Decline, Decay, Demise

• The Temple of the Golden Pavilion · Yukio Mishima
• The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy · Christopher Lasch
• Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of History · Karl Löwith
• War, Progress, and the End of History · Vladimir Solovyov
• The Elementary Particles · Michel Houellebecq
• The Decline of the West · Oswald Spengler

Capital Horror

• Xenosystems · Nick Land
• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? · Mark Fisher
• American Psycho · Bret Easton Ellis
• Brave New World · Aldous Huxley
• Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas · Natasha Dow Schüll
• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory · David Graeber

The Doors of Perception

• The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception · James J. Gibson
• Simulacra and Simulation · Jean Baudrillard
• Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures · Eric R. Kandel
• Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty · Gerd Gigerenzer
• Being and Time · Martin Heidegger

Books Are Made of Books

• Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West · Cormac McCarthy
• Ficciones · Jorge Luis Borges
• The Crying of Lot 49 · Thomas Pynchon
• Infinite Jest · David Foster Wallace

Making Meaning

• The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life · David Brooks
• Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in His Own Words · Steve Jobs
• The Beauty of Everyday Things · Soetsu Yanagi
• Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect · Will Guidara

A Living Sacrifice

• We Become What We Worship: A Biblical Theology of Idolatry · Gregory K. Beale
• Paul: A Biography · N.T. Wright
• Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes · Kenneth E. Bailey
• The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism · D.A. Carson
• Neither Poverty nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Possessions · Craig L. Blomberg
• Spiritual Trauma: A Guide for Healing Your Heart From Church Hurts · Sean St. Jean

National Engineering

• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story · Lee Kuan Yew
• Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future · Dan Wang
• The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom · James Burnham
• Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time · Jeff Speck

American Mythos

• How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States · Daniel Immerwahr
• The True History of the American Revolution · Sydney George Fisher
• Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization · Nicholson Baker
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X · Malcolm X & Alex Haley
• The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money · Bryan Caplan

Narrow Histories

• Salt: A World History · Mark Kurlansky
• Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style · W. David Marx
• Science Since Babylon · Derek de Solla Price

Quiet Desperation

• Meditations in an Emergency · Frank O'Hara
• The Burnout Society · Byung-Chul Han