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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Know-It-All
The Elements of Style
The Secret History
A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Animal Farm
The Limits of Critique
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Will in the World by Stephen GreenblattShakespeare by Bill BrysonA Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James ShapiroShakespeare by Harold BloomShakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber
Best Books About Shakespeare
280 books — 170 voters
#SayHerName by Kimberlé Williams CrenshawFracking by Kathryn   Hulick#SayHerName by Kimberlé Williams CrenshawUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Cynthia Kennedy HenzelOPENAI Oakland's Seat at the Table by Carol Mitchell
Special Reports series
48 books — 12 voters

Chime by Franny BillingsleyDeath and Resurrection by R.A. MacAvoyHide Me Among the Graves by Tim PowersThe Folk Keeper by Franny BillingsleyThe Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Mythcon 44 Reading List
34 books — 3 voters

Nelson Mandela
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Nelson Mandela

Brandon Sanderson
What is a woman's place in this modern world? Jasnah Kholin's words read. I rebel against this question, though so many of my peers ask it. The inherent bias in the inquiry seems invisible to so many of them. They consider themselves progressive because they are willing to challenge many of the assumptions of the past. They ignore the greater assumption--that a 'place' for women must be defined and set forth to begin with. Half of the population must somehow be reduced to the role arrived at by ...more
Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

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