The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Jacobin)
By: Adolph L. Reed Jr.
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A memoir and historical account of growing up in the Jim Crow South by a renowned political theoris…
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1. Visions of Gerard
By: Jack Kerouac
3.74
Format: 130 pages, Paperback
"His life...ended when he was nine and the nuns of St. Louis de France Parochial School were at his… read more
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2. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
By: Ivan Doig
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens o… read more
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- history
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3. 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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4. Kashmir: A Case of Freedom
By: Tariq Ali
4.39
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
At home, the Kashmiri people's ongoing quest for justice and self-determination is as much ignored … read more
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5. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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6. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
By: Barbara J. Fields , Karen E. Fields
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Most people assume that racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives … read more
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- social justice
7. Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Chambers, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird
By: Ambrose Bierce , H.P. Lovecraft , Edgar Allan Poe , Robert W. Chambers , Arthur Machen
3.88
Format: 0 pages, ebook
From the fictional land of Carcosa that inspired the HBO show True Detective to H. P. Lovecraft's a… read more
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8. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
9. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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11. The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
By: John Kelly
4.34
Format: 196 pages,
A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Fam… read more
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12. Ten Myths about Israel
By: Ilan Pappé
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more
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13. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
By: China Miéville
3.82
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months … read more
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14. Downtown Owl
By: Chuck Klosterman
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Somewhere in North Dakota, there is a town called Owl that isn't there. Disco is over, but punk nev… read more
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15. 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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- politics
- social justice
- history
- nonfiction
"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
16. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
By: Vladislav M. Zubok
4.26
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more
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17. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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- politics
- american
- history
- nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
18. 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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19. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
20. True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us
By: Danielle J. Lindemann
3.64
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by EsquireA sociological study of reality TV that explores its… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"We learn about the core features of society by looking at the extremes."-Danielle J. Lindemann, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us
21. Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us
By: Joseph Andras
4.37
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the most prestigious literary awards in France … read more
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22. A Brief History of Equality
By: Thomas Piketty
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimist… read more
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"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is co…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwi…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
23. Dirtbag: Essays
By: Amber A'Lee Frost
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who lived it. Amber A'Le… read more
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24. Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism
By: Toure F. Reed
4.29
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Reed contends that the road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone else is obstr… read more
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25. Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It (Jacobin)
By: Vivek Chibber
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
A strategic guide to building a more democratic and egalitarian future Why is our society so une… read more
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26. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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27. The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (Jacobin)
By: Adolph L. Reed Jr.
4.19
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
A memoir and historical account of growing up in the Jim Crow South by a renowned political theoris… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- race
- class
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- african american
28. Silent Cavalry: How Union Soldiers from Alabama Helped Sherman Burn Atlanta--and Then Got Written Out of History
By: Howell Raines
3.59
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alaba… read more
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- history
29. The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
By: Andrew Cockburn
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Why does America go to war? In the last decades, America has gone to war as supposed defenders o… read more
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30. It's Not You, It's Capitalism: Why It's Time to Break Up and How to Move On
By: Malaika Jabali
3.88
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A biting, brilliant, often hilarious guide to socialism for budding anti-capitalists who know it’s … read more
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31. The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now: Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter
By: Cedric G. Johnson
3.83
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Ending the horrors of police violence requires addressing economic inequality In the wake of the m… read more
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