Yet More Popular Books
These are popular books that didn’t make the Top Books lists which are TL;DR for those short on time to focus on the absolute best, but are listed here because you’ll probably enjoy them if you have extra time or broader interests.
It is highly recommended you read the books from the Top Book Lists first.
Feel free to leave a comment at the end if you think any of these deserve to be in one of the absolute elite top books lists and in which category.
Pro Tip: it’s easy to be a bookworm using Audible.
Index
- General
- Money & Economics
- GeoPolitics & History
- Health
- Dating & Relationships
- Women’s Sexuality
- Feminism, Family & Children
General
Recommended to read the Best Books – General list first.
- 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
- 59 Seconds: Motivation by Richard Wiseman
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Bell Curve by Charles Murray
- The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are by Kevin Leman
- Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
- Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
- The Chimp Paradox: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness by Prof Steve Peters
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff
- The Curse of the High IQ by Aaron Clarey
- Debt – Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years by David Graber
- Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins
- A common-sense guide to living rich . . . instead of dying rich
- Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – and All of Us by Rana Foroohar
- Enjoy the Decline: Accepting and Living with the Death of the United States by Aaron Clarey
- Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies by The Secret Barrister
- How to Win Friends and Influence People: Updated For the Next Generation of Leaders by Dale Carnegie
- How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
- Norse Mythology by By: Neil Gaiman
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcom Gladwell
- The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense by Gad Saad
- The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell
- Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female by Ashley McGuire
- Surrounded by Idiots: The Four Types of Human Behaviour by Thomas Erikson
- What Every BODY Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins
Money & Economics
Recommended to read the Best Books on Money & Economics first.
- The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
- 48-Hour Start-Up: From Idea to Launch in 1 Weekend by Fraser Doherty
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst by Vikram Mansharamani
- Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty
- Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
- by 21st century economist they mean a feminist-socialist who talks about environment but ignores than women are 80% of consumer spending and that the way to save the environment is to revoke women’s voting and subsidies to not spend so much
- Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
- Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
- The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization by Saifedean Ammous
- Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
- The Great Taking by David Rogers Webb (free YouTube audiobook)
- Hayek: His Contribution to the Political and Economic Thought of Our Time by Eamonn Butler
- Nomad Capitalist: Reclaim Your Freedom with Offshore Companies, Dual Citizenship, Foreign Banks, and Overseas Investments by Andrew Henderson
- The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard
- One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch
- Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown by Detlev S. Schlichter
- The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future by Jeff Booth
- The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason
- The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World by William L. Silber
- Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
- Wealth, Poverty, and Politics: An International Perspective by Thomas Sowell
GeoPolitics & History
Recommended to read the Best Books on GeoPolitics first.
- Conquests and Cultures: An International History by Thomas Sowell
- Divided: Why We’re Living in an Age of Walls by Tim Marshall
- End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
- The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy by William Strauss, Neil Howe
- The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis by Nicholas Eberstadt
- Men without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) (New Threats to Freedom Series) by Nicholas Eberstadt
- The New Corporation: How “Good” Corporations Are Bad for Democracy by Joel Bakan
- The Noble Liar: How and why the BBC distorts the news to promote a liberal agenda by Robin Aitken
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Christianity: Why It’s True, Why It Matters, and Why It’s Good for You by Michael P. Foley
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) by Christopher C. Horner
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) by Robert Spencer
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization by Anthony Esolen
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible by Robert J. Hutchinson
- A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins
- Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World by Michael Schuman
- The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
Health
Strongly recommended to read the Best Books on Health first.
- How Not to Die: Discover the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease by Michael Greger MD, Gene Stone
- Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To by David Sinclair PhD
- Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, Bill Gifford
- Palmistry by Johnny Fincham
- common sense observations one can make from people’s hands & health. It’s both interesting and a good excuse to break the touch barrier with women while dating. See the TL;DR one page summary in the Palmistry article to save you reading ~200 pages
Dating & Relationships
Recommended to read the Best Books on GeoPolitics first.
- 13 Rules: To Not Be a F**king Cuck By: T.F. Monkey
- Alpha Male Strategies: Dating Techniques In The Social Media Age by AMS
- Alpha Male Strategies Advanced Game: Maintaining The Attachment in the Social Media Age by AMS
- The Art of the Pimp: One Man’s Search for Love, Sex, and Money by Dennis Hof
- The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene
- Atomic Attraction: The Psychology of Attraction by Christopher Canwell
- Beyond Mars and Venus: Relationship Skills for Today’s Complex World by John Gray
- The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman
- The Gentlemen’s Book of Enlightenment: The MGTOW/SYSBM Red Pill Guide – Volume 1 by Oheen Imara
- How to Be a 3% Man by Corey Wayne
- How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You by Leil Lowndes
- The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar (pdf, audiobook on YouTube)
- Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex by John Gray
- The Menu: Life Without the Opposite Sex by Aaron Clarey
- Mode One: Let the Women Know What You’re REALLY Thinking by Alan Roger Currie
- Models: Attract Women Through Honesty by Mark Manson
- No More Mr Nice Guy by Robert Glover
- old obvious advice about not being a blue pilled pushover. Glover just used “JBW game” (“Just Be White”) and got a woman from Mexico, which is shooting fish in a barrel given female hypergamy. Skip this and just read the Passport Bros article instead
- The Noble Art of Seducing Women: My Foolproof Guide to Pulling Any Woman You Want by Kezia Noble
- Oooooh . . . Say it Again: Mastering the Fine Art of Verbal Seduction and Aural Sex by Alan Roger Currie
- The Possibility of Sex: How Naïve and Lustful Men are Manipulated by Women Regularly by Alan Roger Currie
- The Polygamous Sex by Esther Vilar
- The Rational Male – The Players Handbook: A Red Pill Guide to Game by Rollo Tomassi
- All The Rules: Time-tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right by Ellen Fein & Sherrie Schneider
- many women read this as the guide for how to play ‘hard to get’
- once you read this and recognize women’s manipulation, you can see and respond according, ie. dump such manipulative women (after you’ve had sex with her, and make you tell her why)
- Undercover Sex Signals: A Pickup Guide for Guys by Leil Lowndes
- The Value of Others by Orion Taraban Psy.D.
Women’s Sexuality
- Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel
- My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies by Nancy Friday
- Forbidden Flowers: More Women’s Sexual Fantasies by Nancy Friday
- Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Sexual Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Feminism, Family & Children
Recommended to read the Best Books on Men’s Rights Issues & Children first.
- Divorce Poison: How to Protect Your Family from Bad-mouthing and Brainwashing by Dr. Richard A Warshak
- Of Boys and Men by Richard V. Reeves
- The Feminist Lie: It Was Never About Equality by Bob Lewis
- The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers
- Who Stole Feminism? by Christina Hoff Sommers
- The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) by Philippa Perry
- Will I Ever Be Free of You?: How to Navigate a High-Conflict Divorce From a Narcissist and Heal Your Family by Karyl McBride