Economics

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

William Dalrymple

How the World Really Works

Vaclav Smil

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Marc Levinson

Prisoners of Geography

Tim Marshall

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Ezra Vogel

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Hans Rosling

Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Debt: The First 5000 Years

David Graeber