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Ellen Ruppel Shell

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The High Cost of Discount Culture. Penguin Press, 2009.

Empress
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Ruby Lal

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The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.

A Promised Land
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Barack Obama

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Crown Publishing Group, 2020.

A Wealth of Common Sense
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Ben Carlson

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Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan. Bloomberg Press, 2015.

Across That Bridge
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John Lewis

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A Vision for Change and the Future of America. Hachette Books, 2017

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Justin Lee

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How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Change the World. TarcherPerigee, 2018.

Uncommon Grounds
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Mark Pendergrast

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The History of Coffee and How It Transformed the World. Basic Books, 2019.

The Games
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David Goldblatt

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A Global History of the Olympics. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Midnight in Chernobyl
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Adam Higginbotham

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The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.

The Children of Ash and Elm
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Neil Price

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A History of the Vikings. Basic Books, 2020.

The Defiant Optimist
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Durreen Shahnaz

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Daring to Fight Global Inequality, Reinvent Finance, and Invest in Women. Broadleaf Books, 2023.

Two Wheels Good
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Jody Rosen

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The History and Mystery of the Bicycle. Crown, 2022

A World Beneath the Sands
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Toby Wilkinson

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The Golden Age of Egyptology. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.

The Chaos Machine
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Max Fisher

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The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World. Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor
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Thomas C. Foster

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A Smart, Irreverent Guide to Biography, History, Journalism, Blogs, and Everything in Between. Harper Perennial, 2020.

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Adaptive Markets
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Andrew W. Lo

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Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought. Princeton, 2019.

You Never Forget Your First
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Alexis Coe

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A Biography of George Washington. Viking, 2020.

After the Music Stopped
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Alan S. Blinder

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The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead. Penguin, 2013.

The 48 Laws of Power
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Robert Greene

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The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.

Economics
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Ha-Joon Chang

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The User’s Guide. Pelican, 2014.

Crisis in the Eurozone
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Costas Lapavitsas

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Crisis in the Eurozone. Verso, 2012.

Diversity and Complexity
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Scott Page

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Princeton University Press, 2010.

Fault Lines
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Raghuram Rajan

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How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2010.

First Principles
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Thomas E. Ricks

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What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. Harper, 2020.

Boom and Bust
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John David Turner

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A Global History of Economic Bubbles. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

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Adults in the Room
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Yanis Varoufakis

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My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment. Vintage, 2018

Edge of Chaos
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Dambisa Moyo

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Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth – and How to Fix It. Basic Books, 2018.

Affluenza
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David Wann

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How Overconsumption Is Killing Us and How to Fight Back. Berrett-Koehler, 2014.

Forecast
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Mark Buchanan

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What Physics, Meteorology, and the Natural Sciences Can Teach Us About Economics. Bloomsbury, 2013.

Fault Lines
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Raghuram Rajan

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How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy. Princeton University Press, 2010.

A Splendid Exchange
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William J. Bernstein

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How Trade Shaped the World. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008.

Cheap
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Ellen Ruppel Shell

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The High Cost of Discount Culture. Penguin Press, 2009.

Empress
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Ruby Lal

18 min read·
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The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. Norton & Company, Inc., 2018.

A Promised Land
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Barack Obama

20 min read·
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Crown Publishing Group, 2020.

A Wealth of Common Sense
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Ben Carlson

11 min read·
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Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan. Bloomberg Press, 2015.

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