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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,859,103 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,822,622 ratings — published 1949
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 35,466 ratings — published 1961
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 6,182,991 ratings — published 1925
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,767 ratings — published 1978
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 25,513 ratings — published 2025
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 11,119 ratings — published 1966
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 8,307 ratings — published 2014
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 56,891 ratings — published 2007
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 212,349 ratings — published 1848
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 44,790 ratings — published 1781
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,991 ratings — published 1993
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 556,574 ratings — published 2022
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 37,225 ratings — published 1981
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 32,356 ratings — published 2003
Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,706 ratings — published 1989
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 29,458 ratings — published 2021
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 7,545 ratings — published 1998
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,562 ratings — published 2008
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,816 ratings — published 1990
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 112,029 ratings — published 1942
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 24,728 ratings — published 1967
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.16 — 174,860 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 34,872 ratings — published 1933
Industrial Society and Its Future (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 13,792 ratings — published 1995
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 45,207 ratings — published 2009
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 109,046 ratings — published 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 709,204 ratings — published 1886
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,339 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,586,706 ratings — published 1985
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,713 ratings — published 1992
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 77,136 ratings — published 1995
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 42,218 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,164,784 ratings — published 1960
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,145 ratings — published 1994
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 61,041 ratings — published 1973
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,786 ratings — published 1957
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 579,301 ratings — published 1899
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 462,297 ratings — published 1972
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 286,383 ratings — published 1929
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 84,509 ratings — published 2025
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 2,822 ratings — published 2012
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 4.23 — 2,829 ratings — published 2025
Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,167 ratings — published 2011
Authority: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 987 ratings — published 2025
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 783 ratings — published 1985
Democracy: The God That Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,642 ratings — published 2001
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.76 — 6,979 ratings — published 2025
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 20,919 ratings — published 1952
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,218 ratings — published 1981
“La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
“Lucie announced she planned to read to James from her work in progress, Secret Princess Lucie Is Rescued from Her Terrible Family. James listened with a carefully arranged look of interest, even though he was subjected to endless tales of Cruel Prince James and his many awful deeds.
“I think that Cruel Prince James has been somewhat boxed in by his name,” James offered at one point. Lucie informed him that she wasn’t looking for critique at this stage in the creative process.
“Secret Princess Lucie only wishes to be kind, but Cruel Prince James is driven to cruelty because he simply cannot stand to see Princess Lucie best him again and again, in every domain,” said Lucie.
“I’m going to go now,” said James.”
― Chain of Gold
“I think that Cruel Prince James has been somewhat boxed in by his name,” James offered at one point. Lucie informed him that she wasn’t looking for critique at this stage in the creative process.
“Secret Princess Lucie only wishes to be kind, but Cruel Prince James is driven to cruelty because he simply cannot stand to see Princess Lucie best him again and again, in every domain,” said Lucie.
“I’m going to go now,” said James.”
― Chain of Gold
