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?
A Defence of the Constitutions, Volume I.
Dick and Jane readers 1, 2, and 3.
1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm.
WILDERNESS EMPIRE
The FRONTIERSMEN
THE CONQUERORS
by Allen Eckert. These books are a fascinating exploration of American colonial history.
Anything by Mark Levin.
Plato Apology
Whittaker Chambers, Witness
Vision of the Anointed ~~ Thomas Sowell.
What They Teach You at Harvard Business School
What they DON’T Teach You at Harvard Business School
Millionaire Next Door
Mere Christianity.
Amen, to the Gospel of John.
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.
The Book of Hebrews (in the New Testament)
The God Who Is There (Dr. Francis Schaeffer)
1984 (Geo. Orwell)
Ooops .... forgot this one....
The Art of The Deal
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
“I and Thou”, by Martin Buber. Very easy to read. Might take decades to understand. Best to contemplate each sentence for a day.
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.
Think and grow rich
The last lecture
Who moved my cheese
Knowledge and Decisions — Thomas Sowell
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
— Eric Hoffer
The Goal
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