As an organizing tool, to build community. Recommendations of normie friendly books that are also worth owning a copy of.
I'll throw in some hard theory, too, but I don't want it to be too heavy handed. Can't reveal my power level, too much.
Reading Bullshit Jobs right now, to give you an idea.
Edit: used online bookstore that isn't Amazon? I'll check out the local stores, but incase they don't have what I'm looking for.
Also, libs bait that isn't the worst? Harry potter-ish, but better?
edit/the list so far:
- Lost connections: why you're depressed and how to find hope
- Mistborn Trilogy 1 The Final Empire
- The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive)
- People's History of the United States
- Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong
- Perdido Street Station
- The Grapes of Wrath
- The Dispossessed, An Ambiguous Utopia
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: A Story
- Debt the first 5000 years
- Jakarta Method
- Shock Doctrine
- Blackshirts and Reds
- Against Empire
- Capitalist Realism
- Stupid White Men
- Listen Liberal
- The Divide
- The Jungle
- Red Rising
Lost Connections is about the social causes of mental illness, and it introduces some leftish ideas (workplace democracy, direct organizing to prevent eviction, universal basic income) without seeming radical or using scary words. It is a great Trojan horse for these concepts and a good introduction to the alienation of capitalism overall.
I'll just let the top Amazon review speak for itself:
i need to read, like,
10x100x more than I do smhSame, honestly. I only got through the book in question because I used to have a daily two hour commute, and audiobooks were the only way to keep my sanity.
currently have like a 10 minutes commute, which i wouldn't change for anything save full Communism, but it does make listening to podcast/audio books harder
this one?
Yeah, that's it!