100 Books to Understand Reality
I have compiled this list of 100 books to further pull back the veil.
This is not a list of the 100 most influential books. Many influential books have become common knowledge; I have left such literature out.
I have prioritized books that provoke questions over popular meta-issues. I find it more valuable to question the corporate narrative than to lay again the foundation of some well-established truth. I am irrevocably convinced that the burden of proof should forever be on the ruling class to show evidence for anything and everything they are selling. Yes, selling, because no matter how powerful they become, it only works when we buy it.
To some extent, this list is gathered into groups: ancient, government & corporate lies, the unseen/spiritual, economics & money. Some authors are granted numerous titles.
I am aiming to finish the list in four years, starting in spring 2023. Afterward, I am quite sure the list will change to some extent. Maybe some books will cover enough of the same material to only keep the stronger of the two. Maybe others will feel too much like common knowledge and therefore lack the impact needed to stay on the list. No matter what, it will surely be an adventure.
Critical note:
You will notice as this list travels through time, it moves from texts that are unanimously well respected to greater and greater levels of controversy. Please remember that many of the older and ancient texts were incredibly controversial in their time; many of these authors stood in the face of “established facts” and “settled science,” for which they were viciously persecuted. Many authors were the fools of their times’ consensus-driven ruling class. If history tells any story, it is of the foolish shaming the wise.
I would love to hear what books you would add & subtract. ContactIliad, Odyssey - Homer - 800 BC
Tau Te Ching - Laozi - 600-400 BC
The Analects - The followers of Confucius - 497 BC
Histories - Herodotus - 416 BC
History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides - 431 BC
The Old Testament with missing books - 4,000-400 BC
Medical Writings - Hippocrates - 400 BC
The Art of War - Sun Tzu - 400 BC
The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita - Swami Kriyananda - 400 BC
Plato - Dialogues - 387 BC
Aristotle - Works - 323 BC
Elements - Euclid - 300 BC
Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus - Epicurus - 230 BC
Archimedes - Works - 240 BC
Conic Sections - Apollonius of Perga - 220 BC
On the Nature of Things - Lucretius - 80 BC
The Anend - Virgil - 45 BC
Horace - Works - 35 BC
Ovid - Works - 15 BC
History of Rome - Livy - 10 AD
The New Testament with missing books - 96 AD
Selected Works - Marcus Tullius Cicero - 106 AD
Discourses: Encheiridion - Epictetus - 108 AD
Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania - Tacitus - 110 AD
Almagest - Ptolemy - 150 AD
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius - 175 AD
On the Natural Faculties - Galen - 185 AD
Parallel Lives; Moralia - Plutarch - 200 AD
The Enneads - Plotinus - 270 AD
On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine - St. Augustine - 410 AD
Summa Theologica - St. Thomas Aquinas - 1273 AD
The Divine Comedy; The New Life; On Monarchy - Dante Alighieri - 1313 AD
Notebooks - Leonardo da Vinci - 1505 AD
Utopia - Thomas More - 1516 AD
The Praise of Folly - Desiderius Erasmus - 1511 AD
Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, The New Atlantis - Francis Bacon - 1623 AD
Ethics - Benedict De Spinoza - 1665 AD
John Milton: Works - 1640 AD
Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding; Thoughts Concerning Education - John Locke - 1693 AD
Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary - Voltaire - 1733 AD
The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith - 1750s AD
Common Sense, Age of Reason - Thomas Paine - 1776
Declaration of Indipendance; The Federalist Papers; The Constitution & Bill of Rights; Book of Virtues - 1776 -1791
Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace - Immanuel Kant - 1790s
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Edward Gibbon - 1788
Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840
Either/Or; On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates; Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits; Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing; De omnibus dubitandum est - Søren Kierkegaard - 1840s
Representative Men; Essays; Journal - Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850
A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill - 1860s
How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic; The Theory of Inquiry - John Dewey - 1930s
Progressive Principles, Social and Political, Essays on Practical Politics - Teddy Roosevelt - 1910s
Animal Farm;1984 - George Orwell - 1945; 1949
The Road to Serfdom - Friedrich A. Hayek - 1944
Capital; Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx - 1848; 1867
The State and Revolution - Lenin - 1917
Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky - 1972
Gulag Archipelago; The First Circle; The Cancer Ward - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1967; 1968; 1968
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand - 1957
The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics - Albert Einstein - 1921; 1933; 1938
The Poetry of Robert Frost - Edward Connery Lathem - 1900s
D-Day - Stephen E. Ambrose - 1994
The combined works of samuelsadams.com - Samuel S. Adams - 2020-Current (2023)
A Conflict of Visions; Charter Schools and Their Enemies - Thomas Sowell - 1987; 2020
The Carnivore Diet - Shawn Baker - 2019
Red Hot Lies - Christopher Horner - 2008
The Communist - Paul Kengor - 2015
One Vote Away; Justice Corrupted - Ted Cruz - 2020; 2022
Killing Patton - Bill O’Reilly - 2014
The Man who Killed Kennedy; Nixon’s Secrets - Roger Stone - 2014; 2014
Rigged - Mollie Hemingway - 2021
America: Imagine a World Without Her; 2000 mules - Dinesh D’Souza - 2014; 2022
911, The Big Lie - Thierry Meyssan - 2002
The Great Reset - Alex Jones - 2022
Spygate; Follow the money - Dan Bongino - 2018; 2020
American Betrayal - Diana West - 2013
Righteous Indignation - Andrew Breitbart - 2011
Lies my Doctor Told me - Dr. Ken Berry - 2019
Outlive - Dr. Peter Attia - 2023
Rise of the Fourth Reich - Steve Deace & Daniel Horowitz - 2023
Journey of Souls, Destiny of Souls - Michael Newton - 2000; 2016
Saved by the Light - Dannion Brinkley - 1994
You are thee Placebo; Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself; Becoming Supernatural - Dr. Joe Dispenza - 2015; 2016; 2019
The Field - Lynne McTaggart - 2009
DMT: The Spirit Molecule - Nicholas Sansbury Smith - 2000
The Holographic Universe - Michael Talbot - 2008
Energy Anatomy - Caroline Myss - 1996
The Immortality Key - Brian Muraresku with contributor Graham Hancock - 2020
Fingerprints of the Gods - Graham Hancock - 1996
Everything Belongs - Richard Rohr - 2003
The Final Quest Trilogy - Rick Joyner - 2006
The Heavens Declare - Alice O. Howell - 2006
The Fourth Turning - William Strauss and Neil Howe - 1997
Think and Grow Rich - Napolean Hill -1937
The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg - 1999
How an economy grows and why it crashes; The Real Crash - Peter Schiff - 2008; 2012
Economics In One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt - 1946
Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman - 1962
The Revolution; End the Fed - Ron Paul - 2008; 2009
Bitcoin Standard, Fiat Standard; Principles of Economics - Saifedean Ammous - 2018; 2021; 2023
The Twitter Files - Elon Musk via various journalists - Current (2023)
Hold Tension, Be Vast.Remember, restoration alone brings victory.