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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,769,011 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,563,086 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,813,382 ratings — published 1945
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.07 — 106,268 ratings — published 2012
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,155,352 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,993,403 ratings — published 1963
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.46 — 105,379 ratings — published 2009
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,336,233 ratings — published 2009
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 129,084 ratings — published 1962
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 465,550 ratings — published 2019
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.28 — 113,327 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,858 ratings — published 1951
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.59 — 244,797 ratings — published 1962
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,284,536 ratings — published 2008
V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.26 — 331,561 ratings — published 1990
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,905,620 ratings — published 1993
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,668 ratings — published 1988
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.32 — 31,941 ratings — published 2021
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,855 ratings — published 1941
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,106 ratings — published 1940
We (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.87 — 119,748 ratings — published 1924
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.30 — 56,404 ratings — published 2007
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,803 ratings — published 2010
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.02 — 94,472 ratings — published 2023
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.00 — 545 ratings — published 2017
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,402 ratings — published 2003
How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,969 ratings — published 2019
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.68 — 161,055 ratings — published 1994
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,208 ratings — published 2017
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.70 — 209,995 ratings — published 1848
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 12,489 ratings — published 1951
The Heart Goes Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.40 — 76,755 ratings — published 2015
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.33 — 36,188 ratings — published 1973
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.01 — 105,627 ratings — published 1957
The Confusions of Young Törless (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.66 — 10,715 ratings — published 1906
The Captive Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,187 ratings — published 1953
Maggot Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.81 — 10,284 ratings — published 2012
The Pyramid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,108 ratings — published 1992
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 312,270 ratings — published 1979
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,876,801 ratings — published 2010
The Land of Green Plums (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,598 ratings — published 1994
Crossed (Matched, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.52 — 262,276 ratings — published 2011
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,605 ratings — published 1884
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 2.67 — 6 ratings — published
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.01 — 212 ratings — published 1999
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.28 — 64,322 ratings — published 2010
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,492 ratings — published 1967
The Mass Psychology of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,431 ratings — published 1933
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.92 — 238 ratings — published 1980
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,380 ratings — published 1999
“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
“The Communist revolution, conducted in the name of doing away with classes, has resulted in the most complete authority of any single new class ... The new class is voracious and insatiable, just as the bourgeoisie was. But it does not have the virtues of frugality and economy that the bourgeoisie had. The new class is as exclusive as the aristocracy but without aristocracy's refinement and proud chivalry ...
The totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class, which came into being during the revolution, has become the yoke from under which the blood and sweat of all members of society flow.”
― The New Class: An Analysis Of The Communist System
The totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class, which came into being during the revolution, has become the yoke from under which the blood and sweat of all members of society flow.”
― The New Class: An Analysis Of The Communist System
