What to Read After Rational Optimist
Readers who loved Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Rational Optimist is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Rational Optimist
The machinery of freedom
The future and its enemies
The Myth of the Rational Voter
The Birth of Plenty
Abundance
The (mis)behavior of markets
Bourgeois dignity
Portfolios of the poor
Rational Ritual
Whole earth discipline
What technology wants
The Beginning of Infinity
Capitalism and freedom
The Virtue of Selfishness
The ascent of money
The Righteous Mind
Anthem
The Selfish Gene
A Confederacy of Dunces
The God Delusion
Candide
Thinking, fast and slow
Madame Bovary
Outliers