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Development as Freedom by Amartya SenThe Bottom Billion by Paul CollierWhy Nations Fail by Daron AcemoğluPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
International Development Book Club
120 books — 79 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Books for and About Activists
323 books — 306 voters

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiDoes My Head Look Big In This? by Randa Abdel-FattahI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiLove from Mecca to Medina by S.K. Ali
Best Books by Muslim Women
287 books — 409 voters
The Selfish Gene by Richard DawkinsGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Brief History of Time by Stephen W. HawkingThe Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVeyThe Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV
Best Books To Further Your Education
221 books — 128 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One’s Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
2,784 books — 3,735 voters
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihCities of Salt by Abdul Rahman Munifعزازيل by Youssef ZiedanWomen of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-ShaykhGate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
Arabic Literature in English Translation
203 books — 55 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,173 books — 1,590 voters
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
224 books — 213 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
685 books — 241 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
753 books — 1,919 voters

ثلاثية غرناطة by Radwa AshourThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAzazil by Youssef ZiedanThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Best Middle East Fiction
435 books — 478 voters
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan PappéMornings in Jenin by Susan AbulhawaPalestinian Dissident by Sam ShomanPalestine by Jimmy CarterThe Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
Best Books about Palestine (fiction and nonfiction)
265 books — 179 voters


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