What are the most critical must read books in life?

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This goes for all categories especially law, self improvement & knowledge. Could you list them? Reps & dap
 

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1.No Logo
2.The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism
3.The Black Panthers Speak
4.In Dubious Battle
5.We Took the Streets: Fighting For Latino Rights With the Young Lords
6.The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
7.SDS
8.A People's History of the United States
9.Steal This Book
10.Revolution For the Hell Of It
11.1984
12.Republican Like Me
13.Wobblies!
14.Anarchist Portraits
15.The Jungle
16.Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
17.Die ****** Die!
18.The Huey P. Newton Reader
19.1968: The Year That Rocked the World
20.Gulag
21.Che
22.Brave New World
23.Hegemony Or Survival
24.Soul On Ice
25.The Communist Manifesto
26.My Bondage and My Freedom (Frederick Douglass)
27.A Long Way Gone (Ishmael Beah)
28.Lies My Teacher Told Me (James Loewen)
29.La otra cara de America (Jorge Ramos)
30.The Great Political Theories 2
31.Rite Of Passage
32.Best Democracy Money Can Buy
33.The Origin of Species
34.Tao Teh Ching
35.The Art of War
36.48 Laws of Power
37.The Art of Seduction
38.The Prophet
39.Guns, Germs, and Steel
40.A Peoples' History Of The United States (Howard Zinn)
41.The God Delusion( Richard Dawkins)
42.The Blank Slate (Steven Pinker)
43.The Sorrows Of Empire (Chalmers Johnson)
44.Perfectly Legal (David Cay Johnson)
45.Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky)
46.The Twilight Of The Idols & The Anti-Christ ( Friedrich Nietzsche)
47.The Republic (Plato)
48.Fiasco: The Military Adventure In Iraq (Thomas E. Ricks)
49.The Israeli Lobby & US Foreign Policy ( Stephen M. Walt)
50.Why I Am Not A Christian (Bertrand Russell)
51.The Millionaire Next Door (Thomas Stanley)
52.33 Strategies of War (Robert Greene)
53.Violence and Reform in American History
54.Apocalypse Culture
55.Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
56.The Souls of Black Folk
57.Discourse on Colonialism
58.Freakonomics
59.Human Devolution
60.Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
61.Roots ( Alex Haley)
62.To be a Slave (real journals)
63.Queen (Alex Haley)
64.The Prince and Discourses ( Niccollo Machiaveli)
65.The philosophy and opinions of marcus garvey (amy jacques garvey)
65.A Pretext For War (9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies) (James Bamford)
66.How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Walter Rodney)
67.The Keepers of Heavens Gate
68.The Iliad & The Odyssey (Homer)
69.Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
70.International Terrorism and the CIA Mumia Abu-Jamal
71.Live From Death Row Mumia Abu-Jamal
72.Joe Hill Gibbs M. Smith
73.The Aesthetic Dimension Herbert Marcuse
74.The Media Monopoly Ben H. Bagdikian
75.50 Ways To Fight Censorship Dave Marsh
76.Hegemony and Revolution Walter L. Adamson
77.The Mismeasure of Man Stephen Gould, Che Guevera
78.A New Society: Reflections for Today's World Che Guevara
79.The Marx-Engels Reader (2nd ed.) Robert C.
80.What Uncle Sam Really Wants Noam Chomsky
81.Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation Jonathan Kozol
82.Marxism and the New Imperialism Alex Callinicos
83.Rules for Radicals (Saul D. Alinsky)
84.East Los Angeles, history of a barrio (Richard Romo)
85.Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (William Blum)
86.Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against The Death Penalty (Leonard Weinglass)
87.Guerilla Warfare (Che Guevera)
88.Zapata of Mexico (Peter E. Newell)
89.Malcolm X Speaks Selected Speeches and statements (George Breitman)
90.Marxism and the Press:Oppression of Women (Lise Vogel)
91.Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (Walter LaFeber)
92.The Chomsky Reader (James Peck)
93.Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise 1940-1990 (Juan Gomez Quinones)
94.What is Communist Anarchism? (Alexander Berkman)
95.Fidel and religion: Conversations With Frei Betto (Frei Betto)
96.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
97.Democracy is in the Streets (James Miller)
98.Capital, Volume One (Karl Marx)
99.The Black Panthers Speak Philip (S. Foner, Editor)
100.Walden and Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)
101.The State and Revolution (V.I. Lenin)
102.Revolutionary Suicide (Huey P. Newton)
103.Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Noam Chomsky)
104.The War Against Oblivion: Zapatista Chronicles (John Ross)
105.Essays in existentialism (Jean-Paul Sartre)
106.How Real is Real? Confusion, disinformation, communication (Paul Watzlawick)
107.Year 501: The Conquest Continues (Noam Chomsky)
108.Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzche)
109.Deterring Democracy (Noam Chomsky)
110.Marx's Kapital for Beginners (David Smith)
111.Basta! Land and the Zapatista - Rebellion in Chiapas George A. Collier
112.The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, Resistance (Annette James)
113.SNCC The New Abolitionists (Howard Zinn)
114.Always a Rebel: Ricardo Flores, Magon and the Mexican Revolution (Ward S. Albro)
115.Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
116.Black Boy (Richard Wright)
117.The Miseducation of the Negro (Carter G. Woodson)
118.The Community of Self (Na'im Akbar)
119.The Color Complex (Kathy Russell)
120.The Isis Papers (Dr Frances Cress Welsing)
121.From Columbus to Castro : The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969
122.History of Black Civiliztion (Chancellor Williams)
123.African Presence in Early America (Ivan Van Sertima)
124.Black Holocaust 2000 (Dell Jones)
125.The Golden Age of the Moors (Ivan Van Sertima)
126.Teachings of Don Juan Yaqui Way of Knowledge (Carlos Castaneda)
127.Cosmic Serpent: DNA & the Origin of Knowledge (Jeremy Narve)
128.The Prince (Machiavelli with the Introduction by Christian Gauss)
 

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@midwesthiphop with the best response of all time
have you read all those?

No only 14 of them, i actually found this list recently while going through old emails, i had sent it to a friend , don't know where I originally got it from but glad i did find it , there's a good 40 or so books there i want to read now
 

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1. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Hailey
2. Buddha: His life and teachings by Osho
3. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins


Stay away from anyone suggesting u read "Rich Dad, Poor dad", they're most likely trying to pull u into a MLM scheme

@midwesthiphop 's list has alot of gems, can't go wrong with any of those
 
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this book has more knowledge than almost any other single book in the world. and im not exaggerating in the slightest.

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get it. i guarantee you wont regret it.
 

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1.No Logo
2.The Shock Doctrine: The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism
3.The Black Panthers Speak
4.In Dubious Battle
5.We Took the Streets: Fighting For Latino Rights With the Young Lords
6.The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
7.SDS
8.A People's History of the United States
9.Steal This Book
10.Revolution For the Hell Of It
11.1984
12.Republican Like Me
13.Wobblies!
14.Anarchist Portraits
15.The Jungle
16.Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
17.Die ****** Die!
18.The Huey P. Newton Reader
19.1968: The Year That Rocked the World
20.Gulag
21.Che
22.Brave New World
23.Hegemony Or Survival
24.Soul On Ice
25.The Communist Manifesto
26.My Bondage and My Freedom (Frederick Douglass)
27.A Long Way Gone (Ishmael Beah)
28.Lies My Teacher Told Me (James Loewen)
29.La otra cara de America (Jorge Ramos)
30.The Great Political Theories 2
31.Rite Of Passage
32.Best Democracy Money Can Buy
33.The Origin of Species
34.Tao Teh Ching
35.The Art of War
36.48 Laws of Power
37.The Art of Seduction
38.The Prophet
39.Guns, Germs, and Steel
40.A Peoples' History Of The United States (Howard Zinn)
41.The God Delusion( Richard Dawkins)
42.The Blank Slate (Steven Pinker)
43.The Sorrows Of Empire (Chalmers Johnson)
44.Perfectly Legal (David Cay Johnson)
45.Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky)
46.The Twilight Of The Idols & The Anti-Christ ( Friedrich Nietzsche)
47.The Republic (Plato)
48.Fiasco: The Military Adventure In Iraq (Thomas E. Ricks)
49.The Israeli Lobby & US Foreign Policy ( Stephen M. Walt)
50.Why I Am Not A Christian (Bertrand Russell)
51.The Millionaire Next Door (Thomas Stanley)
52.33 Strategies of War (Robert Greene)
53.Violence and Reform in American History
54.Apocalypse Culture
55.Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
56.The Souls of Black Folk
57.Discourse on Colonialism
58.Freakonomics
59.Human Devolution
60.Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
61.Roots ( Alex Haley)
62.To be a Slave (real journals)
63.Queen (Alex Haley)
64.The Prince and Discourses ( Niccollo Machiaveli)
65.The philosophy and opinions of marcus garvey (amy jacques garvey)
65.A Pretext For War (9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies) (James Bamford)
66.How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Walter Rodney)
67.The Keepers of Heavens Gate
68.The Iliad & The Odyssey (Homer)
69.Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
70.International Terrorism and the CIA Mumia Abu-Jamal
71.Live From Death Row Mumia Abu-Jamal
72.Joe Hill Gibbs M. Smith
73.The Aesthetic Dimension Herbert Marcuse
74.The Media Monopoly Ben H. Bagdikian
75.50 Ways To Fight Censorship Dave Marsh
76.Hegemony and Revolution Walter L. Adamson
77.The Mismeasure of Man Stephen Gould, Che Guevera
78.A New Society: Reflections for Today's World Che Guevara
79.The Marx-Engels Reader (2nd ed.) Robert C.
80.What Uncle Sam Really Wants Noam Chomsky
81.Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation Jonathan Kozol
82.Marxism and the New Imperialism Alex Callinicos
83.Rules for Radicals (Saul D. Alinsky)
84.East Los Angeles, history of a barrio (Richard Romo)
85.Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (William Blum)
86.Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against The Death Penalty (Leonard Weinglass)
87.Guerilla Warfare (Che Guevera)
88.Zapata of Mexico (Peter E. Newell)
89.Malcolm X Speaks Selected Speeches and statements (George Breitman)
90.Marxism and the Press:Oppression of Women (Lise Vogel)
91.Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (Walter LaFeber)
92.The Chomsky Reader (James Peck)
93.Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise 1940-1990 (Juan Gomez Quinones)
94.What is Communist Anarchism? (Alexander Berkman)
95.Fidel and religion: Conversations With Frei Betto (Frei Betto)
96.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
97.Democracy is in the Streets (James Miller)
98.Capital, Volume One (Karl Marx)
99.The Black Panthers Speak Philip (S. Foner, Editor)
100.Walden and Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)
101.The State and Revolution (V.I. Lenin)
102.Revolutionary Suicide (Huey P. Newton)
103.Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Noam Chomsky)
104.The War Against Oblivion: Zapatista Chronicles (John Ross)
105.Essays in existentialism (Jean-Paul Sartre)
106.How Real is Real? Confusion, disinformation, communication (Paul Watzlawick)
107.Year 501: The Conquest Continues (Noam Chomsky)
108.Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzche)
109.Deterring Democracy (Noam Chomsky)
110.Marx's Kapital for Beginners (David Smith)
111.Basta! Land and the Zapatista - Rebellion in Chiapas George A. Collier
112.The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization, Resistance (Annette James)
113.SNCC The New Abolitionists (Howard Zinn)
114.Always a Rebel: Ricardo Flores, Magon and the Mexican Revolution (Ward S. Albro)
115.Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
116.Black Boy (Richard Wright)
117.The Miseducation of the Negro (Carter G. Woodson)
118.The Community of Self (Na'im Akbar)
119.The Color Complex (Kathy Russell)
120.The Isis Papers (Dr Frances Cress Welsing)
121.From Columbus to Castro : The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969
122.History of Black Civiliztion (Chancellor Williams)
123.African Presence in Early America (Ivan Van Sertima)
124.Black Holocaust 2000 (Dell Jones)
125.The Golden Age of the Moors (Ivan Van Sertima)
126.Teachings of Don Juan Yaqui Way of Knowledge (Carlos Castaneda)
127.Cosmic Serpent: DNA & the Origin of Knowledge (Jeremy Narve)
128.The Prince (Machiavelli with the Introduction by Christian Gauss)

Except for all the commie stuff, this is actually a good list. I've read nearly half of these.
 

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The Bible :blessed::blessed::blessed:




Forbidden Gates - Tom Horn


Bloodlines of the Illuminati - Fritz Springmeier :salute:




Tragedy & Hope - Carroll Quigley




None Dare Call it a Conspiracy - Gary Allen
http://www.ldsfreedomnetwork.com/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy.pdf




Crossing the Rubicon - Michael Ruppert




End the Fed - Ron Paul


so, the bible + plus a whole bunch of nwo/"elites"/illuminati shyt. weird.

that's something i've always found strange about religious folk who believe in all that shadow government/puppetmaster type of stuff. how do you reconcile the two? if you can see that "they're" doing x,y,z to "control the masses" and whatnot, how/why does religion get a pass? what makes the most powerful and widely accepted beliefs/cultural systems/worldviews of all-time exempt from being just another tool that our secret overlords use?

i'm not even just trying to be an a$$hole, i'm legit interested...cuz i don't get it. if i was a conspiracy theorist, religion sounds like a prime target to me. :manny:
 
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