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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.29 — 116,911 ratings — published 2017
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,697,645 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,758,736 ratings — published 1945
The Captive Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,132 ratings — published 1953
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,532,424 ratings — published 1985
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.02 — 92,442 ratings — published 2023
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny – A Classic Biography: Authoritative and Readable, Abridged (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,686 ratings — published 1952
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,202,413 ratings — published 2008
The Language of the Third Reich (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,644 ratings — published 1947
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,659 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,956,467 ratings — published 1963
Every Man Dies Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.27 — 38,377 ratings — published 1947
Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,703 ratings — published 2012
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.11 — 75,150 ratings — published 2000
The Feast of the Goat (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.35 — 44,920 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 — 5,370 ratings — published 2010
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,593 ratings — published 2010
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.46 — 103,933 ratings — published 2009
The Power of the Powerless (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,507 ratings — published 1978
On Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,430 ratings — published 2025
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,273 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 — 2,906 ratings — published 2013
Sostiene Pereira (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.20 — 38,253 ratings — published 1994
The Carnation Revolution: The Day Portugal's Dictatorship Fell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.15 — 203 ratings — published
Surviving Autocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,771 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 — 12,191 ratings — published 2010
The Plot Against America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.82 — 71,248 ratings — published 2004
Our Missing Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.79 — 218,510 ratings — published 2022
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,395,872 ratings — published 1956
On Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.97 — 759 ratings — published 2020
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.93 — 36,878 ratings — published 1980
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,991 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 — 72,377 ratings — published 1998
Red Scarf Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.80 — 17,780 ratings — published 1997
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.36 — 56,135 ratings — published 2000
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.37 — 925,557 ratings — published 1946
The Return (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,687 ratings — published 2016
The Autumn of the Patriarch (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,445 ratings — published 1975
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,580 ratings — published 1549
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,798,038 ratings — published 1996
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,541 ratings — published 2015
Mein Kampf (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.18 — 44,360 ratings — published 1925
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,296,591 ratings — published 2009
The Bridge at Andau (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,609 ratings — published 1957
Satantango (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.05 — 18,012 ratings — published 1985
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 4.08 — 14,909 ratings — published 1961
Shadowfell (Shadowfell, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,907 ratings — published 2012
Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tyranny)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,401 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 — 73,322 ratings — published 2012
“Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind. ”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“The tyrant is a child of Pride
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Oedipus Rex
Who drinks from his sickening cup
Recklessness and vanity,
Until from his high crest headlong
He plummets to the dust of hope.”
― Oedipus Rex
