This July we asked CPF members 'If you could recommend just one book for others in the CPF to read over the summer, what would it be?'
Thank you to everyone who participated. The following authors were each mentioned at least three times by different contributors:
Laura Dodsworth: A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the COVID-19 Pandemic (May 2021)
Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis: Greater: Britain after The Storm (May 2021)
George Orwell: 1984 / Animal Farm / England Your England
Isabel Hardman: Why We Get the Wrong Politicians (Sept 2018)
Iain Dale: The Prime Ministers (Nov 2020)
Andrew Roberts: Churchill: Walking with Destiny (Oct 2018)
Ayn Rand: Atlas Shrugged (1957)
Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince (1532; the best modern edition is by Skinner and Price)
The following books were mentioned twice:
Matt Ridley: How Innovation Works
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay: Cynical Theories
Tom Holland: Dominion: the making of the Western Mind
Robert Greene: The 48 Laws of Power
Captain Tom: Tomorrow will be a good day / Captain Tom Moore
Suzanne Heywood: What does Jeremy think?
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Delia Owens: Where the Crawdads Sing
Roger Scruton: How to be a Conservative
Geoff Norcott: Where Did I Go Right? How The Left Lost Me
Friedrich Hayek: The road to serfdom
Robert Tombs: This sovereign Isle. Britain in and out of Europe
Tom Bower: Boris Johnson: The Gambler
Alan Duncan: In the thick of it. The private diaries of a Minister
Michael Shellenberger: Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
Gregory Wrightstone: Inconvenient Facts - The science that Al Gore doesn't want you to know
CPF Chairman John Penrose MP suggested Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
CPF Manager Dr John Hayward suggested Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
“Published 2015, this reads like critique of 2020 and challenges its readers to become more actively open-minded, more ‘dragonfly-eyed’ and more committed to personal growth.”