Academic

1. The formal definition is that text should consist of arguments and debate, rather than simply present factual knowledge. Non-fiction studies, arguments, views.

2. Many books (mainly fiction) with a school setting have this tag.



See also:
* education
* high school
* school stories
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
Vida contemplativa: Elogio de la inactividad
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want – Exposing Surveillance Capitalism and Artificial Intelligence Myths in Information Technology Today
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
The Great Gatsby
Orientalism
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
The Communist Manifesto
Romeo and Juliet
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
The Prince
Macbeth
Animal Farm
The Odyssey
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
1984
Lord of the Flies
Punk, Fanzines and DIY Cultures in a Global World by Paula Guerra3-D Cinema and Trauma by Dor FadlonWeird Fiction and Science at the Fin de Siecle by Emily AlderAmerican Women's Regionalist Fiction by Monika ElbertPoe, “The House of Usher,” and the American Gothic by Dennis R. Perry
Palgrave MacMillan
79 books — 2 voters
Bad Science by Ben GoldacreAn Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCrackenThe Fires of Vesuvius by Mary BeardTraffic by Tom VanderbiltAudition by Barbara  Walters
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2008
71 books — 8 voters

The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoît B. MandelbrotThe Origin of Species by Charles DarwinThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. KuhnMolecular Cloning by Joseph SambrookDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-... by American Psychiatric Publis...
Heavily Cited
100 books — 3 voters
Touching Feeling by Eve Kosofsky SedgwickAn Archive of Feelings by Ann CvetkovichCruel Optimism by Lauren BerlantThe Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara AhmedOrdinary Affects by Kathleen  Stewart
Affect Theory
22 books — 13 voters

Rosemary by Kate Clifford LarsonHow To Be a Tudor by Ruth GoodmanSPQR by Mary BeardThe Witches by Stacy SchiffThe Arab of the Future 2 by Riad Sattouf
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2015
180 books — 18 voters
Killers of the Flower Moon by David GrannThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnIt's All Relative by A.J. JacobsOn Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Non-Fiction Published in Year: 2017
189 books — 33 voters


Abhijit Naskar
I have an uncompromising principle against the use of AI in literature.
Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

Amos Oz
If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar.
Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

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