Very Short Introductions Reading Order

by Malcolm Gaskill

380 books

Reading Order

1

Marx

1980

2

Aristotle

1982

3

Darwin

1982

4

Hegel

1983

5

Clausewitz

1983

6

Barthes

1983

7

Locke

1984

8

Augustine

1986

9

Shakespeare

1986

10

What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

1987

11

Kierkegaard

1988

12

Wittgenstein

1988

13

The Laws of Thermodynamics

1990

14

Privacy

1993

15

Schopenhauer

1994

16

Judaism

1996

17

Archaeology

1997

18

Psychology

1998

19

Sociology

1999

20

Theology

1999

21

The Tudors

2000

22

Logic

2000

23

Islam

2000

24

History

2000

25

The Bible

2000

26

Music

2000

27

Politics

2000

28

The Koran

2000

29

Hinduism

2000

30

Buddhism

2000

31

Planets

2000

32

Nineteenth-Century Britain

2000

33

Eighteenth-Century Britain

2000

34

Twentieth-Century Britain

2000

35

The Anglo-Saxon Age

2000

36

Ancient Philosophy

2000

37

Capitalism

2001

38

Continental Philosophy

2001

39

Postcolonialism

2001

40

The European Union

2001

41

Galileo

2001

42

Indian Philosophy

2001

43

Buddha

2001

44

Paul

2001

45

Emotion

2001

46

Russian Literature

2001

47

Drugs

2001

48

The French Revolution

2001

49

Cosmology

2001

50

Mathematics

2002

51

Democracy

2002

52

Quantum Theory

2002

53

Fascism

2002

54

Empire

2002

55

The First World War

2002

56

Philosophy of Science

2002

57

Animal Rights

2002

58

The Penguin History of Economics

2002

59

Russell

2002

60

The Russian Revolution

2002

61

Medieval Britain

2002

62

Choice Theory

2002

63

Architecture

2002

64

Political Philosophy

2003

65

Consciousness

2003

66

Northern Ireland

2003

67

Plato

2003

68

Globalization

2003

69

The History of Astronomy

2003

70

The Celts

2003

71

Ideology

2003

72

Presocratic Philosophy

2003

73

The Brain

2003

74

Terrorism

2003

75

Molecules

2003

76

The Elements

2004

77

Kafka

2004

78

The Crusades

2004

79

Particle Physics

2004

80

Egyptian Myth

2004

81

Ancient Egypt

2004

82

Christian Art

2004

83

Ancient Warfare

2004

84

Global Warming

2004

85

Philosophy

2004

86

Fossils

2005

87

The Spanish Civil War

2005

88

Foucault

2005

89

Habermas

2005

90

Buddhist Ethics

2005

91

Socialism

2005

92

Kabbalah

2005

93

Existentialism

2006

94

The Renaissance

2006

95

Feminism

2006

96

Human Evolution

2006

97

The Roman Empire

2006

98

Chaos

2007

99

Human Rights

2007

100

Antisemitism

2007

101

Tocqueville

2007

102

Documentary Film

2007

103

The Cold War

2007

104

International Migration

2007

105

Newton

2007

106

Economics

2007

107

Art Theory

2007

108

The Great Depression and the New Deal

2007

109

Classical Mythology

2007

110

Bestsellers

2007

111

Game Theory

2007

112

Geopolitics

2007

113

The History of Life

2008

114

Nuclear Weapons

2008

115

Modern China

2008

116

The United Nations

2008

117

Galaxies

2008

118

German Literature

2008

119

The Old Testament

2008

120

The New Testament as Literature

2008

121

Sexuality

2008

122

Religion in America

2008

123

Nelson Mandela

2008

124

Statistics

2008

125

Puritanism

2008

126

Scotland

2008

127

The Reagan Revolution

2009

128

Communism

2009

129

Modern Japan

2009

130

Deserts

2009

131

Nothing

2009

132

Biography

2009

133

The Soviet Union

2009

134

The Book of Mormon

2009

135

The Norman Conquest

2009

136

Biblical Archaeology

2009

137

Fashion

2009

138

Progressivism

2009

139

Information

2010

140

Neoliberalism

2010

141

Numbers

2010

142

Film Music

2010

143

The New Testament

2010

144

Humanism

2010

145

Witchcraft

2010

146

French Literature

2010

147

Druids

2010

148

The U.S. Congress

2010

149

The Hebrew Bible as Literature

2010

150

Modernism

2010

151

North American Indians

2010

152

Landscapes and Geomorphology

2010

153

Keynes

2010

154

Agnosticism

2010

155

Aristocracy

2010

156

Folk Music

2010

157

Environmental Economics

2011

158

Global Economic History

2011

159

Critical Theory

2011

160

Early Music

2011

161

American Immigration

2011

162

Scientific Revolution

2011

163

Paganism

2011

164

Nuclear Power

2011

165

Risk

2011

166

Science Fiction

2011

167

Herodotus

2011

168

Dictionaries

2011

169

Modern France

2011

170

Colonial Latin American Literature

2011

171

The Aztecs

2011

172

The Cultural Revolution

2011

173

Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction

2011

174

Modern Latin American Literature

2011

175

Reality

2011

176

The Conquistadors

2011

177

The U.S. Supreme Court

2012

178

Magic

2012

179

Film

2012

180

The History of Mathematics

2012

181

Russian History

2012

182

Engineering

2012

183

Plague

2012

184

The Mongols

2012

185

Rivers

2012

186

Plants

2012

187

Magna Carta

2012

188

Languages

2012

189

Radioactivity

2012

190

Borders

2012

191

The Orchestra

2012

192

American History

2012

193

Metaphysics

2012

194

The Roman Republic

2012

195

Revolutions

2012

196

Colonial America

2012

197

Networks

2012

198

Spirituality

2012

199

Work

2012

200

American Politics

2012

201

The Ancient Near East

2013

202

Ethnomusicology

2013

203

American Legal History

2013

204

Tibetan Buddhism

2013

205

The Trojan War

2013

206

The Avant Garde

2013

207

The Napoleonic Wars

2013

208

Medical Law

2013

209

The Silk Road

2013

210

Chemistry

2013

211

Rhetoric

2013

212

The British Constitution

2013

213

Symmetry

2013

214

The British Empire

2013

215

Diaspora

2013

216

Marine Biology

2013

217

The Beats

2013

218

Sociolinguistics

2013

219

Contemporary Fiction

2013

220

Modern War

2013

221

The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

2013

222

Fractals

2013

223

Management

2013

224

African Religions

2013

225

Classics

2013

226

Confucianism

2014

227

Black Holes

2014

228

Classical Literature

2014

229

Philosophy of Law

2014

230

Microeconomics

2014

231

The Etruscans

2014

232

Complexity

2014

233

Hormones

2014

234

American Slavery

2014

235

African American Religion

2014

236

Knowledge

2014

237

Structural Engineering

2014

238

Minerals

2014

239

Exploration

2014

240

The Middle Ages

2014

241

World War II

2014

242

American Political History

2014

243

American Women's History

2014

244

Dante

2015

245

Crime Fiction

2015

246

Forests

2015

247

William Shakespeare

2015

248

Taxation

2015

249

Corruption

2015

250

The American Revolution

2015

251

Roman Britain

2015

252

Nuclear Physics

2015

253

Byzantium

2015

254

Medieval Literature

2015

255

The Enlightenment

2015

256

The Founding Fathers

2015

257

Algebra

2015

258

International Law

2015

259

Hollywood

2015

260

Eugenics

2016

261

Molecular Biology

2016

262

Computer Science

2016

263

Babylonia

2016

264

Measurement

2016

265

The Body

2016

266

Astrophysics

2016

267

Shakespeare's Comedies

2016

268

Modern Drama

2016

269

Sikhism

2016

270

Isotopes

2016

271

Global Catastrophes

2016

272

The Harlem Renaissance

2016

273

The Welfare State

2016

274

American Political Parties and Elections

2016

275

Copernicus

2016

276

Asian American History

2016

277

War and Technology

2016

278

Military Justice

2016

279

Zionism

2016

280

Ageing

2016

281

Cognitive Neuroscience

2016

282

Rocks

2016

283

Telescopes

2016

284

Infinity

2017

285

Thinking and Reasoning

2017

286

The Immune System

2017

287

Populism

2017

288

Military Strategy

2017

289

The Self-Taught Programmer

2017

290

Intellectual Property

2017

291

Organic Chemistry

2017

292

Shakespeare's Tragedies

2017

293

Utilitarianism

2017

294

Heredity

2017

295

Perception

2017

296

Miracles

2017

297

The Psychology of Music

2018

298

Stoicism

2018

299

Geology

2018

300

Monasticism

2018

301

Big Data

2018

302

Prohibition

2018

303

Development

2018

304

The U.S. Constitution

2018

305

Southeast Asia

2018

306

Anthropocene

2018

307

American Naval History

2018

308

The History of Childhood

2018

309

Abolitionism

2018

310

Artificial Intelligence

2018

311

Napoleon

2018

312

Glaciation

2018

313

Environmental Ethics

2018

314

Reading

2019

315

The Treaty of Versailles

2019

316

Concentration Camps

2019

317

Matter

2019

318

American Foreign Relations

2019

319

Methodism

2019

320

Orthodox Christianity

2019

321

Country Music

2019

322

Federalism

2019

323

Energy Systems

2019

324

Reconstruction

2019

325

The Abrahamic Religions

2019

326

Renewable Energy

2020

327

Intelligence

2020

328

Number Theory

2020

329

American Business History

2020

330

British Politics

2020

331

Media Law

2020

332

Biogeography

2020

333

City Planning

2020

334

Silent Film

2020

335

The Maya

2020

336

Religion

2020

337

The U.S. Civil War

2020

338

American Military History

2020

339

Volcanoes

2020

340

The American South

2020

341

Philosophy of Physics

2021

342

Biochemistry

2021

343

Jewish Literature

2021

344

Time

2021

345

The Arctic

2021

346

Pakistan

2021

347

The History of Political Thought

2021

348

The Short Story

2021

349

Polygamy

2021

350

Music and Technology

2022

351

Science and Religion

2022

352

Philosophy of Mind

2022

353

Geometry

2022

354

Jane Austen

2022

355

Ludwig van Beethoven

2022

356

Evangelicalism

2022

357

The History of Computing

2022

358

Insects

2022

359

Ivan Pavlov

2022

360

The American Judicial System

2022

361

French Cinema

2022

362

Gödel's Theorem

2022

363

Suburbs

2023

364

The Jury

2023

365

The Civil Rights Movement

2023

366

Vatican II

2023

367

Japanese Literature

2023

368

Ancient Greek and Roman Science

2023

369

The History of Emotions

2023

370

Observational Astronomy

2023

371

Bohemians

2023

372

Mathematical Analysis

2023

373

Invasive Species

2023

374

Biodiversity Conservation

2023

375

The Victorians

2023

376

The Gulag

2024

377

Geophysical and Climate Hazards

2024

378

Travel Writing

2024

379

J.R.R. Tolkien

2024

380

Sophocles

2025