How I Became a Socialist
By: William Morris
3.82
Format: 22 pages, Paperback
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1. Armadale
By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins
3.94
Format: 721 pages, Paperback
When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more
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"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"-John Sutherland, Armadale
"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."-John Sutherland, Armadale
"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"-John Sutherland, Armadale
2. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
By: Nikolai Gogol
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
Hailed by Nabokov as "the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced," Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) … read more
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3. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
By: bell hooks
3.91
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more
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4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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5. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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6. The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and th… read more
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7. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
By: Shashi Tharoor
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more
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8. Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
By: Stuart Jeffries
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
"Grand Hotel Abyss investigates the lives and afterlives of the critical theorists who formed the F… read more
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9. On Practice and Contradiction
By: Slavoj Žižek , Mao Zedong
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to … read more
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10. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
By: Friedrich Engels , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
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11. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
By: Herbert Marcuse
4.70
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in… read more
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12. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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13. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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14. Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle, #2)
By: Diana Wynne Jones
4.42
Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In which a humble young carpet merchant wins, then loses, the princess of his dreams Far to the sou… read more
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15. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
By: Alain Badiou , Peter Hallward
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agen… read more
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16. The Year of Dreaming Dangerously
By: Slavoj Žižek
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The renowned philosopher finds a utopian future in worldwide protests. Call it the year of dreaming… read more
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17. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
By: Vincent Bevins
4.28
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next From 20… read more
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"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
18. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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19. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
20. Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It
By: Nancy Fraser
4.04
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone w… read more
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21. Cuba: An American History
By: Ada Ferrer
4.45
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History “Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more
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22. The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
By: Noam Chomsky
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
An engaging conversation with our most respected public intellectual around how a global Green New … read more
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"Neoliberalism is a driving force causing the climate crisis. This is because neoliberalism is a variant of classic liberalism, and classical liberalism builds from the idea that everyone should be gr…"-Noam Chomsky, The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
23. The Tragedy of the Worker: Towards the Proletarocene
By: The Salvage Collective
3.59
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Facing irreversible climate change, the planet is en route to apocalypse To understand the scale o… read more
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24. How I Became a Socialist
By: William Morris
3.82
Format: 22 pages, Paperback
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25. The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
By: Matthias Schmelzer
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Ec… read more
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26. The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope, #3)
By: Claire North
4.38
Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition
Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire Nor… read more
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27. Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
By: Gavin Mueller
3.97
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologie… read more
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"Free software is an example of a Luddite technology: an innovation in the interest of the preservation of practitioners' autonomy against the imposition of control over the labor process by capitalis…"-Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
28. Automation and the Future of Work
By: Aaron Benanav
3.89
Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition
Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that… read more
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29. The Case for the Green New Deal
By: Ann Pettifor
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The GND has the potential of becoming one of the largest global campaigns of our times, and it star… read more
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30. Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat
By: Hannah Proctor
4.32
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times,… read more
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