Hey everyone! 
I’m an American dude who just joined after lurking for a few months here. I got burnt out from basically every other social media being filled with slop and overall terrible things and the vibes here seem much nicer. I’m a university student in my early 20s and I only recently got around to embracing leftism (a lot of things in the past few years have popped the lib bubble I used to be in) so if anyone has any recommendations for baby’s first political theory reading, I’d be happy to check it out! Looking to get a much more concrete understanding of the world and its politics.
I’m a pretty casual gamer, but I’m a huge Undertale/Deltarune fan (part of why I joined was because you all have so many UT/DR emojis
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(oh and I like Omori too 
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Now I’m just going to rattle off some other stuff about myself: I like physics and astronomy, I also like history (if anyone has any good history books please let me know), I love music, I’m a pro wrestling fan, I’ve dabbled in anime (I’ve really only watched Dungeon Meshi but I liked it a lot and I’m watching Cowboy Bebop now), I’m still figuring out how I feel about calling myself aro and/or ace, I suspect I might be on the autism spectrum (no diagnosis though).
Hoping to have a good time here with all of you people 
Welcome to hexbear!
A first wonderful book in my opinion is Michael Parenti’s “Blackshirts and Reds”. It dispels a ton of the anticommunist and fascist-whitewashing propaganda that we’ve all been exposed to in the west in a very engaging and accessible manner.
Maybe not a history book in the usual sense, but there’s an ongoing weekly reading club in Hexbear and we’re reading “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa” by Walter D. Rodney. Also maybe arguably not so historical but history-related, if you’re a nerd of metrics as I am (I’m a physicist so I get ya) Albert Szymanski’s “Human Rights in the Soviet Union” and “Is the Red Flag Flying” are absolute bangers if you wanna learn more about the material life in the Soviet Union.
Finally, if you like the video format, there’s a YouTube channel called Hakim that I can highly recommend, he’s an Iraqi marxist-leninist who has lots of videos explaining socialism, explaining liberalism and its shortcomings, and talking about the consequences of capitalism.