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War and Peace
by
Leo Tolstoy
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 79,110 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 78,686 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by
Erich Maria Remarque
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 111,377 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
by
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 36,738 ratings
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Quiet Flows the Don
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Mikhail Sholokhov
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 3,391 ratings
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The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone
by
Sophocles
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 25,461 ratings
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Politics
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Aristotle
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 9,852 ratings
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
by
Aeschylus
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 5,636 ratings
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Njal's Saga
by
Anonymous
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,408 ratings
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The Wretched of the Earth
by
Frantz Fanon
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 5,492 ratings
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Hesiod: The Works and Days, Theogony, and The Shield of Herakles
by
Hesiod
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 488 ratings
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Summa Theologica (5 Vols.)
by
St. Thomas Aquinas
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. 1-3: Volumes 1, 2, 3
by
Edward Gibbon
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 265 ratings
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Democracy in America
by
Alexis de Tocqueville
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 8,394 ratings
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The Man Without Qualities
by
Robert Musil
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 1,531 ratings
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On Revolution
by
Hannah Arendt
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 599 ratings
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Egil's Saga
by
Anonymous
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 700 ratings
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
by
William H. Prescott
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Guerrilla Warfare
by
Ernesto Guevara
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 1,103 ratings
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Jean's Way
by
Derek Humphry
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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American Boys Handy Book
by
Daniel Carter Beard
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 251 ratings
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The Tale of the Heike
by
Heike
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 244 ratings
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Sophocles II: Ajax/Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes (Complete Greek Tragedies 4)
by
Sophocles
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 2,012 ratings
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Kolyma Tales
by
Varlam Shalamov
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 952 ratings
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Medea and Other Plays
by
Euripides
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 4,824 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
by
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 6,250 ratings
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History of the United States: Jefferson Administrations (Library of America #31)
by
Henry Adams
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 65 ratings
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History of the Russian Revolution
by
Leon Trotsky
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 380 ratings
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| 27 |
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Euripides I: Alcestis / The Medea / The Heracleidae / Hippolytus
by
Euripides
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 2,079 ratings
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Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs
by
William Morris
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Earth Abides
by
George R. Stewart
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 8,549 ratings
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Four Plays: The Clouds / The Birds / Lysistrata / The Frogs
by
Aristophanes
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 3,163 ratings
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
by
Martin Luther King Jr.
4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 674 ratings
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The Politics Of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism
by
James Alfred Aho
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea
by
JaHyun Kim Haboush
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Twenty Letters to a Friend
by
Svetlana Alliluyeva
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 80 ratings
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| 36 |
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The Conquest of Gaul
by
Julius Caesar
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 2,602 ratings
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The Outline of History, 2 Vols
by
H.G. Wells
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 467 ratings
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The Civil War
by
Julius Caesar
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,799 ratings
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Walden
by
Henry David Thoreau
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 55,185 ratings
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| 41 |
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Selected Political Speeches
by
Marcus Tullius Cicero
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel; New, Complete, Uncensored Version
by
Анатолий Кузнецов
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 214 ratings
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The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
by
Isaac Babel
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 1,013 ratings
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Murder Trials
by
Marcus Tullius Cicero
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 98 ratings
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God and the State
by
Mikhail Bakunin
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 852 ratings
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| 46 |
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Patterns of Culture
by
Ruth Benedict
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 481 ratings
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The Enneads
by
Plotinus
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 513 ratings
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Writings on Civil Disobedience and Non Violence
by
Leo Tolstoy
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives
by
Alan Bullock
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Lives, Vol 1
by
Plutarch
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
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Gandhi and Civil Disobedience: The Mahatma in Indian Politics 1928-1934
by
Judith M. Brown
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Lives, Vol 2
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Plutarch
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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The Life of Maximilien Robespierre: With Extracts from His Unpublished Correspondence
by
George Henry Lewes
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Life and Death in Shanghai
by
Nien Cheng
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 4,315 ratings
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Essays
by
Plutarch
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
by
Anonymous
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 29,836 ratings
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The Digest of Roman Law: Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult
by
Justinian
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Indians: Portrait Of A People
by
Sudhir Kakar
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The Theory and Practice of Hell: The German Concentration Camps and the System Behind Them
by
Eugen Kogon
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 180 ratings
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The Secret History
by
Procopius
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 637 ratings
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My Life
by
Leon Trotsky
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Letters to Atticus
by
Marcus Tullius Cicero
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Social History of the Machine Gun
by
John Ellis
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 42 ratings
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On Guerrilla Warfare
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Mao Tse-tung
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 359 ratings
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The Twelve Caesars
by
Suetonius
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 5,682 ratings
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| 66 |
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The Talmud: A Selection
by
Norman Solomon
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Provinces of the Roman Empire
by
Theodor Mommsen
3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Spitz and Fisher's Medicolegal Investigation of Death: Guidelines for the Application of Pathology to Crime Investigation
by
Werner U. Spitz (Editor)
4.7 of 5 stars 4.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Brother Number One: A Political Biography Of Pol Pot
by
David P. Chandler
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Industrial Society and Its Future
by
Theodore Kaczynski
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Runaway Horses
by
Yukio Mishima
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,418 ratings
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Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command
by
Douglas Southall Freeman
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Japan at War: An Oral History
by
Haruko Taya Cook
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 206 ratings
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The Dark Side Of Man
by
Michael P. Ghiglieri (Goodreads Author)
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Life and Labor in Ancient Mexico: The Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain
by
Alonso de Zorita
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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King Harald's Saga
by
Snorri Sturluson
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 333 ratings
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Tania, la guerrillera
by
Marta Rojas
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Eyrbyggja Saga
by
Anonymous
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Private Life of Chairman Mao
by
Li Zhisui
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Panzer Leader
by
Heinz Guderian
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 855 ratings
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Two Lives of Charlemagne
by
Einhard
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 606 ratings
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The Civil War: With the Anonymous Alexandrian, African and Spanish Wars
by
Julius Caesar
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Exeter Book Riddles
by
Anonymous
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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I Cried, You Didn't Listen: A Survivor's Expose of the California Youth Authority
by
Dwight E. Abbott
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Song of Roland
by
Anonymous
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 5,381 ratings
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Revolution for the Hell of It
by
Abbie Hoffman
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Writings (Fyfield Books)
by
Gerald Hammond
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Perennial Philosophy
by
Aldous Huxley
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 1,350 ratings
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Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses
by
Régine Pernoud
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Cortes: The Life of the Conqueror of Mexico by His Secretary, Francisco Lopez de Gomara
by
Lopez de Gomara Francisco
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Baron Von Steuben's Revolutionary War Drill Manual: A Facsimile Reprint of the 1794 Edition
by
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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On Thermonuclear War
by
Herman Kahn
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Poems Of Sir Walter Raleigh: Collected And Authenticated With Those Of Sir Henry Wotton And Other Courtly Poets From 1540 To 1650
by
Walter Raleigh
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Tarawa: The Story Of A Battle
by
Robert Lee Sherrod
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Conquest of New Spain
by
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 777 ratings
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The Real Bluebeard
by
Jean Benedetti
3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Conquest of New Spain: 1585 Revision
by
Fray Bernardino de Sahagun
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Mask of Command: Alexander the Great, Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant, Hitler, and the Nature of Leadership
by
John Keegan
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 933 ratings
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A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
by
Danilo Kiš
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 706 ratings
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The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
by
Ruoxi Chen
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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