Politics

Politics (from Greek πολιτικός, "of, for, or relating to citizens"), is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs. It also refers to behavior within civil governments. However, politics can be observed in other group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and refers to the regulation of public affairs within a political unit, and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply po ...more

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Live Laugh Love: The Secret History of White Christian Women and the World They Made
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time
The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World
The Dissidents: Autocrats! Vigilantes! Communists! And Cartoonists!
In the Realm of the Last Man
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State
The Breakup
What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity
The Last Emperor of China: Twilight of the Forbidden City
He Has the People: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860
China und Russland: Kurze Geschichte einer langen Beziehung
Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men
Agrippa: A Novel of Ancient Rome's Descent into Dictatorship
Biological War: A Scenario
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
The Last Mandarin
107 Days
Nuclear War: A Scenario
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Abundance
Prophet Song
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump
How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time
An Accidental Philanthropist by Winsome Dunn McIntoshSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill  BrysonNew Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannQuiet by Susan Cain
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,349 books — 2,140 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Progressive Reads
1,086 books — 754 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovQuantum Energetics and Spirituality Volume 1 by Kenneth Schmitt
Non-fiction - Something for Everyone
4,169 books — 1,590 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
3,025 books — 4,404 voters
Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau1984 by George OrwellStranger to the Beautiful by Don HynesEden 2 by Joseph A. AndersonA New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Thought Provoking
3,089 books — 1,965 voters

The Prince
The Communist Manifesto
Animal Farm
1984
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
A Promised Land
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
The Republic
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

Isaac Asimov
“ There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. ...more ”
― Isaac Asimov

Plato
“ The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. ”
― Plato, The Republic

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