Learning Economics: Basic to Advanced

This is an alphabetical version.  For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: Learning Economics: Basic to Advanced

This list of books provide a guide to follow to learn economics.  When you are comfortable enough with the basics, try the more advanced.  If you already reading the advanced books, you can still learn a lot from the basic books.  

Basic

Fundamentals

• Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology by Duncan K. Foley
• Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller
• The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It by Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig
• Capitalism: A Short History by Jürgen Kocka
• A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
• Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
• The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
• The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson
• Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
• The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street by Justin Fox
• The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
• Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
• The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters by Diane Coyle
• Understanding Capital: Marx's Economic Theory by Duncan K. Foley
• The Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
• The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin

Topical

• Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom
• The Middleman Economy: How Brokers, Agents, Dealers, and Everyday Matchmakers Create Value and Profit by Marina Krakovsky
• Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don’t See Them Coming by Gary Gorton
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando de Soto
• The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
• The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz
• The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli
• Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell

Competition & Property Rights

• Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin, and David K. Levine
• Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar
• The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
• Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership by Lewis Hyde
• The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
• The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives by Michael Heller

Modeling

• The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence by Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson
• Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman

Intermediate

Fundamentals

• Alternative Theories of Competition: Challenges to the Orthodoxy edited by Jamee K Moudud, Cyrus Bina, Patrick L Mason
• Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter
• The Clash of Economic Ideas by Lawrence H. White
• Individualism and Economic Order by Friedrich A. Hayek
• The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List
• On Classical Economics by Thomas Sowell
• Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy by Robert L. Heilbroner
• The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith

Modeling

• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
• Mastering 'metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect by Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke

Topical

• The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
• The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
• Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Progress and Poverty by Henry George
• This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart, and Kenneth S. Rogoff

Advanced

Fundamentals

• Capital and Exploitation by John Weeks
• Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production by Karl Marx
• Capital, Vol. 2: The Process of Circulation of Capital by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
• Capital, Vol. 3: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
• Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises by Anwar Shaikh
• Lombard Street A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot
• Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities: Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory by Piero Sraffa