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Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,017,924 ratings — published 2006
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despotism)
avg rating 4.29 — 112,986 ratings — published 2017
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 9,591 ratings — published 2010
Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 48 ratings — published 2009
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,584,270 ratings — published 1948
Grace (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.36 — 1,167 ratings — published 2010
Leviathan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 53,808 ratings — published 1651
Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 70 ratings — published 1957
To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 86 ratings — published
The New Despotism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 38 ratings — published
The Man Versus the State: With Six Essays on Government, Society, and Freedom (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 378 ratings — published 1884
Freedom and its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 430 ratings — published 1969
The Spirit of the Laws (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 5,424 ratings — published 1748
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,408 ratings — published 1962
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 15,216 ratings — published 1951
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 12,157 ratings — published 1951
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,058,425 ratings — published 2008
In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,042 ratings — published 2021
Тигролови (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.63 — 7,049 ratings — published 1944
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 5,645 ratings — published 1991
Kololo Hill (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,508 ratings — published
The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 16 ratings — published 2006
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 902,215 ratings — published 1946
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 83,898 ratings — published 2015
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 33,606 ratings — published 2018
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 2,054 ratings — published 2018
Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 854 ratings — published 2017
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,380,774 ratings — published 1956
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 7,372 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 101,723 ratings — published 2009
The Romanovs, 1613-1918 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 16,613 ratings — published 2016
The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 1,582 ratings — published 2013
Zuleiha deschide ochii (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 18,680 ratings — published 2015
How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,043 ratings — published 2019
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 362 ratings — published 1994
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 166,594 ratings — published 1982
Death in Snake Creek (Blood Bond, #8)
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avg rating 4.45 — 278 ratings — published 1994
The Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 77,386 ratings — published 1926
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,474,144 ratings — published 1915
Doctor Criminale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 226 ratings — published
Icon (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 11,998 ratings — published 1996
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,107,669 ratings — published 1932
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,653,413 ratings — published 1945
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,898,599 ratings — published 1953
Peter the Great (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 315 ratings — published 1979
Emerald Sea (The Council Wars, #2)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,344 ratings — published 2004
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 388,899 ratings — published 1532
“They represent, as it were, the drunkenness of responsibility. It is when men begin to grow desperate in their love for the people, when they are overwhelmed with the difficulties and blunders of humanity, that they fall back upon a wild desire to manage everything themselves. Their faith in themselves is only a disillusionment with mankind.”
― Robert Browning
― Robert Browning
“The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism; there is no better way to stifle that criticism than to attack any isolated voice, any raiser of new doubts, as a profane violator of the wisdom of his ancestors.”
― Anatomy of the State
― Anatomy of the State
