Euan Lawson
April 2021 reading List
A good month and a dozen cracked off. As ever, these are in the order they were finished. If I had to pick one to recommend then it would be Failures of State and there are some notes on that.
Okwonga’s book, One of Them, is a slim volume, very readable, and damning. There is perhaps a risk with it that it’s simply a reinforcing book — if you have a problem with Eton and the private school system then there will be much here to bolster your beliefs. Otherwise, I’m not sure it will change minds.
Wright’s book is not quite as radical as the title might suggest but How to Be an Democratic Socialist isn’t nearly so catchy. It is a brilliant overview of all the ways one might oppose the current system without necessarily calling for a full-blooded revolution.
- Failures of State by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnot
- Woke: A Guide to Social Justice by Titania McGrath
- Free Speech And Why It Matters by Andrew Doyle
- The Art of Disruption by Magid Magid
- Pryor Convictions by Richard Pryor
- A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa
- The Inimitable Jeeves by PG Wodehouse
- How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century by Erik Olin Wright
- Nicotine by Gregor Hens
- Crack House by Harry Keeble with Kris Hollington
- Anti-Social by Nick Pettigrew
- One of Them: An Eton College Memoir by Musa Okwonga
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