Academic

1. The formal definition is that text should consist of arguments and debate, rather than simply present factual knowledge. Non-fiction studies, arguments, views.

2. Many books (mainly fiction) with a school setting have this tag.



See also:
* education
* high school
* school stories
...more

Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Mania (Kings of Grove Academy #1)
The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (Volume 4) (Teaching, Engaging, and Thriving in Higher Ed)
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Raving
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Love Triangle: How Trigonometry Shapes the World
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Orientalism
The Great Gatsby
The Communist Manifesto
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Romeo and Juliet
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Prince
Macbeth: Moment by Moment
Animal Farm
1984
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Republic
Don't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneTo the Survivors by Robert UttaroMad Love by Lynessa LayneHard Times by Charles Dickens
For college students
29 books — 22 voters
The Secret History by Donna TarttIf We Were Villains by M.L. RioBlack Chalk by Christopher J. YatesThe Maidens by Alex MichaelidesNinth House by Leigh Bardugo
University Mysteries
55 books — 35 voters

Crip Theory by Robert McRuerDon't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by John CallahanTwirling Naked in the Streets and No One Noticed by Jeannie Davide-RiveraFeminist, Queer, Crip by Alison KaferIllness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
disability studies
200 books — 48 voters
Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonThe Lady in the Tower by Alison WeirDr Daniel Siegel Collection 3 Books Set by Dr Daniel SiegelWicked Plants by Amy  StewartShadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2009
96 books — 18 voters



Kazuo Ishiguro
Why did you have to prove a thing like that, Miss Emily? Did someone think we didn’t have souls?” (Ch.22 p.201)
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Alok   Mishra
Philosophy eulogises death, perturbs lives.
Alok Mishra

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