Marc Andreessen’s 2022 Reading List
The 20 books Marc Andreessen recommended in 2022, with the reasons in their own words. See all the books Marc Andreessen recommends.
Other years: 2007
20 books recommended in 2022
The Ancient City
by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
The single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom
Together, the best explanation for the current structure of our society and politics
The Managerial Revolution
Together, the best explanation for the current structure of our society and politics
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer
A brilliant book on the nature of mass movements and collective psychology
The Power of the Powerless
by Vaclav Havel
The definitive work on practical life under totalitarianism
Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of American Grand Strategy
A sobering reexamination of how democratic governments actually make decisions
History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America
by Bruno Macaes
On the country and culture the United States is evolving into, not necessarily decline, but something very different
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Two of Thomas Sowell’s many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
Two of Thomas Sowell’s many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be
The WEIRDest People in the World
Two more books on who we are and how we got here, one on culture, the other on genetics
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
by David Reich
Two more books on who we are and how we got here, one on culture, the other on genetics
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
A comprehensive biography and a key chronicle of Vladimir Lenin
The Spanish Civil War
by Hugh Thomas
Four books on the Spanish Civil War, which was the trial run for the hundred years of Western history that followed
Homage to Catalonia
Four books on the Spanish Civil War, which was the trial run for the hundred years of Western history that followed
