# Best books for everything Seed point: https://twitter.com/EmmaJP9_/status/1192905237461225472 * Chinese Thought * Chinese Literature A Very Short Introduction by Sabina Knight * Confucianism A Very Short Introduction by Daniel Gardner * Chinese History * China A History by John Keay * Wild Swans by Jung Chang * Chinese Economy * China’s Economy by Arthur Kroeber * Chinese Literature * The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin * Politics * Politics A Very Short Introduction by Kenneth Minogue * The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama * Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama * Political Philosophy * On Politics by Alan Ryan * Contemporary Political Philosophy by Will Kymlicka * Political Economics * The Dictators Handbook by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita * The Myth of the Rational Voter by Bryan Caplan * Political Psychology * The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt * The company of Strangers by Paul Seabright * History of Science * Science a History by John Gribbin * Isaac Newton by James Gleik * Genius by James Gleik * The making of the atom bomb by Richard Rhodes * Popular Science * Fixing Climate by Robert Kunzig * Critical Mass by Phillip Ball * The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by [[Richard Feynman]] * The New Quantum Universe by Tony Hey * Why Chemical Reactions Happy by James Keeler * Engineering * Apollo by Charles Murray * Structures by J.E.Gordon * The New Science of Strong Materials by J.E Gordon * Biology * The Origins of Life * The Selfish Gene * The Ancestor’s Tale * Molecular Biology of the Cell * The Emperor of All Maladies * Better by Gawande * Business/Self Help * Outliers * The Upside of Down * Adapt * Psychology * The Blank Slate * Consciousness Explained * The Happiness Hypothesis * Yale intro to psychology * [Introduction to Psychology | Open Yale Courses](https://oyc.yale.edu/NODE/231) * Economics * Reinventing the Bazaar * The Worldly Philosophers * Macroeconomics by Mankiw * Public Finance and Public Policy by Gruber * Finance * Against the Gods * More money than God * History of corporations * The company by Micklethwait and Wolldridge * What they teach you at Harvard business school * Good strategy bad strategy * Bad Blood * Big picture * The Wealth of Humans * The Second Machine Age * The Rebel Sell * The Future and its Enemies * Inadequate Equilibria * Spatial nature of the economy * Geography of Jobs * Triumph of the City * Fiction * English Literature A Very Short Introduction * King on Writing * Art * Story of Art * History * Penguin History of the World * The Wealth and Poverty of Nations * A splendid exchange * History of England * The English&Their History * Niall Ferguson - Empire * All Hell Let Loose * Countries * Intonesia by Pisani * Japan by Murphy * Other * Nietzsche A Very Short Introduction * Our Culture What’s Left of it * Hillbilly Elegy