Political Economy

Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (London: Profile Books, 2013).

Niall Ferguson. Civilisation: The West and the Rest (New York: Penguin, 2011).

Niall Ferguson. The Square and the Tower (New York: Penguin, 2018).

Francis Fukuyama. The End of History and The Last Man (New York: Penguin, 1992).

Francis Fukuyama. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment (London: Profile Books, 2019).

Francis Fukuyama. Liberalism and its Discontents (London: Profile Books, 2022).

Francis Fukuyama. Political Order and Political Decay (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014).

Francis Fukuyama. The Origins of Political Order (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011).

Francis Fukuyama. Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (Simon & Schuster, 1996).

Stephen J. Harper. Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption (Signal Books, 2018).

Friedrich A. Hayek. The Road to Serfdom (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 1944).

Samuel P. Huntington. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Simon & Schuster, 1996).

Samuel P. Huntington. Political Order in Changing Societies (Yale University Press, 2006).

John M. Keynes. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Penguin, 1936).

Mervyn King. The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy (WW Norton & Co, 2016).

Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson. Abundance (Simon & Schuster, 2025)

Charles Murray. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 (Crown Forum, 2013).

Raghuram Rajan. The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind (Penguin, 2019).

Dani Rodrik. The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States and Democracy Can’t Coexist (WW Norton & Co, 2012).

Nouriel Roubini. Megathreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them (Little, Brown, 2022).

Thomas Sowell. Black Rednecks and White Liberals (Encounter Books, 2006).

Joseph Stiglitz. Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump (London: Penguin Books, 2017).

J.D. Vance. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (HarperCollins Publishers, 2017).

Adrian Wooldridge. The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World (Skyhorse Publishing, 2021).

Adrian Wooldridge & John Micklethwait. The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State (Penguin Books, 2015).

International Relations

Graham Allison. Destined for War (Scribe Publications, 2019).

Niall Ferguson. Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (London: Penguin Books, 2009).

Barry Gewen. The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World (New York: WW Norton & Co, 2020).

Samuel P. Huntington. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Simon & Schuster, 2002).

Henry Kissinger. On China (New York: Penguin Books, 2011).

Henry Kissinger. World Order (New York: Penguin Books, 2015).

Kishore Mahbubani. Has China Won? (London: Public Affairs, 2020).

Kishore Mahbubani. Has the West Lost It? (London: Penguin Books, 2019).

John Mearsheimer. The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (Yale University Press, 2019).

John Mearsheimer. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: WW Norton & Co, 2001).

Economics

Ben Bernanke, Henry M. Paulson & Timothy Geithner. Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons (Profile Books, 2019).

Alan Blinder. A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 (Princeton University Press, 2022).

Ha-Joon Chang. Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity (Cornerstone, 2008).

Ha-Joon Chang. Economics: The User’s Guide (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014).

Niall Ferguson. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Penguin Books, 2008).

Edward Glaeser. Triumph of the city: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (Penguin Press, 2008).

Alan Greenspan & Adrian Wooldridge. Capitalism in America: A History (Penguin, 2018).

Michael Lewis. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (W.W. Norton, 2010).

Freddy Orchard. Bold Vision: The Untold Story of Singapore’s Reserves and Its Sovereign Wealth Fund (Epigram Books, 2023).

Michael Pettis. Avoiding the Fall: China’s Economic Restructuring (Brookings Institution Press, 2014).

Raghuram Rajan. Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2010).

Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff. This Time is Different (Princeton University Press, 2009).

Dani Rodrik. Economic Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science (WW Norton & Co, 2016).

Dani Rodrik. Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class (WW Norton & Co, 2026).

Kenneth Rogoff. Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance and the Road Ahead (Yale University Press, 2025).

Thomas Sowell. Basic Economics (Basic Books, 2000).

Thomas Sowell. The Housing Boom and Bust (Basic Books, 2010).

Autobiographies and Biographies

Don Brash. Incredible Luck (Auckland: Troika Books Limited, 2014).

Michael Cullen. Labour Saving: A Memoir (Allen & Unwin, 2021).

Robert Dallek. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (Penguin Books, 2013).

Niall Ferguson. Kissinger 1923–1968: The Idealist (London: Penguin Books, 2016).

Lee Kuan Yew. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965–2000 (Harper, 2000).

Lee Kuan Yew. The Singapore Story (Harper, 2000).

Kerry O’Brien. Keating (Allen & Urwin, 2016).

Thomas Sowell. A Personal Odyssey (Simon & Schuster, 2000).

Ali Wyne, Graham Allison, and Robert Blackwill. Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World (MIT Press, 2020).

Psychology

Jonathan Haidt. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Penguin Books, 2013).

Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure (Penguin Books, 2019).

Steven Pinker. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (New York: Penguin USA, 2011).

Steven Pinker. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (New York: Penguin USA, 2019).

Thomas Sowell. A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles (Basic Books, 2007).

Thomas Sowell. Discrimination and Disparities (Basic Books, 2018).

Thomas Sowell. The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (Basic Books, 1996).

Personal Development

Dale Carnegie. How to Win Friends and Influence People (Simon & Schuster, 1936).

James Clear. Atomic Habits (Cornerstone, 2018).

Robert Greene. Mastery (Profile Books, 2012).

Robert Greene. The 50th Law (Profile Books, 2009).

Eric Jorgenson. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness (HarperBusiness, 2021).

Anna Lembke. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Dutton, 2021).

Mark Manson. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck* (HarperOne, 2016).

Charlie Munger. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger (Walsworth Publishing Company, 2005).