Reading for a Troubled Time

The news last week about a book-burning down in Georgia (a group of college students were disturbed by the views of its author) got me to thinking this:

Which books might have best prepared us to understand this current angry age we’re living through?

For an upcoming column, I’m compiling such a list (of books, plays, films) and I’d like to know what you might suggest from your own reading? Here are five on my list…

·      It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

·      Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

·      Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

·      Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki

·      In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

What titles would you add? Which works of fiction or nonfiction, old or new, would you nominate? Please email me at Keel@KeelHunt.com

Thank you.