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HISTORY
 

  1. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin, 1859

  2. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, Steven Rinella, 2009

  3. Black Elk Speaks, John Neihardt, 1932

  4. History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides, 431 BC

  5. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, Nicholas Ostler, 2006

  6. The Ascent of Money:  A Financial History of the World, Niall Ferguson, 2009

  7. The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Richard Rhodes, 2012

  8. Johann Sebastian Bach:  The Learned Musician, Christoph Wolff, 2001

  9. The Last Duel, Eric Jager, 2004     Rating: 9

  10. A Brief History of Earth:  Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters, Andrew H. Knoll, 2021    Rating: 4.5

  11. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Stephen Jay Gould, 1990

  12. History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 1, Dr Anatoly T Fomenko, 2019

  13. Wall Street and the Russian Revolution:  1905 – 1925, Richard B Spence, 2017

  14.  The Ancient City, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, 2020

  15.  An Introduction to the Bible, Clyde E. Fant, Donald W. Musser, Mitchell G. Reddish, 2001

  16.  Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History, Dan Flores, 2017

  17.  Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South, Grady McWhiney, 1989

  18.  American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains, Dan Flores, 2016

  19.  Turn Right at Manchu Picchu: Rediscover the Lost City One Step at a Time, Mark Adams, 2011

  20.  Scalp DanceIndian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879,  Thomas Goodrich, 2002   

 

 

​CLIMATE

 

21. Evidence-Based Climate Science, Second Edition: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Don Easterbrook, 2016

22. Climate Change: The Facts, J. Abbot, 2015

23. Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming, Bjorn Lomborg, 2007

24. Landscapes & Cycles:  An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism, Jim Steele, 2013

25. The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate, Henrik Svensmark, 2004

26. The Neglected Sun: Why the Sun Precludes Climate Catastrophe, Fritz Vahrenholt, 2015

27. Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell, John L. Casey, 2016

28. The Deep Hot Biosphere:  The Myth of Fossil Fuels, Thomas Gold, 1998

29. A Disgrace to the Profession, Mark Steyn, 2015

30. The Last Hours of Sunlight, Thom Hartman, 2007

31. The Adam and Eve Story This History of Cataclysms – Magnetic Pole Shift, Chan Thomas, Izanagi Izanagi, 1963

32. The Solar Magnetic Cause of Climate Changes and Origin of the Ice Ages, Don Easterbrook, 2019

​SOCIOLOGICAL

33. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Street, David Simon, 2006

34. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, David Simon, 1998

35. Race to Incarcerate, Marc Mauer, 2006

36. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 1906

37. Racecraft:  The Soul of Inequality in American Life, Barbara J Fields and Karen E Fields, 2014

38. The Omni-Americans:  Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy, Albert Murray and Henry Louis Gates,                           1970/2020

39. Human Diversity, Charles Murray, 2020

40. Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Thomas Sowell, 2006

​TOPICAL/SCIENCE

 

41. Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik, 2015

42. The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan, 2007

43. The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2010

44. Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2014

45. The Scientist As Rebel, Freeman Dyson, 2006

46. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor, 2020             Rating: 8

47. The Real Anthony Fauci, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., 2021

48. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, James C. Scott, 1999

49. Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and                   Companies, Geoffrey West, 2017             Rating: 5.5

50. The Immunity Code, Joel Greene, 2019

51. Law 101, Brien A Roche, John K Roche, Sean P Roche, 2009            Rating: 8

52. Dirt:  The Erosion of Civilizations, David R Montgomery, 2008    Rating: 5.5

53. Toxic Legacy:  How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health..., Stephanie Senef, PhD, 2021    Rating: 7

54. Game Theory 101: The Complete Textbook, William Spaniel, 2011

55. The Moth in the Iron Lung, Forrest Maready, 2018                         Rating: 9.0

56.  Austrian Economics:  An Introduction, Steven Horwitz, 2020    Rating: 6.5

PHILOSOPHY/NEUROCHEMICAL
                                                                          

57. One River, Wade Davis, 1996                                         Rating: 8

58. True Hallucinations, Terence McKenna, 1994          Rating: 5.0

59. A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield, 1993

60.  Alien Information Theory: Psychedelic Drug Technologies and the Cosmic Game, Andrew R Gallimore, 2019    Rating: 5

61.  Godel, Escher, Bach:  An Internal Braid, Douglas R Hofstadter, 1999 

62. The Body Electric, Robert Becker and Gary Seldon, 1998

63. Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt, 2012

64. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, Rene Girard, 1978

65. Power vs Force, David R Hawkins, 2014                    Rating: 10

66. Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, David R Hawkins, 2015            Rating: 10

67.  The Language of Creation:  Cosmic Symbolism in Genesis:  A Commentary, Matthieu Pageau, 2018 

68.  The Love of Destiny:  the Sacred and the Profane in Germanic Polytheism, Daniel McCoy, 2013        Rating: 7.5

69.  The Viking Spirt:  An Introduction to Norse Mythology and Religion, Daniel McCoy, 2016

ESOTERIC/ALTERNATIVE HISTORY
 

70. The Kybalion, Three Initiates, 1908

71. Who Built the Moon? Christopher Knight and Alan Butler, 2007

72. Behold a Pale Horse, William Cooper, 1991

73. The Source of Measures: Key to the Hebrew-Egyptian Mystery, J. Ralston Skinner, 2021

74. The Day Behemoth & Leviathan Died:  Earth Disaster, David Allen Deal, 1999

75.  Forbidden Archeology: The Hidden History of the Human Race, Michael A. Cremo, 1998

76. The Universal One, Walter Russell, 1974

77.  Hamlet's Mill, Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechen, 2015 

UAP/NHI 

78. Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows, Tom DeLonge, A.J. Hartley, 2017    Rating: 10

79. Sekret Machings Book2: A Fire Within, Tom DeLonge, A.J. Hartley, 2018      Rating: 9.5

80. Hunt for the Skinwalker, Colm A Kelleher and George Knapp, 2017         Rating: 9.0

81. UFOs:  Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record, Leslie Kean, Heather Henderson, et al., 2011       Rating: 6.5

82. Dimensions:  A Casebook of Alien Contact, Jacques Vallee, 2014                     Rating: 7.0

83. Flying Saucers and Science:  A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs:  Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government                              Cover-Ups, Stanton T. Friedman, 2008               Rating: 5.5

84. The Alien Agendas:  A Speculative Analysis of Those Visiting Earth, Richard Dolan, 2021      Rating: 4.0

85. The THREAT:  Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda, David M. Jacobs, 1999                       Rating: 7.5

86. UFOs & Aliens:  UFO Secrets – Area 51, Alien & UFO Encounters, Alien Civilizations & The New World Order, Alex Monaldo, 2016

      Rating: 5.0

87. Dreamland: An Autobiography, Bob Lazar, 2019               Rating: 7.5

88. Quantum Paranormal:  A 21st Century Analysis of the Paranormal Phenomena, Patrick Jackson, 2020      Rating: 6.5

89.  Skinwalkers at the Pentagon:  An Insider's account of the secret UFO Program, James Tacatski, Colm A Kolleher, George Knapp, 2021           Rating: 7.5

90.  Imminent:  Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs, Luis Elizondo, 2024                 Rating: 8.0

91.  UFO of God:  The Extraordinary Story of Chris Bledsoe, Chris Bledsoe, 2023      Rating: 8.0

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NOVEL
 

92. East of Eden, John Steinbeck, 1952

93. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway, 1929                             Rating: 5.0

94. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway, 1940

95. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868

96. Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

97. Shantaram: A Novel, Gregory David Roberts, 2003 

982001:  A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke, 1968

99.  Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Henlein, 1961 

GEOPOLITICAL
 

100. Unrestricted Warfare, Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui, 1999             Rating: 4.0

101.  John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and the American Proposition, David A. Wemhoff, 2015

102. The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality, Oswald Spengler, 1918

103. The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, Daniel Estulin, 2009

104. Between Two Ages:  America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 1982

105. The Anglo-American Establishment, Carroll Quigley, 1981        Rating: 1.5

106. The Grand Chessboard:  American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 2016

107. America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones, Antony C. Sutton, 2004      Rating: 3.5

108. Devil’s Game:  How the United Stated Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (American Empire Project), Robert Dreyfuss,                2006

109. Rogue State:  A Guide to the World’s Only Superpower, William Blum, 2005

110. The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy, F. William Engdahl, 2016

111. Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order, F. William Engdahl, 2009

112. Shadow Masters: An International Network of Governments and Secret-Service Agencies Working Together with Drug                   Dealers and Terrorists for Mutual Benefit and Profit, Daniel Estulin, 2010

113. Secret Affairs: Britain’s Collusion with Radical Islam, Mark Curtis, 2015

114. The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder, Peter Zeihan,           2014

115. The New World Order, Ralph Epperson, 2016

116. Why We Fight, Guillaume Faye, 2011

117.  Anatomy of the State, Murray Rothbard, 1974           Rating: 5.0

118. One Nation Under Blackmail Vol 1 and 2, Whitney Webb, 2022

119. The Great Reset, Alex Jones, 2022

WRITING

120.  The Anatomy of Story, John Trudy, 2007                    Rating: 9.0 

121.  Screenplay:  The Foundations of Screenwriting, Syd Field, 1979      Rating: 9.0

123.  Story, Robert McKee, 2010                                              Rating: 9.5

124.  The Story Grid, Shawn Coyne, 2015                              Rating: 9.0

125.  Characters & Viewpoints, Orson Scott Card, 2010    Rating: 8.0 

126.  On Writing Well, William Zinsser, 2012                     Rating: 8.5

127.  Writing with Style, John R. Trimble, 2000                 Rating: 7.0

© 2018 Ethan Blake

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