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Book Club Suggestions
🕑 Added 2022-09-09 21:13:48 +0000 UTCHi all! We are going to do a poll for Patrons Only for our next book in Book Club. This post is just for suggestions, and an official poll will follow.
Couple things in mind:
-We are NOT going to read books from Friends/Guests of the show at this time. This includes SGU & Andrew Seidel. We know you love them, we love them too. We love them so much, we aren't going to put their content behind our paywall.
-We want to read non-fiction and something that is thought provoking.
Other than that, please send us your suggestions. We do have a list going of past suggestions that you've emailed, messaged, or commented.
We will post a poll of the top suggestions plus a couple of our own for everyone to vote on in the coming week!
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Penelope Deotte
Not for book club but a quick primer on the Intellectual Dark Web by Michael Brooks
Penelope Deotte
The Midnight Kingdom, Jared Yates Sexton
Ghost Walker
A History of God by Karen Armstrong. Not a bad book but I think something that will generate conversations.
Jeannie and a bottle
I've got this book and really need to read it already.
Mary Ballard-Johansson
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson. Touches on everything scientific with humor and is easily read. Fascinating.
Tom Hail
Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny “ How fascism rises and what to do about it.
Stormy Decisis says visit sharebannedbooks.com
The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption - it's about the evangelical obsession with adoption at the expense of children's well being and even their ties to living relatives. BlackkKlansman - it's a memoir of a black cop who infiltrated the kkk. Very serious subject, but the whole thing reads as farce as this guy chats on the phone with David Duke about how to identify black men by their speech patterns. It's not exactly a light read, but it has some genuinely funny moments. Might be nice if you're looking for something a little less heavy. It was challenging for me as an ACAB sort - the author was definitely more conservative and pro cop than me - but I think it was ultimately with reading.
SteeljawPanda
"The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells" by Sarah Churchwell might be good if you don't mind continuing the feeling of "OMFG it's all bleak AF" from warrior cop....?
Diego Guzmán
Sapiens :3
Michael
“Factfullness” by Hans Rosling. Clears up misconceptions about the world and why the majority of people believe those things
Asymetra
Do you mean there was a time they didn't?
Colin Leetham
How about "Open Borders: the science and ethics of immigration" by Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith. A graphic non-fiction exploration... it seems up the alley!
I'm not a tall man, but I am a disaster
Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby. it's a historical reference of secularism in the US
Avi Poje
I’d be really interested in your take on “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo. It was an awkward read for me as a white guy, but I thought it made good points.
Sayke
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship, by Clementine Ford. 'Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons might be the ones to do it ... This book ... is the culmination of many years of writing about power, abuse, privilege, male entitlement and rape culture. After all that, here's what I've learned: we should be f*cking terrified.' from the introduction
Daniel Miller
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Douglas JM
His "Freedom of Mind" would also be a good choice.
Nicolette
Pure by Linda Kay Klein. It’s a comprehensive insider view of the purity movement that has traumatized so many of us coming out of religion.
Adrian the science enthusiast
This one is good I recommended same author but different book so I’ll star this heart this one ;)
Adrian the science enthusiast
The Dawn of everything new. A really awesome and very thought provoking historical and “pre-history” evaluation
BriggsyBoy
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, by John M Barry The name says it all really. The worst flood America ever experienced, it caused or catalyzed massive sociopolitical change. The creation of what would become FEMA and the concept of official disaster aid, large-scale public works, a dawning awareness of socioeconomic inequities and institutional racism, large-scale public works and planning for natural hazards, all flow from that event. You could argue the expectation that America should help Americans in need, including the Black ones, came from here.
Occam's Raver
How to argue with a racist, by Adam Rutherford
Tara Churchill
The Cult of Trump by Dr. Steven Hassan.
Jennifer Eckert
HumanKind: a Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman. Because we need a little optimism sometimes, and because I really loved it and would love to know your thoughts.
Skeptical Spinster
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot A story of how an African American woman with cancer who had her cells taken without her consent and how those cells are still used in medical research.
White-hat Asshole
A great book that helped me with relearning how to think is "Thinking, fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman
Bra Straps and Bitch Slaps
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti.
TreeHuggerPestControl.com
"Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors". It's about the CIA's first stumbling effeorts into manipulating religion to further the national security interests of the US. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo80657461.html
TreeHuggerPestControl.com
They are using it domestically now. Two Votes
Brian
"Black in White Space" by Elijah Anderson "The Future is History" by Masha Gessen "The Authority Gap" by Mary Ann Sieghart
calves the size of cantaloupes
A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
John of the bankruptcy pirates
Debt by David Graeber It came from something awful by Dale Baron
SCHUYLER KYLSTRA
'Educated' by Tara Westover - Memoir of a woman who grew up with a family off the grid but end ups with a PhD from Oxford. Themes of mental health, mental illness, religion, and the power of an education. 'Being Mortal' by Atul Gawande - Reflections of a Surgeon on how end of life care and senior living should be rethought in the United States.
Alison Sierra
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
FarHarder
Going Clear - Lawrence Wright. A horrifying book about scientology and just how awful it is.
Rabid Monk
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen for an examination of history education in the USA.
Vince Klortho, Keymaster of Gozer
The Sum of Us by Heather McGee was phenomenal. A classic could be Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, as well?
Renegade Lens & Ink
A (Brief) History of Vice by Robert Evans
Arcane
Not sure if this has been suggested yet: How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith
Maxwell Skipworth
The Storm Before the Storm- The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by (history podcaster) Mike Duncan.
Asymetra
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
Patrick Duganz
Gun Fight by Ryan Busse has been an interesting read. Busse worked in the gun industry for over 20 years and has left to become a gun control advocate. It’s very memoir, but gives a look at the changes in the gun business, and how that’s played out in American politics and society.
