Ken Myers: Ten Books to Read on Understanding the Culture

Justin Taylor over at Between Two Worlds posted the following (via James Grant) which I am cribbing (I hope I won't get into trouble.  It's just that Justin Taylor formats posts so well, together with links, that it makes clicking through easy and a pleasure) :

Touchstone editor James Kushiner passes along a list of 10 books recommended by Mars Hill Audio's Ken Myers for understanding culture:

Five “Thinner” Books:

C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (1943)
Wendell Berry, Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)
Colin Gunton, Enlightenment and Alienation: An Essay Towards a Trinitarian Theology (1985)
George Parkin Grant, English-Speaking Justice (1985)
Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (1948)

Five “Thicker” Books:

John McWhorter, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care (2003)
Jacques Barzun, The Use and Abuse of Art (1974)
David Thomson, The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood (2004)
Julian Johnson, Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value (2002)
Langdon Winner, Autonomous Technology: Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought (1977)

Me:  From the list above, I have only Lewis' Abolition of Man and Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences. I am not sure what to make of the list.  One of those reading Justin Taylor's post suggested Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple.  I think I would have added Gene Veith's Modern Fascism among others.  (I have yet to get and read Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism).  Other suggestions?