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Top 20 books which inform my worldview:
1.War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat: A history of war and its effect on human society from the perspective of Darwinism. Completely foundational to my social, political and historical views.
2. Sex and Power in History by Amaury de Riencourt. A book by my favorite author where he explains how the relations between the sexes resulted in the rise and fall of civilizations over history.
3.The Rise of the West by McNeil. A history of the world from the perspective of the interplay of European, Indian, Chinese and Middle Eastern civilization. The best history of the world ever.
4. Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quigley. A history of 1890-1960 from the perspective of civilizational analyses. One of the best history books ever.
5. The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer. A history of inflation over Western history and how you can use inflation to predict social collapses, which occur every 250 years.
6.War, Peace and War by Peter Turchin. An attempt to build a science of the rise and fall of empires.
7. Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer. How four migrations from the British isles in the colonial period created the culture of modern America.
8. The Eye of Shiva by Amaury de Riencourt. A book which looks at the similarities between Hinduism and modern science. This is the book that “made me religious.”
9. The Righteous Mind by John Haidt. A book on the psychology behind politics.
10. The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris. How you can study primate behavior to understand human society.
11. The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth. A history of civilization from the perspective of the ancient mystery cults.
12. The Master and His Emissary by Ian McGhilchrist. A book on the divisions in the brain between the right and left hemisphere and how they inform human nature and society.
13. The Laws of Human Nature by Robert Greene. About the general principles in human nature. This book has saved me so much struggle in life.
14.Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson. Miles upon miles better than his other books. This stuff is so much better than his pundit career. Explains the neurology and worldview behind traditional religions and Jungian archetypes.
15. Disunited nations by Peter Zeihan. A breakdown of the coming demographic crisis and what countries will rise and fall.
16.The Invention of Yesterday by Tamim Ansary. A history of the paradigms people have used over history. Best intro to history for normal people
17. Atrocities by Matthew White. A ranking of the 100 worst atrocities in history. Changed my view on the world and good way to study the past.
18. Lost Connections by Johann Hari. A study in depression and what causes it. Makes you realize modern society is doing so much wrong.
19. Leviathan and it’s enemies by Samuel Francis. About how the bureaucracy runs society. Best book on modern politics.
20. Conquests and Cultures by Thomas Sowell. Best anthropology book and explains how the world works pretty fairly. Histories of the British, Native Americans, Africans and Slavs as peoples.
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