Nonfiction and fiction is okay. I haven’t read in a long time. I used to read a ton growing up but then smart phones came around and I stopped.
I’m 28 and feel a little naive to the world. Interested in books that felt like expanded your horizons, made you look at life differently or really sat with you. Books that really made you think and stayed with you after you were done. Bonus if it’s a common enough book to be found in a library.
Not interested in right leaning political books or anything even remotely near a Jordan Peterson book. (Because f that guy).
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The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson, watched an interview with him and his story absolutely wild. It absolutely scared the piss out of me. Highly recommend.
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, was my grandads favourite and always refused to read it because how can a book about building a church be any good? Holy, unreal book. Was nice getting that bit of mental closeness with my grandad after his death also. Really stuck with me.
1984, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, Silent Spring, Black Like Me.
Many more like these should be required reading in school. If you haven’t read them, time to catch up.
Big Brother’s name is Palantir.
Here are a bunch that have impacted me.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
(2011) by Yuval Noah Harari
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom (2019) by Martin Hägglund
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake (2018) by Steven Novella
Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery
(2020) by Catherine Gildiner
A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy (2024) a memoir by Tia Levings
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire
(2017) by Kurt Andersen
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
(2019) by Jared Yates Sexton
Of Boys and Men : Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It (2022) by Richard Reeves
No more Mr nice guy: A proven plan for getting what you want in love, sex, and life.(2000) by Dr. Robert Glover
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity(2018) by Nadine Burke Harris
The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma (2024) by Soraya Chemaly
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, Or Self-Involved Parents (2015) by Lindsay Gibson
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
(2018) by Pete Walker
My Struggle books 1-6 (2009 – 2011) by Karl Ova Knausgaard
Earthlings (2018) by Sayaka Murata
East of Eden (1952) By John Steinbeck
Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer. I guess you would call it soft sci-fi. It’s been almost 25 years since I read it, and I still think about it.