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Let's read books that meet the moment!

Books that transform our worldview and help us see more clearly what's really going on in today's world. Books that give us insight and share what we can do about it all.

These are highly acclaimed best-selling non-fiction books that are well-written and therefore easy to read, and make us smarter about something happening in the world that affects all our lives in some way.

Books on the original list include:

All the Shah's Men, by Stephen Kinzer (Iran & roots of Middle East crisis)
1929, by Andrew Ross Sorkin (financial crisis, maps 1929 to current moment)
Goliath's Curse, by Luke Kemp* (societal collapse)
The Nutmeg's Curse, by Amitav Ghosh* (roots of environmental crisis in colonialism)
Empire of AI, by Karen Hao (debunks current AI hype)
The Devil's Chessboard, by David Talbot (CIA & US domination)
The Brothers, by Stephen Kinzer (how the Dulles Brothers made the world as it is today)
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, by Rashid Khalidi (history of Israel-Palestine conflict)

*Luke Kemp and Amitav Ghosh spoke at the Sydney Writers' Festival in May!
https://www.swf.org.au/program/festival-2026/big-histories

Additional books added to the list include:
The Nerd Reich, by Gil Durán (Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy)
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, by Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor
The Myth of Normal, by Gabor Maté (how exactly illness derives from modern life)
The Invisible Doctrine, by George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison ("the secret history of neoliberalism")
Killing Hope, William Blum (history of CIA covert operations)
The Alphabet Vs The Goddess, by Leonard Shlain (how alphabetic literacy spawned patriarchy & more)
The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (acclaimed "hard sci fi" imagining our climate future)
Hospicing Modernity, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira (how to truly decolonize our minds so we can birth a new world)
Less Is More, by Jason Hickel ("how degrowth can save the world")

This will be a monthly book club. Come join us for good intellectual discussion on top issues of the day. It's great motivation to read excellent books.

Let's meet this moment together!