This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: How To Allocate Resources?
What to do with the resources that we have? How does using them impact the world? What are the resources anyway?
Resources
- Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
- The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
- The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
- Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet: A Report to the Club of Rome by Ugo Bardi
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
- The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
Allocation
- The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
- Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
- Capitalism: A Short History by Jürgen Kocka
- The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
- The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
- Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
- The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
- Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
- [Upcoming] Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
- The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
- Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom
- Guide to Profitability by Hetal Shah
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
- The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
- Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries by Marc Fasteau, and Ian Fletcher
- Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
- The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
- My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
- Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
- The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List
- Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
- Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
- A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
- Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
- When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
- The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
Allocation | Fiction
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
Agriculture
- Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
- The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution by Brent Preston
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
Climate Change
- Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
Climate Change | Fiction
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Impact
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
