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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,816,875 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,773,205 ratings — published 1949
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 35,028 ratings — published 1961
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,149,022 ratings — published 1925
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,489 ratings — published 1978
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 23,874 ratings — published 2025
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,997 ratings — published 1966
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 8,140 ratings — published 2014
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 56,438 ratings — published 2007
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 210,142 ratings — published 1848
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 44,423 ratings — published 1781
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,969 ratings — published 1993
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 545,263 ratings — published 2022
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 36,840 ratings — published 1981
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 32,056 ratings — published 2003
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,569 ratings — published 1989
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 28,959 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 — 7,457 ratings — published 1998
How Fiction Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 8,484 ratings — published 2008
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,758 ratings — published 1990
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 109,439 ratings — published 1942
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 24,508 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 — 174,505 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 33,299 ratings — published 1933
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 44,433 ratings — published 2009
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,784 ratings — published 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 699,087 ratings — published 1886
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,324 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,564,887 ratings — published 1985
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,641 ratings — published 1992
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 76,886 ratings — published 1995
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 41,697 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,129,723 ratings — published 1960
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,119 ratings — published 1994
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 59,921 ratings — published 1973
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,701 ratings — published 1957
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 576,162 ratings — published 1899
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 457,489 ratings — published 1972
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 79,495 ratings — published 2025
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 — 2,571 ratings — published 2025
Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,139 ratings — published 2011
Authority: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 964 ratings — published 2025
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 779 ratings — published 1985
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.77 — 6,442 ratings — published 2025
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 20,661 ratings — published 1952
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,153 ratings — published 1981
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.54 — 319 ratings — published
The Logic of Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 24 ratings — published 1957
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 24,916 ratings — published 2023
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 5,003 ratings — published 2021
“Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction? It's a scream. It is written like this: "I checked out with K19 on Adabaran III, and stepped out through the crummaliote hatch on my 22 Model Sirus Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the Bryllis ran swiftly on five legs using their other two to send out crylon vibrations. The pressure was almost unbearable, but I caught the range on my wrist computer through the transparent cysicites. I pressed the trigger. The thin violet glow was ice-cold against the rust-colored mountains. The Bryllis shrank to half an inch long and I worked fast stepping on them with the poltex. But it wasn't enough. The sudden brightness swung me around and the Fourth Moon had already risen. I had exactly four seconds to hot up the disintegrator and Google had told me it wasn't enough. He was right."
They pay brisk money for this crap?”
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They pay brisk money for this crap?”
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“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
