Long Books
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Left-Texts
38th out of 667 books — 360 voters
The Dawn of Everything by David GraeberThe Divide by Jason HickelDebt by David GraeberThe Silk Roads by Peter FrankopanSuper Imperialism by Michael Hudson
World History Paradigm Bomb
2nd out of 27 books — 12 voters

Work Won't Love You Back by Sarah JaffeUnforgetting by Roberto LovatoIn Defense of Looting by Vicky OsterweilThe Divide by Jason HickelLess Is More by Jason Hickel
Citations Needed Reading List
4th out of 58 books — 7 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselInto Thin Air by Jon KrakauerInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Must Read Non-Fiction
1511th out of 5,345 books — 4,698 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
300th out of 1,068 books — 723 voters
How to Survive a Mediation by Fred E JandtThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinDeath, Taxes, and Turduckens by Jens Kurt HeyckeThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderUnderstanding Power by Noam Chomsky
Corruption, Plutocracy, Oligarchy, Kleptocracy, Corporatocracy — The Problem (nonfiction)
129th out of 734 books — 251 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Best Typography on a Book Cover
244th out of 638 books — 191 voters
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen FieldingBurning Bright by Tracy ChevalierRussian Winter by Daphne KalotayA Tree Grows in Brooklyn & Maggie-Now by Betty SmithMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Read
58th out of 70 books — 6 voters

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariUtopia for Realists by Rutger BregmanSapiens by Yuval Noah HarariDoughnut Economics by Kate RaworthHumankind by Rutger Bregman
Civilization Transition
18th out of 53 books — 26 voters
Animal Liberation by Peter SingerIn Defense of Animals by Peter SingerSentient by Jackie HigginsThe Thou of Nature by Donald A. CrosbyDoughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
Party for the Animals
26th out of 29 books — 1 voter

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy BlumeIt's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Justine Korman FontesIt's a Magical World by Bill WattersonIt's in His Kiss by Julia QuinnCivilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
Grammar: It's and Its
201st out of 209 books — 21 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFirst Time Dad by James MacdonaldThe Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor Bombov
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
2940th out of 4,387 books — 2,515 voters

The Invisible Hand? by Bas J.P. van BavelDevelopment as Freedom by Amartya SenDebt by David GraeberThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinThe Divide by Jason Hickel
Critical Interdisciplinary Economics
5th out of 11 books — 1 voter
Why Socialism? by Albert EinsteinCapitalist Realism by Mark FisherThe Divide by Jason HickelDebt by David GraeberWhat's Wrong with ANZAC? by Marilyn Lake
non-american leftist theory
3rd out of 15 books — 2 voters

The People Next Door by T.C.A. RaghavanEngels, Manchester, and the Working Class by Steven MarcusThe Crisis of Indian Planning by Paul StreenMurder in Mudukulathur by K.A. ManikumarChina Road by Rob Gifford
Politics and IR - 3
34th out of 100 books — 1 voter
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Second World War by Antony BeevorA History of the English-Speaking Peoples Vol. 1 by Winston S. ChurchillJesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du MezAmerican Idolatry by Andrew L. Whitehead
Politics/History
27th out of 39 books — 1 voter

Caliban and the Witch by Silvia FedericiThe Divide by Jason HickelCollapse by Vladislav M. ZubokHayek's Bastards by Quinn SlobodianThe Capital Order by Clara E. Mattei
2026 To-read list
2nd out of 19 books — 1 voter
Abundance by Peter H. DiamandisAntifragile by Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben HorowitzSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Singularity University
33rd out of 96 books — 16 voters

Why Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinCrony Capitalism in America by Hunter Lewis
Econs For Change
78th out of 173 books — 47 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Way of Kings by Brandon SandersonWords of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
Books With a Goodreads Average Rating of 4.5 and above and With At Least 100 Ratings
822nd out of 1,941 books — 2,738 voters

Development as Freedom by Amartya SenThe Bottom Billion by Paul CollierWhy Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
International Development Book Club
49th out of 120 books — 79 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Best Books of the 21st Century
6498th out of 9,839 books — 22,302 voters

The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothGone Girl by Gillian FlynnThe Martian by Andy Weir
Best Books of the Decade: 2010s
4266th out of 7,718 books — 14,317 voters
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Great Derangement by Amitav GhoshThe Divide by Jason HickelHybrid Cultures by Néstor García CancliniTraditions And Encounters by Jerry H. Bentley
PCP 18th Wave's Reading List
3rd out of 16 books — 2 voters

Mindf*ck by Christopher WylieHomo Deus by Yuval Noah HarariWhose Global Village? by Ramesh SrinivasanThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtA World Without Work by Daniel Susskind
politics: questioning our world
34th out of 56 books — 2 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFreakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
2243rd out of 6,264 books — 8,078 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
16528th out of 32,399 books — 123,417 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Essential Non-Fiction Reading Re: Human Rights
205th out of 621 books — 427 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoSiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Books that Changed the Way You View Life
5435th out of 10,582 books — 5,941 voters


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