Content Recommendations

Last update: March 2024

Books

Food and Agriculture Systems, CLIMATE CHANGE

• 1491 by Charles C Mann

• 1493 by Charles C Mann

• The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C Mann

• The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager

• The Oyster War by Summer Brennan

• Cuisine and Empire by Rachel Laudan

• Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money and the Future of Food by Dan Charles

• Salt A World History by Mark Kurlansky

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

• Harvesting the Biosphere: What we have taken from nature by Vaclav Smil

• Farm and other F words by Sarak Mock

• The Fish that ate the Whale by Rich Cohen

• Perilous Bounty by Tom Philpott

• Drawdown by Paul Hawken and Tom Steyer

• Growing a revolution by David Montgomery

Business & Technology

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Rise of Amazon by Brad Stone

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

• Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy by Parker, Alstyne and Chaudary

• Who Gets What and Why by Alvin E. Roth

• How Google Works by Erick Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank

• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our world by Kevin Kelly

• WTF What’s the Future and Why it’s up to us by Tim O’Reilly

• Kochland by Christopher Leonard

History

• India A History by John Keay

• Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II by Rana Mitter

• Enemy at the Gates: A Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig

• Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt

• Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin

• Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam: Fredrik Logevall

• Berlin Diaries by William L Shirer

• The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad by Lesley Hazleton

• Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

• Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns

• The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (American in the World) by Jurgen Osterhammel

• The Color of Time: A New History of the World: 1850-1960 by Dan Jones and Marina Amaral

• The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A 20th century history by David Edgerton

• Conquistadors by Michael Woods

• Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Economics & Social Sciences

• The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

• The Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen

• This Time is Different by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff

• Free to Choose by Milton Friedman

• The Third Pillar: How Markets and States leave the community behind by Raghuram Rajan

• Fault Lines: How hidden fractures still threaten the world economy by Raghuram Rajan

• Economic History of India: 1857-1947 by Tirthankar Roy

• Average is Over: Powering American beyond the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen

• The Great Arc: Dramatic Tale of how India was mapped and Everest was named by John Keay

• White Fragility by Robyn DiAngelo

• So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo

• Minor feelings by Cathy Park Hong

• The Constitution of Liberty by F. A. Hayek

• Individualism and Economic Order by F. A. Hayek

• A Theory of Justice by John Rawls

• Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress by Steven Pinker

India, Cricket

• India: The Emerging Giant by Arvind Panagriya

• Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani

• In spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce

• A Corner of a Foreign Field: Indian History of a British Sport by Ram Guha

• The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India by James Astill

Random topics

• Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

• The Viral Storm by Nathan Wolfe

• The Emperor of All Maladies by Sidhhartha Mukherjee

• Mastermind: How to think like Sherlock Holmes by Maria Konnikova

• The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

• The Gervais Principle by Venkatesh G Rao

Podcasts

Food and AgRICULTURE SYSTEMS

• Future of Agriculture by Tim Hammerich

Business and Technology

• Invest like the Best with Patrick O’Shaughnessy

History

• Hardcore History by Dan Carlin

• Empire by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand

Economics and Social Sciences

• Conversations with Tyler by Tyler Cowen

• Econtalk with Russ Roberts

• The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

India, Cricket

• The Seen and The Unseen by Amit Varma

• Ideas of India by Shruti Rajagopalan