Critical Thinking Basics How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler The Trivium - Sister Miriam Joseph A Rule for Arguments - Anthony Weston Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow - Daniel Kahneman The Intellectual Life - Antonin Sertillanges
Social Skills Basics Improve Your Social Skills - Daniel Wendler HTW Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie Influence - Robert Cialdini UCB Improvisation Manual - Matt Besser No More Mr. Nice Guy - Robert A. Glover
General Education Basics Western Philosophy: Anthology - John Cottingham The Art of Fiction - David Lodge How to Think Like a Mathematician - Kevin Houston The Character of Physical Law - Richard Feynman The Machinery of Life - David Goodsell Origins of Consciousness - Julian Jaynes Gödel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstader Socratic Dialogues - Plato Justice - Michael Sandel Atlas of World History - Patrick O’Brien The Interpretation of Cultures - Clifford Geertz A History of Economics - John Galbraith
Economics, Geography, History, & Politics Principles of Economics - Greg Mankiw The Enlightened Economy - Joel Mokyr The Bottom Billion - Paul Collier Machine Dreams - Philip Mirowski An Engine, Not a Camera - Donald MacKenzie Energy & the English Ind. Rev. - E.A. Wrigley The Great Divergence - Kenneth Pomeranz Ecological Imperialism - Alfred W. Crosby The Long Twentieth Century - Giovanni Arrighi Carbon Democracy - Timothy Mitchell The Collapse of Complex Societies - Joseph Tainter A History of Western Society - McKay, Hill, et. al. Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville Tragedy & Hope - Carroll Quigley The Global Revolutions of 1968 - Jeremi Suri War is a Racket - Smedley Butler Confessions of an Econ. Hitman - John Perkins Politics Among Nations - Hans Morgenthau Diplomacy - Henry Kissinger
Philosophy Principles of Philosophy - René Descartes Problems of Philosophy - Bertrand Russell Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant Phenomenology of Spirit - G.W.F. Hegel Being and Time - Martin Heidegger The Metaphysical Club - Louis Menand
Existentialism, Phenomenology, and the Psyche The Ego and Its Own - Max Stirner The World As Will & Presentation - Arthur Schopenhauer Either/Or - Soren Kierkegaard Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir Escape from Freedom - Erich Fromm Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Jung Four Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis - Jacques Lacan Maps of Meaning - Jordan Peterson The Phenomenological Mind - Shaun Gallaghe Phenomenology of Perception - Maurice Merleau-Ponty Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
Eli Cox
fuck off
Adrian White
Masculinity Core Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Under Saturn's Shadow - James Hollis The Art of War - Sun Tzu The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway Assault on Lake Casitas - Brad Alan Lewis Storm of Steel - Ernst Jünger To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Call of the Wild - Jack London Religion The Bible – KJV - Various The Abolition of Man - C. S. Lewis Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri Reasonable Faith - William Laine Craig Out of My Life and Thought - Alfred Schweitzer Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Antichrist - Friedrich Nietzsche The Miracle of Theism - John. L. Mackie Bhagavad-Gita (Translation) - M. Mahesh Yogi What the Buddha Taught - Walpola Rahula Sayagyi U Ba Khin Journal - S. N. Goenka
Esotericism & Occult The Ritual Process - Victor Turner Corpus Hermeticum - Hermes Trismegistus Kabbalah - Gershom Scholem Introduction to Magic - Julius Evola The Essential Rumi - Coleman Barks Prometheus Rising - Robert Anton Wilson
Jaxon Moore
Political Philosophy: Liberalism Discourse on the Origins of Inequality & The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Complete Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers - Hamilton, Madison, Jay, & Henry Reflections on the Revolution in France - Edmund Burke On Liberty - John Stuart Mill The Open Society - Karl Popper Theory of Justice - John Rawls Commentary on Politics & Society - Max Weber Anarchy, State, and Utopia - Robert Nozick The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich Hayek The Problem of Political Authority - Michael Huemer After Virtue - Alistair MacIntyre Conscience of a Conservative - Barry Goldwater How To Be A Conservative - Roger Scruton Conscience of a Liberal - Paul Krugman
Reactionary Philosophy Crisis of Parliament. Democracy - Carl Schmitt Democracy—The God That Failed - HansHermann Hoppe The Glass Bees - Ernst Junger The Decline of the West - Oswald Spengler Revolt Against the Modern World - Julius Evola Ride the Tiger - Julius Evola The Death of the West - Pat Buchanan Sexual Liberation & Political Ctrl. - E. Michael Jones After Multiculturalism - John Welsh Marxism Capital in the 21st Century - Thomas Piketty Minimalia Moralia - Theodor Adorno Das Kapital - Karl Marx Karl Marx’s Theory of History - G. A. Cohen Anarchism: Theory to Practice - Daniel Guérin Life and Fate - Vasily Grossman Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell The Gulag Archipelago - Alex Solzhenitsyn
Modern Media & Politics 1984 - George Orwell Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Social Animal - Elliot Aronson Propaganda - Jacques Ellul Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky Propaganda - Edward Bernays Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky How to Bag a RINO - Gray Delany The Art of the Deal - Donald Trump
Jose Robinson
God forbid Sup Forums gets educated.
Isaiah Collins
If you're going to have Hayek's Road to Serfdom you need to include Mises' Omnipotent Government & Bastiat's The Law, it's sort of the holy trinity unless you want to throw in Rothbard as well but they all play off each other quite well.
Lucas Brooks
Thanks for the advice. I'm trying to avoid Rothbard because he's too much of a /crank/ but Bastiat and Mises are both good reads.
Jaxon King
Book threads are one of the best things about pol along with the Syria General.
Levi Rodriguez
Plus this book thread is a bit noble. It begins with effective primers for learning & thinking. Then it moves onto social skills and general education. Once that's finished, you can start investigating important themes throughout history, so you can understand why ideology functions the way it does today.
The purpose of this thread is to cultivate a greater understanding in the most efficient & effective way possible. No books with filler. No cranks (unorthodox is a-okay, especially if influential). And I mean crank in a very narrow sense of the word--even based Julius Evola gets some love.
Connor Reyes
The biggest lapses, IMO, in this book thread is knowledge on world history (if there were encyclopedias of history for every continent, that would be fantastic), modern history, and modern economics.
Not enough books on Davos men, the World Trade Organization, and other globalist groups. The history of finance and the structure of modern finance would work excellent as well. Also lacking books on neoconservatives and neoliberals.
Finally, I think we need some based sociologists like Emile Durkheim, Auguste Comte, or Max Weber, who operated before Marxists took over the field and were definitely redpilled. If there could be works of sociology that investigated interesting topics without too much "woe is capitalism" crap, like the origin of the 1968 student protests, then that would be amazing.
Christopher Foster
Out of the long list you posted, how much of it have you read? Genuinely curious.
Ryan Martin
About a quarter. I've read all of the Critical Thinking basics, the social skills basics, most of the gen-ed basics (including the anthologies), a few of the econ, a few of the philosophy, a few of the religion, almost all of the politics & media section, etc. The rest I know is good due to their historic influence. Even if you don't care for the ideas, other people clearly do, and you need to know whether you should support or resist their endeavors.
If you have any question about the purpose of a particular selection, let me know.
Landon Morales
I'm reading Being and Time right now.
Hudson Hall
bump
Nathaniel Moore
> Even if you don't care for the ideas, other people clearly do, and you need to know whether you should support or resist their endeavors
Oh for sure, I've actually been reading the Fabian Society Tracts, incredible insight into Marxist plans & thinking over the last 100 years.
What stuns me the most is that these guys have considered counter arguments 50-100 years ago that 99% of leftists haven't bothered with. Their strategy & tactics are fascinating also.
Parker Bell
I almost considered including The German Ideology into the Marxist section because it attempts to refute a lot of other thinkers at the time. But idk, it feels like philosophy niche.
The Fabian Tracts is honestly a good fit. Maybe some stuff by Gramsci or and less palatable works by the Frankfurt School. I included Minimalia Moralia by Theodor Adorno because it laments the same problems as many reactionaries did, placing the blame on "the culture industry", which seems like a prelude to globalism today. Interesting stuff. But the rest of the Frankfurt School is obviously far more radical.
I'll add the Fabian Society Tracts to the list.
Carson Murphy
Anyone have a torrent for digital versions of these books?
Could try to find them individually but maybe someone has a torrent with all of them together.
Brayden Nguyen
Start with the first five "critical thinking" books. You can probably find at least the first 4 online.
Critical Thinking Basics How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler The Trivium - Sister Miriam Joseph A Rule for Arguments - Anthony Weston Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow - Daniel Kahneman The Intellectual Life - Antonin Sertillanges
Lincoln Powell
>Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow - Daniel Kahneman definetly not needed. The book is a great read dont get me wrong, but the principles of books often fail when implemented on a macro scale
Tyler Baker
If only I got digits, then this thread might get some visibility among Sup Forums intellectuals.
Juan Rivera
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I also agree. But I felt that Daniel Kahneman's book is one of the most lucid books on cognitive biases. You can't apply the book without effort. If you're not paying attention to yourself and keeping a journal, then you might as well throw it in the trash when it comes to self-improvement.
Anyway, do you have any other suggestions?
Elijah Miller
reroll
Christopher Adams
Is trump's book actually good or is it a meme
Camden Hernandez
oh, I only read about economics and those books tend to be rather boring in nature but some interesting probably are 1. myth of the rational voter-bryan caplan 2. Naked statistics-charles wheelan 3. the signal and noise id really recommend books on basic statistics and statistical reasoning to most poeple because thats what most people get wrong when arguening on Sup Forums, misenterpreting graphs, confusing correlation and causation, making post-hoc statements, survival-ship bias.
Jace Perry
Yes. At the very least, it provides insight into his gameplan.
Can someone help me? How can I stop playing videogames and develop my focus? It's literally destroyed, i cant focus in anything for more than one hour. I've bought Ortega y Gasset book and read 3/4 but forgot most of it already.
Brandon Richardson
Kill your fucking self my man
How can you propose red pill books with Julius Evola??
Julius Evola is the most radical right traditionalist that ever lived.
The italian fascists thought he was to far to the right
Dont you ride the fucking tiger brah?
Redpill book thread without julius evola...
kys
Matthew Wright
You cant read ride the tiger, revolt against the modern world and men among the ruins without reading his other books...
Joseph Cruz
Save the most important links you need. Get off of porn. Get off the internet. Eat well. Sleep well. Exercise. Meditate. Keep a journal.
And then start trying to accomplish small goals where you focus on a topic for "x" minutes. Keep on increasing until you can handle a healthy amount of information at a time.
Jackson Edwards
It's literally the fourth and fifth fucking post you moron. I've got like three books by him.
But thanks for the bump. Thread was kinda dying.
Aiden Barnes
This. I tried jumping in to Evola but every other sentence is "I have explained this somewhere else". Evola needs a guide, and I was told to read Nietzsche before I tackle Evola.
Robert Edwards
Thanks man!
Good stuff here too.
Joseph Barnes
im like you, you have to force yourself to get a job and work 60hrs a week, at that point gaming will start becoming a luxury rather than a way of life and you will become more productive
Henry Price
Not praising him more thoroughly he should be the patron saint of Sup Forums
Daniel Sullivan
to improve focus ability remove external stimuli to start. if that doesn't help play with a noise generator till you get it right. Practice until you can focus under any condition. It is the opposite of vidya, which ALSO trains a separate skill of rapid pattern recognition.
Honestly you need both to catch the Big Lie. Knowledge of the truth and rapid pattern recognition to catch it.
Joseph Lopez
He gets mentioned a generous 3 times. Besides, this isn't a "get redpilled as fuark lol I love alt-right" thread. See earlier posts:
"Plus this book thread is a bit noble. It begins with effective primers for learning & thinking. Then it moves onto social skills and general education. Once that's finished, you can start investigating important themes throughout history, so you can understand why ideology functions the way it does today.
The purpose of this thread is to cultivate a greater understanding in the most efficient & effective way possible. No books with filler. No cranks (unorthodox is a-okay, especially if influential). And I mean crank in a very narrow sense of the word--even based Julius Evola gets some love."
James Bell
I have developed rapid pattern recognition a lot. Whatever I do, I do it quickly and good, but if it requires constant atention in the span of days or weeks i get tired and drop it.
Lincoln Ortiz
>Atlas of World History - Patrick O’Brien
FYI this is a fucking FANTASTIC book for history. no better book for a layman who wants to learn about economic & cultural development while also understanding major conflicts. If anybody knows a better book, let me know, but that will be difficult.
Easton Gonzalez
Establish a simple goal. Establish a series of steps that you need to complete the goal. Divide the steps into one per day. Get a simple calendar and hang it up. Write down an X on the calendar when you complete your step on the day.
It's called the X effect. If you can do this for 49 days, you'll build a habit.
Kevin Diaz
Thanks, I will try it.
Easton Thompson
Also challenge yourself a little bit every day. And make sure you take care of yourself.
Sebastian Hernandez
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Henry Fisher
Respect the gets.
Gabriel Reyes
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
James Rodriguez
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Parker Stewart
Surprised no one has mentioned this This book has inspired me like no other Codreanu and the Legionnaires faced incredible hardship, but through sheer obstinance and will managed to become a political force to be feared I would recommend anyone who is currently in university and is interested in organizing to read this, as well as The Nest Leader's Manual
