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John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
2,194 books — 2,567 voters
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,191 books — 2,470 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,789 books — 1,670 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
473 books — 375 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
685 books — 241 voters
How to Survive a Mediation by Fred E JandtThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderDeath, Taxes, and Turduckens by Jens Kurt HeyckeDark Money by Jane Mayer
Corruption, Plutocracy, Oligarchy, Kleptocracy, Corporatocracy — The Problem (nonfiction)
729 books — 241 voters

Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
224 books — 215 voters
A Passage to India by E.M. ForsterKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Far Pavilions by M.M. KayeThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire (fiction)
314 books — 200 voters

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter RodneyBlood River by Tim ButcherKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildThey Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van SertimaThe Frontlines of Peace by Severine Autesserre
Africa - Nonfiction
402 books — 164 voters
Midnight’s Children by Salman RushdieTrain to Pakistan by Khushwant SinghCracking India by Bapsi Sidhwaतमस by Bhisham SahniWhat the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Books about the Indian Subcontinental Partition (fiction and nonfiction)
95 books — 104 voters

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaWhen a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter GodwinMukiwa by Peter GodwinThe Last Resort by Douglas Rogers
Books Set in Zimbabwe
130 books — 100 voters
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerWild Seed by Octavia E. ButlerHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieParable of the Talents by Octavia E. ButlerDawn by Octavia E. Butler
Books by Black Authors That Don't Feature Slavery, Colonialism, Racism, or Poverty
194 books — 82 voters

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithWhen a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
africa_book_club_meetup
176 books — 70 voters
Sister Outsider by Audre LordeIf You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanMy Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi NagataUnder the Udala Trees by Chinelo OkparantaZami by Audre Lorde
Books by Lesbians of Colour
302 books — 65 voters

Walden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauLord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Gone Native
88 books — 53 voters
Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisBuses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Wounded World by Chad L. WilliamsBlack Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl Wiggins
Race Rebels, Black Power, & Community Organizing (nonfiction)
69 books — 42 voters

A Passage to India by E.M. ForsterThe Far Pavilions by M.M. KayeKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. FarrellThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Books about the British Raj: Fiction and Nonfiction
121 books — 33 voters
Big Freedia by Big FreediaI Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldSexuality and Its Impact on History by Hunter S. JonesCreole by Sybil KeinBlack Life in Old New Orleans by Victor Block
New Orleans (nonfiction)
95 books — 33 voters

TWAS The Year 2020 by Karl WigginsAccounting for Slavery by Caitlin RosenthalSlavery by Another Name by Douglas A. BlackmonRacial Innocence by Robin BernsteinPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MD
Slavery in the US: Systems and Ideology (nonfiction)
160 books — 21 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneKillers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Heart of Everything That Is by Bob DruryThe Earth Is Weeping by Peter Cozzens
"The American Indian Wars" (nonfiction)
171 books — 17 voters

Pachinko by Min Jin LeeGrass by Keum Suk Gendry-KimOne Left by Kim SoomHow We Disappeared by Jing-Jing LeeDaughters of the Dragon by William Andrews
Comfort Women Literature
45 books — 17 voters
I Rode with Morgan by Jonathan JacksonEver the Wayward Sky by Oliver PhippsDivided Waters by Ivan MusicantNaval Shipbuilders of the World by Robert Winklareth"Old Hoodoo" The Battleship Texas by Mark D. Cowan
A 19th Century Nautical Miscellenia
45 books — 12 voters

Prejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDThe Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King Jr.Assata by Assata ShakurBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Black Archives: All Power To the People! Reading List
82 books — 12 voters
Made in India by Meera SodhaLord Krishna's Cuisine by Yamuna Devi660 Curries by Raghavan IyerMadhur Jaffrey's Quick And Easy Indian Cooking by Madhur JaffreyClassic Indian Cooking by Julie Sahni
Best Indian Cookbooks
85 books — 11 voters

On Imperialist Globalization by Fidel CastroLights Out by Dania Rosa NascaThe Fight for Freedom by Marcus FerrarLeave Me My Spirit by Lawrence K. LuntReminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto Che Guevara
The Essential Fidel Castro (nonfiction)
16 books — 6 voters
Ambedkar by Salim YusufjiAmbedkar by Gail OmvedtIconoclast by Anand TeltumbdeAmbedkar's Preamble by Aakash Singh RathoreThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Ambedkar — Books About Babasaheb
28 books — 5 voters

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaFrom Another World by Ana Maria MachadoAya by Marguerite AbouetMy Bones and My Flute by Edgar MittelholzerQueer as Folk Tales by James Penha
Postcolonial Young Adult Literature
40 books — 4 voters
Being “Dutch” in the Indies by Ulbe BosmaThe Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949 by Jan A. KrancherAmerican Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia by Frances GoudaThe Jakarta Method by Vincent BevinsThe British Occupation of Indonesia, 1945-1946 by Richard D. McMillan
Indo, Indische, Dutch East Indies
102 books — 4 voters

Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian ProbstCaste Matters by Suraj YengdeThe Social Context of an Ideology by M S Gore
Ambedkarite
25 books — 3 voters
Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder by Vladimir LeninState and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
Marxism - Left-wing communism
2 books — 1 voter

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