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This is why we can't have nice things

Books about how systems of inequality are constructed and maintained.

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

Morbid Curiosities

“Hey do you remember [insert horrible event here]? I should read a book about that.”

Books on disasters, horrible events, and scientific blunders.

Did I miss one? Let me know in the comments!

The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew

Oh yes, they would

The Memory Police

Fahrenheit 451

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Memory Police

Fahrenheit 451

Testimonies of collapse

Non-fiction works that document some of the most catastrophic/violent events of recent history and their systemic causes.

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come

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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Books that altered my brain chemistry

by thebookishvalentine

Im still thinking about them whether I like it or not 👍🏼

Silence

Parable of the Sower

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The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)

Silence

Parable of the Sower

Freiheit + Herrschaft

Hiroshima

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)

Nonfiction Recs

by thebookishvalentine

I truly believe that there’s nonfiction for everyone out there; here’s some I’ve read & enjoyed

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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