Daripada menghabiskan waktu dengan wanita yang ngebet nikah,
aku lebih suka menikmati waktu untuk belajar, atau membaca buku,
atau bekerja, atau mencuci piring, atau menyapu rumah,
atau menikmati teh sendirian sambil udud... atau
meruntuhkan peradaban bobrok yang kita jalani.
—@noffret
aku lebih suka menikmati waktu untuk belajar, atau membaca buku,
atau bekerja, atau mencuci piring, atau menyapu rumah,
atau menikmati teh sendirian sambil udud... atau
meruntuhkan peradaban bobrok yang kita jalani.
—@noffret
Selama bertahun-tahun menyelami buku dalam berbagai disiplin ilmu, saya menemukan fakta sepele tapi menarik, yang—jika dipikirkan mendalam—sangat mencengangkan. Betapa sebuah buku bisa memiliki mata rantai ke buku lain, padahal buku-buku itu tidak saling berkaitan, bahkan membahas topik yang jauh berbeda.
Mula-mula, saya tidak menyadari kenyataan ini—dan, saya pikir, kebanyakan pembaca juga tidak menyadarinya. Tetapi, seiring makin banyak buku yang saya baca, “mata rantai” yang semula buram semakin tampak jelas.
Umpama kita membaca sepuluh buku secara acak, dan sepuluh buku itu membahas hal-hal berbeda, kemungkinan besar sepuluh buku itu tidak akan saling nyambung—tidak ada mata rantai apa pun. Tetapi, kalau kita membaca seratus buku, meski sama-sama acak, ada kemungkinan kita mulai menemukan mata rantai, meski mungkin samar-samar, dan bisa jadi kita belum paham. Sesuatu yang mencengangkan akan terjadi jika kita membaca, setidaknya, seribu buku.
Jika kita membaca seribu buku, tak peduli topiknya sangat acak, kita akan menemukan mata rantai yang saling nyambung. Jika ingatan kita cukup kuat—sehingga mampu mengingat “ujung-ujung rantai” yang kita temukan di buku-buku yang kita baca—kita pun akan melihat benang merah yang sangat jelas. Satu buku mampu menjelaskan sesuatu di buku lain, dan begitu seterusnya.
Ketika menyadari kenyataan itu, jujur saja, saya merasa mendapat pencerahan, dan nafsu membaca saya makin gila-gilaan. Sejak itu, saya menjadikan aktivitas membaca tidak lagi sekadar untuk menambah wawasan dan pengetahuan, tapi juga semacam petualangan untuk menyelami hal-hal tak terlihat—tumpukan rahasia mencengangkan—khususnya tentang “bagaimana dunia dan kehidupan ini berjalan”.
Bagaimana dunia dan kehidupan kita berjalan? Jawabannya tidak seperti yang kita pikirkan!
Saya bisa saja menulis banyak catatan, yang mengurai banyak rahasia di balik dunia kita yang tampak biasa dan baik-baik saja. Tetapi, selalu ada kemungkinan orang akan meragukan yang saya tulis—bisa jadi karena hal itu bertentangan dengan pengetahuan atau keyakinannya. Sebab kebanyakan orang berpikir linier, hanya menerima apa saja yang dicekokkan ke pikiran, tanpa usaha menyelami pengetahuan untuk menemukan kebenaran.
Karena kenyataan itu, saya terpikir untuk menyusun buku-buku yang bisa dijadikan acuan untuk memahami rahasia-rahasia dunia, khususnya terkait ekonomi, politik, sosial, dan kondisi dunia kontemporer.
Sekarang keinginan itu terwujud. Setelah memilah dan memilih sangat lama, akhirnya saya bisa menyusun 1.000 (seribu) buku yang saya anggap memiliki mata rantai yang saling terhubung, sebagaimana yang saya jelaskan tadi.
Saya tidak menjamin seribu buku ini akan sesuai selera bacaanmu. Tapi saya bisa menjamin satu hal: Begitu kau selesai membaca seribu buku ini, kau akan melihat dunia dengan cara yang sangat... sangat berbeda.
Kalau kau mengatakan sesuatu yang berdasar pada sebuah buku, bisa jadi buku itu salah. Bahkan, kalau kau mengatakan sesuatu yang berdasar pada sepuluh buku, tetap saja sepuluh buku itu bisa keliru. Tetapi, kalau kau mempercayai sesuatu berdasarkan seribu buku... apa iya seribu buku itu salah semua?
Cara kita melihat dunia ditopang oleh keyakinan kita. Keyakinan kita dirakit oleh pengetahuan. Dan pengetahuan yang utuh dibangun oleh banyak sumber. Satu buku bisa salah, sepuluh buku bisa keliru, tapi seribu buku adalah fondasi yang kokoh untuk membangun pengetahuan dan mengkristalkan keyakinan.
Meski jumlahnya tergolong raksasa, seribu buku yang saya kumpulkan dalam daftar ini membahas topik yang bisa dibilang saling terkait, yaitu seputar ekonomi, keuangan, politik, sosial, sejarah, dan dunia internasional. Kalau kau ingin memahami banyak rahasia yang tidak diketahui kebanyakan orang, silakan baca seribu buku ini. Pengetahuan yang tersimpan dalam seribu buku ini adalah investasi luar biasa untuk memahami rahasia-rahasia dunia.
Daftar ini saya susun secara alfabetis, berdasarkan nama penulisnya. Untuk meringankan loading halaman, saya pecah daftar ini ke dalam lima halaman. Selamat membaca.
- Adam Fergusson: When Money Dies: The Nightmare of The Weimar Hyper Inflation
- Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations
- Agnes Labrousse (Ed.): Institutional Economics In France And Germany: German Ordoliberalism Versus The French Regulation School
- Al Gore: The Assault on Reason
- Alan Beattie: False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of The World
- Alan T. Peacock (Ed.): Germany's Social Market Economy: Origins and Evolution
- Alan T. Peacock: German Neo Liberals And The Social Market Economy
- Alan Trachtenberg: The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age
- Alain Touraine: Beyond Neoliberalism
- Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
- Aldous Huxley: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
- Alec J. Ross: The Industries of the Future
- Alessandro Boccaletti: Veritas The Pharmacological Endgame
- Alex Goldfarb: Death of a Dissident: The Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB
- Alexander Hamilton: Federalist Papers
- Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America
- Alvin D. Hall: Money Magic: Seven Simple Steps to True Financial Freedom
- Alvin E. Roth: The Handbook of Experimental Economics
- Amartya Sen: Development as Freedom
- Amartya Sen: Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
- Amy Waldman: The Submission
- Andrea Muehlebach: The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy
- Andrew Clapham: Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction
- Andrew Glyn: Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare
- Andrew Glyn: Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times: The Left and Economic Policy Since 1980
- Andrew Hitchcock: History of Money
- Andrew J. Bacevich: The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
- Andrew J. Bacevich: The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War
- Andrew L. Yarrow: Measuring America: How Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century
- Andrés Reséndez: The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
- Andrew M. Lobaczewski: Political Ponerology
- Andrew Marr: A History of the World
- Andrew Ross Sorkin: Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis—and Themselves
- Andy Greenberg: This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Hacktivists, and Cypherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information
- Angus Burgin: The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression
- Anna Politkovskaya: A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption & Death in Putin's Russia
- Anne Garrels: Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia
- Anne Wilson Schaef: When Society Becomes an Addict
- Antonia Juhasz: The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry—and What We Must Do to Stop It
- Antonia Juhasz: The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time
- Antony C. Sutton: Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler
- Antony C. Sutton: Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
- Anthony Hulse: Cries from the Deep
- Antony Loewenstein: Disaster Capitalism
- Arie Farnam: The Fear and the Solace
- Arlie Russell Hochschild: Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
- Armand Daigle: Thank Earth You
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee: Civilization on Trial
- Arthur Goldwag: Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on
- Arthur Herman: Freedom's Forge: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II
- Alessandro Boccaletti: Veritas The Pharmacological Endgame
- Arthur Goldwag: Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more
- Atul Gawande: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
- Atul Gawande: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
- Barbara Ehrenreich: This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
- Barbara Ehrenreich: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
- Barbara Garson: Money Makes the World Go Around: One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy, from Brooklyn to Bangkok and Back
- Chris Hayes: A Colony in a Nation
- Barrington Moore Jr.: Moral Purity and Persecution in History
- Barrington Moore Jr.: Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays: Euripides and the Traffic in Women
- Barrington Moore Jr.: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
- Barry Glassner: The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
- Barry Eichengreen: Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
- Barry R. Weingast: The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy
- Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
- Bastian Obermayer: The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
- Bertram M. Gross: Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
- Bethany McLean: The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
- Bethany McLean: All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis
- Bill Browder: Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
- Boyd Morrison: The Roswell Conspiracy
- Brad Meltzer, History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
- Brandon Earl Bristow: Aware: An Inquiry Into Consciousness... Our Psychedelic
- Branko Milanovic: Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
- Branko Milanovic: The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
- Brian A. Jackson: Mushroom Medicine: The Healing Power of Psilocybin & Sacred Entheogen History
- Brian Alexander: Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
- Brian Christian: Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
- Brian Czech: Supply Shock: Economic Growth at the Crossroads and the Steady State Solution
- Brian Klaas: The Despot's Accomplice: How the West Is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy
- Brian Michael Bendis: The New Avengers: Illuminati
- Brian Wansink: Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
- Brooke Harrington: Capital Without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent
- Bruce Bueno De Mesquita: The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
- Bruce Rogers-Vaughn: Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age
- Bruno S. Frey (Ed.): Economics and Psychology: A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field
- Bryan Stevenson: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
- Bryan Burrough: Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
- Bryant McGill: Voice of Reason
- Burton G. Malkiel: A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- C.G. Jung: Synchronicity and the Paranormal
- Carl Bernstein: All the President's Men
- Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
- Carlos Castaneda: A Separate Reality
- Carmen M. Reinhart: This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
- Carol Gilligan: The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future
- Carol J. Greenhouse (Ed.): Ethnographies of Neoliberalism
- Carol Tavris: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
- Caroline Moorehead: Gellhorn: A Twentieth-Century Life
- Cathy O'Brien: Trance: Formation of America
- Cedric Johnson (Ed.): The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New Orleans
- Chalmers Johnson: The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
- Chalmers Johnson: Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
- Charles E. Lindblom: Politics and Markets : The World's Political-Economic Systems
- Charles E. Lindblom: The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It
- Charles Eisenstein: Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
- Charles H. Ferguson: Inside Job: The Rogues Who Pulled Off the Heist of the Century
- Charles J. Ogletree Jr.: All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education
- Charles Lachman: A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland
- Charles Mackay: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- Charles Murray: By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission
- Charles P. Kindleberger: Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
- Charles R. Morris: The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
- Charles R. Morris: The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
- Charles W. Calomiris: Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
- Charles Wheelan: Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
- Cheri Seymour: The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal
- Christian de Perthuis: Green Capital: A New Perspective on Growth
- Christian Parenti: Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
- Christopher Bryson: The Fluoride Deception
- Christopher C. Horner: Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed
- Christopher C. Horner: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming
- Christopher Hibbert: The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall
- Christopher Hill: Reformation to Industrial Revolution
- Christopher Knight: Who Built the Moon?
- Christopher L. Hayes: Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
- Christopher Rankin: Creating Monsters
- Claire Sterling: Thieves' World: The Threat of the New Global Network of Organized Crime
- Colin Crouch: The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism
- Colin F. Camerer (Ed.): Advances in Behavioral Economics
- Colin F. Camerer: Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction
- Colin Leys: Market-Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest
- Colin Willis: Magic Mushrooms: The Truth About Psilocybin: An Introductory Guide to Shrooms, Psychedelic Mushrooms, And The Full Effects
- Colin Wilson: The Occult
- Cornel West: Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism
- Costas Lapavitsas: Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone
- Craig I. Zirbel: Texas Connection: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
- Craig Unger: House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties
- Damien Cahill: Neoliberalism: Beyond the Free Market
- Dan Carpenter: A Psychonaut's Guide to the Invisible Landscape: The Topography of the Psychedelic Experience
- Dan Gardner: The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't—and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
- Daniel A. Crane (Ed.): The Making of Competition Policy: Legal and Economic Sources
- Daniel Alpert: The Age of Oversupply: Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy
- Daniel C. Dennett: From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
- Daniel Estulin: The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
- Daniel Friedman: Morals and Markets: An Evolutionary Account of the Modern World
- Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Daniel Kahneman (Ed.): Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
- Daniel Kahneman (Ed.): Choices, Values, and Frames
- Daniel Kahneman (Ed.): Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
- Daniel H. Pink: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- Daniel H. Pink: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
- Daniel J. Levitin: A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
- Daniel J. Levitin: The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
- Daniel Pinchbeck: Exploring the Edge Realms of Consciousness: Liminal Zones, Psychic Science, and the Hidden Dimensions of the Mind
- Daniel Prokop: Leaving Neverland: Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations
- Daniel S. Fletcher: The Acid Diary
- Daniel Stedman Jones: Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
- Daniel Unedo: Dogs of Orninica
- Daniel Yergin: The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
- Daniel Zamora (Ed.): Foucault and Neoliberalism
- Daron Acemoglu: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- David A. Stockman: The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
- David A. T. Stafford: Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets
- David Aaronovitch: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
- David Biddle: Beyond the Will of God: A Jill Simpson Mystery
- David Bollier: Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
- David Brock: Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
- David Brooks: The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
- David Blacker: The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame
- David C. Korten: When Corporations Rule the World
- David C. Korten: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
- David Cay Johnston: Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense
- David Chandler: The Neoliberal Subject: Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability
- David Dusty Cupples: Stir It Up: The CIA Targets Jamaica, Bob Marley and the Progressive Manley Government
- David E. Hoffman: The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia
- David Graeber: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- David Hackett Fischer: The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythym of History
- David Harvey: A Brief History of Neoliberalism
- David Harvey: The Limits to Capital
- David Harvey: Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
- David Harvey: The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
- David Icke: Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster
- David Icke: The David Icke Guide to the Global Conspiracy: And How to End It
- David Icke: The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World
- David Icke: And the Truth Shall Set You Free
- David Icke: Children of the Matrix
- David Icke: Human Race Get Off Your Knees: The Lion Sleeps No More
- David Icke: Infinite Love is the Only Truth: Everything Else is Illusion
- David Icke: Tales from the Time Loop
- David Icke: I am me I am free: The Robots' Guide to Freedom
- David Icke: Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster
- David Icke: Robots Rebellion
- David Icke: Remember Who You Are: Remember Where You Are and Where You Come from
- David Icke: Truth Vibrations
- David Icke: Heal the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Human & Planetary Transformation
- David Icke: Lifting the Veil
- David K. Shipler: The Working Poor: Invisible in America
- David Livingstone: Terrorism and the Illuminati
Lihat lanjutannya: 1.000 Buku yang Perlu Dibaca untuk Memahami Rahasia-Rahasia Dunia (Bagian 2)
