Elijah Gotovsky

books i’ve read

  1. The Souls of Black Folk

    W. E. B. Du Bois

  2. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

    Richard Hofstadter

  3. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

    Michael Wolff

  4. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

    Mortimer J. Adler

  5. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

    David Fromkin

  6. The Republic

    Plato

  7. Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again

    Jake Tapper

  8. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

    Katherine Boo

  9. Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

    Plato

  10. Zionism: A Very Short Introduction

    Michael Stanislawski

  11. The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

    Emily M. Bender

  12. Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

  13. Carceral Capitalism

    Jackie Wang

  14. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

    Rachel Aviv

  15. Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

    Dan Wang

  16. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    Michelle Alexander

  17. Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America

    Adam Cohen

  18. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

    Edward S. Herman

  19. The Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx