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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,612 ratings — published 2017
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.27 — 11,016 ratings — published 1917
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.18 — 814 ratings — published 2024
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,371 ratings — published 2024
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.16 — 18,362 ratings — published 2020
The Naked Communist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,789 ratings — published 1960
Why Socialism Works (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.22 — 680 ratings — published
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,012 ratings — published 2003
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,493 ratings — published 1956
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,614 ratings — published 1902
The Law (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,440 ratings — published 1849
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.55 — 84,105 ratings — published 1516
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,919 ratings — published 1988
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.69 — 201,779 ratings — published 1848
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,985,863 ratings — published 1925
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,870,407 ratings — published 1813
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,883,721 ratings — published 1953
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,286 ratings — published 1973
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,019 ratings — published 2024
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,958,326 ratings — published 1960
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.02 — 25,968 ratings — published 1976
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,870,244 ratings — published 1937
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,078 ratings — published 1995
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,351,099 ratings — published 1847
Orientalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.14 — 30,184 ratings — published 1978
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.03 — 30,228 ratings — published 1962
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,556,913 ratings — published 1948
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.04 — 462,114 ratings — published 1997
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,454 ratings — published 2010
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,929,913 ratings — published 1818
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,630,216 ratings — published 1945
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.44 — 926,864 ratings — published 1850
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,663 ratings — published 1966
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.22 — 267,104 ratings — published 1929
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.50 — 177,983 ratings — published 2013
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.50 — 349,717 ratings — published 1000
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.07 — 478,446 ratings — published 2012
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,282,062 ratings — published 2011
The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.12 — 45,462 ratings — published 1949
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.30 — 15,127 ratings — published 1951
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,843,797 ratings — published 1590
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,233,800 ratings — published 1954
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,436,965 ratings — published 1942
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,322 ratings — published 2012
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,208,955 ratings — published -800
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,784 ratings — published 1993
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,836,941 ratings — published 1993
Tristes Tropiques (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,207 ratings — published 1955
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,149 ratings — published 1979
We Have Never Been Modern (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as scholarly)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,673 ratings — published 1991
“Perception will blossom as a thirst for knowledge blooms. Feed it and watch it grow. The word will harvest wisdom if this flower is allowed to glow.
"Right here," Calli said. She showed the passage to Clio. "This is you. You are perceptive, and knowledgeable, and wise beyond your years.”
― Bemused
"Right here," Calli said. She showed the passage to Clio. "This is you. You are perceptive, and knowledgeable, and wise beyond your years.”
― Bemused
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children












