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Empire of Desire (Empire, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as empire)
avg rating 3.70 — 43,391 ratings — published 2021
Empire of Sin (Empire, #2)
by (shelved 49 times as empire)
avg rating 4.00 — 39,348 ratings — published 2022
Empire of Hate (Empire, #3)
by (shelved 48 times as empire)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,520 ratings — published 2022
Empire of Lust (Empire, #4)
by (shelved 47 times as empire)
avg rating 4.14 — 29,539 ratings — published 2022
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as empire)
avg rating 4.46 — 21,949 ratings — published 2019
Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as empire)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,061 ratings — published 2021
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as empire)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,962 ratings — published 2003
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as empire)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,943 ratings — published 2019
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as empire)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,784 ratings — published 2016
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as empire)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,492 ratings — published 2007
A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as empire)
avg rating 4.10 — 73,158 ratings — published 2019
Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as empire)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,390 ratings — published 2006
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as empire)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,903 ratings — published 1998
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as empire)
avg rating 4.14 — 488,193 ratings — published 2022
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 12 times as empire)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,258 ratings — published 1990
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as empire)
avg rating 4.13 — 30,043 ratings — published 1978
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,719 ratings — published 2015
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,089 ratings — published 1995
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.35 — 32,991 ratings — published 1961
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,543 ratings — published 1776
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.17 — 600,825 ratings — published 1951
Culture and Imperialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as empire)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,849 ratings — published 1993
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as empire)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,229 ratings — published 2022
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as empire)
avg rating 4.04 — 323 ratings — published 2019
Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as empire)
avg rating 4.55 — 410,476 ratings — published 2016
Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as empire)
avg rating 3.98 — 429 ratings — published 2010
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 4.41 — 8,591 ratings — published 1971
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 4.31 — 28,206 ratings — published 1971
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 4.24 — 351,390 ratings — published 2015
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,146 ratings — published 2000
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,880 ratings — published 2013
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 3.91 — 215 ratings — published 2009
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,563 ratings — published 2000
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as empire)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,593 ratings — published 1994
Wounds of Honour (Empire, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,439 ratings — published 2009
The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 3.74 — 26,771 ratings — published 1951
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (The American Empire Project)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,599 ratings — published 2003
Against Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,309 ratings — published 1995
Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,486 ratings — published 2009
Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 3.90 — 27,648 ratings — published 1950
The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as empire)
avg rating 3.92 — 713 ratings — published 2007
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.30 — 36,973 ratings — published 2021
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,627 ratings — published 2015
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.61 — 18,017 ratings — published 2020
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.16 — 307 ratings — published 2019
Discourse on Colonialism (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.45 — 8,183 ratings — published 1950
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,810 ratings — published 2003
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as empire)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,077 ratings — published 1997
“Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an empire for your grandson.”
― The Curse of Chalion
― The Curse of Chalion
“Only he who has no use for the empire is fit to be entrusted with it.”
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
― The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu














