33 books
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Tyranny Books
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.29 — 109,785 ratings — published 2017
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,509,396 ratings — published 1948
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,590,966 ratings — published 1945
The Captive Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,981 ratings — published 1953
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,444,749 ratings — published 1985
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny – A Classic Biography: Authoritative and Readable, Abridged (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,668 ratings — published 1952
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,968,648 ratings — published 2008
The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,577 ratings — published 1947
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,860,410 ratings — published 1953
Every Man Dies Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.27 — 37,136 ratings — published 1947
Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,696 ratings — published 2012
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.11 — 74,672 ratings — published 2000
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.35 — 43,224 ratings — published 2000
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,201 ratings — published 2010
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,916 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.46 — 100,399 ratings — published 2009
The Power of the Powerless (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,163 ratings — published 1978
On Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,646 ratings — published 2025
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.18 — 17,050 ratings — published 2024
A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.00 — 22 ratings — published 1992
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,772 ratings — published 2013
Sostiene Pereira (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.20 — 36,365 ratings — published 1994
The Carnation Revolution: The Day Portugal's Dictatorship Fell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.19 — 161 ratings — published
Surviving Autocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,652 ratings — published 2020
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,085 ratings — published 2010
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.03 — 85,931 ratings — published 2023
The Plot Against America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.82 — 69,606 ratings — published 2004
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,242 ratings — published 2022
Our Missing Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.79 — 211,936 ratings — published 2022
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,370,205 ratings — published 1956
On Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.96 — 712 ratings — published 2020
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,013 ratings — published 1980
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,124 ratings — published 2013
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,573 ratings — published 1998
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,924 ratings — published 1951
Red Scarf Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.80 — 17,428 ratings — published 1997
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.36 — 54,561 ratings — published 2000
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.37 — 886,906 ratings — published 1946
The Return (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,804 ratings — published 2016
The Autumn of the Patriarch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.86 — 26,807 ratings — published 1975
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,161 ratings — published 1549
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,746,100 ratings — published 1996
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,429 ratings — published 2015
Mein Kampf: Adolf Hitler's Totalitarian Vision—Essential Lessons in Vigilance, Responsibility, and Opposing Evil (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.18 — 43,702 ratings — published 1925
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,182,880 ratings — published 2009
The Bridge at Andau (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,563 ratings — published 1957
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,618 ratings — published 1961
Shadowfell (Shadowfell, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,815 ratings — published 2012
Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,278 ratings — published 1944
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,283 ratings — published 2012
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
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“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
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