Thread by @ElonBachman

1\ Best books I read in 2021

2020's list is linked in this first tweet, 2021's list follows in this thread

https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1341336325673369600

2\ Outer Dark (McCarthy)

and

Men at War (Hemingway)

3\ The Anabasis of Cyrus (Xenophon)

and

In Praise of Blood (Rever)

4\ The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically (Oppenheimer)

and

The Man Versus the State, with Six Essays on Government, Society, and Freedom (Spencer)

5\ Red Terror in Russia (Melgunov)

and

Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid (Angwin)

6\ Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut (Bennett)

and

South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic (Knauft)

7\ Demographic Fluctuation and Institutional Response in Sparta (Doran)

and

Complete Works of Julius Caesar (Caesar)

8\ The Journals of Captain Cook (Cook)

and

Oceanic Migration: Paths, Sequence, Timing, and Range of Prehistoric Migration in the Pacific and Indian Oceans

9\ Individualism and Economic Order (Hayek)

and

Primitive Marriage: An Inquiry into the Origin of the Form of Capture in Marriage Ceremonies

10\ Reflections on the Human Condition (Hoffer)

and

The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims (Bostom)

11\ American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character (West)

and

The Crossing (McCarthy)

12\ All the Pretty Horses, Child of God, Cities of the Plain, No Country for Old Men (all McCarthy)

13\ Suttree, Blood Meridian, The Road (all McCarthy)

14\ Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Parker)

and

Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media (Showalter)

15\ Primitive Secret Societies: A Study in Early Politics & Religion (Webster)

and

Why Men Fight (Russell)

and

The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulation Affects our Everyday Lives (Bylund)

16\ Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin (Bunin)

and

The Comanche Empire (Hamalainen)

and

The Phony Victory: The World War II Illusion (Hitchens)

17\ Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism (Burnham)

and

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches (Gwynne)

and

Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species (Mann)

18\ Orderly Anarchy: Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California (Bettinger)

and

Race and Sport: Evolution and Racial Differences in Sporting Ability (Dutton)

and

White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves (Milton)

19\ The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier (Anderson)

and

The Conquest of Happiness (Russell)

and

Anatomy of the State (Rothbard)

20\ Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony (Edgerton)

and

Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study (Trigger)

Damn! A Book of Calumny (Mencken)

21\ In The Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence (Warne)

and

The Power of Ritual in Prehistory: Secret Societies and Origins of Social Complexity (Hayden)

and

When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment (Anderson)

22\ The Road to Wigan Pier (Orwell)

and

Bronze Age Mindset (Bronze Age Pervert)

and

Understanding Human History (Hart)

23\ A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History (Wade)

and

A Question of Intelligence: The IQ Debate in America (Seligman)

and

The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement (Lynn)

24\ Feminism and Freedom (Levin)

and

Why Race Matters (Levin)

and

The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution (Harpending)

25\ The Art of Travel, or Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries (Galton)

and

The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability (Jensen)

and

Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations (Lynn)

26\ The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties (Caldwell)