12 Top politics books like Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow by Matthew Wizinsky

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Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow

By: Matthew Wizinsky

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of a framework, theoretical gr…

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1. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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  • art
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen by Christopher McDougall

2. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

By: Christopher McDougall

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of al… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber

3. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities by J.K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, Stephen Healy

4. Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities

By: J.K. Gibson-Graham , Jenny Cameron , Stephen Healy

3.57

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In the wake of economic crisis on a global scale, more and more people are reconsidering their role… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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5. Interaction of Color

By: Josef Albers , Nicholas Fox Weber

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Josef Albers's Interaction of Coloris a masterwork in twentieth-century art education. Conceived as… read more

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  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design

6. The Art of Loving

By: Erich Fromm , Rainer Funk , Peter D. Kramer

3.45

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

The fiftieth Anniversary Edition of the groundbreaking international bestseller that has shown mill… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more

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8. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By: Donella H. Meadows , None

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more

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9. Middlesex

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Middlesextells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-A… read more

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10. The Brand Gap

By: Marty Neumeier

3.92

Format: 594 pages,

THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand-building. Whereas most books o… read more

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11. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence

By: Timothy Morton

4.00

Format: 302 pages,

Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a… read more

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12. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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13. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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14. Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

4.18

Format: 501 pages, ebook

Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on… read more

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"Please provide location and density of mass!"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

"We don’t have time to amend your dogshit educations!"

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

"To try to bind a person is like writing in the ocean."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

"I ... suppose I find you ... refreshingly uncontained."

-Robert Jackson Bennett, Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

Cover of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins

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
  • nonfiction
  • society
"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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16. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • art
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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17. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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18. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • 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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19. Eversion

By: Alastair Reynolds

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and spac… read more

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20. The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more

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"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."

-Naomi Alderman, The Future

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21. 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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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"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

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22. The Midcoast

By: Adam White

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted drea… read more

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23. The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.88

Format: 563 pages, Hardcover

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more

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  • politics
"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

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24. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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25. Work: A History of How we spend our Time

By: James Suzman

3.85

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James … read more

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  • philosophy
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"The equation of taxation and theft is as old as extortion"

-James Suzman, Work: A History of How we spend our Time

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26. Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation

By: Paul Hawken

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century) by Arturo Escobar

27. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)

By: Arturo Escobar

4.27

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice ai… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • design
Cover of Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow by Matthew Wizinsky

28. Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow

By: Matthew Wizinsky

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of a framework, theoretical gr… read more

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  • art
  • politics
  • art design
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • economics
  • society
Cover of Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock

29. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need

By: Sasha Costanza-Chock

4.19

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequal… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • design
Cover of What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion by Silvio  Lorusso

30. What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion

By: Silvio Lorusso

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Design is broken. Young and not-so-young designers are becoming increasingly aware of this. Many fe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • design

9 must-read philosophy books like Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow by Matthew Wizinsky

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4.75

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3.45

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Claire Dederer

3.79

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Naomi Klein

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Martha Wells

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