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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
263 books — 58 voters
Black Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyFreeman's Challenge by Robin BernsteinNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichSlavery by Another Name by Douglas A. BlackmonMother Jones by Elliott J. Gorn
Proletariat: US Labor History (nonfiction)
247 books — 24 voters

Who Hears Here? by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.Mythologies by Roland BarthesThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich EngelsThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter BenjaminThe Left Hemisphere by Razmig Keucheyan
Critique of cultural studies from within.
113 books — 23 voters
Two Beat Newbie by Harry WhitewolfNew Beat Newbie by Harry WhitewolfThe Rebel's Sketchbook by Rupert DreyfusSpark by Rupert DreyfusPropaganda Monkeys - Twenty Poems From My Twenties by Harry Whitewolf
Ⓐ Protest Fiction & Poetry in the Digital Age Ⓐ
52 books — 17 voters

The Lost Promise by Ellen SchreckerIke and McCarthy by David A. NicholsHazel Scott by Karen ChiltonThe Integrity Gap by Stephen M. Fry Ph.D.The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by David Abraham
The Red Scares and McCarthyism (nonfiction)
174 books — 9 voters
Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas PikettyPalaces for the People by Eric KlinenbergOur Revolution by Bernie SandersThe Right-Wing Social-Democrats Today by Otto Wille KuusinenThe Hollow Colossus by Charles Andrews
Modern Socialism
32 books — 7 voters

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinUse of Weapons by Iain M. BanksThe Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn PeakeHis Dark Materials by Philip PullmanGulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
China Miéville's 50 SF/Fantasy novels every socialist should read
55 books — 5 voters
Bullshit Jobs by David GraeberDemanding the Impossible by Peter H. MarshallProperty is Theft! by Pierre-Joseph ProudhonThe Covid Consensus by Toby GreenRevolution and Other Writings by Gustav Landauer
Libertarian Left
58 books — 3 voters

A Realistic Path to Peace by Dee KnightEurope's Last Chance by Guy VerhofstadtWestlessness by Samir PuriFor Europe by Guy VerhofstadtVisions of European Unity by Philomena Murray
Pan-Europa
14 books — 3 voters
A Realistic Path to Peace by Dee KnightThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Naomi Klein’s Book Recommendations
5 books — 2 voters

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid KhalidiOn Palestine by Noam Chomsky
Bobby Gillespie’s Book Recommendations
2 books — 1 voter
Towards a Libertarian Socialism by G.D.H. ColeGuild Socialism Restated by G.D.H. ColeKeir Hardie & the 21st Century Socialist Revival by Pauline BryanHow I Became a Socialist by William MorrisThe State In Capitalist Society by Ralph Miliband
British Socialism
15 books — 1 voter

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