What to Read After The Rational Optimist
Readers who loved The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The 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 The Rational Optimist
Abundance
Where good ideas come from
What technology wants
The Beginning of Infinity
Rational Ritual
Portfolios of the poor
The future and its enemies
Bourgeois dignity
The machinery of freedom
The (mis)behavior of markets
The Birth of Plenty
The Myth of the Rational Voter
Whole earth discipline
The Red Queen
Genome
The better angels of our nature
The origins of virtue
The Black Swan
Nature via nurture
The Singularity Is Near
How the Mind Works
Moral Landscape
The Signal and the Noise
The honest truth about dishonesty