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The hundred books challenge

So I updated the list of my recommended books to read. Those are the books you might want to have to rebuild civilization.  I only included the good books I read, the bad ones aren't on this list.

  1. The Ascent of Humanity – Charles Eisenstein
  2. Magicians of the Gods – Graham Hancock
  3. Dark Emu, Black Seeds : Agriculture or accident ? – Bruce Pascoe
  4. The Egypt Code – Robert Bauval
  5. Collapse – Jared Diamond
  6. 1491 – Charles C.Mann
  7. 1493 – Charles C.Mann
  8. The World Until Yesterday – Jared Diamond
  9. Prophets of the Gods – Graham Hancock
  10. Lost Knowledge of the Ancients – Edited by Glenn Kreisberg
  11. The Laughing Jesus(Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom) –Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
  12. The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
  13. Sex at Dawn – Christopher
  14. The Story of B – Daniel Quinn
  15. A Language Older Than Words – Derrick Jensen
  16. Extraordinary Knowing – Elizabeth Lloy Mayer
  17. The Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Yourself – Alan W. Watts.
  18. The Biology Of Transcendence – Joseph Chilton Pearce
  19. The Worm At The Core (On the role of death in life) – Sheldom Solomon, Jeff Greenberg)
  20. Nature and the Human Soul – Bill Plotkin
  21. Iron John– Robert Bly
  22. Quantum Evolution – Johnjoe McFadden
  23. Wild Mind – Bill Plotkin
  24. Ishmael –Daniel Quinn
  25. Breakfast at the Victory (The Mysticism of ordinary experience) – James P.Carse
  26. Finite and Infinite Games (A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility) – James P.Carse
  27. Future Primitive Revisited – John Zerzan
  28. Sacred Economics – Charles Eisenstein
  29. Extinction Dialogue (How to Live With Death In Mind) – Guy Mc.Pherson
  30. Boiling Point – Ross Gelbspan
  31. Under a Green Sky – Peter D.Ward
  32. The Sixth Extinction –Elizabeth Kolbert
  33. Six Degrees – Mark Lynas
  34. The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
  35. The Geography of Nowhere – James Howard Kunster
  36. The Long Emergency – James Howard Kunstler
  37. Endgame of Civilization – Derrick Jensen
  38. The Wild Edge of Sorrow – Francis Weller
  39. Man’s Search For Meaning – Viktor E.Frank
  40. The Millionaire Fastlane – MC Demarco
  41. Blue Truth (A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex) – David Deida
  42. Radical Honesty – Brad Blanton
  43. The Wisdom of Insecurity – Alan W.Watts.
  44. A Guide to the Good Life – William B.Irvine
  45. On The Shortness of Life – Seneca
  46. The Untethered Soul (The Journey Beyond Yourself) – Michael A.Singer
  47. The Art of Communicating – Thich That Hath
  48. The More Beautiful World That Our Heart Knows Is Possible – Charles Eisenstein
  49. We Will Be Free – Graeme Bell
  50. Always Running (La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A) – Luis Rodriguez
  51. Kon Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl
  52. Tao Te Ching
  53. Two Years Before the Mast – Richard Henry Dana
  54. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy – Douglas Adam
  55. The Subtle Art of the Giving a Fuck – Mark Manson
  56. 1984 – George Orwell
  57. Spiritual Initiation and the Breakthrough of Consciousness by Joseph Chilton Pearce
  58. Unscripted by MJ Demarco
  59. The Four-Hour Workweek (Tim Ferris)
  60. The Four-Hour Body (Tim Ferriss)
  61. Words that work by Frank Luntz
  62. Tools of Titans – Tim Ferriss
  63. The Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenistyn
  64. Speak like Churchill, Stand like Lincoln – James C. Humes
  65. Become a Supple Leopard – Kelly Starret
  66. Endurance – Alfred Lansing
  67. Synchronicity – Carl Jung 
  68. The Freedom Paradox – Clive Hamilton
  69. Mind Games – Michael Powell
  70. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
  71. Slaughterhouse – Gail A. Eisnitz
  72. The End of Education – Neil Postman
  73. Amusing Ourselves to Death – Neil Postman
  74. The End of Days – Zecharia Sitchin 
  75. Soulcraft – Bill Plotkins
  76. Life on the Edge – Johnjoe McFadden
  77. A Last Chance to See – Douglas Adam
  78. The Field – Lynne McTaggart
  79. How Not To Die – Michael Greger
  80. DMT – The Spirit Molecule – Rick Strassman
  81. The 48 Lays of Power
  82. Journey Out of Body – Robert Monroe
  83. Far Journeys – Robert Monroe
  84. Technopoly –Neil Postman
  85. The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch
  86. The History of the Peloponnesian War – Thucydides
  87. Discipline equals Freedom Field Manual – Jocko Willink
  88. Extreme Ownership – Jocko Willink
  89. A People's History of The United States – Howard Zinn
  90. Mating In Captivity – Esther Perel
  91. Dancing In The Streets – Barbara Ehrenreich
  92. Eating Animals– Jonathan Safran Foer
  93. The Enlightened Sex Manual – David Deia
  94. About Faces – Colonel David Hackworth
  95. The Great Work – Thomas Berry
  96. Endgame Vol. 2 – Derrick Jensen
  97. Genesis Chapter 1-6 – The Bible
  98. 12 Rules For Life - Jordan B. Peterson
  99. Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 
  100. This Is It — Alan Watts.