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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,481,736 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,432,191 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,568,251 ratings — published 1945
The Orphan Master's Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.07 — 104,336 ratings — published 2012
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,082,011 ratings — published 1932
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.46 — 99,969 ratings — published 2009
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,166,828 ratings — published 2009
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.20 — 425,506 ratings — published 2019
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,847,250 ratings — published 1953
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,936,315 ratings — published 2008
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,814,349 ratings — published 1993
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.98 — 125,372 ratings — published 1962
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.29 — 108,275 ratings — published 2017
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.30 — 14,822 ratings — published 1951
The Man in the High Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.59 — 235,977 ratings — published 1962
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,729,920 ratings — published 2010
V for Vendetta (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.26 — 325,373 ratings — published 1990
We (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.88 — 112,858 ratings — published 1924
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.39 — 19,820 ratings — published 2010
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.03 — 84,768 ratings — published 2023
Anthem (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.61 — 167,247 ratings — published 1938
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.70 — 139,971 ratings — published 1994
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.19 — 7,047 ratings — published 2017
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.68 — 198,880 ratings — published 1848
The Heart Goes Last (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.40 — 75,898 ratings — published 2015
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,794 ratings — published 1973
Doctor Zhivago (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.01 — 103,149 ratings — published 1957
The Confusions of Young Törless (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,216 ratings — published 1906
The Captive Mind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,948 ratings — published 1953
Maggot Moon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,006 ratings — published 2012
The Pyramid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,048 ratings — published 1992
The Long Walk (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.01 — 278,769 ratings — published 1978
The Land of Green Plums (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.67 — 6,364 ratings — published 1994
Crossed (Matched, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.52 — 259,186 ratings — published 2011
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.62 — 815,262 ratings — published 2010
On the Marble Cliffs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,655 ratings — published 1939
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.18 — 339,636 ratings — published 1995
Walden & Civil Disobedience (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.93 — 39,099 ratings — published 1849
Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.96 — 636 ratings — published
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.28 — 422,115 ratings — published 1967
The First Circle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,221 ratings — published 1968
The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.10 — 69 ratings — published 2009
Hadji Murád (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.86 — 15,478 ratings — published 1912
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.06 — 84,149 ratings — published 2004
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,462 ratings — published 2018
Ringworld (Ringworld #1)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 3.94 — 129,043 ratings — published 1970
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,098 ratings — published 1966
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.04 — 36,927 ratings — published 2019
Il fascismo eterno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,625 ratings — published 2020
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as totalitarian)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,599 ratings — published 1988
“Legacy Letter from Beta Metani-Marashi Palm Coast, Florida – October 15, 2025
To my children, my grandchildren, and those who will come after,
I did not survive communism so you could live in its shadow. I did not cross oceans, endure loss, or rebuild my life twenty times so you could forget what tyranny looks like when it wears a friendly face.
I was raised in a world where truth was punished, faith was forbidden, and family was fractured. We were told what to think, what to say, even what to feel. I escaped that world—not just for myself, but for you.
Now I see the same tactics repackaged in new slogans. They call it progress. I call it a warning.
You must never forget: freedom is not inherited—it is earned, guarded, and passed down like sacred fire. It lives in your choices, your courage, and your refusal to be manipulated by fear or flattery. You will be told that resistance is hate. That tradition is oppression. That questioning is dangerous. Don’t believe it.
I built this home as a sanctuary. Not just of walls and windows, but of values. Faith. Family. Legacy. You are the heirs of that sanctuary. And you must protect it—not just with words, but with wisdom.
I don’t wish my past on anyone. Not even those who oppose me. But I do wish you the strength to recognize tyranny when it smiles. And the grace to fight it without becoming it.
You are my greatest testimony. Live boldly. Love fiercely. And never forget where you come from—or what I left behind so you could rise.
With all my heart,
Beta”
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To my children, my grandchildren, and those who will come after,
I did not survive communism so you could live in its shadow. I did not cross oceans, endure loss, or rebuild my life twenty times so you could forget what tyranny looks like when it wears a friendly face.
I was raised in a world where truth was punished, faith was forbidden, and family was fractured. We were told what to think, what to say, even what to feel. I escaped that world—not just for myself, but for you.
Now I see the same tactics repackaged in new slogans. They call it progress. I call it a warning.
You must never forget: freedom is not inherited—it is earned, guarded, and passed down like sacred fire. It lives in your choices, your courage, and your refusal to be manipulated by fear or flattery. You will be told that resistance is hate. That tradition is oppression. That questioning is dangerous. Don’t believe it.
I built this home as a sanctuary. Not just of walls and windows, but of values. Faith. Family. Legacy. You are the heirs of that sanctuary. And you must protect it—not just with words, but with wisdom.
I don’t wish my past on anyone. Not even those who oppose me. But I do wish you the strength to recognize tyranny when it smiles. And the grace to fight it without becoming it.
You are my greatest testimony. Live boldly. Love fiercely. And never forget where you come from—or what I left behind so you could rise.
With all my heart,
Beta”
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“Communists condemn blind belief. Yet, information blackout by all communist states shows reliance on a a bizarre blind belief - If you turn off the lights, nobody can hear the gossip.”
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