Ben Shapiro’s Recommended Reading
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Episode 243: On how Hitler came to power and factors that lead to the rise of dictatorship
- The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
On illegal immigration and data analysis
Episode 242: On other evil dictators of the 20th century that tend to go unnoticed
- Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Episode 241: On the depravity of dictators besides Hitler and Mussolini
- Franco: A Biography by Paul Preston
Episode 240: On fascism
- Mussolini by R. J. B. Bosworth
Episode 239: A memoir on growing up in a family with the looming specter of death; changing your life’s direction, and becoming healthy
- When We Were Five: The Diary of an American Family by Derek Gray
Episode 238: On teaching children what guns mean, why you have to be safe with them, how to be safe with them and what they do
- Safety On: An Introduction to the World of Firearms for Children by Yehuda Remer
Episode 237: On teaching patriotism to children
- I am George Washington by Brad Meltzer
- * I am Martin Luther King, Jr. by Brad Meltzer
- * I am Abraham Lincoln by Brad Meltzer
Episode 236: A French intellectual of the Left on the global rise of antisemitism partially due to the alliance between the Left and Islamofascism
- The Genius of Judaism by Bernard-Henri Lévy
Episode 233: On propaganda against the 1960’s Left
- The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth
- * American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 by Charles Murray
Episode 232: On debunking the myth of the lack on income mobility in the United States and the benefits of inequality with respect to markets rewarding risk
Episode 227: Elie Wiesel’s cousin, Jack Slomovic, on surviving the holocaust
- * The Memoirs of Jack Slomovic by Jack Slomovic, ghostwritten by Ben Shapiro
On the best of all possible worlds; on the meaning of Israel and the struggle of man to obey God in spite of present circumstance or lack of temporal benefit
- * Candide: Or Optimism by Francois Voltaire
- * The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Episode 226: On the economic and employment consequences of mass job replacement with technology
- ** The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
Episode 225: On comedic writing (see especially the audiobook)
- Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm Macdonald
Episode 224: On consequentialism
- * Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
On a universal or guaranteed income
- * Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
Episode 223: On key debates inside the conservative movement
- Patriotism Is Not Enough: Harry Jaffa, Walter Berns, and the Arguments that Redefined American Conservatism by Steven F. Hayward
- Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
Episode 222:
- ** The Plot Against America: A Novel by Philip Roth
Episode 221: A glimpse at American politics in the 1930’s
- It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Episode 220: On the history of economics in the 20th century
- The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw
Episode 219: On perspectives on the middle class
- Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Episode 218: On Winston Churchill and on the justification of human action
- Churchill: A Life by Martin Gilbert
- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874–1965 by William Manchester and Paul Reid
- Churchill by Paul Johnson
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religionby Jonathan Haidt
Episode 217:
- The Second World War by John Keegan
- The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme by John Keegan
- Officer’s Professional Reading Guide by United States Military Academy at West Point
Episode 216:
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Episode 215:
- The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
Previous Episodes:
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
- Myths & Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Mitchell Bard
- The Beast That Crouches At The Door by Rabbi David Fohrman
- Exodus by Leon Uris
- The Source: A Novel by James A. Michener
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
- Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
- String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis by David Foster Wallace
- Ball Four by Jim Bouton
- Ghosts of Manila: The Fateful Blood Feud Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier by Mark Kram Jr.
- The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D. Kaplan
- The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
- Tragedy and Comedy by Walter Kerr
- The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch by Jonathan Gottschall
- Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
- ** The Whites: A Novel by Richard Price and Harry Brandt
- The Insanity Offense: How America’s Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens by E. Fuller Torrey
- The Once and Future King by T. H. White
- * The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America by Barry Latzer
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
- Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
- * 1984 by George Orwell
- * Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
- Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution by A. J. Langguth
- Modern Times Revised Edition: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties by Paul Johnson
- The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America by Roger Kimball
- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity by James Fitzjames Stephen
- The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe by Heather Mac Donald
- Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century by George Gilder
- Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World by George Gilder
- The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does by George Gilder
- * The complete works of George Gilder
- Going Red: The Two Million Voters Who Will Elect the Next President — and How Conservatives Can Win Them by Ed Morrissey
- The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America by Barry Latzer
- Black Rednecks & White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
- The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell
- Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt
- Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Episode 19:
No recommendations on the Ben Shapiro Show prior to Episode 19
Further Mentions:
- * Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
- Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care? by Richard Epstein
* 40 Books on Glenn’s Nightstand in 2016
- The American Miracle: Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic Michael Medved
- Asleep by Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Because of Bethlehem: Love Is Born, Hope Is Here by Max Lucado
- The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by Doug Abrams
- The Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Cahn
- Currency Wars by James Rickards
- Deception by Ken Timmerman
- Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Small Government Is Smarter by Ilya Somin
- The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
- The Fate of Empires by Arthur John Hubbard
- Flyover Nation by Dana Loesch
- Foreign Agent by Brad Thor
- Green Card Warrior: My Quest for Legal Immigration in an Illegals’ System by Nick Adams
- Hillary’s America by Dinesh D’Souza
- The House of Secrets by Brad Meltzer
- I Am George Washington by Brad Meltzer
- The Immortal Nicholas by Glenn Beck
- Into the Magic Shop by James R. Doty
- The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson by David Barton
- Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O’Reilly
- A Letter to Mary by Jason Wright
- Liars by Glenn Beck
- Liberalism or How to Turn Good Men into Whiners, Weenies and Wimps by Burgess Owens
- Lowell Park by Mike Chapman
- Michael Vey 6: The Fall of Hades by Richard Paul Evans
- Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe by Robert Matzen
- A Nefarious Plot by Steve Deace
- Our Lost Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America’s Founding Document by Mike Lee
- Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future by Roy Willams and Michael Drew
- Progressive Racism by David Horowitz
- Retaking America: Crushing Political Correctness by Nick Adams
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
- Settle for More by Megyn Kelly
- So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
- Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade
- Tough as They Come by Travis Mills
- True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro
- unashamed, candid conversations about dating, love, nakedness and faith by Tracy Levinson
- Under Our Skin: Getting Real About Race. Getting Free From the Fears and Frustrations That Divide Us by Benjamin Watson
- War on Guns by John Lott, Jr.
- The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselves by James Poulos
- Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People by Randy E. Barnett
- Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
- F*ck Feelings: One Shrink’s Practical Advice for Managing All Life’s Impossible Problems by Michael Bennett MD and Sarah Bennett
- The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics by Peter J. Boettke and Christopher J. Coyne
- * The complete works of Whittaker Chambers
- * Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
- People’s Republic by Kurt Schlichter
Books by Ben Shapiro:
America 2030: What the End of the Free World Looks Like, and How to Stop It (2017)
True Allegiance (2016)
People Vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration (2014)
Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans (2013)
The Memoirs of Jack Slomovic by Jack Slomovic and Ben Shapiro (2012)
Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV (2011)
Project President: Bad Hair and Botox on the Road to the White House (2008)
Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future (2005)
Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth (2004)
* indirectly mentioned
** mentioned, but not necessarily recommended
Ben Shapiro is Editor-In-Chief at The Daily Wire, syndicated columnist, host of The Ben Shapiro Show and The Morning Answer, National Review, NYT bestseller and can be reached at bshapiro@dailywire.com. This ever-developing list of book recommendations is principally from Shapiro’s “Things I Like and Things I Hate” segment of The Ben Shapiro Show. This post will be updated to reflect the release of new episodes and as the writer combs its archives. Note: if you know of a recommendation not included here, kindly leave a comment including the author, title and source.