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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,772,479 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,713,196 ratings — published 1949
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 34,590 ratings — published 1961
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 31,145 ratings — published 1978
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 21,565 ratings — published 2025
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,106,793 ratings — published 1925
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,857 ratings — published 1966
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 7,930 ratings — published 2014
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 55,957 ratings — published 2007
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 207,843 ratings — published 1848
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,978 ratings — published 1781
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,938 ratings — published 1993
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 59,057 ratings — published 1973
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 532,676 ratings — published 2022
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 36,410 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 20,381 ratings — published 1952
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 31,703 ratings — published 2003
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,411 ratings — published 1989
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 28,428 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 — 7,330 ratings — published 1998
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,738 ratings — published 1990
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 106,188 ratings — published 1942
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 24,326 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 — 174,129 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 32,506 ratings — published 1933
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 43,629 ratings — published 2009
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,645 ratings — published 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 691,962 ratings — published 1886
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,293 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,539,306 ratings — published 1985
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,581 ratings — published 1992
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 76,533 ratings — published 1995
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 41,125 ratings — published 1985
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,085,165 ratings — published 1960
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,090 ratings — published 1994
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,595 ratings — published 1957
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,959 ratings — published 1953
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 79,995 ratings — published 1980
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 572,732 ratings — published 1899
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 452,208 ratings — published 1972
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.56 — 73,866 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 — 2,330 ratings — published 2025
Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,105 ratings — published 2011
Authority: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 924 ratings — published 2025
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.77 — 5,979 ratings — published 2025
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,104 ratings — published 1981
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 316 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 — 24,415 ratings — published 2023
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 4,977 ratings — published 2021
“Spinoza or Nietzsche are philosophers whose critical and destructive powers are without equal, but this power always springs from affirmation, from joy, from a cult of affirmation and joy, from the exigency of life against those who would mutilate and mortify life. For me, that is philosophy itself.”
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“Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.”
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