The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAnimal Farm by George OrwellBloodlands by Timothy SnyderGulag by Anne ApplebaumDarkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Communist Genocide
16th out of 202 books — 58 voters
Wild Swans by Jung ChangBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai SijieLife and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo YanLife and Death in Shanghai by Nien ChengRed Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang
China's Cultural Revolution and its aftermath in fiction and memoir
11th out of 100 books — 53 voters

Wild Swans by Jung ChangThe Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckSnow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa SeeThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Best Books About China
138th out of 747 books — 587 voters
The House Divided by J.B. ManheimThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
Recommended Political Reads
38th out of 411 books — 137 voters

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. VogelThe Search For Modern China by Jonathan D. SpenceThe Early Chinese Empires by Mark Edward LewisChina Marches West by Peter C. PerdueImperial China, 900–1800 by Frederick W. Mote
Chinese history
8th out of 42 books — 11 voters
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Best History Books
1210th out of 3,759 books — 3,793 voters

Journey to the West by Biao WangInconvenient Memories by Anna Wang YuanWild Swans by Jung ChangThe Good Women of China by XinranAutumn in the Heavenly Kingdom by Stephen R. Platt
Nonfiction about China
13th out of 135 books — 45 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx1984 by George OrwellBottled Goods by Sophie van LlewynThe Black Book of Communism by Stéphane Courtois
Essential Books on Communism
18th out of 195 books — 34 voters

Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo LeviThe Maine Woods by Henry David ThoreauHungry Ghosts by Jasper BeckerThe Spanish Temper by V.S. PritchettThe Saddest Pleasure by Moritz Thomsen
Paul Theroux's Favourite Travel Books
3rd out of 28 books — 4 voters
Journey to the West by Biao WangThe Art of War by Sun TzuThe Color of Jadeite by Eric D. GoodmanThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangThe Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. Boroson
China for the non-Chinese
16th out of 139 books — 79 voters

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley1984 by George OrwellWe by Yevgeny ZamyatinIt Can't Happen Here by Sinclair LewisTen Days that Shook the World by John Reed
A Long Century of Disillusion
85th out of 107 books — 4 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovOutliers by Malcolm GladwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
3954th out of 4,124 books — 2,101 voters

Journey to the West by Biao WangCountry Driving by Peter HesslerChina's Great Wall of Debt by Dinny McMahonMade in China by Amelia PangMeltdown in Tibet by Michael Buckley
Non-Fiction Books About China
19th out of 58 books — 32 voters
Lord of the Flies by William GoldingMacbeth by William ShakespearePerfume by Patrick SüskindDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis StevensonLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Evil Inside
348th out of 469 books — 190 voters

Journey to the West by Biao WangThe Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1 by Cao XueqinThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangWild Swans by Jung ChangThe Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 2 by Cao Xueqin
Seeing China through Books
64th out of 107 books — 34 voters
Hungry Ghosts by Jasper BeckerKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildTribe by Sebastian JungerThey Thought They Were Free by Milton Sanford MayerDebt by David Graeber
Robert Evans Recommends
1st out of 35 books — 1 voter

The Madness of Crowds by Douglas MurrayThe Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtFactfulness by Hans RoslingThe Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan HaidtSapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
The Intellectual Dark Web
208th out of 256 books — 53 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellWitness by Whittaker ChambersThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. HayekThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Criticism of Socialism/Communism
69th out of 160 books — 13 voters

1984 by George OrwellCapitalism for Democrats by Martin LowyThe United States Constitution by Founding FathersAntisemitism by Deborah E. LipstadtCop Under Fire by David Clarke Jr.
Valuable Historical and Political Reads
74th out of 142 books — 13 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinThe Decline of the West, Vol 1 by Oswald SpenglerWar Is a Racket by Smedley D. ButlerManifesto of the Free People's Union by Jakub Lasak
New World Order, Decline of the West, World Democracy, Wall Street, Marxism, the Global Village, and Internationalism
162nd out of 322 books — 90 voters

The Young Hitler I Knew by August KubizekHitler by Ian KershawBlitzed by Norman OhlerA Brotherhood of Tyrants by D. Jablow HershmanStalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Behind the Bastards Sourcebooks part 1
57th out of 100 books — 1 voter
Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisOn Tyranny by Timothy SnyderN*gga Theory by Jody ArmourThis Is Not Propaganda by Peter PomerantsevImperialism by Vladimir Ilich Lenin
Books The Elite Doesn’t Want You To Read
122nd out of 145 books — 22 voters

Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisUnwifeable by Mandy StadtmillerPolitics and the English Language by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Best Non-fiction ever written
53rd out of 83 books — 34 voters
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerThe Dharma Bums by Jack KerouacPrey by Michael CrichtonThe Beasts of Success by Jasun EtherThe Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
Thought Provoking Books
483rd out of 532 books — 364 voters

Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormickFirst They Killed My Father by Loung UngNot Even My Name by Thea HaloWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchTears of the Desert by Halima Bashir
Books for Genocide Project
59th out of 221 books — 72 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellU.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding FathersAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek
Best Books For Freedom Lovers
580th out of 803 books — 490 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
3625th out of 4,101 books — 1,501 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
269th out of 618 books — 417 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
1483rd out of 3,241 books — 11,479 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque1984 by George OrwellThe Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
What Dystopian Readers Should Know
77th out of 128 books — 58 voters

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