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The Corbett Report | So, You've Decided To Read Books Again? ...Here Are Some Suggestions! #SolutionsWatch | July 31, 2026

Source: corbettreport.com



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So, inspired by the recent Corbett Report exploration of the real fate of The Library of Alexandria and the subsequent report on how They Don't Want You To Read, you've decided to pick up a book? Great!

Need a book suggestion for your foray into the wide world of books? Then you've come to the right place! Specifically, on this special edition of the #SolutionsWatch/IMA roundtable, the IMA panel (along with special guest Tim Lacy) recommend a slew of books to keep even the most inveterate reader busy for the foreseeable future. Happy reading!

Show Notes: 
James Corbett of corbettreport.com.
Recommended Book: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Secondary recommendation: Dune by Frank Herbert

Tim Lacy of ReportageBook.com:
Recommended book: Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco

Quote from the book: “As with the best products of mass entertainment, the confusion of collateral information serves only to make appetizing a central structure that is unrelentingly redundant, so that the reader will receive always and only what he has already known (or understood).” Umberto Eco, from the essay “Cogito Interruptus”
Secondary recommendation: The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances A. Yates

Jason Bermas of X
Recommended book: The Franklin Scandal by Nick Bryant
Secondary recommendation: 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA by Webster Griffin Tarpley

Steve Poikonen of AM Wakeup:
Recommended book: “The Power of the Powerless” by Vaclav Havel
Secondary recommendation: The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
Tertiary recommendation: Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Dan Baum

Charlie Robinson of ActivistPost.com:
Recommended book: Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
Secondary recommendation: A Happy Pocketful of Money: Infinite Wealth and Abundance in the Here and Now by David Cameron Gikandi

Kit Knightly of Off-Guardian:
Recommended book: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Secondary recommendation: Who Murdered Chaucer: A Medieval Mystery by Terry Jones

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