Editor’s Note: We’re launching some new discussions and debates this winter in dialogue with the new fiction publishing company Liberty Island. See the previous installments: David S. Bernstein on November 19: “5 Leaders of the New Conservative Counter-Culture,” Dave Swindle on November 25: “7 Reasons Why Thanksgiving Will Be My Last Day on Facebook,” and this collection of discussion starters from yesterday: “60 Questions to Provoke Debates About How to Fix Our Popular Culture.” Today we launch the new, experimental PJ Lifestyle Book Talk, hopefully a regular (aiming for daily…) feature including Instagram videos and tweets discussing the books listed across genres, time periods, and cultures. See Dave Swindle’s open letter to his younger brother — “My Growing List of 65 Read-ALL-Their-Books Authors” — for more description of the method behind the madness of this work-in-progress book collection. The goal: 365 books total, 7 lists of 52 each, organized thematically by day. What books should make it onto the final list? Your input and suggestions are most valued. Please join the discussion on Twitter (@DaveSwindle) and Instagram (@DaveSwindlePJM) and your responses might appear in future installments.
Monday: Good Vs Evil
Monday: How can we understand Evil? I explore books about orthodox Islam, revolutionary Marxism, and antisemitism. In particular I’m going to try to explain how they’ve evolved over the centuries.
Islam
1.0 – the Koran and Mohammed
- Howard Bloom’s The Mohammed Code
- Islam Unveiled by Robert Spencer
- Did Muhammad Exist? By Robert Spencer
- The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran by Robert Spencer
- What the Koran Really Says by Ibn Warraq
2.0 – Shariah slave states
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades) by Robert Spencer
- Not Peace But a Sword by Robert Spencer
- Shariah: The Threat To America: An Exercise In Competitive Analysis (Report of Team B II)
- Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue Regimes by Michael Rubin
- The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America’s Interests in the Middle East by Mitchell Bard
- Accomplice to Evil by Michael Ledeen
- Slave Soldiers and Islam by Daniel Pipes
- The Tragedy of the Middle East By Barry Rubin
- Gaddafi’s Harem by Annick Cojean
- Modern Dictators by Barry Rubin
- How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam is Dying Too) by David P. Goldman
3.0 – Terrorism and Stealth Jihad
- Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes
- The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America by Andrew C. McCarthy
- Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy by Andrew C. McCarthy
- Arab Winter Comes to America: The Truth About the War We’re In by Robert Spencer
- Londonistan by Melanie Phillips
Marxism
1.0 – From Marx and his predecessors to the death of Stalin
- Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals
- Main Currents of Marxism by Leszek Kolakowski
- Marxism: Philosophy and Economics by Thomas Sowell
- A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
- Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives by Alan Bullock
- The Socialist Phenomenon
- The Black Book of Communism
2.0 – the Cold War Criminal State and its Apologists and Allies
- Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism by Ion Mihai Pacepa and Ronald Rychlak
- Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination by Ion Mihai Pacepa
- The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor by Paul Kengor
3.0 – Postmodernist Community Organizing and Stealth Socialism
- Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination by Ion Mihai Pacepa
- Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism by Stanley Kurtz
- Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities by Stanley Kurtz
- Subversion, Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers by Matthew Vadum
- Leading From Behind by Richard Miniter
- The People Vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration by Ben Shapiro
- Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment by Andrew C. McCarthy
- Silent Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance by Barry Rubin
- The First Family Detail by Ronald Kessler
- The Victims Revolution by Bruce Bawer
- Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment by Andrew C. McCarthy
Antisemitism and Conspiracism
- Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
- Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz
- Nazism: a Historical and Comparative Analysis of National Socialism, 1978.
- Stephen H. Norwood’s Antisemitism and the American Far Left
- The Wicked Son by David Mamet
- Making David Into Goliath by Joshua Muravchik
- Conspiracy by Daniel Pipes
- The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy by Daniel Pipes
- Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground by Jonathan Kay
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
- Behold a Pale Horse by William Cooper
- Sinister Forces trilogy by Peter Levenda
- The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World by David Icke
- Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde by Loren Glass
- The Evergreen Review Reader
Page 50 of The Worship of the Dead or the Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry by Col. J Garnier, published 1904.
Tuesday: The 5 Points of the Pagan Star
Tuesday: What is the relationship between ancient paganism and today’s popular culture? I argue that the idols described in the first five books of the Bible have a lot in common with the stars up on the screen today. Here I’ll try to break down the similarities and show how they evolved through the books that persuaded me.
Nature-Worship – Animism
- Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia
- The Triumph of the Moon by Ronald Hutton
- They Shall Take Up Serpents: Psychology of the Southern Snake-Handling Cult by Weston La Barre
- Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion by Weston La Barre
- Gary Laderman’s Sacred Matters
- Five Stages of Greek Religion
- From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Ladlay Weston
- Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life
- Principia Discordia by Malaclypse the Younger
- Historia Discordia by Adam Gorightly
Sex-Worship – Hedonism
- The Illiad by Homer
- Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
- Dr. Richard Lewinsohn’s A History of Sexual Customs
- Sex, Art, and American Culture by Camille Paglia
- Vamps and Tramps by Camille Paglia
- Sex Rebel: Black, Memoirs of a Gash Gourmet by Bob Greene (pseudonym for Frank Marshall Davis)
- Porn Generation by Ben Shapiro
- Sacred Sexuality in Ancient Egypt
- Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt
- Sex on show: seeing the erotic in Greece and Rome
- Coincidance by Robert Anton Wilson
- Men on Strike by Dr. Helen Smith
- An Unseemly Man by Larry Flynt
- The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America by Roger Kimball
- Psychopathia Sexualis
- Saharasia by James DeMeo
- Wilhelm Reich in Hell by Robert Anton Wilson
- One Nation Under Sex by Larry Flynt
- Ishtar Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
- The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
- Love all the People by Bill Hicks
- In Fifty Years We’ll All Be Chicks by Adam Carolla
Skin-Worship – Racism, Tribalism, Ethnic nationalism
- Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell
- Ethnic America: A History by Thomas Sowell
- Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
- A Black Theology of Liberation by James Cone
- Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness by Toure
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
- Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
- Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
- Barack Obama: The Story by David Maraniss
- Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department by J. Christian Adams
- Why We Won’t Talk Honestly About Race by Harry Stein
- White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele
- The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America by Shelby Steele
- A Dream Deferred by Shelby Steele
- Afrolantica Legacies by Derrick Bell
- Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Jason L. Riley
- Mugged by Ann Coulter
- Black, White, and Jewish by Rebecca Walker
- What Doomed Detroit by Kevin D. Williamson
Self-Worship – Narcissism
- The Diary of Virginia Woolf
- Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell
- Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
- The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand
- Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
- Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
- god Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
- The Rage Against God – Peter Hitchens
- The End of Faith by Sam Harris
- Writings on an Ethical Life by Peter Singer
- Tough Sh*t – Kevin Smith
Death-Worship – Nihilism
- The Worship of the Dead: or The Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry
- The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia by Roger Kimball
- Michael Walsh’s The People v. The Democratic party
- Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy by Angela Franks
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
- It’s Not the End of the World, It’s Just the End of You: The Great Extinction of the Nations by Spengler as channeled by David P. Goldman
- Gavin Baddeley’s Dissecting Marilyn Manson
- Experiments Against Reality by Roger Kimball
- Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple
- The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
Wednesday: Technology: Tools of Self-Transformation
Wednesday: How does technology transform our lives? And by “technology” I don’t just mean computers — writing is a form of technology. One’s diet is a technology. These are practical tools one should master.
Writing, Poetry, and Comics
- Strunk and White The Elements of Style
- On Writing by Stephen King
- Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman
- Testament by Douglas Rushkoff
Novels And Genre Fiction
- SuperEgo by Frank J. Fleming
- The Big Bang by Roy M. Griffis
- Hannah Sternberg’s Bulfinch
- Witchfinder by Sarah Hoyt
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- And All the Saints by Michael Walsh
- Empire of Lies by Andrew Klavan
- The Identity Man by Andrew Klavan
Film and Television
- Fantasia by John Culhane
- The Birds by Camille Paglia
- Scorsese on Scorsese
- Magnolia, a screenplay, by P.T. Anderson
- Crackpot by John Waters
- Midnight Movies by Hoberman and Rosenbaum
- Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger
- Hollywood Babylon II by Kenneth Anger
- Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left by Ron Radosh
- Primetime Propaganda by Ben Shapiro
Economics
- Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
- Economic Facts and Fallacies: Second Edition by Thomas Sowell
- Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One by Thomas Sowell
- Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell
- The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition by Thomas Sowell
- Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
- Get Back in the Box by Douglas Rushkoff
Education
- Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education by Roger Kimball
- The New School by Glenn Reynolds
- Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
- Inside American Education by Thomas Sowell
Art and Media Theory
- Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say by Douglas Rushkoff
- Media Virus! by Douglas Rushkoff
- Screenagers: Lessons In Chaos From Digital Kids by Douglas Rushkoff
- What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House by Tevi Troy
- The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art by Roger Kimball
- Art: A New History by Paul Johnson
Internet and Technology
- An Army of Davids by Glenn Reynolds
- Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
- Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff
- The Wikipedia Revolution
- The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson
Pets
- What’s a Dog For?: The Surprising History, Science, Philosophy, and Politics of Man’s Best Friend by John Homan
Diet and Drugs
- High Society: Mind Altering Drugs in History and Culture
- Sex, Drugs, and Magick by Robert Anton Wilson
- The Peyote Cult by Weston La Barre
- Romancing Opiates by Theodore Dalrymple
Generational Theory
- Generations by Howe and Strauss
- The Fourth Turning by Howe and Strauss
- Generation X Reader by Douglas Roushkoff
- Millennials Rising by Howe and Strauss
- Queens of all the Earth by Hannah Sternberg
Futurism
- A.D.D.: Adolescent Demo Division
- Abundance: Why the Future is Better than You Think By Diamandis and Kotler
- America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century-Why America’s Greatest Days Are Yet to Come by James C. Bennett and Michael J. Lotus
- The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
- How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil
- Radical Abundance by K. Eric Drexler
- The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
- Brain Gain by Marc Prensky
Marriage and Monogamy
- Men and Marriage by George Gilder
- The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
- Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America by Jonathan Rauch
- What to Expect When No One’s Expecting by Jonathan V. Last
Thursday: Conservative Ideology Past, Present, and Future
Thursday: How and why do ideological movements change and evolve over time? The word “conservatism” and the goals of the movement it describes have changed a lot. Here I try to untangle some of the conflicting currents of the ideology and point toward the thinkers within it I most appreciate. My intent is to build on the scheme established here last year.
Conservatism 1.0 — The Anti-New Deal Coalition – “The Old Right”
- For a New Liberty by Murray Rothbard
- The Betrayal of the American Right by Murray Rothbard
- Liberty Defined by Ron Paul
- Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement by Justin Raimondo
- An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard by Justin Raimondo
- Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism by Ronald Radosh
- The Irrepressible Rothbard, edited by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
Conservatism 2.0 — The Anti-Communist Coalition – “The New Right”
- William F. Buckley Jr.’s Getting It Right
- The Reagan I Knew by William F. Buckley Jr.
- Reagan in His Own Hand
- Frank S. Meyer’s In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo
Conservatism 2.5 – Corporatist Neoconservatism – “The GOP Establishment and Fox News Right”
- Neoconservatism by Irving Kristol
- Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet
- Charles Krauthammer’s Things That Matter
Polemics and Ideas To Inspire Conservatism 3.0 – “The Next Right”
- High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton by Ann Coulter
- Treason by Ann Coulter
- How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter
- Guilty by Ann Coulter
- Never Trust a Liberal Over 3– Especially a Republican by Ann Coulter
- The Thomas Sowell Reader
- Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America by Ann Coulter
- Bullies by Ben Shapiro
- Acoustic Ladyland: Kathy Shaidle Unplugged
- Rules for Radical Conservatives by David Kahane
- Enemies of Society by Paul Johnson
- The Secret Knowledge by David Mamet
- Freedom is a Two-Edged Sword by John Whiteside Parsons
- The Slaves Shall Serve: Meditations on Liberty by James Wasserman
- Think a Second Time by Dennis Prager
- The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell
- President Me: The America That’s in My Head by Adam Carolla
Friday: Extraordinary Lives – Biographies and Memoirs
Friday: What lessons can we learn from extraordinary lives? I’m trying to pick 52 biographies and memoirs ranging from people in the ancient world through the Middle Ages on through to present day.
Ancient History, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt
- Socrates: A Man for Our Times by Paul Johnson
- Moshe Halbertal, Maimonides Life and Thought
- The Wisdom of Maimonides
- The Arch Conjuror of England
- The Queen’s Conjuror
18th Century
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin by Gordon Wood
- Logan Beirne’s Blood of Tyrants
- George Washington (Eminent Lives) by Paul Johnson
- George Washington’s Rules of Civility
19th Century
- All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
- Lincoln Unbound by Rich Lowry
- Frederick Douglass : Autobiographies
- Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
- Churchill by Paul Johnson
- A Magick Life by Martin Booth
- The Eye in the Triangle: An Interpretation of Aleister Crowley by Israel Regardie
- Zora Neale Hurston : Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings
20th Century
- The Animated Man by Michael Barrier
- The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life by Steven Watts
- Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons by George Pendle
- Sex and Rockets: The Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter
- Kenneth Anger by Bill Landis
- A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell
- Commies by Ron Radosh
- Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus’ Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
- Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson
- An Insider’s Guide to Robert Anton Wilson by Eric Wagner
- Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine: The Perils of Coming Out Conservative in Tinseltown by Roger L. Simon
- All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview With John Lennon and Yoko Ono by David Sheff
The Boomers and Beyond
- How I Accidentally Started the ’60s by Howard Bloom
- My Grandfather’s Son by Clarence Thomas
- In The Center of the Fire by James Wasserman
- Role Models and Shock Value by John Waters
- Adapt or Die: Leadership Principles From an American General by Lt. Gen (Ret) Rick Lynch
- Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad by Andrew C. McCarthy
- The Bookworm Turns
- Confessions of a Failed Slut by Kathy Shaidle
- Not Taco Bell Material by Adam Carolla
- Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! by Andrew Breitbart
- Table for One by Bosch Fawstin (fiction, but with semi-autobiographical themes)
- The Infidel by Bosch Fawstin (fiction, but with semi-autobiographical themes)
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel
- Lisa De Pasquale’s Finding Mr. Righteous
“If I could repurpose my team from killing people to poultry farming and fish farming overnight, you can certainly adapt your work force to an ever-changing marketplace.” – Lt. Gen (Ret) Rick Lynch, page 193 of Adapt or Die: Leadership Principles From an American General.
Saturday – Science, Spirituality and Philosophy
Saturday: How can we reconcile science and spirituality? I try to blend books that take a spiritual approach to science and a scientific approach to spirituality. The fight between science and religion is bogus, reconciled through mysticism.
Spiritual Science
- Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
- The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
- Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
- The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
- The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates
- Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter
- Genesis and the Big Bang by Gerald Schroeder
- Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
- Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World by Robert Anton Wilson
- Stairway to Heaven: Chinese Alchemists, Jewish Kabbalists, and the Art of Spiritual Transformation by Peter Levenda
Scientific Spirituality
- Masks of the Illuminati by Robert Anton Wilson
- The Hermetic Link by Jacob Slavenburg
- The Way of Tarot by Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Magick Book 4 by Aleister Crowley
- The Book of Thoth by Aleister Crowley
- The Hieroglphyic Monad by John Dee
- The One Year Manual by Israel Regardie
- The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall
- Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Greek and Roman Wisdom
- The Republic of Plato, Bloom translation
- Who Killed Homer? By Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath
- The Father of Us All: War and History Ancient and Modern by Victor Davis Hanson
Renaissance Wisdom
- The Prince by Machiavelli
- Machiavelli on Modern Leadership by Michael Ledeen
- The Renaissance: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles) by Paul Johnson
“The vowel is the breath, bestower of life.” – page 26 of Robert M. Hoffstein’s A Mystical Key to the English Language.
Sunday – Judeo-Christian Values and History
Sunday: How did Judeo-Christian values emerge from the chaos of ancient paganism and what effect did they have on humanity? We explore books about the history of Western Civilization, Judaism, Christianity, and the religions’ mystical practices.
American History
- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn Vs Paul Johnson’s A History of the American People
- Hating America: A History by Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin refereeing
- Gregg L. Frazer’s The Religious Beliefs of America’s Founders
- Tocqueville on American Character by Michael Ledeen
- The Federalist Papers
Exoteric Americanism
- Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion by David Gelernter
- Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph
Esoteric Americanism
- The Hypomanic Edge: The Link Between (A Little) Craziness and (A Lot of) Success in America by John Gartner
- A First Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi
- Americanah, a novel by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Secrets of Masonic Washington by James Wasserman
- Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation by
- The Secret Temple by Peter Levenda
- The Hebrew Republic by Eric Nelson
Israel and Judaism
- The Bible
- Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House by Ken Goffman and Dan Joy
- The Way to Eternity: Egyptian Myth
- Paul Johnson’s The Civilization of Ancient Egypt and
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Days
- A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
- The Israel Test by George Gilder
- The Lonely Man of Faith by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
- Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism by Douglas Rushkoff
- Israel: An Introduction by Barry Rubin
- This Is My God by Herman Wouk
- Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered by Leora Batnitzky
- The Star of Redemption by Franz Rosenzweig
Judeo-Christian Mysticism
- God According to God by Gerald Schroeder
- Right Where You Are Sitting Now by Robert Anton Wilson
- The Guide of the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides, as translated by Shlomo Pines
- God is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism by David A. Cooper
- Tetragrammaton by Donald Tyson
- A Mystical Key to the English Language by Robert M. Hoffstein
- Shmuley Boteach’s The Kosher Sutra
- The Essential Kabbalah by Daniel C. Matt
- The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven by James Wasserman
- The Temple of Solomon: From Ancient Israel to Secret Societies by James Wasserman
Remember: This is work-in-progress, incomplete list that needs your suggestions for authors and subjects to expand!