Animal farm by George Orwell

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1. chistevOct 2026
   1. Animal Farm by George Orwell

   2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes [1]

   3. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

   4. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy

   5. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

   6. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [2]

   7. Cosmos by Carl Sagan

   8. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins [3]

   9. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

   10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander [4]

   11. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

   12. Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan [5][6][7]

   13. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism by Richard Dawkins

   [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076596

   [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452253

   [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326741

   [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539535

   [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751771

   [6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740712

   [7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739256

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2. chistevSep 2026
   Animal Farm by George Orwell

   Night by Elie Wiesel

   The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris

   Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

   Lying by Sam Harris

   The Road by Cormac McCarthy

   Cosmos by Carl Sagan.

   The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

   A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

   Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

   Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

   The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

   https://www.rxjourney.net/list-of-books-i-finished-reading-i...

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_General_Non...

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3. chistevDec 2025
   Animal Farm by George Orwell. It was a re-read.

   Here's an excerpt from my blog about my thoughts on the book -

   It is terrifyingly easy for propaganda to replace reality. Orwell shows this through Squealer, the pig who acts as the farm’s official spokesperson. He doesn’t use force — he uses language. Whenever something goes wrong, he simply explains it again, louder and with more confidence, until the animals doubt their own memories. Rules are rewritten, past events are altered, and inconvenient truths are wiped away, all through the steady drip of confident lies. Before long, the animals aren’t living in the world as it is, but in the world they’ve been told to believe in.

   Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, used speeches, newspapers, and films to reshape public perception, presenting lies as facts.

   Jews, political opponents, and other targeted groups were demonized through repeated messaging, making the population accept policies that were morally outrageous.

   In North Korea, the government controls all media and education, rewriting history to glorify the Kim dynasty.

   Contradictory evidence is inaccessible, so the official narrative becomes the “reality” for most citizens. . . . If you want a non re-read, I'd say Night by Elie Wiesel.

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4. chistevNov 2025
   Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker

   Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

   Animal Farm by George Orwell (a reread)

   Night by Elie Wiesel

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5. hulituApr 2025
   1984, Animal farm by George Orwell

   God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert.

   They fit very good to present time.

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6. Anthony-GFeb 2022
   It’s hard to pick a favourite but I figure a decent rule of thumb would be to list books I’ve read at least twice:

   - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

   - The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

   - The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien

   - Watchmen by Alan Moore

   - From Hell by Alan Moore

   - V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

   - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series by Alan Moore

   - Dune by Frank Herbert

   - Immortality by Milan Kundera

   - first 3 books in the The Dark Tower series by Stephen King

   - The Dark Half by Stephen King

   - The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman

   - Coalescent by Stephen Baxter

   - 1984 by George Orwell

   - Animal Farm by George Orwell

   - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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