Big Books of 2026

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Andrew Feist (27 Lists)



The Body Never Lies by Alice MillerThe Complex PTSD Workbook by Arielle SchwartzHealing Trauma by Peter A. LevineSexual Healing by Peter A. LevineFreedom from Pain by Peter A. Levine
IMT Reading List
51 books — 10 voters
Das Kapital by Karl MarxDebt by David GraeberThe Ascent of Money by Niall FergusonCapital by Karl MarxCivilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1 by Fernand Braudel
The History of Money
79 books — 32 voters

The Social Construction of What? by Ian HackingThe House of Intellect by Jacques BarzunTechnics and Time, 1 by Bernard StieglerA History of the Arab Peoples by Albert HouraniThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus
100 more Books to Expand your Mind
78 books — 6 voters
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. DennettEthics and the Limits of Philosophy by Williams
The Most Important Philosophical Books Since 1950 - Prof. Chen Bo Survey
48 books — 11 voters

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric JamesonThe Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 1 by Jürgen HabermasThe Philosophical Discourse of Modernity by Jürgen HabermasThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter BenjaminIlluminations by Walter Benjamin
Critical Theory
83 books — 36 voters
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism by David HarveyHow Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor by Erik S. ReinertThe Great Transformation by Karl PolanyiAdam's Fallacy by Duncan K. FoleyThe Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
Heterodox Economics Book Club
130 books — 50 voters

The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey
Occupy Wall Street
87 books — 87 voters
The Concept of the Political by Carl SchmittElements of the Philosophy of Right by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelCapital by Karl MarxThe Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelDemocracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
History of Political Philosophy
116 books — 29 voters

Debt by David GraeberDebunking Economics by Steve KeenCapitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph A. SchumpeterThe Great Transformation by Karl PolanyiThe Enigma of Capital by David Harvey
Best Economics Books
451 books — 520 voters
Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. HermanUnderstanding Power by Noam ChomskyA Brief History of Neoliberalism by David HarveyThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonOpen Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Best Left-Texts
667 books — 360 voters

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Mapping Critical Theory
107 books — 41 voters
Debt by David GraeberSeeing Like a State by James C. Scott
Best Popular Anthropology Books on Goodreads
362 books — 46 voters

The Bell Curve by Richard J. HerrnsteinMen Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray
Books Employed to Greatly Harmful Ends
217 books — 226 voters
Seeing Like a State by James C. ScottThe White Man's Burden by William EasterlyMountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderThe End of Poverty by Jeffrey D. SachsPoor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee
International Development Book Club
119 books — 78 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnHegemony or Survival by Noam ChomskyThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinThe Conscience of a Liberal by Paul KrugmanNickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
Best Books to Become an Informed Voter
941 books — 1,097 voters
Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. HermanAmerican Fascists by Chris Hedges
Books that tell you what REALLY is going on!
616 books — 200 voters

Cornel West Reader by Cornel WestThe Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
Best Books To Frame Thinking
1,296 books — 1,426 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One by Karl PopperThe Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume Two by Karl PopperI Don't Believe in Atheists by Chris HedgesThe Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Chris Hedges: Written, Recommended, Referenced or Read
124 books — 35 voters

Barack Obama by Illumination Publishing
A Conservative Reading List
52 books — 32 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
American Foreign Policy
462 books — 273 voters

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan HaidtThe Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer
Best Books on Morality
59 books — 21 voters
How the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard P. FeynmanWonderful Life by Stephen Jay GouldThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
Best Science Books - Non-Fiction Only
1,839 books — 3,601 voters

Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer
Essential Readings in the Cognitive Science of Religion
111 books — 39 voters
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanDescartes' Error by António DamásioWhere Mathematics Come From by George LakoffOn Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Best Cognitive Science Books
408 books — 492 voters

Nicomachean Ethics by AristotleOn Duties by Marcus Tullius CiceroAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David HumeA Theory of Justice by John Rawls
50 Philosophy Classics
74 books — 43 voters
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Make You Go "Hmm"
369 books — 188 voters

The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
The Psychology of Morality
82 books — 55 voters