My Reading Collection
A curated list of books I've read, am reading, or plan to read.
Economics, Philosophy, Politics
The socialist tradition, Moses to Lenin
by Alexander Gray
A fantastic historical overview of key socialist figures, providing essential context on their lives, backgrounds, and the evolution of socialist thought throughout history.
Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant
The not so wild, wild west
by Terry H. Anderson, P. J. Hill
A practical example of the development of property rights and polycentric law.
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
What is Seen and What is Not Seen
by Frédéric Bastiat
Everyone should read this to understand what is often unseen.
The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich von Hayek
Democracy: The God That Failed
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Ne až tak divoký "divoký" kapitalismus
by Hynek Řihák
This book is only available in Czech.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
by John Maynard Keynes
Špatné peníze
by Juraj Karpiš
This book is only available in Czech. Great book about central banking, fiat money and financial crises.
Das Kapital (all 3 volumes)
by Karl Marx
Human Action
by Ludwig von Mises
A true masterpiece and the ultimate defense of laissez-faire capitalism. It approaches economics a priori through praxeology, emphasizing methodological individualism and self-evident economic laws.
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
by Ludwig von Mises
God and the State
by Michail Bakunin
Statism and Anarchy
by Michail Bakunin
For a New Liberty
by Murray Rothbard
Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell
Defending the Undefendable
by Walter E. Block
The Origins of Totalitarianism
by Hannah Arendt
This book was recommended to me more than once.
The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Another classic I haven't read yet, though I know all the arguments.
Two Treatises of Government
by John Locke
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism
by John Stuart Mill
Conjectures and Refutations
by Karl Popper
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
by Karl Popper
The Poverty of Historicism
by Karl Popper
The Theory of Money and Credit
by Ludwig von Mises
On Certainty
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Discipline and Punish
by Michel Foucault
I received recommendations to read this book.
Republic
by Plato
I haven't read it yet, but I feel like I already know almost everything about it from discussions, critiques, and references from other books.
Meditations on First Philosophy
by René Descartes
Psychology
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
by Oliver Sacks
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by Robert M. Sapolsky
Psychologie sériových vrahů
by Andrej Drbohlav
This book is only available in Czech.
The Betrayal of the Self
by Arno Gruen
The Psychology Book
by Marcus Weeks, Merrin Lazyan, Voula Grand, Joannah Ginsburg, Nigel C. Benson, Catherine Collin
Nonviolent Communication
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
A very important book for me, nonviolent communication is quite a game changer.
Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World.
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
The Moral Animal
by Robert Wright
The Blank Slate
by Steven Pinker
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
by Janet Malcolm
Religion
Mathematics, Computer Science
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter
Mastering Bitcoin
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Logic for Applications
by Anil Nerode, Richard A. Shore
Kapitoly z diskrétní matematiky
by Jiří Matoušek, Jaroslav Nešetřil
Základy matematické analýzy I.
by Jiří Veselý
Průvodce labyrintem algoritmů
by Martin Mareš, Tomáš Valla
Lineární algebra (nejen) pro informatiky
by Milan Hladík
Fiction
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
The Little Prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
1984
by George Orwell
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
R.U.R.
by Karel Čapek
The White Disease
by Karel Čapek
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Why 451? Because that's the temperature at which paper burns...