Charlie Kirk Shares His Personal Reading List and Book Recommendations for Lifelong Learners

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[00:31] Good morning, Charlie. Can you hear me?

[00:33] I can. Yes. How are you doing? Good. How

[00:36] are you? Very good. Uh I was uh Please

[00:39] continue. I was just wondering uh if we

[00:42] can get like a Charlie Kirk team reading

[00:44] list, you know, your your reading list,

[00:46] what you have, what you've read, what

[00:48] you want to read. you know, maybe

[00:50] Blakes's and there's anyone who wants to

[00:52] pitch in because like every time you

[00:54] mention a book on your show, I'll go

[00:57] Google it, screenshot it, and add it to

[00:58] an album and then eventually, you know,

[01:00] I buy it or I work on buying it.

[01:04] So, uh, we we we get this a lot. So,

[01:08] let me just kind of go through some of

[01:10] the basics. Uh, obviously, man's search

[01:12] for meaning

[01:13] with by Victor Frankle uh is very very

[01:17] important. uh anything by CS Lewis, so

[01:20] mere Christianity uh in particular,

[01:24] which I love. Uh I'm currently working

[01:27] through a book called Doctrine uh by

[01:29] Mark Driscoll and and Gary Basher

[01:32] because it was recommended uh to me by a

[01:34] couple people. That is a serious read,

[01:36] I'll tell you what. Is 345

[01:38] pages full. I mean, it is like it is a

[01:42] huge book. It's been actually taken me

[01:44] like a couple months. Anything. But so I

[01:47] obviously I encourage people to read

[01:48] 1984 Brave New World. I'm also going to

[01:51] planning to read I don't have enough

[01:52] faith to be an atheist by my friend

[01:54] Frank Turk. I've actually never uh read

[01:56] the book I don't have enough faith to be

[01:58] an atheist. Let me think about I mean I

[02:00] got like 300 books on my book stand,

[02:03] some of which that I'm working. I

[02:04] finished uh I finished your Right-wing

[02:06] Revolution. Oh, thank you. And so that

[02:08] little section of the of the books you

[02:10] recommended, I put all those in uh my

[02:13] Amazon cart and I've ordered a couple.

[02:16] Uh I'm reading the Federalist Papers

[02:17] right now. Uh that's taking a little

[02:19] bit. Amazing. I What do you do?

[02:24] Uh so I'm I'm I'm not in college right

[02:26] now, but I I go to school. I have a year

[02:28] left. Uh but right now I'm a

[02:30] groundskeeper at John Deere. So I just I

[02:33] listen to your podcasts all day. uh Ali

[02:36] Beth Stucky, you know, I'm taking uh

[02:38] Hillsdale online courses right now.

[02:40] That's what I'm talking about. I love

[02:41] it. And then I get home and read as much

[02:44] as I can.

[02:46] Well, that that first of all, yes,

[02:48] charlieforhillsdale.com

[02:49] is just phenomenal. Charlie

[02:51] forhillsdale.com.

[02:53] Let me recommend a couple other books to

[02:54] you. Um I love the book uh Good to

[02:57] Great. It's very good for business

[02:59] scaling if you have kind of a business

[03:01] mind. Um, I I really enjoyed the

[03:04] conservative mind. I read that a couple

[03:06] summers ago. Obviously, the road to

[03:07] surfom is kind of a no-brainer. Uh,

[03:11] anything Churchill wrote a bunch of

[03:13] books. I think he had the history of the

[03:14] English-speaking peoples. I think that

[03:15] was it. I actually have never read it,

[03:17] but uh people you recommended that one.

[03:20] Highly recommend. I still need to read

[03:22] that. Uh, you could also, if you want

[03:23] more provocative, The Death of the West

[03:25] by Patrick Buchanan um is a fabulous

[03:27] book. And then I love the book that

[03:29] built your world by Vashall Mangalwaldi.

[03:32] I love it. It brags about Western

[03:34] civilization and about the beauty of the

[03:36] Bible from an Indian outsers's

[03:38] perspective. Um, it's really fabulous.

[03:40] So, we got to do a better job of

[03:41] cataloging that at charliekirk.com. But,

[03:44] I've had my head down on literally just

[03:46] one book for a month and a half. That's

[03:47] a long time for me. Um, just trying to

[03:49] summarize one book. I also read another

[03:51] book by Jonathan Height recently, uh,

[03:55] called The Anxious Generation. Highly

[03:58] recommend it. Uh it's very wellstied,

[04:01] thoroughly researched. Uh it's very

[04:02] funny. Uh by the way, Hakee the Dream,

[04:04] dollar store Obama is done. Great.

[04:06] Terrific. Um but Anxious Generation is

[04:08] really good, but you can literally

[04:11] summarize anxious generation in one big

[04:13] lesson. Cell phones are awful for kids.

[04:16] So it's like that's the whole book. Uh

[04:19] but I've also read Dop Dopamine Nation.

[04:21] Yes. Um by Anna Lumpki. I read it. Uh

[04:25] very very good. Um, so I love those

[04:28] books. And uh, by the way, I have

[04:29] another book coming out. Should be in

[04:31] December. I still need to put an editing

[04:33] team and committee together. So Blake,

[04:35] you're gonna have some work on your

[04:36] hands, but it's going to it's called

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[04:43] Thank you, Brett. God bless you, man. Be

[04:45] come and stay a lifelong learner.

[04:48] Charlie forhillsdale.com.

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