9 must-read economics books like The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis by Bruno Amable

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The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis

By: Bruno Amable

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its most acute phase in more than…

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1. Wise Blood

By: Flannery O'Connor

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

(This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780374530631) The American short story master Flan… read more

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"Jesus died to redeem you,"

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"In yourself right now is all the place you've got."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

"If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet."

-Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

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2. It Can't Happen Here

By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more

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  • politics
"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

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3. Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically

By: Chantal Mouffe

3.86

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Political conflict in our society is inevitable, and the results are often far from negative. How t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • political science
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4. The Fortune of the Rougons (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)

By: Émile Zola

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

La fortuna de los Rougon (1871) es la primera novela de la serie Les Rougon Macquart, de Emile Zola… read more

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  • france
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5. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

By: Adam Tooze

4.20

Format: 42 pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking new history, Adam Tooze provides the clearest picture to date of the Nazi wa… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Sea, the Sea

By: Iris Murdoch , Mary Kinzie

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an is… read more

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7. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

By: Wendy Brown

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Neoliberal rationality -- ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, educa… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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9. Fifty Degrees Below (Science in the Capital, #2)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.77

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

After years of denial and non-action, a near-future Earth faces a crossroad when it is threatened w… read more

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  • politics
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10. Nine Stories

By: J.D. Salinger

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more

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11. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

By: bell hooks

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more

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12. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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13. 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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14. Leviathan

By: Paul Auster

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathanwith the tearin… read more

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15. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

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"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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16. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

By: Adam Tooze

None

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.30

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New Yor… read more

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  • european history
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international or…"

-Serhii Plokhy, The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History

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18. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur m… read more

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  • france
"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."

-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

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19. Goodbye, Eri

By: Tatsuki Fujimoto

4.34

Format: 202 pages, None

With his mother dying, Yuta attempts to capture her last days on his phone. After her death, Yuta h… read more

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"It's missing a pinch of fantasy, don't you think?"

-Tatsuki Fujimoto, Goodbye, Eri

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20. 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
  • 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

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21. The Details

By: Ia Genberg

3.90

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed Swedish author makes her English language debut with this intoxicating novel in the ve… read more

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"La fiducia resta lettera morta, se non la si sente nelle ossa."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"L'io , o meglio, il cosidetto "io", non è altro che questo: ciò che resta delle persone a cui ci siamo stretti."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"La vita mi ha regalato la mia buona dose di magia, e il più delle volte è successo all'incontro con gli altri. Lì c'è qualcosa. Lì, soltanto lì."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

"Per i morti la successione del tempo non ha importanza, l'unica cosa che conta sono i dettagli, la densità, il come e il cosa e tutto ciò che riguarda il chi."

-Ia Genberg, The Details

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22. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

By: Mark Fisher

4.29

Format: 211 pages, None

Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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23. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

By: Katherine Angel

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

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24. Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

By: Troy Vettese

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of ca… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"The aim for socialism is not Soviet-style Stakhanovite toil, but rien faire comme une bête."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Nothing scares neoliberals more than radical science allied with social movements, but until such a union arises, they have little to fear."

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Despite our knowledge of what needs to be done, carbon emissions increase and mass extinctions continue relentlessly. Capital is at the helm, blindly steering the ship of fools towards ecological dis…"

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

"Environmentalists think that their political moderation will be rewarded by the powerful, who will allow them to play a small role in shaping the future. Yet the elite and their neoliberal brain trus…"

-Troy Vettese, Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

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25. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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26. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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27. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

By: Anand Giridharadas

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" p… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"To question the doing-well-by-doing-good globalists is not to doubt their intentions or results, rather it is to say that even when all those things are factored in, something is not quite right."

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"Walker had broken what in his circles were important taboos: Inspire the rich to do more good, but never, ever tell them to do less harm; inspire them to give back, but never, ever tell them to take …"

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

"And what these winners wanted was for the world to be changed in ways that had their buy-in—think charter schools over more equal public school funding, or poverty-reducing tech companies over antitr…"

-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

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28. Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

By: Matthew T. Huber

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Why the struggle against climate change is a class struggle The climate crisis is not primarily … read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"Why do we not focus on the activities associated with production and investment when considering the individual's carbon footprint? I argue that it is because what Marx called the "hidden abode of pr…"

-Matthew T. Huber, Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet

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29. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France's Political Crisis

By: Bruno Amable

3.96

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This book analyses the French political crisis, which has entered its most acute phase in more than… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • france
  • european history
  • nonfiction
  • political science
  • economics
  • sociology
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31. Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War

By: Volodymyr Ishchenko

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world In T… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

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