Books
This is a list of books I have enjoyed. This page has two purposes. Firstly, I’d be happy to point people to books they might like. Secondly, it’s a convenient archive for my own purposes. I’m no smarter for having read these books. Also, having read or enjoyed a book does not mean that I agree with its content (e.g. Atlas Shrugged).
Currently reading
How to Read Scottish Buildings
One-Dimensional Man
Theaetetus
The Sittaford Mystery
Weather for Dummies
Absolute favourites
Alienation
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
The History of Western Philosophy
Siddhartha
Invisible Cities
Peril at End House
Read and loved
Why Not Socialism?
Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
Living with the Invisible Hand
Necessity, Volition, and Love
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
Nonviolent Communication
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
A Room of One’s Own
Pride and Prejudice
Cards on the Table
The Mystery of the Blue Train
The Murder on the Links
Death on the Nile
Murder on the Orient Express
Evil Under the Sun
Read and found interesting
From Individual to Plural Agency: Collective Action: Volume 1
From Plural to Institutional Agency: Collective Action II
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Adorno
English After RP: Standard British Pronunciation Today
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Capital in the Twenty First Century
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
The Structure of Recognizable Diatonic Tunings
Flowers for Algernon
Atlas Shrugged
1984
