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
I don't think any of those dystopias are meant to be YA besides Hunger Games, if that genre category means anything. One that very much is YA and I presume was inspired at least a bit by "Omelas," is The Giver.
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I'll endorse adding pretty much any Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles especially, although I've found different editions collect different stories.