The 2018 Summer Reading List is here!

Summer is here, and so is our 2018 Summer Reading List! We asked researchers, professors, alumni and current students to give us their must-reads for young bright minds. Here are there recommendations.

Follow the hashtag #ScPoSummerReading on social networks to discover more recommendations, and don’t hesitate to share your reading wherever you may be spending your summer!

ECONOMICS

• Freakonomics - S. Levitt & J. Dubner 
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty 
• Environmental Economics: A Very Short Introduction - Stephen Smith  
• Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great depression, And The Bankers Who Broke the World -  Liaquat Ahamed 
• The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - David Landes
• Prosperity Without Growth - Tim Jackson
• Economics for the Common Good - Jean Tirole, Steven Rendall
• The Bottom Billion - Paul Collier

HARD SCIENCE & SOCIAL SCIENCES

• The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• Homo Deus - A Brief History of Tomorrow - Yuval Noah Harari
• The Gene, An Intimate History - Siddharta Mukerjee
• Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism -  Robert Zubrin
• The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wulff 
• Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

HISTORY - POLITICS - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• Prisoners of Geography - Ten Maps that tell you everything you need to know about global politics! -  Tim Marshall
• Iron Curtain - Anne Applebaum
• A History of the Crusades - Steven Runciman
• The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
• The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 - Christopher Clark
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin - Timothy Snyder
• Against Elections: The Case for Democracy - David Van Reybrouck
• Strange Defeat - Marc Bloch
• Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics - Joseph Nye
• Imperial Encounters: The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations - Roxanne Lynn Doty

TECH - SOCIETY - BUSINESS - COMMUNICATION

• Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers - Lois Frankel
• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• No Logo - Naomi Klein
• The People vs. Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy (And How We Save It) - Jamie Bartlett
• Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are -  Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World -And Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling
• New Power - Jeremy Heimans
• Deep work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - Cal Newport
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

PHILOSOPHY

• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• The Cinema, Or The Imaginary Man! - Edgar Morin
• The Birth Of Tragedy - Friedrich Nietzsche 
• The Society of Equals - Pierre Rosanvallon
• Between Past and Future - Hannah Arendt
• Freud: A Very Short Introduction - Anthony Storr
• Predictably Irrational - Dan Ariely
• The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

BIOGRAPHY - AUTOBIOGRAPHY - FICTION

• The Roots of Heaven - Romain Gary, Goncourt Prize of 1956
• The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European - Stefan Zweig
• The Rules Of Attraction - Bret Easton Ellis
• Joseph Anton - Salman Rushdie
• Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
• 2666 - Roberto Bolano
• The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
• The Neapolitan Novels - Elena Ferrante
• The Plague - Albert Camus
• 1984 - George Orwell
• A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
• Animal Farm - George Orwell
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
• Paradise Lost - John Milton 
• A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
• The Prime of Life - Simone de Beauvoir

TRAVEL / LIVING IN FRANCE

• How the French Think - Sudhir Hazareesingh
• Touché; Why Britain and France Are So Different - Agnès Catherine Poirier
• Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 - Agnès Catherine Poirier

Share your summer reads with the hashtag #ScPoSummerReading!