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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 476 times as theory)
avg rating 3.68 — 192,219 ratings — published 1848
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 440 times as theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 31,222 ratings — published 1961
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 426 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,203 ratings — published 1976
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 418 times as theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 19,057 ratings — published 1989
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 410 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 36,180 ratings — published 1975
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 375 times as theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 28,923 ratings — published 1978
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 367 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 38,180 ratings — published 2009
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 22,917 ratings — published 1967
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 317 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 17,885 ratings — published 1917
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 38,313 ratings — published 1968
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 301 times as theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 33,611 ratings — published 1981
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,212 ratings — published 1981
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as theory)
avg rating 4.52 — 29,275 ratings — published 2003
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 262 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,556 ratings — published 1952
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 258 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,806 ratings — published 1917
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,926 ratings — published 1957
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,427 ratings — published 1949
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,484 ratings — published 1972
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,764 ratings — published 1887
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,353 ratings — published 1955
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as theory)
avg rating 4.25 — 8,569 ratings — published 1880
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,329 ratings — published 1961
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 195 times as theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 13,073 ratings — published 2004
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 425,248 ratings — published 1972
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,057 ratings — published 1983
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,476 ratings — published 1991
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,945 ratings — published 1980
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,072 ratings — published 1947
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,092 ratings — published 1936
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 40,203 ratings — published 1984
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 34,600 ratings — published 2015
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,526 ratings — published 1966
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as theory)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,782 ratings — published 1997
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,778 ratings — published 1980
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 135 times as theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 9,580 ratings — published 1892
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 134 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,615 ratings — published 1983
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,719 ratings — published 1884
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,734 ratings — published 1900
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,000 ratings — published 1957
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,714 ratings — published 1993
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,356 ratings — published 1969
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 126 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 7,614 ratings — published 1950
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 23,580 ratings — published 1988
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,034 ratings — published 1989
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 375,772 ratings — published 1513
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,921 ratings — published 1980
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 128,140 ratings — published 1999
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 13,330 ratings — published 1987
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,484 ratings — published 2003
Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,673 ratings — published 1951
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