226 books
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Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,304 ratings — published 2024
How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,879 ratings — published 2019
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,172 ratings — published 2020
I Must Betray You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.40 — 96,878 ratings — published 2022
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.28 — 98,567 ratings — published 2017
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.89 — 277,760 ratings — published 2007
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.25 — 11,115 ratings — published 2011
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,038 ratings — published 2004
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,740 ratings — published 2015
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,748 ratings — published 2017
Young Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.97 — 7,696 ratings — published 2007
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.46 — 98,775 ratings — published 2009
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.24 — 15,133 ratings — published 2018
Mein Kampf (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.17 — 43,522 ratings — published 1925
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.15 — 12,991 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.22 — 147,302 ratings — published 1960
I Lived on Butterfly Hill (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,357 ratings — published 2014
Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,827 ratings — published 1998
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.35 — 42,315 ratings — published 2000
Before We Were Free (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,442 ratings — published 2002
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.09 — 902 ratings — published 2024
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.46 — 110,916 ratings — published 2022
Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.85 — 260 ratings — published 1962
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,208 ratings — published 2022
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,739 ratings — published 2019
Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.87 — 222 ratings — published
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.28 — 61,887 ratings — published 2000
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,387,657 ratings — published 1949
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,696 ratings — published 2014
The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,713 ratings — published 2019
The Anatomy of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,263 ratings — published 2004
When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.25 — 699 ratings — published 1986
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,080 ratings — published 2002
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,691 ratings — published 2018
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,082 ratings — published 2010
It Can't Happen Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.80 — 24,020 ratings — published 1935
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,478 ratings — published 2020
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.12 — 33,549 ratings — published 1940
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.06 — 83,092 ratings — published 2004
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,588 ratings — published 2000
North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,649 ratings — published 2015
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,445 ratings — published 1973
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,040 ratings — published 2018
Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee - A Look Inside North Korea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,537 ratings — published 2014
Look Who's Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.43 — 40,678 ratings — published 2012
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.43 — 100,774 ratings — published 2014
Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littín (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,345 ratings — published 1986
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,268 ratings — published 2015
Conversations with Stalin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.87 — 796 ratings — published 1962
The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as dictators)
avg rating 3.80 — 343 ratings — published 1999
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