Best Introductory Books (septivium list)

The septivium “best introductory books” list, as shared by David Perell in April 2020: one introductory book per field.

Every book on this list

17 books; ✓ marks the ones Kyle has read.

• Economics in One Lesson — Henry Hazlitt
• How Children Fail — John Caldwell Holt
• How Children Learn — John Holt
• Introduction to Legal Reasoning — Edward Levi
• Law 101- Everything you Need to Know About the American Legal System — Jay M. Feinman
• Learning the Law — Glanville Williams
• Mathematics- A Very Short Introduction — Timothy Gowers
• Methods of Logic — Quine
• Phantoms in the Brain — VS Ramachandran
• Practical Homicide Investigation — Vernon Geberth
• Rulebook for Arguments — Weston
• The Age of Diminished Expectations — Paul Krugman
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs
• Theory of Literature — René Wellek and Austin Warren
• To Engineer Is Human — Henry Petroski
• What is Mathematics? — Richard Courant
• Where Wizards Stay Up Late — Katie Hafner

Connections

• Book Lists — Master