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Books like Assholes
A cathartic, intellectually rigorous field guide to understanding and surviving the most entitled people in your life. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Assholes.
- cathartic
- intellectually stimulating
- amused
- exasperated
- 01
On Bullshit
Harry G. Frankfurt · 2005
A deadpan, razor-sharp philosophical dissection of why people talk without caring about the truth.
- 02
Calling Bullshit
Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West
A witty, empowering toolkit for cutting through the noise of a data-drenched world.
- 03
Female Chauvinist Pigs
Ariel Levy
A sharp, journalistic dissection of pop culture that asks whether performing objectification is actually a trap disguised as empowerment.
- 04
Down Girl
Kate Manne
A razor-sharp philosophical autopsy of systemic misogyny that gives a name to the invisible forces policing women's lives.
- 05
You are not so smart
David McRaney
A playful, humbling tour through the cognitive biases that secretly run your life, proving that you are delightfully, predictably irrational.
- 06
The way of men
Jack Donovan
A blunt, unapologetic manifesto that strips away modern comforts to examine the primal roots of male identity and tribal survival.
- 07
The No Asshole Rule
Robert I. Sutton
A blunt, cathartic survival guide for navigating and neutralizing toxic personalities in the workplace.
- 08
You are now less dumb
David McRaney
A witty, humbling tour through the funhouse mirror of your own mind that proves you aren't nearly as rational as you think.
- 09
The Virtue of Selfishness
Ayn Rand
A forceful, uncompromising philosophical manifesto that challenges the very foundation of traditional altruistic morality.
- 10
Evil
Julia Shaw
A provocative, science-backed exploration that dismantles our cultural assumptions about what makes a person truly monstrous.
- 11
Cynical Theories
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
A methodical, urgent autopsy of how obscure academic theories escaped the campus and reshaped modern culture.
- 12
How to Have Impossible Conversations
Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
A cool-headed, tactical toolkit for navigating the minefield of modern polarization without losing your mind or your relationships.
