Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Peter Zinkovsky (12 Lists)



The Glorious Cause by Robert MiddlekauffEmpire of Liberty by Gordon S. WoodWhat Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker HoweBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonThe Republic for Which It Stands by Richard White
Oxford History of the United States
13 books — 1 voter
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Stranger by Albert CamusEichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah ArendtThe Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
TLS The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War
101 books — 88 voters

A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
357 books — 104 voters
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaThe Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah ArendtThe Language of the Third Reich by Victor KlempererThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyThe Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Timothy Snyder's Suggested Reading
20 books — 4 voters

Being and Time by Martin HeideggerPhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantTruth and Method by Hans-Georg GadamerThus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
Essential Continental Philosophy
75 books — 24 voters
A Conflict of Visions by Thomas SowellThe Ruling Class by Gaetano MoscaThe Machiavellians by James BurnhamDemocracy by Hans-Hermann HoppeDemocracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Palladian Recommendations
57 books — 4 voters

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithThe Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. HayekCapital by Karl MarxThe Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. HeilbronerThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes
Economic History, Wikipedia's Notable Works of
58 books — 3 voters
The Histories by HerodotusThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThe Road to Wigan Pier by George OrwellPhenomenology of Spirit by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt
The Well Educated Mind History Genre
40 books — 18 voters

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World by René GirardI See Satan Fall Like Lightning by René GirardThe Concept of the Political by Carl SchmittThe Sacred Mushroom and the Cross by John Marco AllegroThe Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
Cultural Frameworks
26 books — 1 voter
Animal Farm by George OrwellPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyThe Prince by Niccolò MachiavelliThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinDas Kapital by Karl Marx
Must Reads For Politics
110 books — 102 voters


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