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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Not for book club but a quick primer on the Intellectual Dark Web by Michael Brooks
Penelope Deotte
2022-09-13 11:18:14 +0000 UTCThe Midnight Kingdom, Jared Yates Sexton
Penelope Deotte
2022-09-13 11:15:26 +0000 UTCA History of God by Karen Armstrong. Not a bad book but I think something that will generate conversations.
Ghost Walker
2022-09-13 02:59:43 +0000 UTCI've got this book and really need to read it already.
Jeannie and a bottle
2022-09-12 22:55:47 +0000 UTCA short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson. Touches on everything scientific with humor and is easily read. Fascinating.
Mary Ballard-Johansson
2022-09-11 11:33:14 +0000 UTCTimothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny “ How fascism rises and what to do about it.
Tom Hail
2022-09-11 06:23:01 +0000 UTCThe 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.
Stormy Decisis says visit sharebannedbooks.com
2022-09-10 18:10:00 +0000 UTC"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....?
SteeljawPanda
2022-09-10 17:07:10 +0000 UTCSapiens :3
Diego Guzmán
2022-09-10 12:37:44 +0000 UTC“Factfullness” by Hans Rosling. Clears up misconceptions about the world and why the majority of people believe those things
Michael
2022-09-10 07:23:49 +0000 UTCDo you mean there was a time they didn't?
Asymetra
2022-09-10 04:34:12 +0000 UTCHow 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!
Colin Leetham
2022-09-10 03:16:19 +0000 UTCFreethinkers by Susan Jacoby. it's a historical reference of secularism in the US
I'm not a tall man, but I am a disaster
2022-09-10 02:44:42 +0000 UTCI’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.
Avi Poje
2022-09-10 02:37:26 +0000 UTCBoys 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
Sayke
2022-09-10 02:17:58 +0000 UTCJesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Daniel Miller
2022-09-10 00:56:13 +0000 UTCHis "Freedom of Mind" would also be a good choice.
Douglas JM
2022-09-10 00:38:39 +0000 UTCPure 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.
Nicolette
2022-09-10 00:33:27 +0000 UTCThis one is good I recommended same author but different book so I’ll star this heart this one ;)
Adrian the science enthusiast
2022-09-10 00:19:07 +0000 UTCThe Dawn of everything new. A really awesome and very thought provoking historical and “pre-history” evaluation
Adrian the science enthusiast
2022-09-10 00:17:25 +0000 UTCRising 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.
BriggsyBoy
2022-09-09 23:25:42 +0000 UTCHow to argue with a racist, by Adam Rutherford
Occam's Raver
2022-09-09 23:25:23 +0000 UTCThe Cult of Trump by Dr. Steven Hassan.
Tara Churchill
2022-09-09 23:08:44 +0000 UTCHumanKind: 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.
Jennifer Eckert
2022-09-09 23:08:25 +0000 UTCThe 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.
Skeptical Spinster
2022-09-09 22:46:27 +0000 UTCA great book that helped me with relearning how to think is "Thinking, fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman
White-hat Asshole
2022-09-09 22:44:31 +0000 UTCThe Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti.
Bra Straps and Bitch Slaps
2022-09-09 22:25:49 +0000 UTC"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
2022-09-09 21:58:49 +0000 UTCThey are using it domestically now. Two Votes
TreeHuggerPestControl.com
2022-09-09 21:56:34 +0000 UTC"Black in White Space" by Elijah Anderson "The Future is History" by Masha Gessen "The Authority Gap" by Mary Ann Sieghart
Brian
2022-09-09 21:53:43 +0000 UTCA Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
calves the size of cantaloupes
2022-09-09 21:50:30 +0000 UTCDebt by David Graeber It came from something awful by Dale Baron
John of the bankruptcy pirates
2022-09-09 21:48:30 +0000 UTC'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.
SCHUYLER KYLSTRA
2022-09-09 21:41:25 +0000 UTCSandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
Alison Sierra
2022-09-09 21:38:53 +0000 UTCGoing Clear - Lawrence Wright. A horrifying book about scientology and just how awful it is.
FarHarder
2022-09-09 21:35:31 +0000 UTCLies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen for an examination of history education in the USA.
Rabid Monk
2022-09-09 21:31:33 +0000 UTCThe Sum of Us by Heather McGee was phenomenal. A classic could be Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, as well?
Vince Klortho, Keymaster of Gozer
2022-09-09 21:22:56 +0000 UTCA (Brief) History of Vice by Robert Evans
Renegade Lens & Ink
2022-09-09 21:21:11 +0000 UTCNot sure if this has been suggested yet: How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith
Arcane
2022-09-09 21:19:32 +0000 UTCThe Storm Before the Storm- The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by (history podcaster) Mike Duncan.
Maxwell Skipworth
2022-09-09 21:18:52 +0000 UTCThe Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
Asymetra
2022-09-09 21:17:25 +0000 UTCGun 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.
Patrick Duganz
2022-09-09 21:16:56 +0000 UTC
