This is not by any accounts a complete list of books I would recommend, but it will do for starters!
Explanations (comprehensible) of The Recent Financial Crash
- Big Short - Michael Lewis
- Whoops (Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay) - John :Lanchester
Just Plain Interesting and difficult to categorise
- Watching The English - Kate Fox
- Risk - Dan Gardner
- Flat Earth News - Nick Davies
- Bounce - Matthew Syed
- The Memory Bank - Keith Hart
- The Chimp Paradox - Dr Steve Peters
- Why Most Things Fail - Paul Ormerod
- 59 Seconds, Think a Little, Change a Lot - Richard Wiseman
Humourous History
- 1000 Years of Annoying The French - Stephen Clarke
- An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain - John O’Farrell
- An Utterly Impartial History of Britain - John O’Farrell
Serious History
- The Rise & Fall of the Great Powers - Paul Kennedy
- Why The West Rules For Now - The Patterns of history and what they reveal about the future - Ian Morris
- Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoglu & James A Robinson
- World Civilizations - Burns, Ralph, Lerner, Meacham
- Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - David Landes
- D-Day - Anthony Bevoir
- The Myth of Decline - The Rise of Britain Since 1945 - George L Bernstein
Economics and Predictions Thereof
- Solutions For The World’s Biggest Problems - Bjorn Lomborg
- The Skeptical Environmentalist - Bjorn Lomborg
- Fooled By Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The World in 2020 - Hamish McRae
- Just Capital - Adair Turner
- Inevitable Surprise - Peter Schwarz
- The Rational Optimist - Matt Ridley
- 20:21 Vision: The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st - Bill Emmott
Comment on Current Affairs in Britiain
- Scared To Death - Christopher Booker & Richard North
- The Real Global Warming Disaster - Christopher Booker
- All Must Have Prizes - Melanie Philips
- The Welfare State We’re In - James Bartholomew
- The Rise Of Political Lying - Peter Oborne
- Bring Home the Revolution: The Case for a British Republic - Jonathan Freedland
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