If you are looking for a list of great books to read, the following are my very favorite books (mostly non-fiction) that I have read since college — presented in alphabetical order.

• The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
• The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 by Niall Ferguson
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker (fiction)
• Coming Apart by Charles Murray
• Churchill: A life by Martin Gilbert
• The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
• Difficult Conversations by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
• Economics Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
• The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
• Exodus by Leon Uris (fiction)
• Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069 by William Strauss & Neil Howe
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
• Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (fiction)
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
• How to Decide by Annie Duke
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
• John J. McCloy: Chairman of the Establishment by Kai Bird
• Just and Unjust Wars by Michael Walzer
• Justice by Mike Sandel
• The Making of the Atom Bomb by Richard Rhodes
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat : And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks
• The Moral Animal : Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
• The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Nixonland by Rick Perlstein
• The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris
• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by Will Thorndike
• Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz
• Path to Power: Early Life of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
• A Piece of the Action How the Middle Class Became the Money Class by Joseph Nocera
• The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin
• Revolution 1989 by Victor Sebestyen
• Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (fiction)
• Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan
• Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
• Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
• Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
• We the Living by Ayn Rand (fiction)
• When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson
• Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping by Paco Underhill
• A World Lit Only by Fire : The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance – Portrait of an Age by William Manchester
• Zero to One: How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel