READING? —“Curt, What are the top 3 nonfiction books (the less known, the bett

http://propertarianism.com/reading-listRECOMMENDED READING?

—“Curt, What are the top 3 nonfiction books (the less known, the better) you would recommend?”—

I don’t think I can narrow it to three. Maybe three in each discipline. My reading list is at propertarianism.com/reading-list and the first section “the short list’ includes what I recommend. Notice that I rarely if ever recommend philosophy, and almost always recommend history.

I think If I had to suggest the minimum it would be:

BASICS (EASY)

1 – Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence (The Brain)

2 – Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (The Moral Intuition)

3 – Hazlitt: economics in one lesson

4 – Durant: Lessons of History

HISTORY

1 – Keegan’s History of Warfare

2 – Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation

3 – Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe

4 – Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law.

THE PROBLEM

7 – Fukuyama: Trust (The Political Objective)

8 – Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order 1

9 – Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order 2

Roughly speaking that gives you military, religious, economic-cultural, and legal history, which comprise, as I understand it, the social sciences.