Cynical Theories wasn't as interesting as I'd expected it to be - I don't rate Helen Pluckrose as much of a scholar. OTOH The Coddling of the American Mind was much better than I'd expected - I hadn't read it until recently because I thought the title was dumb; turns out the authors also thought the title was dumb.

I read Cynical Theories. It was okay. An easy read. Thank you for reminding me I should get The Coddling of the American Mind :)

I liked Cynical Theories, though it was quite dense and not the easiest to get through - then again I expected that, given the subject matter. I do think it should be required reading.

The New Discourses podcast is also a good companion series to some of the ideas in the book, and I think the podcast format makes the ideas easier to understand.

Impossible Conversations is awesome. I recommend it for everyone.

I think Gender-Critical Feminism is the strongest for making your case on the liberal side of the spectrum.

I read The Righteous Mind recently, and it was informative, but certainly not something I'd consider a fun read.

I highly recommend Trouble with Gender. Bryne is a solid and thoughtful thinker/philosopher (unlike Lindsay who I can't stand), he presents great context and arguments backed by evidence and scholarship.

I and a few other women here read Cynical Theories earlier this year and we discussed it in the comments of a post. If you search the book's title here you should find the post. I shared a lot of my notes on the book in the comments there, which ended up being a pretty thorough summary and almost an abridged version of the book lol

I found the book informative and it does a pretty good job of explaining the origins of how certain ideologies became so prominent and influential in American society over the last decade or so, although the real roots of this stuff go back much further - back then it was limited to the academic realm and had not leaked out into mainstream culture, and the book explains all that.

So overall I'd say it's worth a read if you think the subject matter is interesting, though it is relatively dense and there are aspects of it that are somewhat poorly executed. For example, I thought it needed better editing, and there's a chapter on feminism that's really... muddled and off-base, for lack of a better word.

I haven't read anything else on your list but I might want to read The Coddling of the American Mind if I ever get around to it. I'd potentially be open to faciliating a book club in this circle for that book, if there's enough interest from others - ideally I'd like at least two or three others to commit to reading and discussing it.