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Updated July 2026
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General
The Science of Self-Control
Optimally Irrational
Seeing Like a State
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
A Farewell to Alms
The Lessons of History
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
The White Man's Burden
A Culture of Growth
The Fortunes of Africa
The Origins of Political Order
Cultural Materialism
Behave
The WEIRDest People in the World
The Righteous Mind
Basic Economics
A History of Knowledge
The Universe Next Door
Cynical Theories
The Cave and the Light
Antifragile
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Christian Living & Faith