We are a group of friends based in the Netherlands who meet every now and then to discuss books from different fields since 2019. The reading group started as an effort to educate ourselves on economics in particular, but quickly expanded to cover broader ground. Here is the list of books that we have discussed so far:
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci, ed. Quintin Hoare & Geoffrey Nowell Smith
- Crossing the Mangrove, Maryse Condé
- The World of Yesterday, Stefan Zweig
- Returning to Reims, Didier Eribon
- The Second Body, Daisy Hildyard
- Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt
- Collection of readings on political economy of farming industry, various readings
- Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World, Brett Cristophers
- Killing of JonBenét Ramsey, various readings
- Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, Siddharth Kara
- Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
- Orientalism, Edward Said
- Everyday Utopia, Kristen Ghodsee
- Basic Income, Guy Standing
- Less is More, Jason Hickel
- Effective Altruism, various readings
- The Big Con, Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington
- Anthropocene Cookbook, Zane Cerpina, Stahl Stenslie
- The Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing
- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
- The One-Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka
- The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow
- Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
- L’Histoire de la sexualité, Michel Foucault
- The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy, Stephanie Kelton
- Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution, F. John Odling-Smee, Kevin Laland, Marcus W. Feldman
- Mystical Theology, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi
- Constitution of the United States, Philadelphia Convention
- Against Method, Paul Feyerabend
- In care of the state, Abram de Swaan
- The Embodied Mind, Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch
- Economy, Michael Goodwin & Dan E. Burr
- Wage Labour and Capital, Karl Marx