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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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4.28 avg rating — 100,377 ratings
"This book inspired the list. Many of the titles on the list came from Chapter 9: Be Kind to our Language."
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 384,606 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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4.11 avg rating — 542,033 ratings
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It Can't Happen Here
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3.80 avg rating — 24,216 ratings
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The Plot Against America
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3.82 avg rating — 69,093 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,097,848 ratings
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Politics and the English Language
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4.29 avg rating — 8,706 ratings
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The Language of the Third Reich: LTI--Lingua Tertii Imperii: A Philologist's Notebook
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4.34 avg rating — 1,559 ratings
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
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4.30 avg rating — 14,702 ratings
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The Rebel
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4.14 avg rating — 18,829 ratings
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The Captive Mind
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4.27 avg rating — 4,916 ratings
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The Power of the Powerless
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4.21 avg rating — 4,001 ratings
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The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Burden of Responsibility: Blum, Camus, Aron, and the French Twentieth Century
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4.18 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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4.11 avg rating — 23,346 ratings
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Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
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3.97 avg rating — 11,769 ratings
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,410,420 ratings
"Although not specifically cited in Snyder, this work has returned to the bestseller lists and a new adaptation on Hulu in early 2017. "
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rated it 4 stars
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Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America – Scholarly Essays on Democracy, Propaganda, and Lessons of History
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3.65 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Wolf Whistle Politics: The New Misogyny in Public Life Today
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3.44 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party
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3.88 avg rating — 1,357 ratings
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