Reading
2026
- Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (a standout)
- Tom Chivers, Everything Is Predictable (a standout)
- Richard Osman, The Impossible Fortune
- Anton Chekhov, A Nervous Breakdown; The Black Monk; Anna Around the Neck
- Ian McEwan, Atonement (a standout)
- Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies
- Florence Knapp, The Names
- Morgan Housel, The Art of Spending Money
- Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights and Bobok
- Mark Rowlands, The Happiness of Dogs
- Laurent Binet, Perspectives
- Agatha Christie, The Murder at the Vicarage
- Claire Keegan, Antarctica
- Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (a standout)
- Freya India, Girls
- Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume I (a standout)
- Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume II (a standout)
- Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume III
- Ben Lerner, Transcription
- George Eliot, Middlemarch (a standout)
- Peter Thiel, Zero to One
- Ian Dunt, How Westminster Works … and Why It Doesn't
- Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
- Adam Swift, Political Philosophy
- Robert Tombs, The English and Their History
* marks a standout.
Pre-2026 favourites
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Incerto (all five volumes)
- Duncan J. Watts, Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer
- Jane Austen, All six novels
- John Kay, Obliquity
- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sherlock Holmes canon
- Adam Kucharski, The Rules of Contagion
- Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner, Superforecasting
- Rory Sutherland, Alchemy
Influential blogs and articles
Inclusion means I like them, not that I agree with everything in them.
- Adam Mastroianni, Science is a strong-link problem Experimental History
- Adam Mastroianni, The Decline of Deviance Experimental History
- Nan Ransohoff, How to start an advance market commitment Works in Progress
- Nick Whitaker and J. Zachary Mazlish, Why prediction markets aren't popular Works in Progress
- Michael Della Rocca, PSR Philosophers' Imprint
- Kieran Healy, Fuck Nuance Sociological Theory
- Mark S. Granovetter, The Strength of Weak Ties American Journal of Sociology
- Ronald S. Burt, Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition Harvard University Press
- Duncan J. Watts, Networks, Dynamics, and the Small-World Phenomenon American Journal of Sociology
- G. A. Cohen, Rescuing Conservatism: A Defense of Existing Value Reasons and Recognition, Oxford University Press
- Laura Ryan and Alvin Djajadikerta, A New National Purpose: Reimagining UK Science and Technology Through Lovelace Disruptive Invention Laboratories Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
- Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being PNAS
- Michael Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, Liberty Fund