Bibliography

Current Events & World History:

• The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism - Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
• The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad - Tariq Ali
• When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences - Eric Alterman
• American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of US Diplomacy - Andrew Bacevich
• My Turn to Speak: Iran, The Revolution and Secret Deals With the US - Abolhassan Bani-Sadr
• Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire - Morris Berman
• Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden
• Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis - William Bonner & Addison Wiggin
• Neither East Nor West: One Woman's Journey Through the Islamic Republic of Iran - Christiane Bird
• Toward a New Civilization: Why We Must Tame Our Instincts to Save Our World - Arthur Blech
• This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity - David Christian
• Armageddon Science: The Science of Mass Destruction - Brian Clegg
• Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet - Bill Davidow
• War: The Lethal Custom - Gwynne Dyer
• Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War - Barbara Ehrenreich
• Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon - Robert Fisk
• The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East - Robert Fisk
• America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and Its Enemies - George Friedman
• The Price of Empire - J William Fulbright & Seth Tillman
• Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle - Chris Hedges
• War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges
• Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster - David Icke
• Tales from the Time Loop - David Icke
• Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War - Michael Isikoff & David Corn
• Thought to Exist in the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos - Derrick Jensen & Karen Tweedy-Holmes
• Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire - Chalmers Johnson
• Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic - Chalmers Johnson
• The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War - Robert Kaplan
• The Deserter's Tale: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away From the War in Iraq - Joshua Key
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Naomi Klein
• The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century - James Kunstler
• Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo - Murat Kurnaz
• American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville - Bernard-Henri Levy
• The Iranians: Persia, Islam and the Soul of a Nation - Sandra Mackey
• It's the Crude, Dude! - Linda McQuaig
• Above Top Secret: Uncover the Mysteries of the Digital Age - Jim Marrs
• Rule by Secrecy: Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids - Jim Marrs
• The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies that Threaten to Take Over America - Jim Marrs
• Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn - Jamie Maslin
• Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq - T Christian Miller
• Amerika Psycho: Behind Uncle Sam's Mask of Insanity - Richard Neville
• The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq - George Packer
• The History of White People - Nell Painter
• Trick or Treason: The October Surprise Mystery - Robert Parry
• Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families - Pamela Paul
• Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded and What We Need to do to Remake Them - John Perkins
• American Theocracy - Kevin Phillips
• Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism - Kevin Phillips
• A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression - Richard Posner
• Baghdad Burning I - Riverbend
• How the End Begins: The Road to Nuclear World War III - Ron Rosenbaum
• Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World - Mike Ruppert
• Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil - Mike Ruppert
• Archaeology Unearthing the Mysteries of the Past - Kate Santon
• Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran - Elaine Sciolino
• The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation - Philip Shenon
• October Surprise: America's Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan - Gary Sick
• Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Conquered Our Government and How We Take It Back - David Sirota
• Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things - Gail Steketee & Randy Frost
• The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire - Matt Taibbi
• The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy - Strobe Talbot
• Searching for Hassan: A Journey to the Heart of Iran - Terrence Ward
• Cold War, Cold Peace: The United States and Russia Since 1945 - Bernard Weisberger
• Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America - Charles Ferguson

Religion:

• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Myth of Christianity - John Allegro
• Instant Creation: Not Evolution - Dorothy Allford
• The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History - Michael Baigent
• Dead Sea Scrolls Deception - Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh
• Holy Blood, Holy Grail: The Secret History of Christ & The Shocking Legacy of the Grail - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln
• The Messianic Legacy: Startling Evidence About Jesus Christ and a Secret Society Still Influential Today! - Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln
• The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul - Mario Beauregard & Denyse O'leary
• God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question Why We Suffer - Bart Ehrman
• Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew - Bart Ehrman
• The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts - Isreal Finkelstein & Neil Silberman
• Digging Through the Bible: Modern Archaeology and the Ancient Bible - Richard Freund
• Who Wrote the Bible? - Richard Friedman
• Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? The Search for the Secret of Qumran - Norman Golb
• When Atheism Becomes Religion - Chris Hedges
• god is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens
• The Miracles of Exodus: A Scientist's Discovery of the Extraordinary Natural Causes of the Bibilical Stories - Colin Humphreys
• In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred - Sam Keen
• A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization - Jonathan Kirsch
• Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace - William Lobdell
• The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, And What's Behind It All - Bernard Maisch
• New Living Translation of the Holy Scriptures - NLT Translation Committee
• The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics - Elaine Pagels
• When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity During the Last Days of Rome - Richard Rubenstein
• The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth - Gerald Schroeder
• The Hidden Scrolls: Christianity, Judaism and the War for the Dead Sea Scrolls - Neil Silberman
• The Story of Scripture: From Oral Tradition to the Written Word - Daniel Silver
• The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence that Points Toward God - Lee Strobel
• The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil's Biblical Roots - TJ Wray & Gregory Mobley
• The Happy Atheist - PZ Myers

Cosmology, Science, Ancient History, Mythology, Etc.:

• Crop Circles: Exploring the Designs and Mysteries - Werner Anderhub & Hans Peter Roth
• The Orion Mystery: Unlocking the Secrets of the Pyramids - Robert Bauval
• Atlantis: The Eighth Continent - Charles Berlitz
• Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West - Morris Berman
• A Brief History of the Human Race - Michael Cook
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
• The Complete Ice Age: How Climate Change Shaped the World - Brian Fagan
• Heaven's Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock
• The Message of the Sphynx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind - Graham Hancock & Robert Bauval
• Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock
• America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock
• A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
• The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
• Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy - Dan Hooper
• What We Leave Behind - Derrick Jensen & Aric McBay
• Book of Hiram: Freemasonry, Venus, Secret Key to Life of Jesus - Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas
• The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus - Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas
• Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
• Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy: From Giza to Easter Island - Giulio Magli
• Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer - Barbara Ehrenreich
• The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility - William Moore & Charles Berlitz
• The Reality Bubble: Blind Spots, Hidden Truths, and the Dangerous Illusions that Shape Our World - Ziya Tong
• The Secret of Atlantis - Otto Muck
• Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs - Mark Pilkington
• The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos - Joel Primack & Nancy Ellen Abrams
• The Atlantis Blueprint: Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization - Colin Wilson & Rand Flem-Ath
• The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself - Sean Caroll
• The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War - David Smith
• The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
• The Stones of Atlantis - David Zink
• Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past - David Reich
• The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
• Escape from Evil - Ernest Becker
• Hype: A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims and Bad Advice - How to Tell What's Real and What's Not - Nina Shapiro
• Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health - H. Gilbert Welch
• Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? - Bill McKibben
• Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are - Bill Sullivan
• Civilized to Death - Christopher Ryan
• What Do You Think You Are? - Brian Clegg
• The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld - Jamie Bartlett
• 1984 - George Orwell
• Escape from Freedom - Erich Fromm
• America, the Farewell Tour - Chris Hedges
• Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt - Chris Hedges
• Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms - Hannah Fry
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History - Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Lost City of the Monkey God - David Preston
• The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self - Charles Eisenstein
• Status Anxiety - Alain de Button
• The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves - Andrew Potter
• The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life - Jesse Bering
• Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors - Nicholas Wade
• Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins - Steve Olson
• Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing - Barbara Natterson-Horowitz & Kathryn Bowers
• Death, and Its Mysteries - Ignace Lepp
• That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion - Rachel Herz
• Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization - Stephen Cave
• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• The Sociopath Next Door - Martha Stout
• The 33 Strategies of War - Robert Greene

Note: The preceding catalog includes all books read completely during the long research period as detailed in the old “blog.” This post supersedes the hyperlinked text file embedded somewhere in Notes. Newly read books will also be appended to the list.