Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
4.8 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J. D. Vance and HarperAudio
4.5 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage
Dan Crenshaw and Twelve
4.8 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling , Anna Rosling Rönnlund , et al.
4.6 on Amazon
1 HN comments
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
Douglas Murray
4.7 on Amazon
1 HN comments
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel
4.5 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Deficit Myth
Stephanie Kelton
4.5 on Amazon
1 HN comments
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli and Luigi Ricci
4.7 on Amazon
1 HN comments
The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom (Freedom in America) (Volume 2)
W. Cleon Skousen , Paul B. Skousen , et al.
4.8 on Amazon
1 HN comments
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
4.3 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Technological Slavery
Theodore Kaczynski
4.6 on Amazon
1 HN comments
The Art of Communicating
Thich Nhat Hanh
4.8 on Amazon
1 HN comments
A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
4.7 on Amazon
1 HN comments
The Four Agreements: A 48-Card Deck
Don Miguel Ruiz
4.8 on Amazon
1 HN comments
Billion Dollar Whale
Bradley Hope, Tom Wright, et al.
4.5 on Amazon
1 HN comments
failwhalesharkonMay 10, 2021
Popularity and taste rarely coincide because most people have no taste.
(Me covets a The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell first edition.)
The other thing is to read books that are important, not just ones that are preferred or pleasant for a wider perspective:
- Mein Kampf
- Capital (Das Kapital)
- Technological Slavery
- The International Jew
- A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. 1-6.
- (ones by ideological opposites)
- America: The Farewell Tour
- Sorrows of Empire
Also, people who don't own any books, paper or Kindle... that's a big "nope."