The Ultimate List of Conspiracy Theory Books
Top 10 The Ultimate List of Conspiracy Theory Books
: The Day of the Jackal, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Stranger in a Strange Land, V for Vendetta, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, The Stepford Wives, Slaughterhouse-Five, Brave New World Revisited, The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy: And How to End It, Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster
| Author | Frederick Forsyth |
| ISBN | 0553266306 |
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.
The Jackal. A tall, blond Englishman with opaque, gray eyes. A killer at the top of his profession. A man unknown to any secret service in the world. An assassin with a contract to kill the world's most heavily guarded man.
One ...
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
| Author | John Perkins |
| ISBN | 0452287081 |
From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposé of international corruption, and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations
With a presidential election around the corner, questions of America's military buildup,...
Stranger in a Strange Land
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0441788386 |
Apparently a classic of the sci-fi cannon, I'd never heard of this book until it came up on a book club here. It took me a long time to read only because of lack of time, and a rather annoying trait the author has that I'll go into later.
This is one of those books that tells us more about the period it...
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 1401207928 |
"Remember, remember the fifth of November..."
A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
| Author | Naomi Klein |
| ISBN | 0805079831 |
In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations. She called it "disaster capitalism." Covering Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed...
| Author | Ira Levin |
| ISBN | 0060080841 |
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret—a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.
At once a masterpiece of psychological...
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 0385333846 |
There are some terrible reviews of SH5 floating around Goodreads, but one particularly awful sentiment is that Slaughterhouse-Five isn't anti-war.
This is usually based on the following quote.
"It had to be done," Rumfoord told Billy, speaking of the destruction of Dresden.
"I...
Brave New World Revisited
| Author | Aldous Huxley |
| ISBN | 0060898526 |
When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here, in one of the most important and fascinating books of his career, Aldous Huxley uses his tremendous knowledge of human relations to compare the...
The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy: And How to End It
| Author | David Icke |
| ISBN | 0953881083 |
David Icke is the world's best-known writer and researcher into the global conspiracy in which a network of interbreeding families going back to the ancient world are manipulating events to impose a centrally-controlled Orwellian global state. His latest book is an extraordinary and unique compilation...
| Author | David Icke |
| ISBN | 0953881024 |
Since the horrendous day of September 11th 2001, the people of the world have been told the Big Lie. The official story of what happened on 9/11 is a fantasy of untruth, manipulation, contradiction and anomaly. David Icke has spent well over a decade uncovering the force that was really behind those attacks...
Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder
| Author | David McGowan |
| ISBN | 0595326404 |
The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American landscape. Reactions to these modern-day monsters range from revulsion to morbid fascination-fascination that is either fed by, or a product of, the saturation coverage provided by print and broadcast...
| Author | Amy Waldman |
| ISBN | 0374271569 |
Ten years after 9/11, a dazzling, kaleidoscopic novel reimagines its aftermath and wonders what would happen if a Muslim-American was blindly chosen to plan the World Trade Center Memorial.
Claire Harwell hasn't settled into grief; events haven't let her. Cool, eloquent, raising two fatherless...
A People's History of the United States
| Author | Howard Zinn |
| ISBN | 0060838655 |
Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s iconic A People's History of the United States “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.” Packed with vivid details and telling quotations, Zinn’s...
First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed.
Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting back. Then...
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 1476727651 |
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special 12-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.
On...
The Untold History of The United States
| Author | Oliver Stone |
| ISBN | 1451616449 |
The companion to the Showtime documentary series, director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick challenge the prevailing orthodoxies of traditional history books in this thoroughly researched and rigorously analyzed look at the dark side of American history.
The notion of American...
Substance D is not known as Death for nothing. It is the most toxic drug ever to find its way on to the streets of LA. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, causing, first, disorientation and then complete and irreversible brain damage.
The undercover narcotics agent who...
The Man Who Invented the Twentieth Century
| Author | Robert Lomas |
| ISBN | 0747275882 |
I chose this book because I wanted to learn more about Nikola Tesla, and it definitely fulfilled my expectations. Although at times I wanted more technical detail, I think that for the most part the author did a good job of describing Tesla's work in layman's terms. There were a few terms I didn't understand,...
| Author | Alan Moore |
| ISBN | 0861661419 |
"I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell."
Having proved himself peerless in the arena of reinterpreting superheroes, Alan Moore turned...
| Author | Arthur Koestler |
| ISBN | 0553265954 |
Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government...
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA & Mind Control
| Author | John D. Marks |
| ISBN | 0393307948 |
A 'Manchurian Candidate' is an unwitting assassin brainwashed and programmed to kill. In this book, former State Department officer John Marks tells the explosive story of the CIA's highly secret program of experiments in mind control. His curiosity first aroused by information on a puzzling suicide....
Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!
| Author | Jesse Ventura |
| ISBN | 1602392730 |
Jesse Ventura has had many lives—as a Navy SEAL, as a star of pro wrestling, as an actor, and as the governor of Minnesota. His previous books, I Ain't Got Time to Bleed and Do I Stand Alone?, were both national bestsellers. Don't Start the Revolution Without Me! is the story of his controversial gubernatorial...
| Author | Andrew M. Lobaczewski |
| ISBN | 1897244258 |
The first manuscript of this book went into the fire five minutes before the arrival of the secret police in Communist Poland. The second copy, reassembled painfully by scientists working under impossible conditions of repression, was sent via a courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was never acknowledged,...
| Author | S.K. Bain |
| ISBN | 1937584178 |
In this shocking exposé, investigative researcher and author S. K. Bain explores the inconsistencies, coincidences, and historical precedents of the events of September 11, 2001, and reconstructs an occult-driven script for a Global Luciferian MegaRitual. Bain argues forcefully that the framework...
| Author | Michael A. Hoffman II |
| ISBN | 0970378416 |
From 007 to 2001, from Dealey Plaza to the Apollo Moon Flight, from the barrel of a Bulldog .44 to the corridors of the pyramids of Sirius; from the secret symbolism of Jack the Ripper to the public symbolism of the first atomic bomb blast, this work illuminates the crimes and command ideology of the masonic...
History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
| Author | Brad Meltzer |
| ISBN | 0761177450 |
It's an irresistible combination: Brad Meltzer, a born storyteller, counting down the world's most intriguing unsolved mysteries. And to make this richly illustrated book even richer, each chapter invites the reader along for an interactive experience through the addition of removable facsimile...
