Recommended Reading List
In this current Digital Age of information overload, many are beginning to understand the need to return to more traditional avenues of gathering knowledge. We need a more patient method than the compulsive scrolling of the screen and endless headlines; a “deep reading” which books are designed to impart, as well as a broadened sense of empathy if read voraciously and open-mindedly. Books give us access to much that the internet and social media has not been able to replace. More often than not, people who want to explore the world of books to gain a deeper understanding of our world, of themselves, and life in general, simply don’t know where to start. These are some of our personal recommendations, many of which we will discuss and mention on the show at some point.
(This page is still a work in progress, and will be updated and added to periodically.)
Politics, Pathocracy, Totalitarianism
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity - Douglas Murray
The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture - Heather MacDonald
The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense - Gad Saad
The Origins of Totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt
The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II - John W. Dower
Defying Hitler: A Memoir - Sebastian Haffner
Art and History
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history, Volume I) - David Hackett Fischer
Washington’s Crossing - David Hackett Fischer
Literature and Poetry
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Notes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky
One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein
Frankenstein - Mary Shelly
True Grit - Charles Portis
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Ubik - Philip K. Dick
Valis - Philip K Dick
The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran
The Collected Works of William Blake
Psychology and Psychiatry
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan B. Peterson
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson
Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes - Andrzej Lobaczewski
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us - Robert Hare
Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work - Robert Hare and Paul Babiak
The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt To Clarify Some Issues About The So-Called Psychopathic Personality - Hervey Cleckley
Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders - Anna Salter
The Sociopath Next Door - Martha Stout
The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage - Martha Stout
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind - Gustave Le Bon
Propaganda - Edward Bernays
Philosophy, Esotericism, Comparative Religion
Shamanism - Mircea Eliade
Cosmos and History - Mircea Eliade
The Sacred and the Profane - Mircea Eliade
The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly P. Hall
The Secret History of the World and How to Get Out Alive - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination - William Chittick
The Active Side of Infinity - Carlos Castaneda
The Fire from Within - Carlos Castaneda
Fulcanelli: His True Identity Revealed - Patrick Riviere
The Mystery of the Cathedrals - Fulcanelli
The Dwellings of the Philosophers - Fulcanelli
The Zelator - David Ovason
In Search of the Miraculous - P.D. Ouspensky
Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson: All and Everything, First Series - G.I. Gurdjieff
Meetings With Remarkable Men: All and Everything, Second Series - G.I. Gurdjieff
Life is Real Only Then, When “I Am”: All and Everything, Third Series - G.I. Gurdjieff
Herald of the Coming Good - G.I. Gurdjieff
Gurdjieff and Hypnosis: A Hermeneutic Study - Mohammad Tamdgidi
UFOs, Paranormal, Parapsychology
The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry - J. Allen Hynek
High Strangeness: Hyperdimensions and the Process of Alien Abduction - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults - Jacques Vallee
Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers - Jacques Vallee
UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941-1973 - Richard Dolan
UFOs and the National Security State, Book 2: The Cover-up Exposed, 1973-1991 - Richard Dolan
Operation Trojan Horse - John Keel
The Mothman Prophecies - John Keel
The Eighth Tower: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum - John Keel
The Stargate Conspiracy: The Truth about Extraterrestrial life and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt - Picknet and Prince
The Gods of Eden - William Bramley
Health, Fitness, Self-Defense, Martial Arts
Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence - Rory Miller
Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected - Rory Miller
Deadly Force: Understanding Your Right to Self Defense - Massad Ayoob
Championship Fighting - Jack Dempsey
Benjamin Franklin’s Book of Virtues
Economics
Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell
Biography and Memoir
Bruce Lee: A Life - Matthew Polly
Amazing Grace - Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Comics and Graphic Novels
Watchmen
V for Vendetta
Light of Thy Countenance
Transmetropolitan
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