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COMPENDIUM THREAD: Every book BAP recommended on Caribbean Rhythms The full spreadsheet will be shared when it’s done, this thread will be used to track my progress:

Note: as far as is apparent to me, BAP’s main inspirations are Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, so just assume everything they wrote is also recommended.

Episodes 1 - 10 1. The Last Byzantine Renaissance by Stephen Runciman 2. The Ordeal of Civility by John Murray Cuddihy 3. No Offense, also by JMC 4. The White Rajahs: A History of Sarawak from 1841 - 1946, also by Runciman

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5. Alexiad by Anna Comnena 6. Heartiste on Game (he doesn’t explicitly mention this book, but it’s a collection of Roissy’s now defunct blog which BAP endorsed) 7. The Greeks and Greek Civilization by Jacob Burckhardt 8. The Bell Curve by Charles Murray (mentioned)

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9. Xenephon’s Anabasis 10 & 11. The Western Way of War and The Wars of The Ancient Greeks by Victor Davis Hanson 12 & 13. Notes from Underground and The Double by Dostoevsky

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14. The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth 15 & 16. The Confusions of Young Torless and The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil 17. The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hašek

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Episodes 11-20: 18. Chaos and Night by Henry de Montherlant 19. Eros: The Myth of Ancient Greek Sexuality by Thronton 20 & 21. Journey to the End of the Night and Death on Credit by Celine 22. Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger

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23 - 26. Spring Snow, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, Confessions of a Mask, and Forbidden Colors by Mishima

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27. The Painted Word by Tom Wolfe 28. Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant 29. My Life, Autobiography of Benvunito Cellini 30. Artful Partners by Bernard Berenson

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31. The European Civil War by Ernst Nolte 32. The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine 33. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad 34. Demons by Dostoevsky

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35. Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire by Edward Luttwak 36. The Sicilian Vespers by Steven Runciman 37. The Hungry Brain by Stephan Guyenet 38. The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy by Carl Schmitt

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39. The Medieval Manichee by Steven Runciman 40. Two Nations in Your Womb by Israel Yuval

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41. The Outlaws by Ernst von Salomon 42 & 43. Runaway Horses and The Sound if Waves by Mishima 44. The Politics by Aristotle

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45 & 46. Eumeswil and On the Marble Cliffs by Ernst Junger 47. Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War 48. The Dwarf by Par Lagerkvist

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Episodes 21-30: 49. The Coming of The Greeks by Robert Drews 50. A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich 51. Profiles in Corruption by Peter Schweizer

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52 & 53. The Seychelles Affair and Congo Warriors by Mad Mike Hoare 54. Suicide of the West by James Burnham 55. America Alone by Mark Steyn

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56. War Dog: Fighting Other People's Wars by Al Venter 57. The Quiet American by Graham Greene 58. Godfather of The Kremlin by Paul Klebnikov

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59. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov 60. The Unheavenly City by Edward Banfield 61. Immigration Economics by George Borjas 62. The Ethnic Phenomenon by Pierre van der Berghe

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63. Indo-European Origins: The Anthropological Evidence by John Day 64. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides 65. Life of Timoleon by Plutarch 66. The Questionnaire by Ernst von Salomon

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Episodes 31 - 40 67. The Golden Bough by James Frazer 68. The Red and the Black by Stendhal 69. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov 70. Histories of Herodotus

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71. Theogony by Hesiod 72. From Major Jordan's Diaries by George Racey Jordan 73. The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone 74. The Rise and Fall of the Elites by Vilfredo Paret

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75. The Ruling Class by Gaetano Mosca 76. A History of the Crusades by Stephen Runciman 77. Coup D'etat: a Practical Handbook by Edward Luttwak 78. The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthut Koestler

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Episodes 41 - 50 79. Wolfszeit um Thule by Wilhelm Landig 80. Barlaam and Josaphat: A Christian Tale of the Buddha by Gui de Cambrai 81. The Shadow of the Dalai Lama by Victor and Victoria Trimondi 82. A History of the American People by Paul Johnson

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83. The Comedians by Graham Greene 84. Passage of Darkness by Wade Davis 85. South Africa's Brave New World by R. W. Johnson 86. The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk

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87. After the Banquet by Mishima 88. Heraclitus' Fragments

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Episodes 51 -60 89. The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer 90. The Glass Bees by Ernst Jünger 91. America’s Half Blood Prince by @Steve_Sailer 92. America’s Inadvertent Empire by General William Odom

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93. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino 94. Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Lytton 95. The Life of Cola de Rienzi by John Wright 96. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

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97. Discourses on Livy by Machiavelli 98. The Satyricon by Petronius

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Episodes 61-70 99. Dumping Iron by @Mangan150 100 & 101. The Normans in the South and The Kingdom in the Sun by John Julius Norwich 102. St Petersburg Dialogues by Joseph de Maistre

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103 & 104. On Pain and The Worker: Dominion and Form by Ernst Junger 105. The 10,000 Year Explosion by George Cochran 106. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies by Ian Buruma

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107. Plato's Republic 108. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Western A. Price 109. The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky 110. Parallel Lives by Plutarch

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