>>42448658 (OP)
Got done reading IF Stone's 'Trial of Socrates' last week. I think it was a kike writer making propaganda to soothe himself in his old age, but it was short enough and had just enough literary value that I'd suggest it to others. Reading 'Algorithms to live by' now after that's been taking up space on my shelf for seven years. This is an easy read for anyone who's mind clicks with statistics. I'll also shout out Olmstead's 'History of the Persian Empire' which is ~80 years out of print but incredibly fulfilling in not just covering how kings came to power and moved borders, but also how economy, taxes, artwork, and pacification of minorities in the empire shifted over hundreds of years. This was one of the best books I've ever read.
As for fiction, I really only read through my collection of printed MLP fanfictions I've accumulated over the years and a small number of books/light novels I enjoyed alot as a teen/early 20s, things by Michael Crichton or the Youjo Senki LN.
Lastly as someone big into motorsports I've gradually accumulated a small collection of racing history stuff but these really aren't for reading as much as they are for referencing and collecting.
Biggest thing I learned once I started having disposable income and could buy my own books: There is alot of just outright garbage out there. I'll hear people say 'read nigga read' but they'll drop the most useless obvious propaganda history books, complete prattling nonsense about self-inserting their own biographies into true crime, the most gooner-ish woman's fiction, or the blandest wish fulfillment out there. There are alot of voracious readers out there who will keep gigantic lists of shit that they have read but none of it sticks with them outside of the barest skeleton, and recs from people going through like 15 or more books in a year are almost always useless because it's all 'random junk in random junk out'.
