The Network State by Balaji S. SrinivasanThe Sovereign Individual by James Dale DavidsonDeng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. VogelSeeing Like a State by James C. ScottWhere Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall
Balaji Srinivasan Mentions
90 books — 1 voter
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonPippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg LarssonHunger by Knut Hamsun
Best Scandinavian and Nordic Literature
1,220 books — 1,246 voters

The Decline of the West by Oswald SpenglerThe Insect Crisis by Oliver MilmanFrom Dawn to Decadence by Jacques BarzunAt the End of an Age by John LukacsThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Books about decline
208 books — 6 voters
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanShakespeare's Sonnets by William ShakespeareThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotAriel by Sylvia Plath
Best Poetry Books
3,032 books — 2,565 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeSwann’s Way by Marcel ProustThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Belle Époque
384 books — 153 voters