- Why Nations Fail - Daren Acemoglu, James Robinson
- The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
- Portfolios of the Poor - Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven
- The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin
- Genome - Matt Ridley
- The Muqaddimah - Ibn Khaldun
- Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
- The Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
- The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
- The End of Power - Moisés Naím
- Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull
- The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker
- On Immunity - Eula Biss
- The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
- Gang Leader for a Day - Sudhir Venkatesh
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas S. Kuhn
- Orwell's Revenge - Peter Huber
- Energy: A Beginner's Guide - Vaclav Smil
- Dealing with China - Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
- Rational Ritual - Michael Suk-Young Chw
