This Is Your Wake-up Call: 15+ Books to Read Right Now
Do you have someone close to you who needs a major wake-up call? Give them these books to read.
Sometimes the most effective way to wake people up to real atrocities going on or to address their fears is to have them learn about and experience them in a safe, fictional environment.
Non-fiction can also be useful in the waking up process. However, you need to get people to the point where they’re willing to acknowledge that something is wrong or doesn’t feel right.
That’s why I say you should start with fiction that accurately predicted the state of our society today. Non-fiction truth bombs will be much easier to digest thereafter.
Note: The following list of books comes from my personal bookshelf. That’s why so many of them are in the dystopian science fiction genre.
What I’d love is for you guys to submit other book suggestions in the comments if there’s anything I missed (and I’m sure there are a lot). I’d like to come up with a comprehensive reading list we can use to fill in the gaps in our own experience and knowledge as well as to share with others who need to be enlightened.
The concept of Big Brother didn’t come from reality TV. George Orwell warned us about the authoritarian state a long time ago.
Another Orwell classic, this one shows us how all animals are equal and, yet, some animals are more equal than others.
No, not that kind of lottery. This short story reveals how easily a tight-knit community will turn on one of its own in order to protect everyone else.
Poor little Piggy. Wanna see what happens when lawlessness rules? William Goulding’s tale is as brutal and honest as it gets.
“It was a pleasure to burn.” This is what the world looks like when censorship takes over and people welcome it.
Aldous Huxley fired so many warning shots with this book and we ignored (almost) all of them. Big tech. Genetic engineering. Pharmaceutical coping. He told us it was coming.
Arthur Miller’s play provides important commentary on two major historical events that we seemed to have forgotten the lessons of — the Salem witch trials and the McCarthy hearings.
This is an epic tale of a disease that escaped from a government research lab. While COVID is no Captain Trips, the government’s response to the diseases and the battle between good vs. evil that came out of them are eerily similar.
In a world of followers, copy-cats, and uncritical thinkers, could you resist the comfort and rewards that come with being a sheep? Or would you have the strength to be an individual and do what is right regardless of what it costs you?
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Margaret Atwood knows that the government will exploit its population for its own gain.
And now, some non-fiction for when you or the people you care about are ready for it…
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
There are cults all around us. Do you know how to recognize them? Read this non-fiction book and you’ll see how one man leveraged diversity and equity to create one of the most infamous cults and mass suicide events.
Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
Former NYT reporter Alex Berenson dug into everything that happened in 2020 and early 2021. This book will force you to relive those tumultuous years and to start questioning everything that’s happened since.
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
RFK Jr. digs into the annals of modern history to uncover Fauci’s failed and murderous record. He also sheds light on the roles that Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and our governments have played over the last few decades to sicken, experiment on, and control us.
Oh, Hunter Biden… You rapscalion you. If only you hadn’t documented literally every moment of your depraved life, we never would’ve known how corrupt Joe Biden and his family really are. (I’m kidding. We knew. We just needed the proof, so thank you for that.)
The Great Reset: Joe Biden and the Rise of Twenty-First-Century Fascism
Glenn Beck reveals how all those conspiracy theories that had been dismissed these past couple of decades are, in fact, very real and coming to fruition now.
The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness
Laughter is the best medicine. If this book doesn’t get you or your loved ones to laugh about the ridiculous world of wokeness we live in now, give up all hope.
I realize that reading has fallen out of fashion. And perhaps that’s why so many people seem to be completely oblivious to what’s happening in society.
That’s why I’m creating a companion post to this one with movies. If we can’t wake people up with books, we’re going to have to do it through film.
Here's a book that maybe counts as dystopian faction. 'Hidden Hand' by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg, on the global influence of the Chinese Communist Party.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48838060-hidden-hand
I read it a few years ago after a recommendation from someone on Twitter.