I love many different genres. Two recent favorites are A Man Called Ove and The Goldfinch. A man called Ove you hate the character in the beginning but by the end you fall in love with him. Very inspiring.

The Poor Had No Lawyers. Who owns Scotland and how they got it . Andy Wightman

The very title of the book is taken from the writings of Cosmo Innes who, as an advocate and very much an establishment figure, could not bring himself to admit that example after example of legalised robbery meant that legislatures and governments were motivated by “cruelty or injustice” in “favour[ing] the rich at the expense of the poor” but rather “the evil was for the most part attributable to the straining of the law by the lawyers”. Of course, it was safer for Innes to criticise past, unnamed “lawyers” than parliamentarians or governments but even so his answer was not “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” but rather to lament that “the poor had no lawyers”. - Brian Dempsey, School of Law, University of Dundee

I love the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Read it once every two to three years.

Do you have a week or so?

"The Wheel of Time" series is great as is "Ready Player One" and the book is way better than the movie.

Three great books:

“Now I see a little better how Nazism overcame Germany - not by attack from without or by subversion from within, but with a whoop and a holler. It was what most Germans wanted - or, under pressure of combined reality and illusion, came to want. They wanted it; they got it; and they liked it.

“I came home a little bit afraid for my country, afraid of what it might want, and get, and like, under combined pressure of reality and illusion. I felt – and feel – that it was not German Man that I met, but Man. He happened to be in Germany under certain conditions. He might be here under certain conditions. He might, under certain conditions, be I.

“If I - and my countrymen - ever succumbed to that concatenation of conditions, no Constitution, no laws, no police, and certainly no army would be able to protect us from harm.” -- From Milton Mayer, 'They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1933-45' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955)

"Tyler Cowen, the man who succeeded [James McGill] Buchanan and now directs the cause’s base camp at George Mason, the Mercatus Center, has explained that with the “rewriting of the social contract” under way, people will be “expected to fend for themselves much more than they do now.” While some will flourish, he says, “others will fall by the wayside.” And because “worthy individuals” will manage to climb their way out of poverty, “that will make it easier to ignore those who are left behind.” Cowen foresees that “we will cut Medicaid for the poor.” Also, “the fiscal shortfall will come out of real wages as various cost burdens are shifted to workers” from employers and a government that does less." --Nancy MacLean, "Democracy in Chains, The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan For America

"... every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I’d think I was having a hallucination.” -- Philip Roth, "The Plot Against America," 2004

That's a good question. Kent Haruf novels are supposed to be good. (I've just read some reviews...)

I don't really read books myself. I'm too busy messaging people on social media with my inane drivel