206 books
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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,612 ratings — published 2017
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.27 — 11,013 ratings — published 1917
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.18 — 814 ratings — published 2024
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,371 ratings — published 2024
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,361 ratings — published 2020
The Naked Communist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,789 ratings — published 1960
Why Socialism Works (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.22 — 680 ratings — published
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,011 ratings — published 2003
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,493 ratings — published 1956
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,611 ratings — published 1902
The Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,439 ratings — published 1849
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.55 — 84,102 ratings — published 1516
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,916 ratings — published 1988
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,754 ratings — published 1848
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,985,559 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,870,123 ratings — published 1813
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,883,521 ratings — published 1953
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,286 ratings — published 1973
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,018 ratings — published 2024
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,958,042 ratings — published 1960
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,966 ratings — published 1976
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,870,100 ratings — published 1937
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,075 ratings — published 1995
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,350,990 ratings — published 1847
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,179 ratings — published 1978
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.03 — 30,225 ratings — published 1962
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,556,455 ratings — published 1948
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.04 — 462,096 ratings — published 1997
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,446 ratings — published 2010
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,929,738 ratings — published 1818
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,629,881 ratings — published 1945
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.44 — 926,843 ratings — published 1850
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,663 ratings — published 1966
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.22 — 267,065 ratings — published 1929
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.50 — 177,973 ratings — published 2013
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,704 ratings — published 1000
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.07 — 478,424 ratings — published 2012
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,281,967 ratings — published 2011
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,460 ratings — published 1949
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.30 — 15,126 ratings — published 1951
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,843,715 ratings — published 1590
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,233,657 ratings — published 1954
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,436,813 ratings — published 1942
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,316 ratings — published 2012
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,208,869 ratings — published -800
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,784 ratings — published 1993
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,836,839 ratings — published 1993
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,207 ratings — published 1955
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,149 ratings — published 1979
We Have Never Been Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,673 ratings — published 1991
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