A People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn.
There is so, so much that Americans don’t know that they don’t know.
1984
Was going to say this, many people cite it but never read. It is readable well, do it.
Also, I think Fahrenheit 451 translates far better to our situation, as I see media and social media in there long before it was even thinkable.
1984/farenheit 451/Brave New World are the adolescent trilogy for me that anyone who wants to understand the nature of people and mechanics of power would do well to read.
I’d add Animal Farm to that as well.
It’s good to add the other two too but I never could read brave new world, I struggled page by page and gave up. Can not name a specific reason other than I could not get into it.
From a story perspective it should be perfect for me.
Excluding religious text~
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Any book written by Cormac McCarthy
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Short stories by Kurt Vonnegut
Do Androinds Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Definitely lots more
Instead of Sapiens I’d suggest The Dawn of Everything.
The Complete Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
All of Discworld.
All of Discworld.
That’d be a pretty big book…
