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America vs. the Overclass by Stephen YoungThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Republic by PlatoHonor and Polygamy by Omar Farhad
Politics
518 books — 641 voters
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanV for Vendetta by Alan MooreChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
480 books — 382 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Ultimate Human Secrets by Ramzi NajjarThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe You Beyond You by Ramzi Najjar
Unique Nonfiction Books
314 books — 180 voters
New Space Capitalism by Rainer ZitelmannSurely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanSimply Effective by Ron AshkenasWhat Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures ... by Richard P. FeynmanThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul Ola
100 Books about Science and Engineering for Grown-Ups
128 books — 118 voters

The Western Canon by Harold BloomIlluminations by Walter BenjaminAspects of the Novel by E.M. ForsterPoetics by AristotleWhy Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
Works of Literary Criticism
469 books — 110 voters
Steppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō AbeThe Man Without Qualities by Robert MusilThe Human Condition by Hannah ArendtZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
The Thinker's Bookshelf
176 books — 69 voters

Mind Fields by Julia FultonThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSeven Beyond by Stella AtriumA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftThe Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Philosophy Written By Women
231 books — 58 voters
Syrian Brides by Anna HalabiThe Hidden Face of Eve by Nawal El SaadawiHeadscarves and Hymens by Mona EltahawyWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiThe Veil and the Male Elite by Fatema Mernissi
Arab feminism
46 books — 45 voters

When Mayor Doug Wilder Ruled Richmond by Linwood NormanThe Historian's Craft by Marc BlochPracticing History by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Histories by HerodotusThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Best Books on Historical Theory
66 books — 32 voters
Silence of Shame by Wendy J. MenaraI Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldCracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonAdministrations of Lunacy by Mab SegrestI Want You to Know We’re Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
Kirkus Reviews Starred Nonfiction 2020
54 books — 29 voters

This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinCapitalist Realism by Mark FisherOut of the Wreckage by George MonbiotFour Futures by Peter Frase
Problems of Late Capitalism
193 books — 28 voters
Architecture by Francis D. K. ChingBuilding Construction Illustrated by Francis D.K. ChingA Pattern Language by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Image of the City by Kevin LynchThe Timeless Way of Building by Christopher W. Alexander
An Introduction to Architecture (nonfiction)
38 books — 16 voters

The Cancer Journals by Audre LordeThe Rape of Nanking by Iris ChangAsk Me About My Uterus by Abby NormanThe Glass Eye by Jeannie VanascoSick by Porochista Khakpour
Women's Pain, Embodiment, and Disability Theory and Memoirs
92 books — 13 voters
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun by Raicho HiratsukaThe Birth of Chinese Feminism by He ZhenAzaleas by Kim SowolThe Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama by Xiaomei ChenLost Souls by Hwang Sun-won
Weatherhead Books on Asia
41 books — 12 voters

Jane Austen by Laura DabundoAfrican American Literary Theory by Winston NapierThe Signifying Monkey by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance by Houston A. Baker Jr.What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. Warren
Literary Criticism on African-American Work
32 books — 10 voters
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfInvisible Women by Caroline Criado PérezThe Female Eunuch by Germaine GreerBrave by Rose McGowanAsking for It by Kate Harding
Feminist Writings
137 books — 10 voters

Relativity by Albert EinsteinFeminist Theory by bell hooksCowboy Conspiracy Theory by Em PetrovaBang Theory by Lili ValenteA Theory of Justice by John Rawls
Empty Banana "Theory"
120 books — 7 voters
Imperialism by Vladimir LeninBeyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-MenonGuerrilla Warfare by Ernesto Che GuevaraThe Drum Major Instinct by Justin RoseA Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes
"yeah, i read theory."
162 books — 7 voters

Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonCAPS LOCK by Ruben PaterMy ABC "Chair" Book (Revised) by Barbara H. HartsfieldPsychological Richness As Breakthrough by Hubert J.M. HermansNo Logo by Naomi Klein
Design Under Neoliberalism
30 books — 6 voters
WTF, Evolution?! by Mara GrunbaumPinball wizardry by Robert PolinThe Drum Major Instinct by Justin RoseSungod the most probable theory of our time. by Reg GriffinWhy Cats Paint by Heather Busch
"Theory"
197 books — 5 voters

Dr Daniel Siegel Collection 3 Books Set by Dr Daniel SiegelScenes of Subjection by Saidiya HartmanThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorSick Woman Theory by Johanna HedvaMeeting the Universe Halfway by Karen Barad
Whitney's Heaven: On Gender, Queerness, and Mothers
38 books — 4 voters
Descent from Heaven by Deborah BoedekerThe Metamorphosis of Nick Adams by Gentry ThomasonJuan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics by Scott WeintraubMeaning of Folklore by Alan DundesThe Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry by John Corbett
•-The Rope & The Cuckold-
179 books — 3 voters

Speaking of Monsters by Caroline Joan S. PicartAnimal Farm by George OrwellHuman Robots and Holy Mechanics by David T. KyleThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldDear Debbie by Freida McFadden
Speaking of Monsters: A Teratological Anthology
14 books — 3 voters
Neuromancer by William GibsonThe Castle by Franz KafkaThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Comet by W.E.B. Du BoisAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Paradoxes, Improbabilities and Impossibilities in Fiction Part II
100 books — 2 voters

Valis by Philip K. DickThe Book of Strange New Things by Michel FaberNightfall and Other Stories by Isaac AsimovFlatterland by Ian StewartThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Paradoxes, Improbabilities and Impossibilities in Fiction Part IV
83 books — 2 voters
La matrice de la race. Généalogie sexuelle et coloniale de la... by Elsa DorlinCapitalisme et esclavage by Eric WilliamsThe Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages by Geraldine HengRace et esclavage dans la France de l'Ancien Régime by Pierre H. BoulleL'Idéologie raciste by Colette Guillaumin
Essais critiques sur la race et le racisme
95 books — 1 voter

Criticism, Art and Theory in 1970s Britain by JJ CharlesworthLandscapes by John BergerNaked Emperors by Brian SewellWilliam Morris and John Ruskin by John BlewittWilliam Morris, His Art, His Writings, And His Public Life by Aymer Vallance
Art in Britain
15 books — 1 voter
Before The Big Bang by Laura Mersini-HoughtonWhat Came Before the Big Bang? by Simon HollandJames Webb Space Telescope Mysteries by Martin K. EttingtonBefore the Big Bang by Brian CleggThe Prehistory Hypothesis Of The Universe by Shakenal Dimension
In Ex Nihilo: What Happened Before the Big Bang (non-fiction)
46 books — 1 voter

The Paradox Hotel by Rob HartThe Twin Paradox by Charles WachterThe Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model by Charlie Jane AndersAll You Zombies by Robert A. HeinleinThe Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
Paradoxes, Improbabilities and Impossibilities in Fiction
100 books — 1 voter
Magic for Beginners by Kelly LinkTeatro Grottesco by Thomas LigottiSandkings by George R.R. MartinThe Third Policeman by Flann O'BrienThe Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
Paradoxes, Improbabilities and Impossibilities in Fiction Part III
100 books — 1 voter

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