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The Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Republic by PlatoSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovHonor and Polygamy by Omar Farhad
Politics
491 books — 460 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
470 books — 372 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterio... by Ramzi NajjarThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyThe Trigger by Tim ButcherThe You Beyond You by Ramzi Najjar
Unique Nonfiction Books
302 books — 162 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
463 books — 107 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
227 books — 64 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
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. FeynmanWhat Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures ... by Richard P. FeynmanThe Removable Root Cause of Cancers and other Chronic Diseases by Paul OlaEinstein by Walter IsaacsonThe Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard P. Feynman
100 Books about Science and Engineering for Grown-Ups
121 books — 34 voters

This Changes Everything by Naomi KleinThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinOut of the Wreckage by George MonbiotCapitalist Realism by Mark FisherFour Futures by Peter Frase
Problems of Late Capitalism
176 books — 28 voters
The Historian's Craft by Marc BlochPracticing History by Barbara W. TuchmanThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max WeberLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenThe Histories by Herodotus
Best Books on Historical Theory
64 books — 23 voters

Silence of Shame by Wendy J. MenaraI Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldAdministrations of Lunacy by Mab SegrestI Want You to Know We’re Still Here by Esther Safran FoerRecollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit
Kirkus Reviews Starred Nonfiction 2020
47 books — 20 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

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
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
136 books — 9 voters

Sex Equality by Catharine A. MacKinnonToward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. MacKinnonDefending Battered Women on Trial by Elizabeth A. SheehyFeminism Unmodified by Catharine A. MacKinnonWomen's Lives, Men's Laws by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Feminism and the law
52 books — 7 voters
The Cancer Journals by Audre LordeAsk Me About My Uterus by Abby NormanThe Glass Eye by Jeannie VanascoSick by Porochista KhakpourA Body, Undone by Christina Crosby
Women's Pain, Embodiment, and Disability Theory and Memoirs
87 books — 7 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"
119 books — 6 voters
The Straight Mind by Monique WittigThis Sex Which is Not One by Luce IrigarayClose to Home by Christine DelphyUn féminisme décolonial by Françoise VergèsL'écrivaine morte by Núria Añó
French feminism
32 books — 5 voters

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-MenonImperialism by Vladimir LeninThe Drum Major Instinct by Justin RoseA Lover's Discourse by Roland BarthesHow Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
"yeah, i read theory."
160 books — 5 voters
Pinball wizardry by Robert PolinWTF, Evolution?! by Mara GrunbaumThe Drum Major Instinct by Justin RoseSungod the most probable theory of our time. by Reg GriffinBullshit Jobs by David Graeber
"Theory"
181 books — 5 voters

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence by Adrienne RichThe Straight Mind by Monique WittigOut of the Class Closet by Julia PenelopeDyke Ideas by Joyce TrebilcotLesbian Ethics by Sarah Lucia Hoagland
Lesbian theory: essays
15 books — 4 voters
African 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. WarrenThe Black Aesthetic Unbound by April C.E. Langley
Literary Criticism on African-American Work
30 books — 4 voters

Leftover Women by Leta Hong FincherThe Birth of Chinese Feminism by He ZhenPirate Queens by Leigh LewisMistletoe by Richard K. AlisonBetraying Big Brother by Leta Hong Fincher
Feminism in China
15 books — 4 voters
Descent from Heaven by Deborah BoedekerJuan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics by Scott WeintraubMeaning of Folklore by Alan DundesThe Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry by John CorbettFolk-Lore of Shakespeare by T.F. Thiselton-Dyer
•-The Rope & The Cuckold-
178 books — 2 voters

A New Theory of Urban Design by Christopher W. AlexanderThe Phenomenon of Life by Christopher W. AlexanderA Vision of a Living World by Christopher W. AlexanderHassan Fathy by Salma Samar DamlujiArchitect's Handbook of Construction Detailing by David Kent Ballast
architect reads - part 2
100 books — 2 voters
The Crime Without a Name by Barrett Holmes PitnerRealising The All (God?) Journeying into Feelings and Beyond by Winfried SedhoffBeing Property Once Myself by Joshua BennettBlack Minded by Michael SawyerFear of Black Consciousness by Lewis R. Gordon
Philosophy by African-Americans Published in Decade: 2020s
6 books — 2 voters

CAPS LOCK by Ruben PaterMy ABC "Chair" Book (Revised) by Barbara H. HartsfieldNo Logo by Naomi KleinDesign Justice by Sasha Costanza-ChockRuined by Design by Mike Monteiro
Design Under Neoliberalism
28 books — 2 voters
Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya HartmanSick Woman Theory by Johanna HedvaMeeting the Universe Halfway by Karen BaradQueer by Meg-John BarkerExile and Pride by Eli Clare
Whitney's Heaven: On Gender, Queerness, and Mothers
36 books — 1 voter

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
Darkening Blackness by Norman AjariCreation and Anarchy by Giorgio AgambenSaint Paul by Alain BadiouLogics of Worlds by Alain BadiouThe Immanence of Truths by Alain Badiou
Contemporary Philosophy Reading List
73 books — 1 voter

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