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Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Geoffrey Gordon (13 Lists)



Capital by Karl MarxThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonSelections From The Prison Notebooks by Antonio GramsciThe Making of the English Working Class by E.P. ThompsonRebel Cities by David Harvey
Best Left-Texts
678 books — 361 voters
Inferior by Angela Saini
Feminist critiques of science and medicine
126 books — 28 voters

Blowback by Chalmers Johnson
American Empire: Imperialist vs Anti-Imperialist
88 books — 16 voters
Reorganising Power in Indonesia by Richard Robison
Best Books About Indonesia
61 books — 37 voters

American Settler Colonialism by Walter L. HixsonAmerican Empire and the Politics of Meaning by Julian GoThe American Colonial State in the Philippines by Julian GoThe Blood of Government by Paul A. KramerThe Making of Global Capitalism by Leo Panitch
US Empire
171 books — 16 voters
The Company by Robert Littell
Best Spy Novels
1,396 books — 2,438 voters

Red Plenty by Francis SpuffordThe Cold War by Odd Arne WestadLegacy of Ashes by Tim WeinerThe Cold War's Killing Fields by Paul Thomas ChamberlinThe Global Offensive by Paul Thomas Chamberlin
The Cold War (nonfiction)
367 books — 109 voters
Orientalism by Edward W. SaidCulture and Imperialism by Edward W. SaidThe Forever War by Dexter Filkins
Best Middle East Nonfiction
534 books — 375 voters

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,176 books — 1,594 voters
Black Reconstruction in America (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois) by W.E.B. Du BoisBlack Marxism by Cedric J. RobinsonThe Black Jacobins by C.L.R. JamesHow Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter RodneyAfricans and the Industrial Revolution in England by Joseph E. Inikori
Racial capitalism
168 books — 15 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderStamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. KendiRacism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Books White People Need to Read
1,381 books — 1,641 voters
The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 by C.A. BaylyThe Transformation of the World by Jürgen OsterhammelThe Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 by Eric J. HobsbawmThe Age of Empire, 1875–1914 by Eric J. Hobsbawm
Best Books About Nineteenth Century History
649 books — 283 voters

Postcapitalism by Paul MasonInventing the Future by Nick SrnicekNever Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste by Philip MirowskiThe Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. GordonExorbitant Privilege by Barry Eichengreen
Crisis of capitalism reading list
167 books — 34 voters