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One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein ↗

Whitney Alyse Webb
Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder ↗

David McGowan

read

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Shel Silverstein
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)

Jeff Vandermeer
The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye

Robert Kirkman
Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls
Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew

Avi Shlaim
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

J.R.R. Tolkien

★★★★★
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Jordan B. Peterson

★☆☆☆☆
The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

★★★★★
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Yuval Noah Harari

★★★☆☆
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)

Suzanne Collins
Animal Farm

George Orwell

★☆☆☆☆
1984

George Orwell

★☆☆☆☆
Abundance

Ezra Klein

★☆☆☆☆
Global Politics: A New Introduction

Jenny Edkins
Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

Alexander Shulgin

★★★★★
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

Robert M. Pirsig
The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

★★★★★

want to read

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 ↗ — Rashid Khalidi
The Kingdom of Fungi ↗ — Jens H. Petersen
Capital From Zero: Reading Marx in the Age of Climate Catastrophe ↗ — Kōhei Saitō
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism ↗ — Kōhei Saitō
If We Burn: Mass Protest, Major Setbacks, and Vital Lessons for the New Resistance ↗ — Vincent Bevins
Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking ↗ — Laila Mickelwait
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces ↗ — Seth Harp
Toward the African Revolution ↗ — Frantz Fanon
Alienation and Freedom ↗ — Frantz Fanon
Concerning Violence ↗ — Frantz Fanon
A Dying Colonialism ↗ — Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth ↗ — Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks ↗ — Frantz Fanon
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present ↗ — Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Le Transperceneige ↗ — Jacques Lob
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions ↗ — Randall Munroe
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams ↗ — Matthew Walker
Man and His Symbols ↗ — C.G. Jung
The Invisible Man ↗ — H.G. Wells
Ringworld (Ringworld #1) ↗ — Larry Niven
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4) ↗ — Douglas Adams
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage) ↗ — Philip K. Dick
Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3) ↗ — Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2) ↗ — Douglas Adams
Dune Messiah (Dune #2) ↗ — Frank Herbert
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) ↗ — Isaac Asimov
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) ↗ — Liu Cixin
Brave New World ↗ — Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 ↗ — Ray Bradbury
The Martian ↗ — Andy Weir
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) ↗ — Douglas Adams
Dune (Dune, #1) ↗ — Frank Herbert
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II ↗ — Iris Chang
Superman: Red Son ↗ — Mark Millar
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World ↗ — Vijay Prashad
The Message ↗ — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy ↗ — Göran Therborn
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power ↗ — Noam Chomsky
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat ↗ — J. Sakai
Letters to My Person ↗ — Maya A. Fredrik
Lesser Ruins ↗ — Mark Haber
Wild Dark Shore ↗ — Charlotte McConaghy
Glorious Exploits ↗ — Ferdia Lennon
The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1) ↗ — James Islington
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1) ↗ — James Islington
Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream ↗ — Megan Greenwell
Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church ↗ — Gareth Gore
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism ↗ — Scott Horton
Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion ↗ — Allie Beth Stuckey
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty ↗ — Patrick Radden Keefe
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World ↗ — Jason Hickel
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1) ↗ — James Dashner
The Brothers Karamazov ↗ — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fight Club ↗ — Chuck Palahniuk
The Grapes of Wrath ↗ — John Steinbeck
The Perks of Being a Wallflower ↗ — Stephen Chbosky
The Kite Runner ↗ — Khaled Hosseini
The Dogs of Venice ↗ — Steven Rowley
The Tortoise's Tale ↗ — Kendra Coulter
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison ↗ — Michel Foucault
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World ↗ — Antony Loewenstein
Eye of the Chickenhawk ↗ — Simon Dovey
Dirtbag: Essays ↗ — Amber A'Lee Frost
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom ↗ — Grace Blakeley
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union ↗ — Vladislav M. Zubok
Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend ↗ — Domenico Losurdo
Ten Myths About Israel ↗ — Ilan Pappé
The Burnout Society ↗ — Byung-Chul Han
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto ↗ — Kōhei Saitō
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power ↗ — Byung-Chul Han
The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin ↗ — Corey Robin
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? ↗ — Mark Fisher
The Principles of Communism ↗ — Friedrich Engels
The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism ↗ — Leigh Phillips
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance ↗ — Noam Chomsky
The Stranger ↗ — Albert Camus
Autocracy, Inc. ↗ — Anne Applebaum
Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism ↗ — George Monbiot
Washington Bullets ↗ — Vijay Prashad
Socialism Betrayed: Behind the Collapse of the Soviet Union ↗ — Roger Keeran
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa ↗ — Susan Williams
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present ↗ — Howard Zinn
Cosmos ↗ — Carl Sagan
Summary of Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari ↗ — Dennis Braun
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind ↗ — David Vandermeulen
Revenge of the Tipping Point ↗ — Malcolm Gladwell
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century ↗ — Timothy Snyder
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland ↗ — Patrick Radden Keefe
The Handmaid's Tale ↗ — Margaret Atwood
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds ↗ — John Fugelsang
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future ↗ — Jason F. Stanley
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal ↗ — Mohammed El-Kurd
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning ↗ — Peter Beinart
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This ↗ — Omar El Akkad
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism ↗ — Yanis Varoufakis
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory ↗ — David Graeber
Debt: The First 5,000 Years ↗ — David Graeber
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism ↗ — Naomi Klein
What Is to Be Done? ↗ — Vladimir Lenin
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing ↗ — Joost A.M. Meerloo
The Naked Communist ↗ — W. Cleon Skousen
The State and Revolution ↗ — Vladimir Lenin
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited ↗ — Aldous Huxley
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) ↗ — William Gibson
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 ↗ — Karl Marx
Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Near Futures, 9) ↗ — Quinn Slobodian
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media ↗ — Michael Parenti
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism ↗ — Michael Parenti
Against Empire ↗ — Michael Parenti
Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics ↗ — Elle Reeve
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World ↗ — Malcolm Harris
Gravity’s Rainbow ↗ — Thomas Pynchon
Vineland ↗ — Thomas Pynchon
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa ↗ — Walter Rodney
Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh ↗ — Wendy S. Painting
One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Vol. 2 ↗ — Whitney Alyse Webb
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream ↗ — David McGowan
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties ↗ — Tom O'Neill
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering ↗ — Norman G. Finkelstein
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy ↗ — John J. Mearsheimer
Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex ↗ — Yasha Levine
The Question of Palestine ↗ — Edward W. Said
On Palestine ↗ — Noam Chomsky
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine ↗ — Ilan Pappé
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark ↗ — Carl Sagan
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture ↗ — Oswaldo Zavala
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It ↗ — Cory Doctorow
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia ↗ — Paul L. Williams
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World ↗ — Vincent Bevins
Shadow Ticket ↗ — Thomas Pynchon

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