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22 topics, biggest first. Books can sit in more than one.

• Fiction & Literature · 445Novels, stories, plays and poetry. Most mentioned: 1984, The Lord of the Rings, Epic of Gilgamesh.
• History · 376Empires, wars, turning points and the long view of how we got here. Most mentioned: Chaos, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, Sex at Dawn.
• Science · 366Physics, biology and the big questions about how the universe works. Most mentioned: Sex at Dawn, Fingerprints of the Gods, DMT.
• Politics & Media · 333Power, propaganda and how the news gets made. Most mentioned: 1984, The Real Anthony Fauci, The Coddling of the American Mind.
• Psychology & Self-Help · 326How people think and behave, and how to get your own head straight. Most mentioned: The War of Art, Sex at Dawn, The Coddling of the American Mind.
• Memoir & Biography · 294Lives told first-hand, or by someone who dug into them. Most mentioned: Brother Sam, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, On Writing.
• Philosophy · 240Ethics, meaning and the big arguments, ancient to modern. Most mentioned: Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Five Rings, Sapiens.
• Health & Performance · 216Bodies, brains, hormones and the protocols people swear by. Most mentioned: The Real Anthony Fauci, Count Down, Tell Your Children.
• Religion & Spirituality · 159Scripture, ritual and belief. Most mentioned: The Bible, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, Bhagavad Gita.
• Business & Money · 119Companies, markets, economics and getting rich (or not). Most mentioned: The War of Art, Outliers, The Art of War.
• War & Military · 111Soldiers, special operations and what combat does to people. Most mentioned: War Is a Racket, The Art of War, Hidden War.
• Comedy & Entertainment · 110Comedians, Hollywood, music and show business. Most mentioned: Brother Sam, On Writing, Life of the Party.
• UFOs & Ancient Mysteries · 99Unexplained craft, lost civilisations and the questions mainstream history skips. Most mentioned: Fingerprints of the Gods, Best Evidence, The Book of Enoch.
• Environment · 83Pollution, chemicals and what we are doing to the planet and ourselves. Most mentioned: Coyote America, Count Down, Hidden War.
• True Crime · 76Killers, mobsters, cons and the people who chased them. Most mentioned: Chaos, Best Evidence, Going Clear.
• Consciousness · 63Mind, reality and the stranger edges of what we can know. Most mentioned: The Immortality Key, Communion, Food of the Gods.
• Psychedelics & Drugs · 59Plant medicines, the drug war and what substances do to the mind. Most mentioned: The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, DMT, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
• Hunting & the Outdoors · 55Hunting, wildlife, survival and life outside. Most mentioned: American Buffalo, Backcountry Bowhunting, Meat Eater.
• AI & Technology · 53Machines, minerals and the tech that runs modern life. Most mentioned: Ready Player One, Cobalt Red, The Singularity Is Near.
• Slavery & Human Rights · 33Forced labour past and present, and the people who fought it. Most mentioned: The Gulag Archipelago, Cobalt Red, How to Be an Antiracist.
• Fighting · 31Books about the fight game and the people in it. Most mentioned: The Book of Five Rings, On the Warrior's Path, A Fighter's Heart.
• Language & Linguistics · 8How humans talk, and the feuds over where language came from. Most mentioned: Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, How Language Began.