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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
by (shelved 66 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,905 ratings — published 2017
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,459 ratings — published 1917
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.16 — 606 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 — 1,141 ratings — published 2024
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,745 ratings — published 2020
The Naked Communist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,600 ratings — published 1960
Why Socialism Works (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.25 — 475 ratings — published
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,580 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 4.20 — 1,273 ratings — published 1956
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,201 ratings — published 1902
The Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.34 — 14,124 ratings — published 1849
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.55 — 82,838 ratings — published 1516
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,351 ratings — published 1988
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.68 — 197,277 ratings — published 1848
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,896,122 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,784,186 ratings — published 1813
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,824,413 ratings — published 1953
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.35 — 13,844 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 4.46 — 1,708 ratings — published 2024
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,863,662 ratings — published 1960
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,587 ratings — published 1976
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,826,666 ratings — published 1937
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,877,589 ratings — published 1818
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.29 — 80,216 ratings — published 1995
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,316,888 ratings — published 1847
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.13 — 29,582 ratings — published 1978
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.03 — 29,874 ratings — published 1962
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,436,246 ratings — published 1949
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.04 — 456,397 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 — 117,085 ratings — published 2010
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,530,404 ratings — published 1945
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.44 — 917,813 ratings — published 1850
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,593 ratings — published 1966
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.22 — 259,239 ratings — published 1929
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.51 — 171,679 ratings — published 2013
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.50 — 345,795 ratings — published 1000
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.56 — 13,733 ratings — published 2004
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.08 — 474,353 ratings — published 2012
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,255,401 ratings — published 2011
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.13 — 44,952 ratings — published 1949
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,707 ratings — published 1951
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,816,861 ratings — published 1590
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,392,427 ratings — published 1942
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,657 ratings — published 2012
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,188,729 ratings — published -700
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,753 ratings — published 1993
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,799,783 ratings — published 1993
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,869,015 ratings — published 1890
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,121 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 — 4,123 ratings — published 1979
“The language of starlings reminded her of nothing so much as the language of scholarly papers, the smooth and chilly syntax devoid of contour, the maddening reliance on 'the royal we' as the subject. Yet this was not the royal we, not in the sense that a pompous colleague or one of her lazy graduate students might use it: at least twenty birds had together formed the multilayered sound that came to her as English words.”
― Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012
― Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Volume 132, Issue 6, June 2012
“Instead of being regarded as intelligent or knowledgeable, many a woman would rather be regarded as beautiful or good in the kitchen; many a man, as handsome or good in bed.”
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