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They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
From Diversity to Equity: A Recommended Reading List
92 books — 26 voters
Paradise Lost by John MiltonThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Year of Living Biblically by A.J. JacobsMisquoting Jesus by Bart D. EhrmanWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Different Takes on Religion & Spirituality
1,432 books — 1,193 voters

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo GaleanoChe Guevara by Jon Lee AndersonThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderAn Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizBorn in Blood and Fire by John Charles Chasteen
LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS - SYLLABUS
22 books — 4 voters
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
The Working Classes
59 books — 26 voters

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Worker's movement
21 books — 21 voters
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
Social novels
159 books — 43 voters

German Philosophy 1760-1860 by Terry P. PinkardThe Sleepwalkers by Christopher ClarkDas Kapital by Karl MarxThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerImperial Germany 1871-1918 by Volker R. Berghahn
German History
598 books — 157 voters
Mothers of Massive Resistance by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
American Political Behavior
167 books — 34 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinOverthrow by Stephen KinzerAll the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer
American Foreign Policy
476 books — 293 voters
Bitter Fruit by Stephen C. SchlesingerCry of the People by Penny Lernoux
US Empire
171 books — 16 voters

When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-Bae LeeNorth Korea by Bruce Cumings
North Korea Reading List
44 books — 63 voters
North Korea by Bruce Cumings
Books on North Korea
134 books — 513 voters

Imperialism by Vladimir LeninA Socialist History of the French Revolution by Jean JaurèsCapital by Karl Marx
Books Read By Fidel Castro
55 books — 4 voters
A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric HazanThe Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 by Eric J. Hobsbawm
The French Revolution
232 books — 296 voters

State and Revolution by Vladimir LeninHow Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter GelderloosQuotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung by Mao Zedong
Emancipatory Left
128 books — 62 voters
The Fight in the Fields by Susan Ferriss
How Capitalism Destroys Everything
208 books — 102 voters

Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto Che Guevara
Central America - History / Culture
134 books — 18 voters
Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson
Latin American Studies
281 books — 37 voters

Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisBlack Skin, White Masks by Frantz FanonHow Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter RodneyThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonSlavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon
Books White People Need to Read
1,447 books — 1,813 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Blood Never Dried by John NewsingerNone Is Too Many by Erving AbellaThe Torture Papers by Karen J. GreenbergA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
My Country, the Enemy
428 books — 344 voters

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan PappéA History of Modern Palestine by Ilan PappéGaza in Crisis by Ilan PappéOn Palestine by Noam ChomskyOne Palestine, Complete by Tom Segev
Jewish point of view
63 books — 36 voters
Killing Hope by William BlumThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich EngelsLive from Death Row by Mumia Abu-JamalThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonFidel And Religion by Fidel Castro
Rage Against The Machine's Recommended Reading List
132 books — 27 voters

Ali and Nino by Kurban Said
A country's most iconic book:
158 books — 16 voters
A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XCapital by Karl Marx
Best Left-Texts
680 books — 371 voters

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,220 books — 1,668 voters