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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,715,646 ratings — published 1945
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 30,841 ratings — published 1978
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,654,575 ratings — published 1948
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 34,109 ratings — published 1961
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,748 ratings — published 1966
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 58,560 ratings — published 1973
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as critique)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,840 ratings — published 2025
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 7,754 ratings — published 2014
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 55,488 ratings — published 2007
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 205,612 ratings — published 1848
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,913 ratings — published 1993
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 448,062 ratings — published 1972
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 35,966 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 20,145 ratings — published 1952
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 23,840 ratings — published 2023
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,221 ratings — published 1989
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 7,228 ratings — published 1998
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 15,516 ratings — published 1951
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,715 ratings — published 1990
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 103,256 ratings — published 1942
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 24,128 ratings — published 1967
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,061,577 ratings — published 1925
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3 times as critique)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,730 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 32,019 ratings — published 1933
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 42,831 ratings — published 2009
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,472 ratings — published 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 685,635 ratings — published 1886
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,286 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,512,477 ratings — published 1985
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,513 ratings — published 1992
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 76,122 ratings — published 1995
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 40,574 ratings — published 1985
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,295 ratings — published 1988
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,579 ratings — published 1781
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,072 ratings — published 1994
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 23,882 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,497 ratings — published 1957
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,951 ratings — published 1953
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 79,394 ratings — published 1980
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,137 ratings — published 2025
Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,081 ratings — published 2011
Authority: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 890 ratings — published 2025
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.77 — 5,545 ratings — published 2025
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 22,032 ratings — published 1871
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 519,401 ratings — published 2022
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,719 ratings — published 1966
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,058 ratings — published 1981
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 308 ratings — published
The Logic of Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 24 ratings — published 1957
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 1,449 ratings — published 2018
“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”
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“We may well have numerous failed states in the Muslim world, I’ll give you that. But what we don’t have are failed societies. That’s a phenomenon that we only see in the West. Our societies are functioning, even if our governments are not, even if we don’t have state-imposed order. We still have functioning societies, we still have moral societies. Our people are still following a moral code. Can’t say the same about the West. And it’s interesting to me that the West uses this as an insult to the Muslim world, ‘‘Oh, look you have failed states’’. First of all, in most instances, you collapsed our states. And second of all, we can still function without them. Can you?”
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