If you haven’t read some of these I think they are quite important to the trials and dangers of the world right now.

They are not all new but they speak of things I think we should be watching out for or at the very least know how easily these ideas become commonplace and “normal”

The most recent is ‘Fascism A Warning’ by Madeleine Albright. This is very readable and not depressing.

The oldest I think is ‘Wild Swans’ by Jung Chang. This is a family history of women that spans the century

The next two are novels ‘The Noise of Time ‘by Julian Barnes tells the conditions in Stalin’s Russia as Shostakovitch was writing his music.

‘Do Not Say we have Nothing’ by Madeleine Thien tells a story about conditions during the cultural revolution in China