Very Short Introductions Reading Order
Reading Order
Marx
1980
Aristotle
1982
Darwin
1982
Hegel
1983
Clausewitz
1983
Barthes
1983
Locke
1984
Augustine
1986
Shakespeare
1986
What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
1987
Kierkegaard
1988
Wittgenstein
1988
The Laws of Thermodynamics
1990
Privacy
1993
Schopenhauer
1994
Judaism
1996
Archaeology
1997
Psychology
1998
Sociology
1999
Theology
1999
The Tudors
2000
Logic
2000
Islam
2000
History
2000
The Bible
2000
Music
2000
Politics
2000
The Koran
2000
Hinduism
2000
Buddhism
2000
Planets
2000
Nineteenth-Century Britain
2000
Eighteenth-Century Britain
2000
Twentieth-Century Britain
2000
The Anglo-Saxon Age
2000
Ancient Philosophy
2000
Capitalism
2001
Continental Philosophy
2001
Postcolonialism
2001
The European Union
2001
Galileo
2001
Indian Philosophy
2001
Buddha
2001
Paul
2001
Emotion
2001
Russian Literature
2001
Drugs
2001
The French Revolution
2001
Cosmology
2001
Mathematics
2002
Democracy
2002
Quantum Theory
2002
Fascism
2002
Empire
2002
The First World War
2002
Philosophy of Science
2002
Animal Rights
2002
The Penguin History of Economics
2002
Russell
2002
The Russian Revolution
2002
Medieval Britain
2002
Choice Theory
2002
Architecture
2002
Political Philosophy
2003
Consciousness
2003
Northern Ireland
2003
Plato
2003
Globalization
2003
The History of Astronomy
2003
The Celts
2003
Ideology
2003
Presocratic Philosophy
2003
The Brain
2003
Terrorism
2003
Molecules
2003
The Elements
2004
Kafka
2004
The Crusades
2004
Particle Physics
2004
Egyptian Myth
2004
Ancient Egypt
2004
Christian Art
2004
Ancient Warfare
2004
Global Warming
2004
Philosophy
2004
Fossils
2005
The Spanish Civil War
2005
Foucault
2005
Habermas
2005
Buddhist Ethics
2005
Socialism
2005
Kabbalah
2005
Existentialism
2006
The Renaissance
2006
Feminism
2006
Human Evolution
2006
The Roman Empire
2006
Chaos
2007
Human Rights
2007
Antisemitism
2007
Tocqueville
2007
Documentary Film
2007
The Cold War
2007
International Migration
2007
Newton
2007
Economics
2007
Art Theory
2007
The Great Depression and the New Deal
2007
Classical Mythology
2007
Bestsellers
2007
Game Theory
2007
Geopolitics
2007
The History of Life
2008
Nuclear Weapons
2008
Modern China
2008
The United Nations
2008
Galaxies
2008
German Literature
2008
The Old Testament
2008
The New Testament as Literature
2008
Sexuality
2008
Religion in America
2008
Nelson Mandela
2008
Statistics
2008
Puritanism
2008
Scotland
2008
The Reagan Revolution
2009
Communism
2009
Modern Japan
2009
Deserts
2009
Nothing
2009
Biography
2009
The Soviet Union
2009
The Book of Mormon
2009
The Norman Conquest
2009
Biblical Archaeology
2009
Fashion
2009
Progressivism
2009
Information
2010
Neoliberalism
2010
Numbers
2010
Film Music
2010
The New Testament
2010
Humanism
2010
Witchcraft
2010
French Literature
2010
Druids
2010
The U.S. Congress
2010
The Hebrew Bible as Literature
2010
Modernism
2010
North American Indians
2010
Landscapes and Geomorphology
2010
Keynes
2010
Agnosticism
2010
Aristocracy
2010
Folk Music
2010
Environmental Economics
2011
Global Economic History
2011
Critical Theory
2011
Early Music
2011
American Immigration
2011
Scientific Revolution
2011
Paganism
2011
Nuclear Power
2011
Risk
2011
Science Fiction
2011
Herodotus
2011
Dictionaries
2011
Modern France
2011
Colonial Latin American Literature
2011
The Aztecs
2011
The Cultural Revolution
2011
Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction
2011
Modern Latin American Literature
2011
Reality
2011
The Conquistadors
2011
The U.S. Supreme Court
2012
Magic
2012
Film
2012
The History of Mathematics
2012
Russian History
2012
Engineering
2012
Plague
2012
The Mongols
2012
Rivers
2012
Plants
2012
Magna Carta
2012
Languages
2012
Radioactivity
2012
Borders
2012
The Orchestra
2012
American History
2012
Metaphysics
2012
The Roman Republic
2012
Revolutions
2012
Colonial America
2012
Networks
2012
Spirituality
2012
Work
2012
American Politics
2012
The Ancient Near East
2013
Ethnomusicology
2013
American Legal History
2013
Tibetan Buddhism
2013
The Trojan War
2013
The Avant Garde
2013
The Napoleonic Wars
2013
Medical Law
2013
The Silk Road
2013
Chemistry
2013
Rhetoric
2013
The British Constitution
2013
Symmetry
2013
The British Empire
2013
Diaspora
2013
Marine Biology
2013
The Beats
2013
Sociolinguistics
2013
Contemporary Fiction
2013
Modern War
2013
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
2013
Fractals
2013
Management
2013
African Religions
2013
Classics
2013
Confucianism
2014
Black Holes
2014
Classical Literature
2014
Philosophy of Law
2014
Microeconomics
2014
The Etruscans
2014
Complexity
2014
Hormones
2014
American Slavery
2014
African American Religion
2014
Knowledge
2014
Structural Engineering
2014
Minerals
2014
Exploration
2014
The Middle Ages
2014
World War II
2014
American Political History
2014
American Women's History
2014
Dante
2015
Crime Fiction
2015
Forests
2015
William Shakespeare
2015
Taxation
2015
Corruption
2015
The American Revolution
2015
Roman Britain
2015
Nuclear Physics
2015
Byzantium
2015
Medieval Literature
2015
The Enlightenment
2015
The Founding Fathers
2015
Algebra
2015
International Law
2015
Hollywood
2015
Eugenics
2016
Molecular Biology
2016
Computer Science
2016
Babylonia
2016
Measurement
2016
The Body
2016
Astrophysics
2016
Shakespeare's Comedies
2016
Modern Drama
2016
Sikhism
2016
Isotopes
2016
Global Catastrophes
2016
The Harlem Renaissance
2016
The Welfare State
2016
American Political Parties and Elections
2016
Copernicus
2016
Asian American History
2016
War and Technology
2016
Military Justice
2016
Zionism
2016
Ageing
2016
Cognitive Neuroscience
2016
Rocks
2016
Telescopes
2016
Infinity
2017
Thinking and Reasoning
2017
The Immune System
2017
Populism
2017
Military Strategy
2017
The Self-Taught Programmer
2017
Intellectual Property
2017
Organic Chemistry
2017
Shakespeare's Tragedies
2017
Utilitarianism
2017
Heredity
2017
Perception
2017
Miracles
2017
The Psychology of Music
2018
Stoicism
2018
Geology
2018
Monasticism
2018
Big Data
2018
Prohibition
2018
Development
2018
The U.S. Constitution
2018
Southeast Asia
2018
Anthropocene
2018
American Naval History
2018
The History of Childhood
2018
Abolitionism
2018
Artificial Intelligence
2018
Napoleon
2018
Glaciation
2018
Environmental Ethics
2018
Reading
2019
The Treaty of Versailles
2019
Concentration Camps
2019
Matter
2019
American Foreign Relations
2019
Methodism
2019
Orthodox Christianity
2019
Country Music
2019
Federalism
2019
Energy Systems
2019
Reconstruction
2019
The Abrahamic Religions
2019
Renewable Energy
2020
Intelligence
2020
Number Theory
2020
American Business History
2020
British Politics
2020
Media Law
2020
Biogeography
2020
City Planning
2020
Silent Film
2020
The Maya
2020
Religion
2020
The U.S. Civil War
2020
American Military History
2020
Volcanoes
2020
The American South
2020
Philosophy of Physics
2021
Biochemistry
2021
Jewish Literature
2021
Time
2021
The Arctic
2021
Pakistan
2021
The History of Political Thought
2021
The Short Story
2021
Polygamy
2021
Music and Technology
2022
Science and Religion
2022
Philosophy of Mind
2022
Geometry
2022
Jane Austen
2022
Ludwig van Beethoven
2022
Evangelicalism
2022
The History of Computing
2022
Insects
2022
Ivan Pavlov
2022
The American Judicial System
2022
French Cinema
2022
Gödel's Theorem
2022
Suburbs
2023
The Jury
2023
The Civil Rights Movement
2023
Vatican II
2023
Japanese Literature
2023
Ancient Greek and Roman Science
2023
The History of Emotions
2023
Observational Astronomy
2023
Bohemians
2023
Mathematical Analysis
2023
Invasive Species
2023
Biodiversity Conservation
2023
The Victorians
2023
The Gulag
2024
Geophysical and Climate Hazards
2024
Travel Writing
2024
J.R.R. Tolkien
2024
Sophocles
2025