This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: Why Conflict Occurs And How To Resolve Them?
- Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
- Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
- How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
- Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
- Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
- Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin To Munger by Peter Bevelin
- Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
- The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
- The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
- Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
- Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
- I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
- Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
- Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
- Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Peter Godfrey-Smith
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
- Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
- The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
- The Perdiccas Years, 323–320 BC: Alexander's Successors at War by Tristan Hughes
- October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
- Black Sea by Neal Ascherson