2026 Reading Challenge

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The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Republic by PlatoSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovHonor and Polygamy by Omar Farhad
Politics
491 books — 460 voters
Development as Freedom by Amartya SenThe Bottom Billion by Paul CollierWhy Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
International Development Book Club
119 books — 78 voters

The Idea of Justice by Amartya SenThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinDevelopment as Freedom by Amartya SenThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinThe Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
Political Economy Library
56 books — 26 voters
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe History of White People by Nell Irvin PainterFamily Properties by Beryl SatterAmerican Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan
Ta-Nehisi Coates Reading List
19 books — 11 voters

The Teacher Wars by Dana GoldsteinGetting Better by Charles KennyAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsA Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony MarraThe Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman
Vox's Books to Read to Understand the World
31 books — 7 voters
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. HofstadterBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariMeditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Ezra Klein Show reading list: books recommended by guests on the podcast (Part 1 of 3)
99 books — 29 voters

Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovOutliers by Malcolm GladwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,046 books — 2,043 voters
The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxDas Kapital by Karl MarxThe State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninReform or Revolution by Rosa LuxemburgSocialism by Friedrich Engels
Socialist Classics
420 books — 326 voters

Bad Samaritans by Ha-Joon ChangThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. HayekCrony Capitalism in America by Hunter LewisFree Prices Now! by Hunter LewisThe Most Important Lessons in Economics and Finance by Anthony M. Criniti IV
Contemporary economics and history of economics
15 books — 20 voters
Debt by David GraeberThe Global Minotaur by Yanis VaroufakisThe Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins WoodCapital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas PikettyProfiting Without Producing by Costas Lapavitsas
Post-crash Economics: A Reading List
68 books — 18 voters