Andrew
2015
- The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, William Easterly
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright
- Innovative State: How New Technologies can Transform Government, Aneesh Chopra
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel P. Huntington
- The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future, Vali Nasr
- The Impossible State: North Korea Past and Future, Victor Cha
- Beyond Belief: The Catholic Church and the Child Abuse Scandal, David Yallop
- What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terror, Alan Krueger
- A Universe From Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing, Lawrence Krauss
- From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy, Kenan Malik
- How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Jordan Ellenberg
- The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, Francis Fukuyama
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
- The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, Daniel Yergin
- @War: The Rise of Cyber Warfare, Shane Harris
- Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran, David Crist
- The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity, Steven Pinker
- Information Theory, Robert B. Ash
- The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics, Roger Penrose
- The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat, Vali Nasr
- The High Cost of Free Parking, Donald Shoup
- Political Order and Political Decay: From The Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy, Francis Fukuyama
- Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways, Alan Dershowitz
- The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch
- The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood, Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson
- This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
- The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Mancur Olson
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
- The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse, Geoffrey Robertson
- History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
- The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What it Used to Be, Moisés Naím
- The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavour, Martin Meredith
- The Moral Law: Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant tr. Herbert James Paton
- The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, Mancur Olson
- Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic, Michael Axworthy
- Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence, Bryan Burrough
- The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy, James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock
- Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest to Discover the Ultimate Nature of Reality, Max Tegmark
- The Nature of Space and Time, Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose
- Midnight's Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day, John Keay
- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, Steven Pinker
- The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Ray Kurzweil
- Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present, Joanna Bourke
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein tr. Bertrand Russell
- Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, Judea Pearl
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years, Jared Diamond
2016
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast Food World, Michael Pollan
- The Embarrassed Colonialist, Sean Dorney
- Condemned to Crisis?, Ken Ward
- Command and Control: The Story of Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Safety, Eric Schlosser
- The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence, Martin Meredith
- Quantum Computing Since Democritus, Scott Aaronson
- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan
- Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson
- Who Gets What - and Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design, Alvin E. Roth
- Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice, Geoffrey Robertson QC
- The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome, Robin Lane Fox
- Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, Joseph Schumpeter
- Body Count: Fixing the Blame for the Global AIDS Catastrophe, Peter Gill
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
- A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani
- Theories of International Politics and Zombies, Daniel Drezner
- The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
- Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens
- Syria: A Recent History, John McHugo
- On Politics: A History of Political Thought From Herodotus to the Present, Alan Ryan
2017
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
- Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, Philip Ball
- The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, Tom Nichols
- The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, C.L.R. James
- Utopia for Realists: And How We Get There, Rutger Bregman tr. Elizabeth Manton
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
- The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Paul Collier
- The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1850, Joel Mokyr
- Buddha, Karen Armstrong
- The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas P.M. Barnett
- The Attention Merchants: From the Daily Newspaper to Social Media, How Our Time and Attention is Harvested and Sold, Tim Wu
2018
- The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking, Simon Singh
- Iran: Empire of the Mind: A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day, Michael Axworthy
- On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
- Proof: The Science of Booze, Adam Rogers
- Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy, Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke
- Algorithms to Live By: The Comupter Science of Human Decisions, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Dunlop
2015
- A World Without Islam, Graham Fuller
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod
- Politics, Aristotle
- A Short History of WWI/WWII, Norman Stone
- Rome: The Biography of a City, Christopher Hibbert
- Europe Since 1870: An International History, James Joll
- The Prince, Machiavelli
- The Cold War: A New History, John Lewis Gaddis
- The Homeric Hymns
- The Parthenon, Mary Beard
- The Balkans: A Short History, Mark Mazower
- The Popes: A History, John Julius Norwich
- Religion in the Ancient Greek City, Zaidman and Pantel, translated by Paul Cartledge
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
- Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy 1453 to the Present, Brendan Simms
- Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century, Mark Mazower
- The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, Francis Fukyama
- Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, Anne Applebaum
- Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Early History of Rome, Livy
- A History of Rome, Michael Grant
- The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, Bernard Lewis
- Big History and the Future of Humanity, Fred Spier
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
- Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present, Mark Mazower
- Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, Judith Herrin
- Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, Jason Goodwin
- The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright
- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, Thomas Friedman
- The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
- The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama
- Confessions, St Augustine
- Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
- No God But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Reza Aslan
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond
- The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century, Paul Collins
- What Went Wrong: The Clast Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis
- The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
- Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, Max Boot
- Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman
- Ghengis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford
- The Enlightenment, Roy Porter
- Iran: Empire of the Mind, Michael Axelworthy
- India: A History, John Keay
- A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani
- The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters, Anthony Pagden
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson
- Utopia, Thomas More
- Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain, John Darwin
- Candide, Voltaire
- Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
- Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648, Mark Greengrass
- In Praise of Folly, Erasmus
- The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Mancur Olson
2016
- Europe in the High Middle Ages, William C. Jordan
- The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, Peter Heather
- The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders, Peter Heather
- A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich
- The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815, Tim Blanning
- Orientalism, Edward Said
- The Archaeology of Knowledge, Michel Foucault
- The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Ernst Cassirer
- Dialectic of Enlightenment, Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer
- Barbarism and Religion: Volume One: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon 1737-1764, J.G.A. Pocock
- Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From the Great Philosophers, Karl Jaspers
- The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Jean Francois Lyotard
- The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, Mircea Eliade
- Making Sex: Sex and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Thomas Laqueur
- On Deep History and the Brain, Daniel Lord Smail
- The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, John Lewis Gaddis
- The Colombian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, Alfred Crosby
- The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilisation, Bryan Ward-Perkins
- The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, Carl Becker
- Mohammed and Charlemagne, Henri Pirenne
- Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation, Martin Bernal
- Liberty Before Liberalism, Quentin Skinner
- The Scientific Revolution, Stephen Shapin
- The Origins of Modern Science 1300-1800, Herbert Butterfield
- The Whig Interpretation of History, Herbert Butterfield
- In Search of Zarathustra, Paul Kriwaczek
- The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment, Roy Porter
- Blood Rites: The Origins and History of the Passions of War, Barbara Ehrenreich
- The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750, Peter Brown
- Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and its Discontents, Robert Irwin
- The Arabs in History, Bernard Lewis
- The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, Eric Nelson
- The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern West, Aldo Schiavone
- 'Religion' and the religions of the English Enlightenment, Peter Harrison
- Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
- Military Orientalism, James Porter
- The Mystique of Islam, Maxime Rodinson
- The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans, Margaret Jacob
- The Origins of Postmodernity, Perry Anderson
- Travelling Heroes, Robin Lane Fox
- The Crisis of the European Mind, 1688-1715, Paul Hazard
- The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker
- A Universe From Nothing, Lawrence Krauss
- The Two Cultures, C.P. Snow
- Political Order and Political Decay, Francis Fukyama
2017
- The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: The Renaissance, Quentin Skinner
- European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche, Frank M. Turner
- The Worldly Philosophers, Robert L. Heilbroner
- Islam Observed, Clifford Geertz
- The Trojan War, Barry Strauss
- The First Total War, David A. Bell
- The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
- The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt
- Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle, Stephen Jay Gould
- The History of Scepticism From Savonarola to Bayle, Richard Popkin
- The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
- The Gift, Marcel Mauss
- The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: The Age of Reformation, Quentin Skinner
- The Quest, Daniel Yergin
- The Direction of War, Hew Strachan
- The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen
- The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukyama
- The Arabs: A History, Eugene Rogan
- The Utility of Force, Rupert Smith
- Islam in the World, Malise Ruthven
- Man, the State, and War, Kenneth Waltz
- Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axelworthy
- A Brief History of Indonesia, Tim Hannigan
- Pakistan: A New History, Ian Talbot
- America's War for the Greater Middle East, Andrew Bacevkis
- Globalised Islam, Olivier Roy
- Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, John Esposito
- The Crisis of Islam, Bernard Lewis
- The Shia Revival, Vali Nasr
- The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990, Marilyn B. Young
- The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason, Christopher de Bellaigue
- Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, John A. Nagl
- The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History, Philip Bobbit
- Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, Michael Burleigh
- Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East, Gerard Russel
- The Insurgent Archipelago, John Mackinlay
- Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of It's Enemies, Ian Buruma & Avishai Margalit
- Australia's Defence: Towards a New Era?, ed. Peter J. Dean, Stephan Fruhling & Brendan Taylor
- A History of Civilizations, Fernand Braudel
- Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerilla, David Kilcullen
- Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement, Daniel Byman
- The Mind of the Islamic State, Robert Manne
- The Dispensable Nation, Vali Nasr
- Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Steve Coll
- Syria: A Recent History, John McHugo
- The Great Chain of Being, Arthur O. Lovejoy
- Logic: A Very Short Introduction, Graham Priest
- Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, Joshua Greene
- The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason, Charles Freeman
- This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World, Jerry Brotton
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume
2018