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Authoritarian Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,481,005 ratings — published 1949
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,741 ratings — published 2020
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,567,661 ratings — published 1945
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,217 ratings — published 2017
The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.18 — 102,040 ratings — published 2009
Surviving Autocracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,623 ratings — published 2020
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.03 — 84,748 ratings — published 2023
The Doctrine of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.10 — 1,385 ratings — published 1932
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,081,865 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,846,912 ratings — published 1953
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.84 — 383,651 ratings — published 1532
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,818 ratings — published 2010
The Anatomy of Fascism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,395 ratings — published 2004
Darkness at Noon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 33,857 ratings — published 1940
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,157 ratings — published 1941
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.39 — 9,353 ratings — published 2017
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 33,653 ratings — published 1963
Imperium: Philosophy of History & Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.06 — 445 ratings — published 1948
In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.76 — 54 ratings — published 1993
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.25 — 16,100 ratings — published 2018
Runaway: A Dark Mafia Why Choose Romance (Savages of Ravens Hollow Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.38 — 48 ratings — published
Shift (Silo, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.13 — 154,712 ratings — published 2013
The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 63,051 ratings — published 2024
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,101 ratings — published 2025
Breaking Stalin's Nose (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.84 — 10,081 ratings — published 2011
Der Nazi-Sozi: Fragen und Antworten fuer den Nationalsozialisten (Nook)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.93 — 72 ratings — published 1931
Claimed for Their Pleasure (Coveted by the Barbarian #2)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,224 ratings — published 2021
The Far Side of Evil (Elana, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 570 ratings — published 1971
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,248 ratings — published 1887
The Praise Singer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,617 ratings — published 1978
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 812,025 ratings — published 2008
Unnatural (The Wrong Alpha, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,539 ratings — published 2020
The Winter Guest (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,414 ratings — published 2022
The Ophelia Network (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.45 — 625 ratings — published 2022
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,661 ratings — published 2020
Berlin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,801 ratings — published 2018
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 16,642 ratings — published 2024
When the Emperor Was Divine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.81 — 30,748 ratings — published 2002
The Enigma Affair (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,006 ratings — published 2022
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.48 — 12,396 ratings — published 2021
Coalitions of the Weak: Elite Politics in China from Mao's Stratagem to the Rise of Xi (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 63 ratings — published 2022
巨變第二天：新興民主的得失與選擇 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.17 — 6 ratings — published
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,537 ratings — published 2022
How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.89 — 53 ratings — published 2018
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 4.46 — 22,002 ratings — published 2013
Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and its Demise in Mexico (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.56 — 32 ratings — published 2006
Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.78 — 739 ratings — published
The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.77 — 104 ratings — published
Dictators at War and Peace (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by (shelved 1 time as authoritarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 38 ratings — published 2014
“Politics does not make leaders, leaders make right politics.”
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“Suddenly the despot sees rising up before him, against him, the enemy who brings death - an eye with too steady a look, a mouth with too unfamiliar a smil; each organ is a possible protest.”
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