RTE's Book Recommendations

These are books recommended by Rounding the Earth staff or close friends. The topics chosen bear a large resemblance to the mission(s) of Rounding the Earth. Purchasing books through the RTE affiliate links helps support RTE's operations.

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• The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous is an excellent primer to the economics behind Bitcoin's ascendancy.
  • The Fiat Standard by Ammous seeks to contrast the Bitcoin story.
• The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne
• Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain by Andreas Antonopoulos is one of the most popular Bitcoin books, and for good reason.
  • The increasing level of technical detail means much of it is only interesting for those who want to dive into the technology on an active level.
• Mastering the Lightning Network by Antonopoulos and coauthors
• The Basics of Bitcoin and Blockchains by Antony Lewis
• Cryptoeconomics: Fundamental Principles of Bitcoin by Eric Voskuil et al
• Bitcoin: Sovereignty Through Mathematics by Knut Svanholm and Kalle Rosenbaum
• Thank God for Bitcoin by Jimmy Song and Julia Tourianski
  • A moral and religious case for Bitcoin
• Bitcoin Money by Michael Caras is a children's book
• This Book Will Save You Time by Misir Mahmudov
• The Little Bitcoin Book: Why Bitcoin Matters for Your Freedom, Finances, and Future by Jimmy Song and a bunch of others
• 21 Lessons: What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole by Gigi
• The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati and Michael Saylor
• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Davidson and William Rees-Mogg

• COVID-19 and the Global Predators - We Are the Prey by Dr. Peter Breggin and Ginger Breggin
• Is COVID-19 a Bioweapon? by Dr. Richard Fleming
• Overcoming the COVID-19 Darkness - How Two Doctors Successfully Treated 7000 Patients by Dr. Brian Tyson, Dr. George Fareed and Mathew Crawford
• Pseudopandemic - New Normal Technocracy by Iain Davis
• The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• The Truth About COVID-19 by Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins

• COVID-19: The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab
• The Great Narrative by Klaus Schwab
• The Great Reset and the War for the World by Alex Jones

• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell

• Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell

John Taylor Gatto helped unravel the complex truths behind the sabotage of education by simply doing it right behind the backs of authorities.

• Dumbing Us Down
• Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
• The Underground History of American Education
• The Harm of Coercive Schooling by Peter Gray

• The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life by Julie Bogart
• Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom
• Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life by Peter Gray

Essentially any book by Martin Gardner is a delight for those who enjoy mathematical explorations.

• A Gardner's Workout: Training the Mind and Entertaining the Spirit by Martin Gardner
• My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles by Martin Gardner
• Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery by Martin Gardner
• Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing by Martin Gardner
• Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles by Martin Gardner

• Relativity Simply Explained by Martin Gardner
• On the Wild Side: The Big Ban by Martin Gardner
• Did Adam and Eve Have Navels: Debunking Pseudoscience by Martin Gardner

• Knowledge And Decisions by Thomas Sowell

• Mark Twain: The Complete Novels by Mark Twain
  • The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer: The Original 1876 Edition With Complete 162 Illustrations

• The Hobbit and the Lords of the Rings mass market paperback set by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Hobbit and the Lords of the Rings hardback box set
  • The Hobbit and the Lords of the Rings Single volume special edition

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide Five-Book Trilogy in one volume (it's not as confusing as it sounds).

• Dune by Frank Herbert is the top-selling science fiction novel of all time due to its rich relationships that relate to modern politics and economics.
• The Six-Volume Dune Series by Frank Herbert

A spectacular series by Orson Scott Card of moral and geopolitical adventures seen through the eyes of the world's most brilliant children, used as tools by adults.

• Ender's Game
  • Ender's Game Five-volume series (not including Ender's Shadow)
  • Ender's Shadow four-volume series
  • The First Formic War (prequel) series in the Ender's Game universe

• The Foundation Series 7-book set by Isaac Asimov
  • The first three books are by far the best. The later may be a failed philosophical exploration.

• Breaking Free of Anti-China Psyops: How the Cold War is being revived and what you can do about it by Matthew Ehret and Cynthia Chung

• One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL.1 by Whitney Webb
• Who Killed Epstein? Prince Andrew or Bill Clinton by Shaun Attwood
  • I listened to this on a drive to Austin and did learn plenty of interesting and useful details. (Mathew)

• The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution by H.G. Wells
• Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars - An Introductory Programming Manual by Anonymous

• Conjuring Hitler: How Britain and America Made the Third Reich

• Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion

• Unit 731 Cover-up: The Operation Paperclip of the East

• Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult

• A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell
• Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell

Politics is downstream of culture and philosophy, like System 2 and System 1 thinking.

• War Against the Weak - Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black

• Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie

• The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing by Joost Meerloo
• The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
  • The true story behind this book is very different from the telling of the book, which itself seems like propaganda to hide the importance and seriousness of Project Stargate.

• The Critical Public Health Value of Vaccines - Tackling Issues of Access and Hesitancy by the Forum on Microbial Threats
• Rapid Medical Countermeasure Response to Infectious Diseases by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

• All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel by Erich Maria Remarque
• The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
• The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
• Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

• Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War by Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg and William Broad

• The Foundation Series 7-book set by Isaac Asimov

A spectacular series by Orson Scott Card of moral and geopolitical adventures seen through the eyes of the world's most brilliant children, used as tools by adults.

• Ender's Game
  • Ender's Game Five-volume series (not including Ender's Shadow)
  • Ender's Shadow four-volume series
  • The First Formic War (prequel) series in the Ender's Game universe