Plenty of readers have written in with suggestions of books to add to David McGrogan’s Lockdown Sceptics’ Library. I’m not going to name them because they didn’t say whether they were happy to be identified or not (for the most part). If you have any additional suggestions, please email them to me at [email protected] and put “Lockdown Library” in the subject header. I’ve added these books below David’s piece.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay, 1841
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor, 1999
The Black Death by Philip Ziegler, 1969
Scared to Death: From BSE to Coronavirus by Christopher Booker and Richard North, 2020
Live not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher, 2020
A Delusion of Satan: The full story of the Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill, 1995
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in 16th and 17th Century England by Keith Thomas, 1971
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz, 1953
How Fear Works: Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century by Frank Furedi, 2018
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing by Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo, 1956
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973
Where Are We Now: The Epidemic as Politics by Giorgio Agamben, 2021
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer, 1951
The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies by Ryszard Legutko, 2018
Notes From the Bunderground: Culture in the Time of COVID-19 by Fred Attenborough, 2020
Frustrations of a Sceptic by Jonny Peppiatt, 2021
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault, 1975
Panopticon: The Inspection House by Jeremy Bentham, 1791
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That list seems a little short on humour. I’m recommending ‘Breakfast of Champions’ by Kurt Vonnegut.
Delivers truth in spades.
I’ve just started reading ‘Stop Bloody Bossing Me About’ by Quentin Letts.
I’ve laughed several times and have only just finished the preface and the introduction.
Believe me, I don’t laugh easily these days.