Every book, text, and academic work Professor Jiang Xueqin references across his Predictive History lecture series — compiled from YouTube video descriptions. Professor Jiang draws on over 144 works spanning ancient epics (The Iliad , The Epic of Gilgamesh , The Divine Comedy ), political philosophy (The Republic , The Social Contract , The Communist Manifesto ), and modern analysis (Capital in the Twenty-First Century , The Dawn of Everything , Foundations of Geopolitics ). Use the search bar to find any book, or filter by series: Great Books, Civilization, Secret History, Game Theory, or Geo-Strategy.
Republic — Plato
The Bible
The Iliad — Homer
The Aeneid — Virgil
The Odyssey — Homer
Books of Moses
The Cosmic Serpent — Jeremy Narby
The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri
The Social Contract — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Aetiology of Hysteria — Sigmund Freud
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
City of God — Augustine
Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant
Das Kapital — Karl Marx
Enuma Elish
Faust — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Foundations of Geopolitics — Alexander Dugin
Gospel of Thomas
Letters of Karl Marx — Karl Marx
Observations Upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. John — Isaac Newton
Seeing Like a State — James C. Scott
The Assault on Truth — Jeffrey Masson
The Bacchae — Euripides
The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Collection of the Words of the Lord — Jacob Frank
The Dawn of Everything — David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Forest People — Colin Turnbull
The Interpretation of Dreams — Sigmund Freud
The Open Society and Its Enemies — Karl Popper
The Origins of Totalitarianism — Hannah Arendt
The Peloponnesian War — Thucydides
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Kuhn
The Wayfinders — Wade Davis
To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf
Tragedy and Hope — Carroll Quigley
Wall Street and the Russian Revolution — Richard B. Spence
"Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" — W.B. Yeats
"The Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 CE Compared with Islamic Conquest of 638 CE" — Ben Abrahamson and Joseph Katz
"To Autumn" — John Keats
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed — Eric H. Cline
1929 — Andrew Ross Sorkin
Acts of the Apostles
Apology — Plato
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin Franklin
Beloved — Toni Morrison
Book of Enoch
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Ezra
Book of Kings
Book of Nehemiah
Capital in the Twenty-First Century — Thomas Piketty
Civilization and Its Discontents — Sigmund Freud
Coningsby — Benjamin Disraeli
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Darkness at Noon — Arthur Koestler
Debate between Sheep and Grain
Debt: The First 5,000 Years — David Graeber
Declaration of Independence — Thomas Jefferson
Defense of Poetry — Percy Shelley
Democracy in America — Alexis de Tocqueville
Discourse on the Origins of Inequality — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite — William Deresiewicz
Farewell Address — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Foundation — Isaac Asimov
Fragments of an Analysis of Hysteria — Sigmund Freud
Gathas of Zarathustra — Zarathustra
Gettysburg Address — Abraham Lincoln
Gospel of John
Gospel of Matthew
Hamlet — William Shakespeare
Histories — Herodotus
History of Rome — Livy
Imagined Communities — Benedict Anderson
Julius Caesar — William Shakespeare
Kill King 33 — James Downard and Michael Hoffman
Letter to the Corinthians — Paul of Tarsus
Letter to the Romans — Paul of Tarsus
Letters of Mikhail Bakunin — Mikhail Bakunin
Masnavi (Poetry of Rumi) — Jalal al-Din Rumi
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
Meditations on First Philosophy — René Descartes
Metaphysics — Aristotle
Mindset — Carol Dweck
Oedipus Rex — Sophocles
On Suicide — Émile Durkheim
On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
Oresteia — Aeschylus
Paradise Lost — John Milton
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise — K. Anders Ericsson
Phenomenology of the Spirit — Friedrich Hegel
Poetic Edda
Politics — Aristotle
Popol Vuh
Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely
Prose Edda — Snorri Sturluson
Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem Schneerson — Joseph Telushkin
Sex at Dawn — Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha
State and Revolution — Vladimir Lenin
The Book of J — Harold Bloom
The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton — Jerome Karabel
The Civilization of the Goddess — Marija Gimbutas
The Communist Manifesto — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Critique of Practical Reason — Immanuel Kant
The Dark Side — Jane Mayer
The End of History and the Last Man — Francis Fukuyama
The Federalist Papers — Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
The Genealogy of Morals — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Holographic Universe — Michael Talbot
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language — David Anthony
The Language of the Goddess — Marija Gimbutas
The Marshmallow Test — Walter Mischel
The New Atlantis — Francis Bacon
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes
The Philosophy of Money — Georg Simmel
The Power Elite — C. Wright Mills
The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism — Max Weber
The Quran
The Ring Cycle — Richard Wagner
The Rise and Fall of Imperial China — Yuhua Wang
The Scofield Bible — C.I. Scofield
The Secret History of the World — Mark Booth
The Speeches of Adolf Hitler — Adolf Hitler
The Thirteenth Tribe — Arthur Koestler
The Torah
The Trial — Franz Kafka
The World as Will and Representation — Arthur Schopenhauer
Theogony — Hesiod
Three Lectures to Swiss Members — Mikhail Bakunin
Thus Spoke Zarathustra — Friedrich Nietzsche
Tower of Basel — Adam Lebor
Ulysses — James Joyce
War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires — Peter Turchin
What is Enlightenment? — Immanuel Kant
Empire of AI — Karen Hao
Morals and Dogma — Albert Pike
Between Two Ages — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zero to One — Peter Thiel
The Technological Republic — Alex Karp
The Hero with a Thousand Faces — Joseph Campbell
Confessions — Augustine of Hippo