Andrew

2015

  1. The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor, William Easterly
  2. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright
  3. Innovative State: How New Technologies can Transform Government, Aneesh Chopra
  4. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel P. Huntington
  5. The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future, Vali Nasr
  6. The Impossible State: North Korea Past and Future, Victor Cha
  7. Beyond Belief: The Catholic Church and the Child Abuse Scandal, David Yallop
  8. What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terror, Alan Krueger
  9. A Universe From Nothing: Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing, Lawrence Krauss
  10. From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy, Kenan Malik
  11. How Not To Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Jordan Ellenberg
  12. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, Francis Fukuyama
  13. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
  14. The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World, Daniel Yergin
  15. @War: The Rise of Cyber Warfare, Shane Harris
  16. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
  17. The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran, David Crist
  18. The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, Marc Levinson
  19. The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity, Steven Pinker
  20. Information Theory, Robert B. Ash
  21. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics, Roger Penrose
  22. The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat, Vali Nasr
  23. The High Cost of Free Parking, Donald Shoup
  24. Political Order and Political Decay: From The Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy, Francis Fukuyama
  25. Preemption: A Knife that Cuts Both Ways, Alan Dershowitz
  26. The Fabric of Reality, David Deutsch
  27. The Long Shadow: Family Background, Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood, Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson
  28. This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff
  29. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Mancur Olson
  30. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R. Hofstadter
  31. The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse, Geoffrey Robertson
  32. History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
  33. 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
  34. The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000 Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavour, Martin Meredith
  35. The Moral Law: Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant tr. Herbert James Paton
  36. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities, Mancur Olson
  37. Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic, Michael Axworthy
  38. Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence, Bryan Burrough
  39. The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy, James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock
  40. Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest to Discover the Ultimate Nature of Reality, Max Tegmark
  41. The Nature of Space and Time, Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose
  42. Midnight's Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day, John Keay
  43. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, Steven Pinker
  44. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, Ray Kurzweil
  45. Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present, Joanna Bourke
  46. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein tr. Bertrand Russell
  47. Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, Judea Pearl
  48. Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years, Jared Diamond

2016

  1. The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast Food World, Michael Pollan
  2. The Embarrassed Colonialist, Sean Dorney
  3. Condemned to Crisis?, Ken Ward
  4. Command and Control: The Story of Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Safety, Eric Schlosser
  5. The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence, Martin Meredith
  6. Quantum Computing Since Democritus, Scott Aaronson
  7. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan
  8. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson
  9. Who Gets What - and Why: The Hidden World of Matchmaking and Market Design, Alvin E. Roth
  10. Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice, Geoffrey Robertson QC
  11. The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome, Robin Lane Fox
  12. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, Joseph Schumpeter
  13. Body Count: Fixing the Blame for the Global AIDS Catastrophe, Peter Gill
  14. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
  15. A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani
  16. Theories of International Politics and Zombies, Daniel Drezner
  17. The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
  18. Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens
  19. Syria: A Recent History, John McHugo
  20. On Politics: A History of Political Thought From Herodotus to the Present, Alan Ryan

2017

  1. Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet, Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
  2. Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another, Philip Ball
  3. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, Tom Nichols
  4. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, C.L.R. James
  5. Utopia for Realists: And How We Get There, Rutger Bregman tr. Elizabeth Manton
  6. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
  7. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Paul Collier
  8. The Enlightened Economy: Britain and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1850, Joel Mokyr
  9. Buddha, Karen Armstrong
  10. The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas P.M. Barnett
  11. The Attention Merchants: From the Daily Newspaper to Social Media, How Our Time and Attention is Harvested and Sold, Tim Wu

2018

  1. The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking, Simon Singh
  2. Iran: Empire of the Mind: A History from Zoroaster to the Present Day, Michael Axworthy
  3. On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
  4. Proof: The Science of Booze, Adam Rogers
  5. Virtual Competition: The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-Driven Economy, Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke
  6. Algorithms to Live By: The Comupter Science of Human Decisions, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Dunlop

2015

  1. A World Without Islam, Graham Fuller
  2. Paradise Lost, John Milton
  3. The Evolution of Cooperation, Robert Axelrod
  4. Politics, Aristotle
  5. A Short History of WWI/WWII, Norman Stone
  6. Rome: The Biography of a City, Christopher Hibbert
  7. Europe Since 1870: An International History, James Joll
  8. The Prince, Machiavelli
  9. The Cold War: A New History, John Lewis Gaddis
  10. The Homeric Hymns
  11. The Parthenon, Mary Beard
  12. The Balkans: A Short History, Mark Mazower
  13. The Popes: A History, John Julius Norwich
  14. Religion in the Ancient Greek City, Zaidman and Pantel, translated by Paul Cartledge
  15. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
  16. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy 1453 to the Present, Brendan Simms
  17. Dark Continent: Europe's 20th Century, Mark Mazower
  18. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution, Francis Fukyama
  19. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956, Anne Applebaum
  20. Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
  21. Early History of Rome, Livy
  22. A History of Rome, Michael Grant
  23. The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years, Bernard Lewis
  24. Big History and the Future of Humanity, Fred Spier
  25. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
  26. Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present, Mark Mazower
  27. Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, Judith Herrin
  28. Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, Jason Goodwin
  29. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright
  30. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan
  31. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization, Thomas Friedman
  32. The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
  33. The Story of the Jews, Simon Schama
  34. Confessions, St Augustine
  35. Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle
  36. No God But God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, Reza Aslan
  37. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond
  38. The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century, Paul Collins
  39. What Went Wrong: The Clast Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, Bernard Lewis
  40. The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
  41. Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, Max Boot
  42. Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman
  43. Ghengis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, Jack Weatherford
  44. The Enlightenment, Roy Porter
  45. Iran: Empire of the Mind, Michael Axelworthy
  46. India: A History, John Keay
  47. A History of the Arab Peoples, Albert Hourani
  48. The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters, Anthony Pagden
  49. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, Daren Acemoglu and James Robinson
  50. Utopia, Thomas More
  51. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain, John Darwin
  52. Candide, Voltaire
  53. Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
  54. Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648, Mark Greengrass
  55. In Praise of Folly, Erasmus
  56. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Mancur Olson

2016

  1. Europe in the High Middle Ages, William C. Jordan
  2. The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians, Peter Heather
  3. The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders, Peter Heather
  4. A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich
  5. The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815, Tim Blanning
  6. Orientalism, Edward Said
  7. The Archaeology of Knowledge, Michel Foucault
  8. The Philosophy of the Enlightenment, Ernst Cassirer
  9. Dialectic of Enlightenment, Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer
  10. Barbarism and Religion: Volume One: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon 1737-1764, J.G.A. Pocock
  11. Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: From the Great Philosophers, Karl Jaspers
  12. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Jean Francois Lyotard
  13. The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion, Mircea Eliade
  14. Making Sex: Sex and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Thomas Laqueur
  15. On Deep History and the Brain, Daniel Lord Smail
  16. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, John Lewis Gaddis
  17. The Colombian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492, Alfred Crosby
  18. The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilisation, Bryan Ward-Perkins
  19. The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers, Carl Becker
  20. Mohammed and Charlemagne, Henri Pirenne
  21. Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation, Martin Bernal
  22. Liberty Before Liberalism, Quentin Skinner
  23. The Scientific Revolution, Stephen Shapin
  24. The Origins of Modern Science 1300-1800, Herbert Butterfield
  25. The Whig Interpretation of History, Herbert Butterfield
  26. In Search of Zarathustra, Paul Kriwaczek
  27. The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment, Roy Porter
  28. Blood Rites: The Origins and History of the Passions of War, Barbara Ehrenreich
  29. The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750, Peter Brown
  30. Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and its Discontents, Robert Irwin
  31. The Arabs in History, Bernard Lewis
  32. The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, Eric Nelson
  33. The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern West, Aldo Schiavone
  34. 'Religion' and the religions of the English Enlightenment, Peter Harrison
  35. Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
  36. Military Orientalism, James Porter
  37. The Mystique of Islam, Maxime Rodinson
  38. The Radical Enlightenment: Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans, Margaret Jacob
  39. The Origins of Postmodernity, Perry Anderson
  40. Travelling Heroes, Robin Lane Fox
  41. The Crisis of the European Mind, 1688-1715, Paul Hazard
  42. The Better Angels of Our Nature, Steven Pinker
  43. A Universe From Nothing, Lawrence Krauss
  44. The Two Cultures, C.P. Snow
  45. Political Order and Political Decay, Francis Fukyama

2017

  1. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: The Renaissance, Quentin Skinner
  2. European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche, Frank M. Turner
  3. The Worldly Philosophers, Robert L. Heilbroner
  4. Islam Observed, Clifford Geertz
  5. The Trojan War, Barry Strauss
  6. The First Total War, David A. Bell
  7. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
  8. The Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt
  9. Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle, Stephen Jay Gould
  10. The History of Scepticism From Savonarola to Bayle, Richard Popkin
  11. The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels
  12. The Gift, Marcel Mauss
  13. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought: The Age of Reformation, Quentin Skinner
  14. The Quest, Daniel Yergin
  15. The Direction of War, Hew Strachan
  16. The Accidental Guerrilla, David Kilcullen
  17. The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukyama
  18. The Arabs: A History, Eugene Rogan
  19. The Utility of Force, Rupert Smith
  20. Islam in the World, Malise Ruthven
  21. Man, the State, and War, Kenneth Waltz
  22. Revolutionary Iran, Michael Axelworthy
  23. A Brief History of Indonesia, Tim Hannigan
  24. Pakistan: A New History, Ian Talbot
  25. America's War for the Greater Middle East, Andrew Bacevkis
  26. Globalised Islam, Olivier Roy
  27. Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, John Esposito
  28. The Crisis of Islam, Bernard Lewis
  29. The Shia Revival, Vali Nasr
  30. The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990, Marilyn B. Young
  31. The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle Between Faith and Reason, Christopher de Bellaigue
  32. Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, John A. Nagl
  33. The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History, Philip Bobbit
  34. Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism, Michael Burleigh
  35. Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East, Gerard Russel
  36. The Insurgent Archipelago, John Mackinlay
  37. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of It's Enemies, Ian Buruma & Avishai Margalit
  38. Australia's Defence: Towards a New Era?, ed. Peter J. Dean, Stephan Fruhling & Brendan Taylor
  39. A History of Civilizations, Fernand Braudel
  40. Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerilla, David Kilcullen
  41. Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the Global Jihadist Movement, Daniel Byman
  42. The Mind of the Islamic State, Robert Manne
  43. The Dispensable Nation, Vali Nasr
  44. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Steve Coll
  45. Syria: A Recent History, John McHugo
  46. The Great Chain of Being, Arthur O. Lovejoy
  47. Logic: A Very Short Introduction, Graham Priest
  48. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, Joshua Greene
  49. The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason, Charles Freeman
  50. This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World, Jerry Brotton
  51. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume

2018

  1. The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran, David Crist