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
- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
- The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth by Amy C. Edmondson
- Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
- The Divided State: Factional Structures and the Crisis of Democracy by Joonhong Park
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
- Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
- The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
- Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
- The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
- The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
- Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
- How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato
- Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
- An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
- Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
- Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
- Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq by Bartle Bull
- The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
- 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
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
- The God That Failed Edited by Richard Crossman
- My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
- Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
- Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
- Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
- Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
- The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
- Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
- Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- 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
- Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
- The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
- Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
- The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
- The Possibility Principle: How Quantum Physics Can Improve the Way You Think, Live, and Love by Mel Schwartz
- The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
- The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill
- 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
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
- Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
- The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
- Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
- A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
- Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
- 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
- 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
- Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
- With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugene B. Sledge
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
- 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
- Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
- 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
- The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Good Day To Die by Francis Hayes
Fiction
- Berlin by Jason Lutes
- The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
- The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
- Death's End by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
- A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh
- Elektra by Jennifer Saint
