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The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 536 times as theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 203,413 ratings — published 1848
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 475 times as theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 33,555 ratings — published 1961
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 440 times as theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,623 ratings — published 1975
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 435 times as theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 26,139 ratings — published 1976
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 429 times as theory)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,018 ratings — published 1989
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 407 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,463 ratings — published 1978
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 42,008 ratings — published 2009
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 356 times as theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,916 ratings — published 1967
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 338 times as theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 19,409 ratings — published 1917
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 332 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 39,981 ratings — published 1968
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
by (shelved 318 times as theory)
avg rating 4.59 — 35,529 ratings — published 1981
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 11,183 ratings — published 1917
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,043 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,872 ratings — published 1952
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as theory)
avg rating 4.51 — 30,999 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,387 ratings — published 1957
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,868 ratings — published 1972
The Second Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 239 times as theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,231 ratings — published 1949
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 229 times as theory)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,602 ratings — published 1867
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,272 ratings — published 1880
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,755 ratings — published 1961
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as theory)
avg rating 4.56 — 14,635 ratings — published 2004
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,610 ratings — published 1955
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 443,828 ratings — published 1972
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,661 ratings — published 1983
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,563 ratings — published 1991
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 7,125 ratings — published 1980
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,897 ratings — published 1936
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 8,338 ratings — published 1947
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as theory)
avg rating 4.41 — 10,398 ratings — published 1997
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as theory)
avg rating 4.44 — 36,750 ratings — published 2015
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as theory)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,787 ratings — published 1984
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,686 ratings — published 1966
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as theory)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,239 ratings — published 1884
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,082 ratings — published 1988
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,851 ratings — published 1980
The Conquest of Bread (Working Classics)
by (shelved 144 times as theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,116 ratings — published 1892
Reform or Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as theory)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,114 ratings — published 1900
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,679 ratings — published 1902
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as theory)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,348 ratings — published 1950
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,418 ratings — published 1957
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,099 ratings — published 1980
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,799 ratings — published 1993
Literary Theory: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,722 ratings — published 1983
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,472 ratings — published 1969
The Principles of Communism (ebook)
by (shelved 130 times as theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,962 ratings — published 1847
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as theory)
avg rating 3.84 — 389,670 ratings — published 1532
The Sublime Object of Ideology (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as theory)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,278 ratings — published 1989
All About Love: New Visions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 144,086 ratings — published 1999
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,456 ratings — published 2003
“Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.”
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