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Various reading lists, including my own

reading-list

Academic Agent

https://unpopular.academy/recommendations/ (archive: https://archive.ph/WMFAw)

My intellectual journey in 15 books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqhgGqzPd8E

  1. George Orwell, 1984 (1949)
  2. Louis Althusser, Lenin and Philosophy (1968)
  3. Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty (1958)
  4. Bertrand Russell, The History of Western Philosophy (1945)
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)
  6. Henry Kissinger, World Order (2014)
  7. Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate (2002)
  8. Steven Levitt, and Stephen Dubner, Freakonomics (2005)
  9. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel (1997)
  10. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Why Nations Fail (2012)
  11. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow (2011)
  12. Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind (2012)
  13. Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions (1987)
  14. Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed (1995)
  15. Walter Block, Defending the Undefendable (1976)

Ultimate Red-Pill books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FufUVkmVtG4

Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate (2002): https://amzn.to/2GBAaR6 Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything (2015): https://amzn.to/2EoRBhO James Burnham, The Machiavellians (1943): https://amzn.to/2GFKJ1r Peter Hitchens, The Abolition of Britain (1999): https://amzn.to/2GCFYFX JL Talmon, The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy (1952): https://amzn.to/2HeQowv Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (1946): https://amzn.to/2Iufs23 Lawrence W. Reed (ed.), Excuse Me, Professor (2015): https://amzn.to/2HiYaFX Thomas Sowell, Vision of the Anointed (1996): https://amzn.to/2HdG87V Angus Maddison, The Contours of the World Economy (2007): https://amzn.to/2GJn9RG Deane and Cole, British Economic Growth (1962): https://amzn.to/2HiYq7T Douglas Murray, Strange Death of Europe (2017): https://amzn.to/2GCAQWq Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations (1996): https://amzn.to/2GHlQmh

Politics

Why I Ceased to Be a Revolutionary / Beginnings & Ends Tikhomirov Lev Aleksandrovich After Liberalism – Mass Democracy in the Managerial State Paul Gottfried The System’s Neatest Trick Uncle Ted Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky A Conflict Of Visions Thomas Sowell The Power of the Powerless Vaclav Havel The Rise and Fall of Elites Vilfredo Pareto The Clash Of Civilizations Samuel P Huntington On War Carl von Clausewitz Harassment Architecture Mike Ma The Memoirs of Prince Metternich Metternich The Art of War Sun Tzu Sun and Steel Yukio Mishima Unfinished Victory Arthur Bryant The Black Book of Communism Stephane Courtois The Coddling of the American Mind G. Lukianoff J. Haidt The Fourth Turning W. Strauss N. Howe The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray The Origins of Totalitarian Democracy JL Talmon

History

A Study of History Arnold Toynbee The Economic and Social History of Rome Michael Rostovtzeff The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Forest of the Gods Balys Sruoga Russia, Political and Social (Volume 1-2) Tikhomirov Lev Aleksandrovich The Birth of the Propaganda State Peter Kenez The Life of the Prophet Muhammad Leila Azzam & Aisha Gouverneur The Histories Herodotus History of the Conquest of Mexico W.H. Prescott The Patton Papers:1940-1945 Martin Blumenson Genoa and the Genoese Steven A. Epstein A Companion to Medieval Genoa Carrie E. Benes Rerum Novarum (1891) Pope Leo XIII The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita Italian Carbonari A New History of Leviathan: Essays on the Rise of the American Corporate State Murray Rothbard The Deluge Adam Tooze The English and Their History Rober Toombs The Epic of the Crusades Rene Grousset

Philosophy

How to Think like a Roman Emperor Donald Robertson Meditations Marcus Aurelius A History of Western Philosophy Bertrand Russel The War of Art Steven Pressfield A Short History of Modern Philosophy Roger Scruton How to be a Conservative Roger Scruton Where We Are Roger Scruton Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle After Virtue Alister MacIntyre The Poverty of Historicism Karl Popper

Economics

Time & Money: Macroeconomics of Capital Structure Roger Garrison Socialism Ludwig von Mises Vampire Economy Gunter Reimann The Contours of the World Economy Angus Maddison, The Evolution of Everything Matt Ridley On the Origin of Money Carl Menger Economics and the Public Welfare B.M. Anderson Wages of Destructions Adam Tooze Money and the Nation State K. Down & H. Timberlake The Big Reset Willem Middelkoop The Economic Consequences of Peace J.M. Keynes

Religion

The Bible Various The City of God St. Augustine The Confessions St. Augustine The Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan A Divine Supernatural Light Jonathan Edwards Mere Christianity C. S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters C. S. Lewis The Pilgrim’s Regress C. S. Lewis Ten Shekels and a Shirt Paris Reidhead Religious Affections Jonathan Edwards Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Jonathan Edwards The Doctrine of the Knowledge of God John Frame Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future Seraphim Rose Speech at Council of Clermont, 1095, Pope Urban II Foxe’s Book of Martyrs John Foxe Pascendi Dominici Gregis Pope Pius X Institutes of the Christian Religion John Calvin Catechism of the Catholic Church Pope John Paul II Baltimore Catechism Book 4 Third Plenary Council of Baltimore Early Christian Doctrines JDN Kelly Book of Concord Jakob Andreae and Martin Chemnitz (compilers) The Last Superstition Ed Feser Five Proofs for the Existence of God Ed Feser Rome and the Eastern Churches Fr. Aidan Nichols Theology for Beginners Frank Sheed Introduction to the Devout Life St. Franics de Sales The 95 Theses Martin Luther The Catechism of Trent Council of Trent Exsurge Domine Leo X The Ecumenical Councils Francis Dvornik The Christian Traddition vol. 1 Jaroslav Pelikan The Early Church (Penguin hist. vol 1). Henry Chadwick Funeral of a Great Myth C.S. Lewis Orthodoxy G.K. Chesterton

Homesteading

SAS Survival handbook John Wiseman The New Complete Book for Self-Sufficiency John Seymour Alien Invasion – How to Defend Earth Travis Taylor & Bob Boan

Evolutionary Psychology

The Blank Slate Steven Pinker The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Matt Ridley The Righteous Mind Jonathan Haidt Human Diversity Charles Murray The Bell Curve Charles Murray The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins

Fiction

The Lord Of The Rings J.J.R Tolkien Dune Frank Herbert 1984 Orwell Brave New World Huxley Animal Farm Orwell Starship Troopers Heinlein War & Peace Leo Tolstoy Crime & Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Demons Fyodor Dostoevsky Fathers & Sons Ivan Turgenev The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes The Idiot Fyodor Dostoevsky Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Camp of the Saints Jean Raspail Use of Weapons Iain M. Banks And Then There Were None Agatha Christie The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Cambell The Aeneid Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) The Illiad Homer The Odyssey Homer Dread Empire’s Fall trilogy Walter Jon Williams Tactics of Mistake Gordon R. Dickson The Machine Stops E. M. Forster

Children's list

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardobe C. S. Lewis The Hobbit J. R. R. Tolkien Little Black Sambo Helen Bannerman The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling Alice in Wonderland & Alice through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll Thomas The Tank Engine The Classic Library REV W. Awdry Karlsson on the Roof series Astrid Lingren Pippi Longsocking series Astrid Lingren Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling Yellow Rain Julio Llamazares The Neverending Story Michael Ende