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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 

 

 

​CLIMATE

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

​SOCIOLOGICAL

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

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

34. Race to Incarcerate, Marc Mauer, 2006

35. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair, 1906

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

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

38. Human Diversity, Charles Murray, 2020

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

 

 

​TOPICAL/SCIENCE

 

40. Stuff Matters, Mark Miodownik, 2015

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

42. The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2010

43. Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2014

44. The Scientist As Rebel, Freeman Dyson, 2006

45. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor, 2020

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

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

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

49. The Immunity Code, Joel Greene, 2019

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

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

52. Toxic Legacy:  How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment, Stephanie Senef, PhD, 2021

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

 

 

PHILOSOPHY/NEUROCHEMICAL
                                                                          

54. One River, Wade Davis, 1996

55. True Hallucinations, Terence McKenna, 1994

56. A Path with Heart, Jack Kornfield, 1993

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

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

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

60. Righteous Mind, Jonathan Haidt, 2012

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

ESOTERIC/ALTERNATIVE HISTORY
 

62. The Kybalion, Three Initiates, 1908

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

64. Behold a Pale Horse, William Cooper, 1991

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

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

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

UAP/NHI 

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

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

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

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

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

73. 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

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

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

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

      Rating: 5.0

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

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

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

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

NOVEL
 

81. East of Eden, John Steinbeck, 1952

82. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway, 1929

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

84. Sanction, Roman McClay, 2018

85. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868

86. Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1864

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

88.  2001:  A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke, 1968

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

GEOPOLITICAL
 

90. Unrestricted Warfare, Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui, 1999

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

92. The Decline of the West: Form and Actuality, Oswald Spengler, 2021

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

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

95. The Anglo-American Establishment, Carroll Quigley, 1981

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

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

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

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

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

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

102. 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

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

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

105. The New World Order, Ralph Epperson, 2016

106. Why We Fight, Guillaume Faye, 2011

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

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

109. The Great Reset, Alex Jones, 2022

WRITING

110.  The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, Georges Polti, 1921

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

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

113.  Story, Robert McKee, 2010

114.  The Story Grid, Shawn Coyne, 2015

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

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

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

118.  The Chicago Manual of Style, The University of Chicago Press, 2017

© 2018 Ethan Blake

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