1. Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts 
  2. The Hatred of Poetry by Ben Lerner
  3. Augustus by Adrian Goldsworthy 
  4. The Triumph of Injustice by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman 
  5. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin 
  6. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
  7. The Goldfinch by Donna Tart
  8. The Drunkard’s Walk by Leonard Mlodinow 
  9. Dune, Book 1 by Frank Herbert 
  10. Artful by Ali Smith
  11. The Nun by Denis Diderot 
  12. The Employees by Olga Ravn
  13. The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato
  14. How to Read Heidegger by Mark Wrathall
  15. Politics On the Edge by Rory Stewart
  16. Swann in Love by Marcel Proust
  17. Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
  18. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 
  19. Situational Awareness by Leopold Aschenbrenner 
  20. Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  21. Inside the Head of Bruno Schulz by Maxim Biller
  22. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
  23. The Inseparables by Simone de Beauvoir
  24. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  25. Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen
  26. Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal
  27. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence 
  28. Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielsen 
  29. The Cyberaid by Stanislaw Lem
  30. Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon 
  31. The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker 
  32. Return by Snježana Mulić
  33. The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J. Sandel 
  34. Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar 
  35. Reunion by Fred Uhlman
  36. Under the Net by Iris Murdoch 
  37. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick
  38. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  39. A Culture of Growth by Joel Mokyr 
  40. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 
  41. Notes on Climate Tech by Ben James
  42. Yann Andréa Steiner by Marguerite Duras
  43. The New Leviathans by John Gray
  44. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
  45. Innovation in Real Places by Dan Breznitz 
  46. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  47. Little Zen Poems by Nina Mermey Klippel 
  48. Cigarettes by Harry Mathews 
  49. The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
  50. No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings & Erin Meyer
  51. Freud, A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Storr
  52. Iris Murdoch, A Life by Peter J. Conradi 
  53. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 
  54. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig