Start with high-confidence economics books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Running Money
Andy Kessler
Diary of a Very Bad Year
Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager, n+1
Freakonomics Revised and Expanded Edition
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
How Economics Explains the World
Andrew Leigh
Freakonomics Twentieth Anniversary Edition
The Baseball Economist
J.C. Bradbury
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Thomas Sowell
Basic Economics
Against the Gods
Peter L. Bernstein
The Wisdom of Finance
Mihir Desai
The Economics Book
DK, Niall Kishtainy
How Economics Works
DK, D.K. Publishing
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Saving International Adoption
Mark Montgomery, Irene Powell
The Little Book of Economics
Greg Ip
Rethinking Economics
J. Christopher Proctor, Liliann Fischer
The Armchair Economist
Steven E. Landsburg
The AI Economy
Roger Bootle
The Economy of Algorithms
Marek Kowalkiewicz, Stephen Perring
Trading Up
Michael J. Silverstein, Neil Fiske
Abundance
Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
