chiang
• Ludwig Wittgenstein - Ray Monk
• Permutation City - Greg Egan
• Memoirs of a Superfluous Man - Albert Jay Nock
• The Machiavellians - James Burnham
• In Defense of Sanity - G. K. Chesterton
• Technological Slavery - Ted Kaczynski
• Equality by Default - Philippe Bénéton
• The Hockey Stick Illusion - Andrew Montford
• The Power of the Powerless - Václav Havel
• The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect - Roger Williams
• A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe - Fernando Pessoa

2020

• Also sprach Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche
• Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
• Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
• Good and Real - Gary L. Drescher
• Quantum Computing Since Democritus - Scott Aaronson
• Briefe an einen jungen Dichter - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang
• The Last Days of Socrates - Plato
• Essential Bukowski: Poetry - Charles Bukowski
• Summerhill School - A. S. Neill
• The Open Society and Its Enemies - Karl Popper
• The Constitution of Liberty - Friedrich A. Hayek

2019

• Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Awareness - Anthony De Mello
• The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Discourses and Selected Writings - Epictetus
• Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
• Siddartha - Hermann Hesse
• Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Bed of Procrustes - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
• The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous
• The Fabric of Reality - David Deutsch
• Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari