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Tim Harford

"The Undercover Economist", Financial Times columnist, presenter of More or Less on BBC Radio, creator of the Cautionary Tales podcast, and author of "How To Make The World Add Up" and "The Truth Detective". 

The Truth Detective: How to make sense of a world that doesn't add up
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
The Undercover Economist
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Messy: How to Be Creative and Resilient in a Tidy-Minded World
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy
Dear Undercover Economist: The very best letters from the Dear Economist column
The Logic Of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything
The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
The Truth Detective: How to make sense of a world that doesn't add up
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers
Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Tenth Anniversary Edition
Weapons of Math Destruction
How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
The Hidden Half: The Unseen Forces That Influence Everything
The Radium Girls: They paid with their lives. Their final fight was for justice. The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment The Architecture of Happiness
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Cautionary Tales

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by t The Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 Money: The Unauthorised Biography
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Things that shaped the modern economy

Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
Secrecy
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop
Chokepoint Capitalism: how big tech and big content captured creative labour markets, and how we’ll win them back
What If? 2 : Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
How Minds Change: The New Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
The Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean
The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe
Humour, Seriously: Why Humour Is A Superpower At Work And In Life
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
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Self-help books that actually help

Headscratchers: The New Scientist Puzzle Book Science is Magic: Amaze your Friends with Spectacular Science Experiments The Truth Detective: How to make sense of a world that doesn't add up
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Books for young people who want to see the world clearly

Asterix: Asterix Omnibus 1: Asterix The Gaul, Asterix and The Golden Sickle, Asterix and The Goths
What Was I Scared Of?
Danny the Champion of the World
Watership Down
I Want My Hat Back
Winnie-the-Pooh Classic Collection
In The Night Kitchen
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
A Wizard of Earthsea: A stunning graphic novel edition of the classic fantasy adventure