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As I have mentioned in my recent posts I am overwhelmed with books that I want to read and study, but Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen is my reading for today and for a couple more days. One of the book discussion groups I attend has sent out a potential reading list of a dozen books for us members to vote on for our future discussion.  This is a big event because we will probably spend over two months studying the chosen book. As it turns out I have already read some of the books that others had suggested:

The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds – Michael Lewis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family & Culture in Crisis – J D Vance

The Origins of Creativity – Edward O Wilson

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided – Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America – James Fallows

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor – Yossi Klein Halevi

Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall – Steven Brill

They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945 – Milton Mayer

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, Fear in the Cyber Age – David Sanger

Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations – Thomas Friedman

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth – Sarah Smarsh

University of Nike – Joshua Hunt

Free Thinkers: A History of American Secularism – Susan Jacoby

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History – Kurt Andersen

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari

I write out that long list because it gives a good idea of how deep the serious thinking can be with a bunch of guys out West in Bend, Oregon. Whichever book is chosen will get about ten discussions each lasting for about 1½ hours.

A good book and us discussing it in the wilderness makes for a wonderful life.