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Great Red Pill Books
Somewhat outside of the TOP 10, but no less top notch red pills books:
- The Art of Seduction: Not just about seduction, but social seduction as well.
- How to Lie with Statistics: A great primer on how numbers and data can lead us astray and how statistics can be willfully abused to sway us.
- Secrets to Winning at Office Politics: Awesome red pill text on power in businesses and how to navigate and leverage office politics
- The Power of Now: Get the audiobook if you can, not the book. Tolle’s soothing voice will help you get in the now.
- The Book of Pook: Honestly, I don’t particularly enjoy Pook’s writing style and I do not personally recommend it. However, I put it here for your reference because he has been a highly influential writer in the Red Pill community.
- The Feminist Lie: It was too bitter for me and sounded too much like complaining, but that doesn’t mean that a lot of it says isn’t true. Good myth-busting on feminist lies and, unluckily, on the sad reality of the judicial system
- Men on Strike: Similar to The Feminist Lie, equally powerful and even written by a woman
Best Red Pill Books
And now to the very best of the best of Red Pill wisdom:
10. Workplace Poker
by Dan Rust
Summary | Audiobook | Kindle
This is the best Red Pill book when it comes to work, office and the social dynamics of the workplace.
Drop the corporate wool in front of your eyes with their “we love our employees” and HR’s “employees first” BS slogans. That’s not how it really works, and this book will give you a good dose of workplace Red Pill realism.
Quote: “You can’t get inside someone else’s head until you get out of your own”
9. The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
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Now, here is a book and an author that needs no introduction.
Frankly, I think that The 48 Laws of Power marketing and hype overgrew its content (the whole “banned in prisons” bogus story for example). But don’t get me wrong, the product behind the marketing is still excellent.
And the 48 Laws of Power is an eye opener when it comes to the unspoken rules of power and socialization.
Quote: “Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter”
8. The Art of The Deal
by Donald Trump
Summary | Print | Audiobook
How is The Art of The Deal a Red Pill book?
Because it will show you the unwritten rules of cut-throat business magnates.
And no, it’s not always about “help 1 billion people if you want to become a billionaire”. Sometimes it’s “screw a billionaire if you want to become one”.
And if deal-making Red Pill wasn’t enough, The Art of The Deal is also hilariously funny and way, way underrated when it comes to mindsets.
Quote: “In the end, the dollar always talk”
7. The Moral Animal
by Robert Wright
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The Red Pill community tends to prefer Sex at Dawn, which is an awesome red pill book I also loved and rated 5/5. However, Sex at Dawn promotes the author’s agenda on human polyamory, and that’s not the full truth.
Sperm Wars is another darling of Red Pillers, and it’s an outstanding text. But it’s more a work of fiction and much of its key tenets aren’t even true.
With The Red Queen we start getting closer to a high quality, thoroughly researched book.
Yet, nothing touches The Moral Animal.
I doubt we can fully understand dating, relationships and human behavior without first understanding the concepts beyond this incredible book.
One concept above all that opened my eyes more than a decade ago when I first read it was the Madonna/Whore dichotomy.
Quote: “We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones”
6. The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
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The Prince, heralded as the first treatise of political philosophy and realpolitik, is a classic.
It’s not an easy ready, but it has boatloads of wisdom.
One of them is that in politics you “do what you gotta do to keep and increase power, and then say what you gotta say to look good”.
Machiavelli has taken the meaning of “underhanded” and “mean”. Yet The Prince is not mean at all. Ultimately, it’s about power for a good cause.
And it’s the belief of this website that if good people don’t arm themselves with the tools to win, then it will always and only be the bad people who will run this world.
Quote: “Everyone sees what you appear to be, but few experience who you really are“
5. The Manipulated Man
by Esther Vilar
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This is pure shock and awe Red Pill therapy.
Not for the faint of heart and not for beginners: it will raise cognitive dissonance alarm bells left and right.
Unluckily, as much as it’s as powerful as a kettle of gunpowder, it’s also on the misogynistic end of the spectrum, ripe with (bad) generalizations and black and white thinking.
In the wrong hands and at the wrong time, it might even push some men into the wrong path of hatred and combative mindset.
That being said, it can be an eye opener and it’s a must read.
Just read it with the critical side of your mind fully on and BS detector at high alert.
Quote: “Without thinking, men fight women’s wars, father women’s children and construct women’s towns. Women just sit back getting lazier, dumber and more demanding”
4. The Rational Male
by Rollo Tomassi
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If we’re talking about heavyweights in the Red Pill community, then Rollo Tomassi is one of the heaviest.
The Rational Male is a remarkable work and it’s so influential in the community that I dug very deep in my critical review like I always do for the best and/or most influential texts.
I particularly loved the overview of the sexual market value, the take on games women play and, finally, the myth busting of the old PUA tenet that “women are as sexual as men if not more”.
Quote: “The truth will set you free, but it doesn’t make truth hurt any less, nor does it make truth any prettier, and it certainly doesn’t absolve you of the responsibilities that truth requires. ”
3. Date-Onomics
by Jon Birger
Summary | Kindle | Print
Guys, if you’re serious about unplugging, taking the Red Pill and looking for the truth, then get some actual numbers on the truth.
Quick disclaim here: I’m not a number nazi.
Science and data can be highly misleading while at the same time giving a semblance of rationality and accuracy, making them even more dangerous. I believe that an acute, highly observing mind with lots of experience is better than most researches.
Yet, data and researches still have a center place in any serious quest for truth.
And Date-Onomics is a real eye opener.
A few key takeaways:
- Feminism happens when women have fewer high quality mating options
- Men become more romantic when there are few women
- “Making him chase“, the mantra of female dating advice, is terrible advice when there are few high quality men
Few books will make you understand dating as much as this highly underrated gem.
Quote: “When sex ratios are balanced (..) males have a strong genetic incentive to stick with their original mates (…). When females are more abundant, the mating game shifts”
2. The Millionaire Fastlane
by Mj DeMarco
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| Kindle
The best red pill book on personal finance bar none.
The two biggest takeaways:
1. The paradox of practice: It tears apart all the “I will make you rich” courses and books. MJ says that the only way those guys are getting rich is by.. Selling said courses.
They don’t know squat about getting rich in any other way. If you want to learn from them, learn how they sell the courses, not what’s in the courses.
2. Saving & Investing is for suckers: The central tenet of the personal finance literature is the famous “compound interest”. DeMarco flips the script claiming that compound interest is trading invaluable time today for distant (and uncertain) riches (a distant) tomorrow.
Quote: Dump the damn job. The job sucks
1. No More Mr. Nice Guy
by Robert Glover
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Robert Glover has the deepest psychological understanding of any Red Pill author I have the pleasure to read so far.
It’s a must read for guys who are too nice, certainly. A must read for guys who are interested in taking the Red Pill, for sure. But also for anyone who is interested in psychology.
For me the biggest eye-opener was that nice guys focus hard on making her sexually happy.
A huge change of perspective if you think that being an orgasm-provider is a trait most people would associate to a lover, a ladies’ man, or someone who wants to keep his woman close. Yet, if you think about it, it’s also at the essence of nice guy mentality.
Indeed, it’s extremely more powerful when she focuses on giving him great sex.
Quote: “Self-respect, courage, and integrity look good on a man“
The Power Moves Red Pill
Finally, I wasn’t sure whether or not to put my own work in this list for obvious reasons of conflict of interest.
However, I wouldn’t have been honest if I hadn’t.
After hundreds of books and courses I tried and tested, there was nothing as Red Pill as this course when it comes to socialization, dominance and power games people play.
Check it out here and take what I have just said on this course with a bucket-load of coarse salt because I am the author (and yes, the marketing sucks so far).
Final Words
As usual, I like to conclude all “list” posts with a warning on the ranking. And this best Red Pill books is no exceptions.
Don’t make too much of the numbers.
Any of the books in this reading list is top notch and all of them have the potentials to (further) open your eyes and improve your life for the better.
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