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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,825,043 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,782,905 ratings — published 1949
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 35,138 ratings — published 1961
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,155,368 ratings — published 1925
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,541 ratings — published 1978
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 24,219 ratings — published 2025
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 11,025 ratings — published 1966
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 8,176 ratings — published 2014
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 56,529 ratings — published 2007
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 210,559 ratings — published 1848
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 44,506 ratings — published 1781
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,975 ratings — published 1993
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 547,539 ratings — published 2022
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 36,914 ratings — published 1981
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 32,118 ratings — published 2003
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,606 ratings — published 1989
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 29,063 ratings — published 2021
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as critique)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,477 ratings — published 1998
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,498 ratings — published 2008
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,766 ratings — published 1990
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 109,892 ratings — published 1942
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 24,550 ratings — published 1967
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 — 174,579 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 33,597 ratings — published 1933
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 44,590 ratings — published 2009
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,830 ratings — published 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 700,565 ratings — published 1886
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,328 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,569,225 ratings — published 1985
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,650 ratings — published 1992
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 76,953 ratings — published 1995
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 41,785 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,136,550 ratings — published 1960
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,125 ratings — published 1994
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 60,292 ratings — published 1973
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,720 ratings — published 1957
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 576,796 ratings — published 1899
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 458,521 ratings — published 1972
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 283,218 ratings — published 1929
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 80,498 ratings — published 2025
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 4.24 — 2,625 ratings — published 2025
Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,143 ratings — published 2011
Authority: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 967 ratings — published 2025
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 779 ratings — published 1985
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.77 — 6,558 ratings — published 2025
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 20,694 ratings — published 1952
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,163 ratings — published 1981
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 318 ratings — published
The Logic of Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 24 ratings — published 1957
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 25,001 ratings — published 2023
“Language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique.”
― Structure, Sign, and Play
― Structure, Sign, and Play
“By redirecting the focus of our lives from families and communities to institutions and networks, we, in effect, anoint a machine our king.”
― Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
― Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
