Books to Read
Statistics tell us that 48.5% to 56% of people in the U.S. didn’t read a single book in the last year. If parents don’t read, neither will children. This could explain the lack of real knowledge and understanding of life we see in our country today.
Christopher Scalia has written a book, 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (but Probably Haven’t Read). It is a book about books that can also function as an extended book list. The books in this list include stories of conservative values thru fictional and nonfictional literature. The books recommended this month come from Scalia’s list.
TO OVERTHROW THE WORLD
The Rise and Fall of Communism
By Sean McMeekin
In To Overthrow the World, Sean McMeekin
investigates the evolution of Communism from a
seductive ideal of a classless society into the
ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes. Tracing
Communism’s ascent from theory to practice,
McMeekin ranges from Karl Marx’s writings to
the rise and fall of the USSR under Stalin to
Mao’s rise to power in China led to the acceleration
of Communist or Communist-inspired policies
around the world in the twenty-first century.
McMeekin argues, however, that despite the
endurance of Communism, it remains deeply
unpopular as a political form. Where it has
arisen, it has always arisen by force.
THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD
By Zora Neale Hurston
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God
brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and
pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston.
Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to
rejection of its strong black female protagonist, this
classic has, since its 1978 reissue, become perhaps
the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the
canon of African-American literature.
THE BLITHEDALE ROMANCE
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a tale of failed possibilities and
multiple personal betrayals as he explores the contrasts
between what his characters espouse and what they
actually, experience in an 'ideal' community. A theme of
unrealized sexual possibilities serves as a counterpoint to
the other failures at Blithedale: class and sex distinctions
are not eradicated, and communal work on the farm proves
personally unrewarding and economically disastrous.
