Recommended Reading Lists

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We get frequent emails from head office with information about things happening in the company, business news, market trends etc.. all well and good. However, they have become more and more woke in the past years and actively buy into Black History Month.

So, in addition to promoting talks and events by the likes of Akala, they also included their list of recommended books by black authors. Lo and behold, three days later, these exact same books arrived at the office.

Thanks, but no thanks. I’ll read what I choose, not what you choose. Fuck off Akala and Maya Angelou, plus whatever other crap they sent us.

Nominated by: mystic maven

(Presumably if you don’t read the “recommended” books say goodbye to your job! – Day Admin)

164 thoughts on “Recommended Reading Lists”

  1. Look on the bright side. If we have another pandemic at least you’ll have a free supply of toilet paper given to you by work.
    The more you show interest in those ‘books’, the more free toilet paper your (no doubt woke) HR department will give you.
    Win-Win

  2. Fuck me, how things change over time. If some tosspot manager had recommended a list of books that my co workers and I should read that consisted of re writes of history and whinging; then said managers lunch box, desk draw or desk top would have been shit in/on. His coffee would be pissed in as well,repeatedly.
    What a load of utter bollocks. I feel for you, having to work in such a woke environment things like this make me glad I’m medically retired.

  3. Some great reads in book recommendations from the posts tonight,
    My youth as in very young was Coral Island by RB Ballantyne followed later with Treasure Island Roberto Louis Stevenson. My Dad was a Merchant Seaman so.
    I later Graduated in Red coloured Childrens Brittanica, complete series A to Z Late 1950s early 1960s editions in the early to mid 70s.
    Children’s Brittanica of this period, are still outstanding reads to this day and a mindful of information of the world and history of the time, read one from the period and one will realise it is anything but childish.
    Truly outstanding work by people who were aware of facts and not fiction.

  4. Jack London
    Edgar rice Burroughs
    Alfred Wainwright
    Ken kesey
    John Steinbeck
    John Muir.

    My favourites.

    But I don’t read much anymore
    Nothing new anyway.
    Same with music!
    Nothing new.

    Not sure why?

    • they’ve worn you down MNC, they’ve sucked the last breath of joy, from the memory that cries.

      • They have mecuntry.
        Wittering on.
        I’ve read them, and probably never read them again.
        No point really.

        TV’s better.
        These universities,
        Full of dusty old books?
        Just get rid and get a telly.

  5. Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts is a great read but at the thick end of a thousand pages requires a bit of dedication. About an Australian fugitive who comes to Mumbai in India and hides out in the slums where he works for the mafia forging passports, drug running and weapons smuggling.

    Has been turned into a TV series for Apple TV+ but not watched it, probably been wokefucked.

      • Read it LL years ago, and i was inthralled at the start all the way through to the middle and still finished the book but it did get a little fanciful towards the latter, especially when he was on a goat ride through Afghanistan mountains with the rebels or whatever, but still a great long read for a week or Three even, its that long

      • What I thought as well. Started off great but by the end I was…. hang on a minute.

        Would read it again though

    • But you’ll love it MNC at the start and middle and the woman will be delighted with you with the light on all night

  6. A three week wank Miserable?

    Now that is dedication!

    Same Mecunty, might read it again at some point I think.

  7. The Wasp Factory by Ian Banks
    The short stories of Edgar Allen Poe and MR James
    The Curious Incident of the dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

    • ‘Nico-(Songs they never play on the Radio’) by James Young.
      Ex-Velvet Underground singer Nico rocks up in Manchester circa early 80’s,…(Big Iranian Heroin imports arrived there during this time)…full on heroin addict at this point,into the clutches of a certain ‘Dr’ Demetrius-AKA-(Alan Wise)…,a local gig promoter who tries to capitalise on her faded VU kudos and pitches her with an eccentric bunch of junkie minstrels from the locale for an ill fated and hilarious series of ‘world tours’.Cameos from Johns-Cale and Cooper-Clarke as well as an hilarious poetry recital by Alan Ginsburg in Liverpool.

      I’ve read most major rock chronicles worth their salt but nothing comes close to this.The cool,sylish writing style from Young (He played keyboard for Nico) is off the scale,especially considering the unpromising subject matter to hand of these musical reprobates only Manchester could conjur up.

      It would make an incredible film if translated.The Withnail & l of our time.

    • Well said Anton. They will always be allowed to say whitewash, but not N. Brown boot polish. My lovely brown brogues are cracking because they were used to Nigella’s polish I can’t get anymore.

  10. The reason why black literature is still available, were due to flames in the 451 degree heat for burning them, died of boredom.

  11. I am currently reading about the Paul Pelosi home invasion and attempted murder. According to the msm rumours that Paul picked up David Depape in a gay bar and brought him home to fuck him in the ass are just conspiracy theories. Mr Depape, a former nudist protestor with links to San Franciscos male prostitute community, supposedly broke in through a patio door at the house, this is backed up by the broken glass all being outside the property as often happens when you throw a large heavy object through plate glass. The sophisticated security systems present did not alert the police, Paul had to call them himself. Latest reports say that Pelosi opened the front door to police, then returned inside where he was struck with a hammer by the deranged (and by now in his underwear) attacker. Nancy was out of town, and speculation abiut Paul’s alleged homosexual encounters has never, to my knowledge, been proven. I just hope this obviously mentally ill man doesn’t do anything silly in prison, I haven’t done my deadpool picks yet. Someone should really do a nom on this…..

    • Quarehawks the lot, both alleged victim and assailant
      America is fucked from the top down and that does not bode well for the many a normal, who just want to get on with a life.
      We’re in a meltdown across all of the West, not of our own making but by the overlords of Cuntingdom. They truly have fucked it, but im not surprised anymore considering what we all should know about them cunts at this stage.
      It is coming and not the reset that they have in mind

  12. I was totally unaware that Black people had written books. That they can write is truly shocking and if they can write anything of note….well that has me rolling in the aisles.

  15. I can imagine what is in these recommended reading lists…

    Black, poofs, blacks, pooves, blackies, poofters. Oh, and a bit of ‘oppressed wimmin’ thrown in there too….🙄

  16. Makes me fucking crease, what a lot of these books are about.🤣

    Like some unknown black bloke who played for some non-league pub team in the 50s.

    Or, some woman (again, black) who taught at a primary school in the 60s (bonus points if she’s also a dyke). Not really talented, and not at all famous. Hilarous really.

    These books about these never heard of black ‘pioneers’and gay ‘innovators’. They might as well recommend a book about where flies go in Winter. Because it would be similar to the other books in their recommended list. Meaning nobody knows, and nobody fucking well cares.

  17. That high street hop where you can get books at a cheap price – The Works- used to have some good choices in there. But in the last two years or so, all there is now is books about blacks and ‘black history’. No wonder the store is now on its arse…

  18. The one that really gets on my gonads.is the book about the ‘iconic’ dyke from the Victorian era who dressed up in men’s clothes. Apparently this is of historical significance and highly recommended. Why, for fucks sake? So fucking what? It’s just more woke bollocks about yet another nonentity..

    I wouldn’t mind a go on that Suranne Jones, mind….

  19. Very good article in The Critic this month, on the subject of ongoing institutional slavery in Niger. Recommended.
    Also praiseworthy:
    “Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions: The Autobiography of a Horse” Anna Sewell, 1877. (Only one black character, with hooves)
    “Black Mischief”; Evelyn Waugh, 1932. (No comic stereotypes here, oh, no…))
    “Black Pudding” David Goodis, 1953. (Ken Rockland’s number is up. After seven of prison, of not being a stoolie. But now his old gang has caught up to him. And they’re not taking any chances. Riker, the gang’s leader, stole Ken’s gorgeous wife and now he wants to take his life. But Ken’s chance upon a woman—a scarred, damaged woman. A woman with an opium addiction. A woman who may be the only hope that Ken Rockland has. Empowering. )

    • The great Stuart Maconie has a few excellent books in circulation.Bury markets legendary black pudding stall (probably halal now) gets his unique perspective.
      ‘Cider with roadies’ (rock n roll stuff)

      ‘Adventures on the high teas’-Awesomely written eulogy to our dying cultural landscapes.This guy is brilliant,bit leftish at times,but firmly rooted in Albion’s common clay.

      Bit of a paradox but this stuff was written before the realpolitik of Satan-Blair’s malignant agenda took root.

  21. Just finshed Behold The Man by Michael Moorcock (1969).

    It’s about a scientist who goes back in time to debunk the Christ myth.
    He discovers that Mary was a slag, Jesus was a dribbling retard, and that fuck all happened.

    But, he has a massive ego, and he decides to take on the messiah role himself. And he engineers the story as we know it. Even his own crucifixion and death. Pretty good, but pretty mad shit…

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