8 best-selling theory books like The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture by Mark Bould

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The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture

By: Mark Bould

3.57

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

From Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies to Fast and Furious, how climate anxiety permeates our cul…

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1. War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century

By: Domenico Losurdo

4.47

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, … read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
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2. 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

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3. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By: David Talbot

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Uncanny

By: Sigmund Freud , Adam Phillips , David McLintock , Hugh Haughton

3.50

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Freud was fascinated by the mysteries of creativity and the imagination. The groundbreaking works t… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
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5. Time Out of Joint

By: Philip K. Dick

2.00

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Time Out of Jointis Philip K. Dick's classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the wo… read more

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6. The Gnostic Gospels

By: Elaine Pagels

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminou… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Get Shorty (Chili Palmer, #1)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.95

Format: None pages,

Mob-connected loan shark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind--plus his "friends" have a bad hab… read more

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8. The City & the City

By: China Miéville

3.90

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more

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"shit, shit, shit."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Same weather over here as back home," I said."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"

-China Miéville, The City & the City

"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."

-China Miéville, The City & the City

9. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed fore… read more

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10. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By: Mike Davis

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more

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11. The Weird and the Eerie

By: Mark Fisher

3.69

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more

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12. Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil

By: Timothy Mitchell

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined … read more

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13. 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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  • theory
  • 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

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14. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism

By: Anna Kornbluh

4.08

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Why speed, flow, and direct expression now dominate cultural style Contemporary cultural style boo… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
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15. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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16. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

By: Marc Morris

4.34

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Nothing Special

By: Nicole Flattery

3.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more

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18. 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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  • theory
  • nonfiction
"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)

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19. 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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  • climate change
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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20. I'm Every Woman

By: Liv Strömquist

4.19

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

C’est d’épouses, fiancées et copines dont il est question dans ce livre… Madame Elvis Presley, Mada… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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22. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

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23. Heaven in Disorder

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

As we emerge (though perhaps only temporarily) from the pandemic, other crises move center stage: o… read more

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  • theory
  • 21st century
  • nonfiction
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24. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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25. Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind

By: Molly McGhee

3.50

Format: 304 pages, None

Jonathan Abernathy is drowning in debt. If he can appear to be competent at his new job, he might h… read more

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26. The Starmer Project: A journey to the Right

By: Oliver Eagleton

3.98

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Labour Party has virtually disappeared from view under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Hailed a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Revolution: An Intellectual History

By: Enzo Traverso

4.31

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century’s age of revolutions. This bo… read more

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  • theory
  • nonfiction
"Six out of eight members of the first politburo of the Bolshevik Party created in November 1917 – Lev Kamenev, Nikolay Krestinsky, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Andrei Bubnov, and Grigori Sokolniko…"

-Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History

"The tragedy of revolutions lies in the fatal metamorphosis that drives them from liberation to the struggle for survival, and finally to the edification of a new oppressive rule; from emancipating vi…"

-Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History

"In the words of Jaurès, ‘there was in the history of the red flag an ambiguous period in which its meaning oscillated between the past and the future.’ It seems that it takes its current significance…"

-Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History

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28. The Great Adaptation: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe

By: Romain Felli

3.89

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Great Adaptation tells the story of how scientists, governments and corporations have tried to … read more

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  • climate change
  • nonfiction
  • ecology
  • environment
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29. Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality

By: Fredric Jameson

3.70

Format: 96 pages, ebook

The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novelRaymond Chandler, a dazzlin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • criticism
  • literary criticism
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30. The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture

By: Mark Bould

3.57

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

From Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies to Fast and Furious, how climate anxiety permeates our cul… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • film
  • theory
  • criticism
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • climate change
  • environment
  • literary criticism
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31. A History of Fake Things on the Internet

By: Walter Scheirer

3.33

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between … read more

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  • nonfiction

19 Top nonfiction books like The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe in Contemporary Culture by Mark Bould

Transform Your Habits

War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century

Domenico Losurdo

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The Uncanny

Sigmund Freud , Adam Phillips , David McLintock , Hugh Haughton

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Gnostic Gospels

Elaine Pagels

4.36

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12 Top history books like Revolution: An Intellectual History by Enzo Traverso

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991

Eric J. Hobsbawm

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

Eric J. Hobsbawm

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

Sheila Fitzpatrick

3.24

Transform Your Habits

The Russian Revolution 1917-1932

Sheila Fitzpatrick

1.00

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