What We’re Reading
A list of what we’re reading now or have read recently, along with a list of some of our favorite books, papers and articles. By favorite, we mean books or articles that we believe were most important to forming our ways of thinking and of looking at the world.
Currently Reading
Hillbilly ElegyaThe Collapse of the Third Republic
William L. Shirer
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Recently Read and Recommended
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance
The Loving Push
Temple Grandin
The End
Sir Ian Kershaw
Stalin
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Greenlights
Matthew McConaughey
All the Kremlin’s Men
Mikhail Zygar
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
The Constitution of Knowledge
Jonathan Rauch
Perennial Favorites
Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy
John Le Carre
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
Dune
Frank Herbert
Children of Dune
Frank Herbert
The Triumph of the Therapeutic
Philip Reiff
The Feeling Intellect
Philip Reiff
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
In the Storm of Steel
Ernst Junger
The Occult
Colin Wilson
Politics and the Occult
Gary Lachman
Dark Star Rising
Gary Lachman
The Accursed Kings
Maurice Druon
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
The Brothers Karamazov
Aleksander Dostoyevsky
Helter Skelter
Vince Bugliosi
The Family
Ed Sanders
The Ultimate Evil
Maury Terry
The Culture of Narcissism
Christopher Lasch
The Alienist
Caleb Carr
Meetings with Remarkable Men
G.I. Gurdjieff
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas De Quincey
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson
Spook Country
William Gibson
All Tomorrow’s Parties
William Gibson