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List three easy to read books that you feel smarter after reading

Posted on 04/27/2024 5:41:12 PM PDT by MNDude

Sometimes you can feel like you can get more out of reading a single book then you have an entire semester of college. Some of these books might be surprisingly simple to read. Which three books made you feel much more educated and enriched after reading them?


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1 posted on 04/27/2024 5:41:12 PM PDT by MNDude
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A Defence of the Constitutions, Volume I.


2 posted on 04/27/2024 5:44:09 PM PDT by cotton1706
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Dick and Jane readers 1, 2, and 3.


3 posted on 04/27/2024 5:44:51 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm.


4 posted on 04/27/2024 5:47:55 PM PDT by Paladin2
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WILDERNESS EMPIRE

The FRONTIERSMEN

THE CONQUERORS

by Allen Eckert. These books are a fascinating exploration of American colonial history.


5 posted on 04/27/2024 5:49:27 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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Anything by Mark Levin.


6 posted on 04/27/2024 5:49:33 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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The Gospel of John

Plato Apology

Whittaker Chambers, Witness

7 posted on 04/27/2024 5:50:18 PM PDT by aspasia
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Vision of the Anointed ~~ Thomas Sowell.


8 posted on 04/27/2024 5:51:19 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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What They Teach You at Harvard Business School

What they DON’T Teach You at Harvard Business School

Millionaire Next Door


9 posted on 04/27/2024 5:52:47 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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Mere Christianity.


10 posted on 04/27/2024 5:53:30 PM PDT by jocon307
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Amen, to the Gospel of John.


11 posted on 04/27/2024 5:53:35 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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I choose books well and read almost entirely non-fiction so everything I read makes me feel like I learned something and since I choose carefully even the few fiction books, Russian, C. S. Lewis, inform me.

I challenge anyone to read a Thomas Sowell book about anything, and not feel smarter afterward.


12 posted on 04/27/2024 5:54:50 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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The Book of Hebrews (in the New Testament)
The God Who Is There (Dr. Francis Schaeffer)
1984 (Geo. Orwell)


13 posted on 04/27/2024 5:54:51 PM PDT by Migraine ( )
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Ooops .... forgot this one....

The Art of The Deal


14 posted on 04/27/2024 5:55:06 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.


15 posted on 04/27/2024 6:01:07 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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“I and Thou”, by Martin Buber. Very easy to read. Might take decades to understand. Best to contemplate each sentence for a day.


16 posted on 04/27/2024 6:01:52 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did <img src="you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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Gulag Archipelago and excellent book!

Along those lines, anything by Ayn Rand. She came from Russia and knew the evils of Communism first hand. She also predicted America's slippery slope into the situation we are in today ("Atlas Shrugged" and "Fountainhead").

Also, Adam Smith's "Wealth Of Nations". It can be a dry read but once you get through it, you totally understand why Capitalism is the best economic system every devised - so far.

17 posted on 04/27/2024 6:04:50 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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Think and grow rich
The last lecture
Who moved my cheese


18 posted on 04/27/2024 6:05:42 PM PDT by Purpleperson
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Knowledge and Decisions — Thomas Sowell

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
— Eric Hoffer


19 posted on 04/27/2024 6:05:48 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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The Goal


20 posted on 04/27/2024 6:11:25 PM PDT by reed13k
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