In no order and with no attribution:
- Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions by Gerd Gigerenzer
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
- The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
- David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
- Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Lifeby Robert Trivers
- The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust by John Coates
- Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
- The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack
- Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions by Robert H. Frank
- The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail–but Some Don’tby Nate Silver
- Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
- Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans & Oscar Zarate
- Filters Against Folly: How To Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent by Garrett Hardin
- Games of Strategy (Fourth Edition) by Avinash Dixit, Susan Skeath & David H. Reiley, Jr.
- The Theory of Political Coalitions by William H. Riker
- The Evolution of War and its Cognitive Foundations (PDF) by John Tooby & Leda Cosmides.
- Fight the Power: Lanchester’s Laws of Combat in Human Evolution by Dominic D.P. Johnson & Niall J. MacKay.