Other Non-Fiction reading

Here’s my current reading list of all general non-fiction which, broadly speaking, doesn’t fit the categories covered on other pages (e.g., history, philosophy, biographies). I’ve included economics as a sub-category in here. It should likely be its own page. But it’s fairly short for now (and generally would be) - I’ve studied economics and worked as an economist and so have read many of the classics. The list below is mostly ones I’ve missed so far, or other random books I want to read (or even just skim). In general, I probably should (and will) create additional pages organized by theme/topic rather than just collecting them all here. Perhaps this will happen organically as I read more from this list and some topics end up interesting me more than others.

As usual, if there are any must-reads that I’ve missed or that you’d re-prioritize, please do let me know. I’d love to hear from you!

Completed

Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson	The Elephant in the Brain	★★★★★
Adam Phillips	On Kissing, Tickling, and Being Bored	★★★★★
Tyler Cowen	The Complacent Class	★★★★★
Joe Studwell	How Asia Works	★★★★
K.S. Komireddi	Malevolent Republic	★★★★
Patricia Highsmith	Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction	★★★★
Tyler Cowen	Stubborn Attachments	★★★★
Larry Brooks	Story Engineering	★★★★
Jonathan Wilson	Inverting the Pyramid	★★★
George Saunders	A Swim in a Pond in the Rain	★★★
Miguel Ruiz	The Four Agreements	★★★
Lauren A. Rivera	Pedigree	★★★
Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor	On Kindness	★★★
Adam Phillips	On Flirtation	★★★
Adam Phillips	Missing Out	★★★
Adam Phillips	Equals	★★★
Anne Lamott	Bird by Bird	★★★
Austin Kleon	Show Your Work!	★★★
Austin Kleon	Keep Going	★★★
Ivan Illich	Deschooling Society	★★★
Jia Tolentino	Trick Mirror	★★
Adam Phillips and Leo Bersani	Intimacies	★★
Nicole Perlroth	This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends	★★
Austin Kleon	Steal Like an Artist	★★
Pico Iyer	A Beginner's Guide to Japan	★★

Economics, the political economy, etc.

Higher priority

	Latika Chaudhary, Bishnupriya Gupta, Tirthankar Roy, Anand Swamy	A New Economic History of Colonial India
	Ron Chernow	The House of Morgan
	David Enrich	The Spider Network
	Niall Ferguson	The Ascent of Money
	David Graeber	Bullshit Jobs
	David Graeber	Debt
	Jason Hickel	The Divide
	Vijay Joshi	India's Long Road
	Vivek Kaul	Bad Money
	Vijay Kelkar, Ajay Shah	In Service of the Republic
	Peter Kovac	Flash Boys: Not So Fast
	Maggie Mahar	Bull!
	Jerry Z. Muller	The Mind and the Market
	Elinor Ostrom	Governing the Commons
	Arvind Panagriya	India
	Prasannan Parthasarathi	Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not
	Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie	The Book of Why
	Thomas Piketty	Capital in the Twenty-First Century
	Tim Rogan	The Moral Economists
	Tirthankar Roy	A Business History of India
	Robert M. Townsend	Distributed Ledgers
	Norman Ware	The Industrial Worker, 1840-1860

Lower priority

	Ken Binomre	Rational Decisions
	Giovanni Federico	Feeding the World
	John Kagel, Alvin Roth	The Handbook of Experimental Economics
	Baruch Lev, Feng Gu	The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers
	Arvind Panagariya	India Unlimited
	Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden (editors)	Technology, Skills, and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West
	Tirthankar Roy	How British Rule Changed India's Economy
	Tirthankar Roy	The Economic History of India, 1857-1947
	Jeffrey G. Williamson	Trade and Poverty
	Tim Wu	The Curse of Bigness
	Linda Yueh	What Would the Great Economists Do?

	Kenneth Pomeranz	The Great Divergence
	Richard von Glahn	The Economic History of China
	Callum Williams	The Classical School

On writing

	Anne Bernays, Pamela Painter	What If?
	Ray Bradbury	Zen in the Art of Writing
	Rennie Browne, Dave King	Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
	Lydia Davis	Essays One
	Natalie Goldberg	Writing Down the Bones
	Vivian Gornick	The Situation and the Story
	Ursula Le Guin	Steering the Craft
	Manjula Martin	Scratch
	Robert McKee	Story
	John McPhee	Draft No. 4
	Steven Pinker	The Sense of Style
	Virginia Tufte	Artful Sentences