Book List

Author and esteemed journalist P. Sainath was gracious enough to send this list of books that he considers as must reads. I am attaching his message and the list below.

Here’s the promised list. There’s a full 100 below in the table. Above the table are 20 which I figure should be fairly easy for you to access, since they are mostly American. The list has no particular order of priority, only the top 20 above are all relatively recent books (with the exception of titles like Now Let Us Praise Famous Men and a couple of others). Allow for a mistake here and there as this was mostly done from memory. Also some of the titles in the top 20 might not be there in the main list. Sorry if that’s confusing.

Will keep updating the top 20 as and when I get idea or remember some other titles and will let you know later suggestions

At any rate, the books are guaranteed to transform you or your money back. (They were chosen for you guys after careful deliberation by a select committee comprising me. Now comes your part of the job - READ).

• Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong By James W. Loewen
• Late Victorian holocausts: El Niño famines and the making of the third world By Mike Davis
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals By Michael Pollan
• The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Linda Bilmes
• The New Media Monopoly By Ben H. Bagdikian
• Fast Food Nation: What the All-American Meal Is Doing to the World By Eric Schlosser
• Blue Gold: The Battle Against Corporate Theft of the World's Water By Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke
• Second front: censorship and propaganda in the 1991 Gulf War By John R. MacArthur, Ben H. Bagdikian
• Ida: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching By Paula J. Giddings
• The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
• Imperial Masquerade: Essays By Lewis H. Lapham
• No space, no choice, no jobs, no logo By Naomi Klein
• Confessions of an economic hit man By John Perkins
• Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families By James Agee, Walker Evans
• False Dawn : the Delusions of Global Capitalism: The Delusions of Global Capitalism By John Gray
• One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy By Thomas Frank
• The best democracy money can buy: an investigative reporter exposes the truth about globalization, corporate cons, and high-finance fraudsters By Greg Palast
• A People's History of the United States: 1492-present By Howard Zinn
• IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation By Edwin Black
• Trading with the Enemy: The Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949 By Charles Higham

1	A Peoples History of the United States	Howard Zinn	24	Against Empire	Michael Parenti
2	A Zinn Reader	Howard Zinn	25	King Leopold’s Ghost	Adam Hochschild
3	One Market Under God	Thomas Frank	26	Global Media	Robert McChesny & Edward S. Herman
4	Manufacturing Consent	Noam Chomsky	27	Rich Media, Poor Democracy	Robert McChesney
5	Trading with the Enemy	Charles Higham	28	Luce & his Empire	A.L. Swanberg
6	IBM & The Holocaust	Edwin Black	29	Politics of Rich & Poor	Kevin Philips
7	Lies My Teacher Told Me	James Loewen	30	The Mind Managers	Herbert Schiller
8	Fast Food Nation	Eric Schlosser	31	Tube of Plenty	Erik Barnouw
9	All Govenments Lie	I.F. Sone	32	The Sponsor	Erik Barnouw
10	The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb	Gar Alperowitz	33	Ending Corporate Welfare	Ralph Nader
11	The Fateful Triangle	Noam Chomsky	34	The Press	A. J. Liebling
12	Palestine: Myth & Reality	Norman Finkelstein	35	The Second Front	John MacArthur
13	American Holocaust	David E. Stannard	36	On Writing	Sol Stein
14	Late Victorian Holocausts	Mike Davis	37	Joe McCarthy & The Press	Edwin Bayley
15	When Corporations Rule the World	David Korten	38	Common Sense	Thomas Paine
16	Jihad Vs. McWorld	James Barber	39	The Rights of man	Thomas Paine
17	The U.S. Presidency	Gore Vidal	40	Citizen Paine	Howard Fast
18	The Media Monopoly (6th ed.)	Ben Bagdikian	41	Spartacus	Howard Fast
19	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee	Dee Brown	42	Viva Mexico	John Reed
20	The State of Native America	M. Annette Jaimes	43	Ten Days that Shook the World	John Reed
21	Coming of Age	Studs Terkel	44	The Debt: What America Owes Blacks	Randall Robinson
22	Man’s Wordly Goods	Leo Huberman	45	Inventing Reality	Michael Parenti
23	The Press & the Cold War	James Aronson	46	Roughing It	Mark Twain
24	Don’t Blame the People	Robert Cirino	49	The souls of black folk	W.E.B. DuBois
25	Wizards of Media Oz	Cohen & Solomon	50	Black Reconstruction	W.E.B. DuBois
51	Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Mary Wollstonecraft	75	The Cold War & Culture	FranesStonor Saunders
52	The Wretched of the Earth	Frantz Fanon	76	The Suppression of the African Slave Trade	W.E.B. DuBois
53	What Apartheid Means	Jean Paul Sratre	77	All Governments Lie	I. F. Stone
54	The Law of Manu	Anon.	78	Gandhi Autobrography	M. K. Gandhi
55	The First Casualty	Phillip Knghtley	79	The Prince	Machiavelli
56	How the Other Half Dies	Susan George	80	The struggle is my life	Nelson Mandela
57	The Debt Boomerang	Susan George	81	Karl Marx	Francis Wheen
58	The End of Food	Paul Roberts	82	The Trial of Socrates	I.F. Stone
59	Information & Inequality	Herbert Schiller	83	The Communist Manifesto	Marx & Engels
60	Culture Inc.,	Herbert Schiller	84	Imperialism: the hgihest stage of capitalism	Lenin
61	Black Skin, White Masks	Frantz Fanon	85	Fads & Fallacies	Martin Gardiner
62	Through the Media Looking Glass	Normon Solomon & Jeff Cohen	86	A Peoples History of England	A.J.L. Morton
63	Global Parasites	Winin Perira & Jeremy Seabrooke	87	The History	Herodotus
64	History will absolve me	Fidel Castro	88	The Republic	Plato
65	Murdoch	George Munster	89	The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith
66	Maxwell	Tom Bower	90	The Affluent Society	J.K. Galbraith
66	Passport	Wifred Burchett	91	The Culture of Contentment	J.K. Galbraith
67	At the Barricades	Wilfred Burchett	92	On Colonialism	Amilcar Cabral
68	Poverty & Famines	Amartya Sen	93	On Colonialism	Marx & Engels
69	The Globalization of poverty	Michael Chossudovsky	94	The History of the Standard Oil Company	Ida Tarbell
70	The Geopolitics of Information	Anthony Smith	95	War is a Racket	Gen.Smedley D. Butler
71	A Fate worse than debt	Susan George	96	Seize the Time	Bobby Seale
72	World Hunger	Francis Moore Lappe	97	Profits over People	Noam Chomsky
73	Ecology & Equity	Madhav Gadgil & Ramachandra Guha	98	The Lords of Global Poverty	Graham Hancock
74	All in God’s name	David Yallop	99	The Age of Empire	Eric Hobsbawm
75	Voices of Revolution	Roger Streitmatter	100	The Age of Capital	Eric Hobsbawm