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Russ Roberts’s book recommendations in 2026

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How Your Situation Shapes You (with Angela Duckworth)

EconTalk · 2026-10-26

Situated by Angela Duckworth · discussed · at 0:49

Lives Wasted and Well-Lived: David Wolpe on The Death of Ivan Ilyich

EconTalk · 2026-10-19

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy · discussed · at 0:51
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker · discussed · at 4:59
Staring at the Sun by Irvin D. Yalom · discussed · at 14:27
Master and Man and Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy · discussed · at 53:58
How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy · discussed · at 53:58
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy · recommended · at 1:03:51

The Great Fertility Collapse (with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde)

EconTalk · 2026-10-12

Terra Incognita by Rodney Broome · discussed · at 0:48
The ultimate resource by Julian Lincoln Simon · recommended · at 1:03:33

Public Choice and Politics Without Romance (with Mike Munger)

EconTalk · 2026-09-28

Radetzky march by Joseph Roth · discussed · at 43:38

Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters (with Daisy Christodoulou)

EconTalk · 2026-09-07

The Talmud by Jacob Neusner · discussed · at 38:42
The Iliad by Homer · discussed · at 47:50
The Odyssey by Homer · discussed · at 47:50

Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism (with John Mandrola)

EconTalk · 2026-06-29

Truffle Hound by Rowan Jacobsen · discussed · at 0:09
In Defense of Sunlight by Rowan Jacobsen · discussed · at 0:18

The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt)

EconTalk · 2026-04-13

Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach by Stuart Russell · discussed · at 18:20
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen · discussed · at 31:05
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson · discussed · at 48:58

How to Flourish (with Daniel Coyle)

EconTalk · 2026-02-02

The master and his emissary by Iain McGilchrist · recommended · at 11:03

Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)

EconTalk · 2026-01-26

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land: A Groundbreaking Family History for Fans of Edmund de Waal and Philippe Sands by RACHEL. COCKERELL · discussed · at 0:21
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig · recommended · at 23:30

Nature, Nurture, and Identical Twins (with David Bessis)

EconTalk · 2026-01-19

Mathematica by David Bessis · discussed · at 0:20

The Mattering Instinct (with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein)

EconTalk · 2026-01-12

The Mattering Instinct by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein · discussed · at 0:11
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith · discussed · at 17:21

Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia (with Anna Gat)

EconTalk · 2026-01-05

Arcadia by Tom Stoppard · discussed · at 0:59

Other mentions in 2026 (7: passing, ad reads, own books)