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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,824,850 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,782,697 ratings — published 1949
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 35,134 ratings — published 1961
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,155,229 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 — 24,208 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 — 210,542 ratings — published 1848
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 44,503 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 — 547,484 ratings — published 2022
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 36,913 ratings — published 1981
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 32,116 ratings — published 2003
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,605 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)
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avg rating 4.21 — 7,476 ratings — published 1998
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,497 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 — 109,881 ratings — published 1942
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 24,549 ratings — published 1967
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.16 — 174,578 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 33,587 ratings — published 1933
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 44,589 ratings — published 2009
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,829 ratings — published 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 700,518 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 — 2,569,130 ratings — published 1985
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,649 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 — 7,136,413 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 — 60,286 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 — 576,783 ratings — published 1899
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 458,494 ratings — published 1972
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 283,204 ratings — published 1929
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 80,475 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 4.23 — 2,623 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 — 6,557 ratings — published 2025
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 20,692 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 — 24,999 ratings — published 2023
“Spinoza or Nietzsche are philosophers whose critical and destructive powers are without equal, but this power always springs from affirmation, from joy, from a cult of affirmation and joy, from the exigency of life against those who would mutilate and mortify life. For me, that is philosophy itself.”
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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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