50 Great Reads: Dan Sullivan’s Reading List
Dan Sullivan has been a great reader for much of his life—from poring over The Encyclopedia Britannica in the town library as a child, to studying The Great Books Of The World at St. John’s College in Annapolis, MD, to the many, many books he’s discovered or been introduced to in the years since.
As a conceptual thinker himself, he is fascinated by new ideas and ways of thinking. Over the years, he has compiled his own library of non-fiction authors and books that he’s read many times over. Here are his 50 favorites, some published as early as the 1960s, others recently published.
Enjoy!
- Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez
- The Technological System by Jacques Ellul
- The Ultimate Resource by Julian Simon
- Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
- Seeing Like A State by James C. Scott
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- The Cave and the Light by Arthur Herman
- Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure by Tim Harford
- Atheist Delusions by David Bentley Hart
- The Idea Of Decline In Western History by Edward Herman
- Escape From Freedom by Erich Fromm
- The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil
- The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom
- The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality by Ludwig von Mises
- Occidentalism by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit
- Life At The Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple
- Ideas by Peter Watson
- The Lonely Crowd by David Riesman, Nathan Glazer, and Reuel Denney
- The Road To Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
- Abundance by Peter Diamandis
- The Modern Mind by Peter Watson
- The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
- The Fatal Conceit by F.A. Hayek
- A New Kind Of Science by Stephen Wolfram
- Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- The Open Society And Its Enemies by Karl Popper
- The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschal
- Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter
- The God Of The Machine by Isabel Paterson
- The Bourgeois Virtues by Deirdre McCloskey
- Anti-Americanism by Jean-Francois Revel
- The House of Intellect by Jacques Barzun
- The Intellectuals & The Masses by John Carey
- The Tyranny Of Experts by William Easterly
- Why Not Capitalism? by Jason Brennan
- The Revolt Of The Elites by Christopher Lasch
- Out Of Control by Kevin Kelly
- The Culture Of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
- Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
- The American Religion by Harold Bloom
- American Exceptionalism by Seymour Martin Lipset
- Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
- Inventing Freedom by Daniel Hannan
- The Age Of Discontinuity by Peter Drucker
- The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes
- Knowledge and Power by George Gilder
- Big Gods by Ara Norenzayan
- The Righteous Mind by Johathan Haidt
- The Quest by Daniel Yergin