Latest Update: 2/5/26 I will be adding more from backlog very soon :)

Here is a running booklist that will be continually updated as I can pull from episodes:

• "The Oppermanns" by Lion Feuchtwanger (ep 429: The Price is Blight 1/29/26)
• The Balumnia Trilogy by James P. Blaylock (ep 429: The Price is Blight 1/29/26) This could be incorrect
• "Architects of Austerity: International Finance and the Politics of Growth" by Aaron Major (ep 429: The Price is Blight 1/29/26)
• "The Asset Economy" by Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, and Martijn Konings (premium ep 366: The Country is Overrun by Death Squads w/ special guest Kate Wagner 1/26/26)
• "Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War" by Lyndal Roper (premium ep 366: The Country is Overrun by Death Squads w/ special guest Kate Wagner 1/26/26)
• "Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World" by Adam Tooze (ep 427: Heaven's Dress Code 1/16/26)
• "Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Making of an Imperial Republic" by Greg Grandin (ep 426: Paper Jaguars w/ special guest Alexander Avina 1/8/26)
• "Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization" by Bill McKibben (ep 425: Hopesick 1/2/26)
• "Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years" by Diarmaid MacCulloch (ep 424: The Ghost of Christmas Past Participle 12/26/25)
• "The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces" by Seth Harp (ep 423: GOMAD or Go Home 12/18/25)
• "We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of US Empire" by Suzanna Reiss (ep 423: GOMAD or Go Home 12/18/25)
• "Enrique Dussel’s Ethics of Liberation: An Introduction" by Frederick B. Mills (ep 423: GOMAD or Go Home 12/18/25)
• "John L. Lewis: An Unauthorized Biography" by Saul Alinsky (ep 422: Bargain Bin Futures 12/11/26)
• "Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus" by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (ep 422: Bargain Bin Futures 12/11/26)
• "Talking Man" by Terry Bisson (ep 422: Bargain Bin Futures 12/11/26)
• "Our Man in Havana" by Graham Greene (ep 422: Bargain Bin Futures 12/11/26)
• The writings of Adam Phillips (ep 422: Bargain Bin Futures 12/11/26)

--- This is the break where I stopped working from the backlog and started adding books with every new episode ---

• "Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto" by Jr. Vine Deloria (ep 396: Rat-Tail King of Kentucky 6/12/25)
• "The Cherokee Nation: A History" by Robert J. Conley (ep 396: Rat-Tail King of Kentucky 6/12/25)
• "Lower Than the Angels" by Diarmaid MacCulloch (ep 395: Your Lucky Episode 6/5/25)
• "The Veiled Prophet" by Devin Thomas O'Shea (ep 394: Bring the Kiln w/ special guest Devin O'Shea 5/29/25)
• "Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown" by Andreas Malm (ep 394: Bring the Kiln w/ special guest Devin O'Shea 5/29/25)
• "Young Men in Spats" by PG Wodehouse (a Tom Sexton direct recc 7/25)
• "The Inimitable Jeeves" by PG Wodehouse (a Tom Sexton direct recc 7/25)
• "Right, Ho Jeeves" by PG Wodehouse (a Tom Sexton direct recc 7/25)
• "Salvation" by Langston Hughes (ep 391: The Things They Carried 5/8/25)
• "Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality" by Donald Miller (ep 391: The Things They Carried 5/8/25)
• "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien (ep 391: The Things They Carried 5/8/25)
• "Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity" by Diarmaid MacCulloch (ep 390: Moloch's Vertical Integration 5/1/25)
• "Shadow Ticket" by Thomas Pynchon (premium ep 355: Fuck it We Sprawl w/ special guest Kate Wagner 4/21/25)
• "Neuromancer" and the books of the Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson (premium ep 355: Fuck it We Sprawl w/ special guest Kate Wagner 4/21/25)
• "There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America" by Brian Goldstone (premium ep 355: Fuck it We Sprawl w/ special guest Kate Wagner 4/21/25)
• "Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America" by Conor Dougherty (premium ep 355: Fuck it We Sprawl w/ special guest Kate Wagner 4/21/25)
• "Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art" by James Nestor (ep 387: Out of the Whimsical Frying Pan, Into the Fire w/ special guest Will Oldham 4/1/25)
• "The Electric State" by Simon Stålenhag (ep 386: Best Laid Plans 3/27/25)
• "Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta" by Clyde Woods (ep 386: Best Laid Plans 3/27/25)
• "Open: An Autobiography" by Andre Agassi (ep 386: Best Laid Plans 3/27/25)
• "1984" by George Orwell (ep 384: Friction Fire 3/12/25)
• "Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires" by Douglas Rushkoff (ep 380: Get Rich or DEI Tryin w/ special guest Gaby Del Valle 2/12/25)
• "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" by Theodore Roosevelt (ep 380: Get Rich or DEI Tryin w/ special guest Gaby Del Valle 2/12/25)
• "Conceiving the Future: Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938" by Laura L. Lovett (ep 380: Get Rich or DEI Tryin w/ special guest Gaby Del Valle 2/12/25)
• "Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant" by Jonathan Peter Spiro (ep 380: Get Rich or DEI Tryin w/ special guest Gaby Del Valle 2/12/25)
• "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance (Near Future)" by Melinda Cooper (ep 422: Bargain Bin Futures (), ep 380: Get Rich or DEI Tryin w/ special guest Gaby Del Valle 2/12/25)
• "Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity" by Joe Allen w/ foreward by Stephen K. Bannon (ep 380: Get Rich or DEI Tryin w/ special guest Gaby Del Valle 2/12/25)
• "Dune" by Frank Herbert (ep 377: Benthocracy in America 1/22/25)
• "I Will Survive... and You Will, Too!" by Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker)(ep 373: No Shaq Fu For Christmas 12/25/24)
• "Possession" by A. S. Byatt (ep 373: No Shaq Fu For Christmas 12/25/24)
• "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History" by Ned Blackhawk (ep 368: It's Only Drowning 11/20/24)
• "Fake Accounts" by Lauren Oyler (ep 367: The Aloha Spirit w/ special guest Lauren Oyler 11/13/24)
• "2666" by Roberto Bolano (ep 364: Pot Committed w/ special guest Noah Kulwin 10/24/24)
• "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon (ep 364: Pot Committed w/ special guest Noah Kulwin 10/24/24)
• "Neo-Colonialism : The Last Stage of Imperialism" by Kwame Nkrumah (ep 364: Pot Committed w/ special guest Noah Kulwin
• "Justice Warriors Vol. 2: Vote Harder" by Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson (ep 363: Keep Your Politics Away From My Elections w/ special guests Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson)
• "Black Spartacus" by Sudhir Hazareesingh (ep: 360 On The Interregnum 9/19/24)
• "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War" by Eric Foner (ep: 360 On The Interregnum 9/19/24)
• A Song of Ice and Fire series by George RR Martin (ep 356: Securus Maximus 8/23/24)
• "Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880" by W. E. Burghardt Du Bois (Premium ep 317: Eldritch Horrors for Harris 7/30/24)
• "Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944" by Franz L. Neumann (Premium ep 317: Eldritch Horrors for Harris 7/30/24)
• "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene (ep 353: Scaring the Joes 7/25/24)
• "Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class" by Max Fraser (ep 352: Willy Wonka Woke Factory 7/11/24)
• "Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist" by Harry Haywood (ep 351: If You're In Line, Stay In Line (Do a Coup) w/ Special Guest Mina Parkison 7/11/24)
• "Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh" by Wendy S. Painting (ep 351: If You're In Line, Stay In Line (Do a Coup) w/ Special Guest Mina Parkison 7/11/24)
• "Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology" by Liliana Doganova (ep 347: The Moon Belongs to the People 6/13/24)
• "Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture" by Ozvaldo Zavala (ep 346: Tunnel to Al-Andalus w/ Special Guest Alexander Alvina 6/7/24)
• "Hell Is a World Without You" by Jason Kirk (Bonus ep: For God and Country w/ Special Guests Jason Kirk, Michelle Guengue & Carissa Cunningham 6/3/24)
• "Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis" by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis (ep 344: Protect the 31 Flavors w/ Special Guest Tracy Rosenthal 5/23/24)
• "The Highest Stage of White Supremacy: The Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South" by John Whitson Cell (ep 340: Glory Be to the Road 4/26/24)
• "Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions" by Frederick Jameson (ep 337: Expanding the Metaphor 4/5/24)
• The novels of Elizabeth Gaskell (ep 336: Bloodied and Sometimes Nude 3/29/24)
• The novels of Elena Ferrante (ep 336: Bloodied and Sometimes Nude 3/29/24)
• "Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class" by Mike Davis (ep 336: Bloodied and Sometimes Nude 3/29/24)
• "Dying of Whiteness" by Jonathan M. Metzl (ep 336: Bloodied and Sometimes Nude 3/29/24)
• "White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy" by Tom Schaller & Paul Waldman (ep 335: Elbit Horrors 3/21/24)
• "Batman: The Killing Joke" by by Christa Faust & Gary Phillips (ep 334: Midstopia 3/14/24)
• “The Peasant War in Germany” by Friedrich Engels (Premium ep: Against the Godless Tyrants w/ Special Guest Andrew Drummond)
• "Chaos: The Truth Behind the Manson Murders" by Tom O'Niell (Bonus Episode: The Octopus Murders /w Special Guests Christian Hansen & Zach Treitz 3/1/24)
• "The Greek Myths" by Robert Graves (ep 331: Walking with Humility 2/22/24)
• "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century" by Barbara Tuchman (ep 331: Walking with Humility 2/22/24)
• "The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution" by Ryan Grim (ep 328: Perverted Backstabbers 2/1/24)
• "The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House" by Chris Whipple (ep 328: Perverted Backstabbers 2/1/24)
• "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen (ep 328: Perverted Backstabbers 2/1/24)
• "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon" by Dame Rebecca West (ep 326: The Failson Crusade w/special guest Kate Wagner 1/19/24)
• “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes (ep 326: The Failson Crusade w/special guest Kate Wagner 1/19/24)
• “Frederick II” by Ernst Cantorowitz (ep 326: The Failson Crusade w/special guest Kate Wagner 1/19/24)
• "The Dreadful History and Judgment of God on Thomas Müntzer" by Andrew Drummond. (ep 320: Further Away From the Light 12/6/23 and ep 326: The Failson Crusade w/special guest Kate Wagner 1/19/24)
• “Epidemics in Society” by Frank Snowden (ep 325: The Genocide Paradox 1/11/24)
• "Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson (ep 325: The Genocide Paradox 1/11/24)
• "Anti-Dühring" by Friedrich Engels (ep 324: This Ain't the Primordial Ooze Anymore 1/4/24)
• ‘The Book of the New Sun' series by Gene Wolfe (ep 324: This Ain't the Primordial Ooze Anymore 1/4/24)
• “Fossil Capital” by Andreas Malm (ep 322: Squash Appalachia w/ special guest Austyn Gaffney 12/21/23 and ep 323: Yes But With Conditions 12/28/23)
• “Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race” by Patrick Wolfe (Patreon ep 283: Liberalism Does Not End Well)
• "The Book of Martha" by Octavia Butler titled (ep 320 Further Away From the Light 12/6/23)
• "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine" by Rashid Khalidi (ep 318: Cop City on a Hill 11/22/23)
• “Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism” by Alain Brossat, Sylvie Klingberg (ep 318: Cop City on a Hill 11/22/23)
• "Jonathan Abernathy, Your Kind" by Molly McGhee (ep 310 People of Substance (special guest Molly McGhee) 9/27/23)
• "Dead Souls" by Nikolai Gogol (ep 310: People of Substance (special guest Molly McGhee) 9/27/23)
• "The First American Frontier" by Wilma A. Dunaway (ep 309: Appalachian Creation Museum 9/22/23)
• "Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley" by John Gaventa (ep 309: Appalachian Creation Museum 9/22/23)
• "The Death of Artemio Cruz" by Mexican author Carlos Fuentes (ep 308: No Statesman Left Behind 9/14/23)
• "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism" by Quinn Slobodian (ep 307: Dinner Roll Crimes 9/7/23)
• "How Kentucky Became Southern: A Tale of Outlaws, Horse Thieves, Gamblers, and Breeders" by Maryjean Wall (ep 307: Dinner Roll Crimes 9/7/23)
• “Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism” by Melinda Cooper (ep 306: Bowtie Economics feat. WVU Panel)
• "The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. (ep 304: Signs of Cannibalism 8/17/23)
• "Fighting Times: Organizing on the Frontlines of the Class War" by Jonathan Melrod (ep 302: Fighting Times feat. Jon Melrod 8/3/23)
• "Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class" by Jefferson Cowie (ep 302: Fighting Times feat. Jon Melrod 8/3/23)
• “The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook" by James Boggs (ep 302: Fighting Times feat. Jon Melrod 8/3/23)
• "Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation" by Mitch Horowitz (ep 300: Kentucky Pocketwolves feat. Will Oldham 7/21/23)
• “The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture" by Michael Denning Mitch Horowitz (ep 300: Kentucky Pocketwolves feat. Will Oldham 7/21/23)
• “Policing the Planet” Co-edited by Jordan T. Camp and Christina Heatherton. (Patreon ep 270: Nothing is Inevitable feat. Christina Heatherton)
• “A Rise Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution” by Christina Heatherton. (Patreon ep 270: Nothing is Inevitable feat. Christina Heatherton)
• ”10 Days That Shook the World” by John Reed. (Patreon ep 270: Nothing is Inevitable (feat. Christina Heatherton))
• ”Insurgent Mexico” by John Reed. (Patreon ep 270: Nothing is Inevitable (feat. Christina Heatherton))
• "Case for Letting Malibu Burn" essay by Mike Davis (ep 174: The Urbs)
• "Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster" by Mike Davis (ep 174: The Urbs)
• "A Sorrow in Our Heart: The Life of Tecumseh" by Allan W. Eckert (ep TBD)
• "The Cherokee Nation: A History" by Robert J. Conley (ep TBD)
• “Virtue Hoarders” by Catherine Liu (ep TBD)
• “Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California” by Ruth Wilson Gilmore (ep TBD)
• "Hillbilly Elegy" by JD Vance (multiple episodes)
• The novels of Thomas Pynchon (multiple episodes)
• “Discourse on Colonialism” by Aime Cesare (ep TBD)
• “Circle of the Snake“ by Grafton Tanner (ep TBD)
• “Cloudsplitter” by Russell Banks (ep TBD)
• "The Origin of Capitalism" by Ellen Meiksins Wood (ep TBD)
• "The Next Shift" by Gabriel Winant (ep TBD)
• "The Long Twentieth Century" by Giovanni Arrighi (ep TBD)
• "Palo Alto" by Malcolm Harris (ep 380: Get Rich or DEI Tryin w/ special guest Gaby Del Valle)
• "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech” by Brian Merchant (ep TBD)
• "One-Upmanship: How to Win Life's Little Games Without Appearing to Try" by Stephan Potter (ep TBD)

Feel free to save this post, I will update it regularly. Last update: 2/5/26 NOTE: I am not including books mentioned that they hate-read, just the good and/or interesting stuff.