Books You Should Read that are often Overlooked

Recently one of my favourite writers Walter E Williams died at the age of 84, and had been an economist and a writer for many decades coveringa range of topics such as Race, Economics and Politics in the USA. Even on the day of his death at age 84, he had been teaching a class. He gave everything for teaching, and writing yet barely a glance from most people in the media. So many people mourn celebrities when they die, like most recently Dame Barbara Windsor, which is a sad death but so many people knew her from the TV but it just shows the comparison of who or what is popular and approved in the mainstream and what isn't. It got me thinking about what books that should be read in schools or universities but are avoided. Yet other books are propped up and become bestsellers over night. I will go through different topics and suggest a few books on each topic that are by authors while not completely forgotten, are overlooked.

Autobiographies and Biographies Abraham Lincoln: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

A Single Tear by Wu Ningkun Defying Hitler by Sebastian Haffner Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng My Grandfather's Son by Clarence Thomas

Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts

Nixon A life by Jonathan Nixon, Richard Milhous Sir Sean Connery The Definitive Biography: 1930-2020 by John Parker

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Amy Stanley The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X Two Lucky People by Milton Friedman Up from the Projects by Walter E Williams

Art A History of Art History by Christopher Wood A Short History of Art by H. W. Janson All Art is Propaganda by George Orwell A philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke The Image: A Guide to Pseudo Events in America by Daniel J Boorstin The Story of Scottish Art Hardcover by Lachlan Goudie Thinking About Art: A Thematic Guide to Art History by Penny Huntsman

Cooking A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles by Ned Palmer Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today by Sally Grainger The Classical Cookbook by Andrew Dalby The Forme of Cury by Glyn Hughes The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black

Communism Communism A History by Richard Pipes Countdown to Socialism by Devin Nunes

Hollywood Traitors Blacklisted Screenwriters - Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler by Allan H. Ryskind Marx and Satan by Richard Wurmbrand Socialism An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig Von Mises Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies by Kristian Niemietz The Case Against Socialism by Rand Paul The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976, by Frank D. Dikötter The Devil and Karl Marx by Paul Kengor The Gulag Archiepelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism by Paul Kengor The Socialist Phenomenon by Igor Shafarevich Witness by Whittaker Chambers

Economics Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman Economics in one Lesson by Henry Hazlitt Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism by Lawrence Reed Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig Von Mises Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market by Murray N. Rothbard Pillars of Prosperity by Ron Paul The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell

Feminism

The Feminist Lie - It Was Never About Equality by Bob Lewis

The Flipside of Feminism What Conservative Women Know -- and Men Cant Say by Suzanne Venker, Phyllis Schlafly The War Against Boys How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers Who Killed the American Family by Phyllis Schlafly Who Stole Feminism by Christina Hoff Sommers

American History Americas Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell Charter Schools and Their Enemies by Thomas Sowell

Cop Under Fire Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better America by David A. Clarke Jr, Nancy French FDRs Folly How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression by Jim Powell Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? by Walter E Williams Radical-in-chief Barack Obama and the untold story of American socialism by Stanley Kurtz The Age of Reagan The Conservative Counterrevolution 1980-1989 by Steven F. Hayward The Cult of the Presidency Americas Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power by Gene Healy The Illiberal Reformers Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era by Thomas C. Leonard The Management of Savagery How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump by Max Blumenthal The Politically Incorrect Guide To The Constitution by Kevin Gutzman Ancient History Barbarians Rebellion and Resistance to the Roman Empire by Stephen P. Kershaw Cicero Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome by Kathryn Tempest Egypt, Greece, and Rome Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean by Charles Freeman Gladiators and Beast Hunts Arena Sports of Ancient Rome by Christopher Epplett Rome and China Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires by Walter Schiedel

The Histories by Herodotus The History of the Church by Eusebius The Jewish War by Josephus The Storm Before the Storm The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan The Twelve Caesars by Seutonius

British History

An Appetite for Power by John Ramsden Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin 1914-1919 (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) by Jay Winter, Jean Louis Robert Crime and society in England, 1750-1900 by Clive Emsley Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple London: A Social History by Roy Porter Not With a Bang But a Whimper The Politics and Culture of Decline by Theodore Dalrymple On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Pandemic 1918 by Catharine Arnold The Great Melody by Conor Cruise O’Brien The Great Plague: A Peoples History by Evelyn Lord The Origins of modern English society by Harold Perkin

European History

Decline of the West by Oswald Spangler Europe The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present by Brendan Simms

Garibaldi by Ron Field, Peter Dennis

Gender and Sexuality in Weimar Modernity Film, Literature, and “New Objectivity” by Richard W. McCormick

How the West Grew Rich The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World by Nathan Rosenberg, L. E. Birdzell Ordinary Men Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher Browning. Press and Politics in the Weimar Republic by Bernhard Fulda Sarajevo Under Siege Anthropology in Wartime by Ivana Macek

The 'Hitler Myth'. Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw

Medieval History

A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland, 1000 to 1600 by Edward J. Cowan, Lizanne Henderson

Daily Life during the Black Death by Joseph P. Byrne Everyday Life in Medieval England by Christopher Dyer

Heraldry, pageantry, and social display in medieval England by Peter Coss, Maurice Keen

Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph Gies, Frances Gies

Marriage Disputes in Medieval England by Frederik Pedersen Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England's Churches by Matthew Champion Society and Politics in Medieval Italy The Evolution of the Civil Life, 1000–1350 by J. K. Hyde

The Cathars The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages by Sean Martin

The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England by Ian Forrest

Wales and the Crusades 1095-1291 by Kathryn Hurlock

Philosophy and Politics A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick Are We Bodies or Souls by Richard Swinburne Becoming a Barbarian by Jack Donavan

Common Sense, the Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine by Thomas Paine Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism by William Lane Craig History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell How to be a Conservative by Roger Scruton Legislating Morality: Is it Wise? Is it Legal? Is it Possible? by Frank Turek

Liberty Defined 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul

Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism by James A. Gregor Nationhood and Political Theory by Margaret Canovan

On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth by Bertrand de Jouvenel The Machiaviellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham The True Believer Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer