David Jacobin

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Recently Finished – Would Recommend:

Ishmael (9/10 – great for anyone interested in the philosophy behind cultural development and mythology)
Open Veins of Latin America (10/10 – an enlightening primer on the history that we are never taught in school)
Fahrenheit 451 (8/10 – another classic)
1984 (9/10 – classic)
Cannery Row (8/10 – love Steinbeck’s characters and writing)
Siddhartha (8/10 – a story of a beautiful spiritual journey of a man)
The One Straw Revolution (10/10 – life-changing book about philosophy and practice of natural farming and so much more)
California Foraging (8/10)
Sowing Seeds in the Desert (10/10 – inspiring book about ecological restoration)
Indigenous People’s History of the United States (9/10 – a must-read for anyone on Turtle Island/USA)
Black Elk Speaks (8/10)
100 Years of Solitude (7/10 – classic, wasn’t wowed at first but it’s fermented nicely in my memory)
The Black Jacobins (9/10 – inspiring and enlightening history of the first successful slave uprising)
The Four Agreements (7/10 – great premise, sometimes painful writing but still worth it)
Parable of the Sower (7.5/10 – Octavia Butler is awesome and presents something different in the sci-fi world telling a story of a young black woman in dystopian Southern California)
Brothers Karamazov (8/10 – expansive and rich but looooong)
Drawdown (N/A – important read for anyone who has the power to implement climate solutions – that’s everybody :P)

To Read:

Designing Regenerative Cultures
Dancing with Systems
Descartes Error
The happiness hypothesis
The Murray Bookchin Reader
The enlightened society by Kurt Flexner
Skinny Legs and All
My disillusionment with Russia – Emma Goldman
Everything is illuminated
Healing Earth – John Todd
Wolf totem
All the rain promises and more
Abundance – The Future Is Brighter Than You Think
Written on the Body
The Big Leap
Jitterbug perfume
How to Change Your Mind
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
Anything by Leslie Marmon Silko.
A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” by Annie Dillard
Exit West
Thomas Pynchon’s “V”
Another Roadside Attraction
There There by Tommy Orange
Finding Community – How to Find an Ecovillage
A Summer Prince
New York 2140
City of Refuge
The Power of Myth
Don’t Sleep  there are snakes
Secret Teachings of Plants
Autobiography of a Yogi
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
Welcome to the Monkey House
The Best That Money Can’t Buy
Hero with a thousand faces
Sapiens
Illuminatus Trilogy
Democracy in Chains
Anastasia & Ringing Cedars
We are Nothing and So Can You
Island – Huxley
The Undiscovered Self
Alan Watts
Youth in a Suspect Society
Walden
Deerhunting with Jesus
The Stranger
Enders Game
The alchemist
Cat’s Cradle
The Good Earth
Noli Mi Tangere
Mother Night
The Book – Alan Watts
The Time Machine
How the Body Works
Eumeswil
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
In search of lost time
Don Quixote
Brave New World
Do the Birds Sing in Hell
Crime and Punishment
Neruda Collection
Combatting Cult Mind Control and
Cults in our Midst.
Food of the Gods
The Transparent Self
The singularity is near
The Book of Dust
Notes from the Underground
Kafka short stories
The Pest
On the Move – Oliver Sachs
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Sometimes I’m serious. Sometimes I make #overgeneralizationsbydavid. Sometimes I write fiction. I don’t really distinguish between the three, but this is my warning to take everything you read here with a grain of salt and a critical lens.