27 books
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8 voters
Totalitarian Books
Showing 1-50 of 494
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,642,824 ratings — published 1948
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,506,794 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,704,991 ratings — published 1945
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.07 — 105,421 ratings — published 2012
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,122,697 ratings — published 1932
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,928,727 ratings — published 1963
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,753 ratings — published 2009
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,263,649 ratings — published 2009
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 127,499 ratings — published 1962
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 449,247 ratings — published 2019
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.29 — 115,039 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,489 ratings — published 1951
The Man in the High Castle (Vintage)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.59 — 240,897 ratings — published 1962
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,132,618 ratings — published 2008
V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.26 — 328,146 ratings — published 1990
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,864,551 ratings — published 1993
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,262 ratings — published 1988
Escape from Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 16,533 ratings — published 1941
We (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.87 — 116,796 ratings — published 1924
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.39 — 20,415 ratings — published 2010
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.02 — 90,841 ratings — published 2023
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.69 — 150,822 ratings — published 1994
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,146 ratings — published 2017
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.69 — 205,178 ratings — published 1848
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 12,274 ratings — published 1951
The Heart Goes Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.40 — 75,882 ratings — published 2015
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.33 — 35,633 ratings — published 1973
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.01 — 104,588 ratings — published 1957
The Confusions of Young Törless (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.66 — 10,476 ratings — published 1906
The Captive Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 5,090 ratings — published 1953
Maggot Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.81 — 10,239 ratings — published 2012
The Pyramid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,068 ratings — published 1992
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.99 — 298,347 ratings — published 1979
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,814,247 ratings — published 2010
The Land of Green Plums (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,490 ratings — published 1994
Crossed (Matched, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.52 — 261,053 ratings — published 2011
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.30 — 7,057 ratings — published 1994
The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals & the Truth about Global Corruption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,659 ratings — published 2007
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,020 ratings — published 2012
The Complete Persepolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.41 — 211,473 ratings — published 2007
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.16 — 332 ratings — published 1963
The Social Contract: A Personal Inquiry into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.07 — 116 ratings — published 1970
Social Darwinism in American Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.78 — 288 ratings — published 1955
Darwin's Coat-Tails: Essays on Social Darwinism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2007
Might is Right (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,042 ratings — published 1890
Our Missing Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.79 — 216,885 ratings — published 2022
The Grace Year (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.13 — 257,387 ratings — published 2019
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,685 ratings — published 1976
Project 2025: A Nonpartisan in-Depth Analysis and Breakdown of the Initiative and Policy Proposals (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.57 — 151 ratings — published
The Psychology of Totalitarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,660 ratings — published 2023
“Government IDs are just ankle monitors, issued to tag citizens like dogs, or I should say, apes.”
― Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
― Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“As humankind enters the second quarter of the twenty-first century, a central question is how well democracies and totalitarian regimes will handle both the threats and the opportunities resulting from the current information revolution. Will the new technologies favor one type of regime over the other, or will we see the world divided once again, this time by a Silicon Curtain rather than an iron one?”
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI












