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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,669,134 ratings — published 1945
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 30,494 ratings — published 1978
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,602,741 ratings — published 1948
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 33,605 ratings — published 1961
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,650 ratings — published 1966
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 58,053 ratings — published 1973
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 16,455 ratings — published 2025
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 7,568 ratings — published 2014
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 55,071 ratings — published 2007
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 203,600 ratings — published 1848
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,881 ratings — published 1993
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 444,223 ratings — published 1972
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 35,562 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19,889 ratings — published 1952
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 23,327 ratings — published 2023
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,035 ratings — published 1989
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 7,127 ratings — published 1998
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 15,308 ratings — published 1951
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,690 ratings — published 1990
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 100,666 ratings — published 1942
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 23,927 ratings — published 1967
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,019,923 ratings — published 1925
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.16 — 173,308 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 31,592 ratings — published 1933
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 42,067 ratings — published 2009
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,301 ratings — published 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 679,984 ratings — published 1886
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,271 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,487,483 ratings — published 1985
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,459 ratings — published 1992
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 75,739 ratings — published 1995
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 39,985 ratings — published 1985
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,093 ratings — published 1988
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,243 ratings — published 1781
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,056 ratings — published 1994
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 23,487 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,397 ratings — published 1957
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,942 ratings — published 1953
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 78,897 ratings — published 1980
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,942 ratings — published 2025
Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,052 ratings — published 2011
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.77 — 5,123 ratings — published 2025
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 21,811 ratings — published 1871
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 505,744 ratings — published 2022
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,688 ratings — published 1966
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 3,021 ratings — published 1981
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 301 ratings — published
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 1,441 ratings — published 2018
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 31,041 ratings — published 2003
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 1,767 ratings — published 1973
“That psychologist wanted me to come back and see him and the psychiatrist wanted to help my scrambled thoughts, but these people, they're just priests of the new religion. Every unpalatable thought and inconclusive experience is a catastrophe to be treated. They hear confession and then offer salvation and sacraments in the form of labels and pills.”
― The Rider on the Bridge
― The Rider on the Bridge
“Art doesn’t need to be more complex or more realistic to be valid.”
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