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The Stand (unabridged edition). Alternatively, Shōgun. finish the 1k+ pagecount book or perish the species must be strong

Capital in the Twenty-First Century.

Steal This Book. (with the understanding that the aluminum slugs in vending machines bit hasn't worked since the 80s, alas).

Lies my Teacher Told Me.

Braiding Sweetgrass.

Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

I wish everyone else had read the Player's Handbook to whatever TTRPG I happen to be playing or DMing.

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒙 𝑨 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒑𝒔𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒆 道德經

The Children’s Story by James Clavell

1984 by George Orwell

Chroniques du Pays des Mères.

The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell.

When They Severed Earth From Sky is fascinating and changed my perspective on human history and how we preserve information. It's not very long and it tells myths, so if everyone had to read it, I think most people wouldn't be too put off.

Push - Sapphire It came to mind bc I wonder if it'd help certain people gain empathy or perspective, at least.

Mine. 🫢

Souls of Black Folk

Guns, germs and steel Jarod Diamond Or - Why New Guinea didn’t have colonies

The Lucifer Principle

I’d say this, but it would probably ruin it if everyone else had to read it. So don’t read it. Unless you really want to.

“This Is Not A Book” by: Keri Smith

The Most Dangerous Enemy by Stephen Bungay, I'd argue the BEST book ever on the Battle of Britain. Excellent writing by a person who knows how to use and present numbers clearly interposed with deeply telling strategic, tactical, technical, political analyses and personal commentaries.

The Octopus by Frank Norris

The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.

Whipping girl by @juliaserano.bsky.social

Literally any Terry Pratchett Discworld Book

Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (1st edition) Dungeon Master's Guide It is the book I would request to swear upon were I required to give testimony in court.

Welcome to Dorley Hall LOL IDK, this is a super tough question. Do we get to quiz the readers on comprehension when they're done with it? Because if so, the Bible would be a good answer. Lots of people seem to think they know what it says, and miss the point entirely

Charles Fort's Book of the Damned. To inhabit and perhaps acquire his gleeful scepticism.

Also, if folks don’t already know how extensively fossil fuel companies have lied, lobbied, denied, delayed . . . michaelmann.net/books/the-ma...

The Madhouse Effect | Michael E. MannThrough satire, Mann and Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonist Tom Toles portray the intellectual pretzels into which denialists must twist logic to explain away the clear evidence that man-made activity ...michaelmann.net

Absolutely every American should read Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by @douglasblackmon.bsky.social Mind-blowing

Red Winter by Annette Marie.

Diary of a young girl. Anne Frank.

Alcoholics anonymous

The Canterberry Tales

> 65% of Discworld

**whispers** The US Constitution ... It's not that long. Good, short prologue. Quality appendix that was added later by popular demand. It inspired many others that came later.

Raymond Briggs - When The Wind Blows

Else Jerusalem's _Red House Alley_ , original German 1908, translated in full, Recovered Books with Boiler House Press, 2024.

The Phantom Tollbooth, Beloved, the dictionary.

Sorry, but you get the straight dope in 70 pp. enjoy!

Thanks for this thread. I've needed to add a few books to my TBR pile. Not sure what I'd add. Not must reads, but great reads if you like the genres: - The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart - Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey - The City We Became - N. K. Jemisin

I don't really have a specific book, but John Steinbach should be required reading IMO. East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, & My Personal Favorite-Tortilla Flat. Also, Travels with Charley: In Search of America" was the work of mostly fiction and anything to the contrary is wrong. 

John Steinbeck - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Blood Brothers - Willy Russell

Mary Doris Russell - The Sparrow

Where the Red Fern Grows (warning it does have a sad ending)

Strangers in Paradise: I Dream of You by Terry Moore

Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris

Espedair Street by Iain Banks

So very many! The Color of Law by Rothstein. Parliamentary America by Stearns. Imperialism, the highest form of Capitalism by Lenin. The Death of Democracy by Carter-Hett. Night, Maus and other stories of the Holocaust.

HARROW by Joy Williams

I wish everyone had to read my friends' books (so they make lots of money) and then maybe also my books (so I make lots of money), but in terms of contents alone I'll go with this one:

Maus by Art Spiegelman if graphic novels count.

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A Canticle for Liebowitz. Yeah, kinda depressing, but...hopeful too.

Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson.

So many! One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This The Global Police State Undoing Border Imperialism Mutual Aid (by Dean Spade) And others depending on the person.

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Gibbon: ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”.

Any of the Discworld novels. I have yet to come up with a quick description. I am continually amazed that one man could be that clever, have so much knowledge and understand of human behavior.

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Black AF History by Michael Harriot

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The Sisters of Dorley Series by @badambulist.bsky.social !!! I need more people to read this series that way I have people to geek out over it with!

Right now? The Jungle

Over the Influence: A Memoir: Joanna "JoJo" Levesque

The Life of Pi.

I don’t think there is any one book I wish everyone had to read. I resist reading books everyone tells me to read. Books assigned by HS teachers I still haven’t read 50 years later. I read the Britannica Encyclopedia instead, and dictionaries. I recommend the 1911 Britannica. I have the set.

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell.

Not just read. Learn, understand and apply.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gabriel Kay

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

“Climate change is real and vaccines work, you thick twat” Not published yet though

foucalt's pendulum by umberto eco “I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.”

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin.

Introduction to Logic Hero With 1000 Faces I'd want everyone to read those at, like, 5th or 6th grade. It's time to finally end this stranglehold on the future generations by the RTTs and religious indoctrination evangelists.

A series actually. There's a really good message in "the scholomance" series. I dont want to spoil the ending so I can't even say what the message is. But youll thank me after you read it.