
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (P.S.)
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments

The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book)
Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments

Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century
Josh Rogin, Robert Petkoff, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
2 HN comments

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments

Intellectuals and Society
Thomas Sowell
4.9 on Amazon
2 HN comments

Don Quixote: Translated by Edith Grossman
Miguel de Cervantes, George Guidall, et al.
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments

HumanKind: Changing the World One Small Act At a Time
Brad Aronson
4.6 on Amazon
2 HN comments

The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon , Richard Philcox , et al.
4.8 on Amazon
2 HN comments

The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch
4.7 on Amazon
2 HN comments

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Matthew B. Crawford
4.3 on Amazon
2 HN comments

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher
4.7 on Amazon
1 HN comments

Irresistible Revolution: Marxism's Goal of Conquest & the Unmaking of the American Military
Matthew Lohmeier
4.7 on Amazon
1 HN comments

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Louis Menand
4.4 on Amazon
1 HN comments

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Ryan Holiday and Tim Ferriss
4.7 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Barrin92onMar 25, 2021
James P. Carse, I See Satan Fall Like Lightning Girard, Discipline and Punish Foucault, Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher, some of Land's earlier work like Meltdown.
That's some of the stuff that comes to mind as having shifted my perception on things in some fundamental ways. I don't think I've ever practically changed anything in my life though as a response to reading a book, not sure how that would even manifest.