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Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,715,602 ratings — published 1945
Orientalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 30,840 ratings — published 1978
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,654,541 ratings — published 1948
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 34,109 ratings — published 1961
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 10,748 ratings — published 1966
On Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 58,560 ratings — published 1973
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 18,837 ratings — published 2025
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 7,754 ratings — published 2014
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 55,488 ratings — published 2007
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 205,609 ratings — published 1848
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,913 ratings — published 1993
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 448,059 ratings — published 1972
Women, Race & Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.59 — 35,965 ratings — published 1981
Black Skin, White Masks (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 20,145 ratings — published 1952
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 23,840 ratings — published 2023
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,221 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 — 7,228 ratings — published 1998
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 15,516 ratings — published 1951
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale Nota Bene)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,715 ratings — published 1990
The Myth of Sisyphus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 103,256 ratings — published 1942
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 24,129 ratings — published 1967
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,061,530 ratings — published 1925
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 3 times as critique)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,729 ratings — published 2018
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 32,018 ratings — published 1933
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 42,832 ratings — published 2009
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,472 ratings — published 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 685,630 ratings — published 1886
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,286 ratings — published 2016
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,512,454 ratings — published 1985
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,513 ratings — published 1992
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 76,121 ratings — published 1995
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 40,574 ratings — published 1985
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,294 ratings — published 1988
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,578 ratings — published 1781
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,072 ratings — published 1994
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 23,881 ratings — published 2003
Mythologies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 17,497 ratings — published 1957
Writing Degree Zero (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,951 ratings — published 1953
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 79,394 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 4.22 — 2,137 ratings — published 2025
Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,081 ratings — published 2011
Authority: Essays (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 890 ratings — published 2025
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.77 — 5,545 ratings — published 2025
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 22,032 ratings — published 1871
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 519,384 ratings — published 2022
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,719 ratings — published 1966
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,058 ratings — published 1981
Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 308 ratings — published
The Logic of Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 24 ratings — published 1957
Carceral Capitalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 1,449 ratings — published 2018
“The greater good’ is the cream cheese icing on a crap cake — spread thick by those wielding the spatula as a weapon to hide the stench beneath. Many will take a bite, only realizing too late what they’re being fed.”
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