[SE Mom]

If you’ve never read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, it is a must. For anyone who loves liberty and rejects the cause of the collective, it will amaze you, and strenghten your understanding.

I read this when it was first published and have remembered it for decades.

[No You Cant]

Here is my short-list”

1) Lookup and read the 45 goals of communism. Pay special attention to #17.
2) Go to youtube and watch “The Wave”. (School experiment.)
3) On youtube, watch the movie “The childrens story. (in 3 parts)
4) Read: The Naked Communist, By: Cleon Skousen

[HonkyTonkMan]

For ideas: Goodreads 2015 Book Lists

[RickGee]

I just finished American Betrayal by Diana West. It ties together all the spying and influence of the Soviet Union in America from the ‘30s onward.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250055814?keywords=american%20betrayal%20diana%20west&qid=1448737203&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg traces the history of “progressive” thought:
http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/0767917189/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1448737372&sr=1-1&keywords=liberal+fascism

Bastiat’s The Law is great. Available free here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44800

[amorphous]

Excellent survival novel suggestions for your reading list here:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mathew+braken

Many available on kindle unlimited! ;-)

[locountry1dr]

bfl

[Roos_Girl]

Wool by Hugh Howey
Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson
Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

[pa_dweller]

Life at the Bottom - Ted Dalrymple

Old Man's War - John Scalzi

[Marathoner]

Killing Reagan by Bill O-Reilly

One Year After (sequel to One Second After).

[Nuocmam]

A Conflict of Visions and The Vision of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell

[Billthedrill]

New as of this year is Nikolaus Wachsmann's KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps. It isn't simply a must-read for a WWII scholar, it's a meticulous study of a police state gone absolutely toxic. Be prepared for some uneasy conclusions: who knew? Everyone and no one. Were they the same as the Holocaust? No, and then yes. Could they happen again? No, literally, but something very like them, certainly. I'm re-reading it now because it was too much for one gulp. Highly recommended.

[LakeEffectLad]

1984 -Orwell
Stonewalled -Atkisson

[wastedyears]

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Ringworld by Larry Niven
Rogue Warrior by Dick Marcinko
Ghost by John Ringo

[Stegall Tx]

Spinneret by Timothy Zahn Very entertaining and it has a fairly worthwhile ending.

[SaxxonWoods]

For musicians and people who like them, or wonder about them.

“Another Nightmare Gig From Hell”, musicians’ tales of wonder and woe, by Nick Zelinger and Tammy Bracket

Available on Amazon. Read a chapter a day and get your daily belly laugh.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters and more. Hysterical stories of gigs gone bad.

[Hulka]

Uncle Toms Cabin.

Must read.

[PeaRidge]

“Complicity......How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery.” written by Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank, veteran journalists with the Hartford Courant.

The authors provide “the rest of the story of slavery” avoided by historians since the 1800’s.

[tbw2]

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, WW1-postWW2 Russian gulag system history
“Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell”, sci-fi
“America: The Last, Best Hope” by Prager

[mumblypeg]

Recently read The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess. Written 1961 about a dystopian society ruled by homosexuals. The protagonist is pretending to be gay to keep his government job, but comes under suspicion for secretly having an affair with a woman. Burgess is better known for A Clockwork Orange.
Am currently reading Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe. It’s set in Miami, where anti-Castro Cubans rule and white people are fast becoming a minority. But things don’t line up neatly; Wolfe goes deep into the complexities and hypocricies, always with brutal, incisive humor.
Am planning to go back and read all of Wolfe’s books and articles which I somehow missed years ago: Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers; and Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; and The Right Stuff.
I did read, and LOVED, Bonfire of the Vanities, a viciously hilarious skewering of the unholy alliance between white Manhattan liberals and ghetto black activists, with one character—a shakedown artist— clearly a Rev. Al / Rev. Jesse composite.
Written in the 80s, it deserves a revival now in light of all the BLM noise. Forget the Tom Hanks movie. Read the book.

Also, recently re-read Orwell’s 1984. Understood it better this time than I did when in high school.

An exceptional cookbook is The Catch and The Feast, by Joie and Bill
McGrail. (Pub.1969, still available online.) Big city, high society girl marries a country boy. He teaches her how to shoot, hunt, and field dress the catch!! She then turns the catch into elaborate gourmet meals fit for Henry VIII’s table. Entertaining reading, lots of mouth watering pictures and recipes. I recommend this one for hunters and preppers!

Thanks for this thread, Sam!

[Crucial]

Reading 1984 now and for a book that old, it really explains the Leftist insanity going on now. Radical Son was good as well as others have mentioned. The Foundation series by Asimov is great as well.