10 must-read audiobook books like Socialism 101: From the Bolsheviks and Karl Marx to Universal Healthcare and the Democratic Socialists, Everything You Need to Know about Socialism (Adams 101 Series) by Kathleen Sears

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Socialism 101: From the Bolsheviks and Karl Marx to Universal Healthcare and the Democratic Socialists, Everything You Need to Know about Socialism (Adams 101 Series)

By: Kathleen Sears

3.78

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Socialism 101 is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the historical and modern applications of …

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1. 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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2. The Trial and Death of Socrates

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

Format: 224 pages,

The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more

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  • philosophy
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3. Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All

By: David Fitzgerald

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Why would anyone think Jesus never existed? Isn't it perfectly reasonable to accept that he was a r… read more

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4. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

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5. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

6. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

By: Apostolos Doxiadis , Christos H. Papadimitriou , Annie Di Donna , Alecos Papadatos

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathemati… read more

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7. Forged: Writing in the Name of God

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.50

Format: None pages,

s/t: Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Timesbestse… read more

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8. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

9. A Brief History of Neoliberalism

By: David Harvey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more

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10. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Library Binding

Maurice and the rats have teamed up with a young lad named Keith to implement a clever moneymaking … read more

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"The second mouse gets the cheese!"

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

"I am not so blind that I can't see darkness."

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

"A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows."

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

"And I say take two, sir," said Maurice urgently. "Two and call it quits?"

-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)

11. The Right to Be Lazy

By: Paul Lafargue , None

4.28

Format: None pages,

Paul Lafargue's masterpiece, The Right To Be Lazy, at once funny and serious, witty and profound, e… read more

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12. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

By: Bernie Sanders

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more

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"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"

-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

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13. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

By: Jason F. Stanley

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philos… read more

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"Fascist politics does not necessarily lead to an explicitly fascist state, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intel…"

-Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

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14. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

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"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

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15. 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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"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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16. Berserk Deluxe Edition, Volume 6

By: Kentaro Miura

4.76

Format: 702 pages, Hardcover

An adult fantasy/horror epic of monumental proportions, Kentaro Miura's Berserk is now offered at i… read more

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"Hate is a place where a man, who can't stand sadness, goes."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk Deluxe Edition, Volume 6

"Sadness is a dagger that's been sharpened to strike at your heart. As days pass, it only gets sharper and sharper."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk Deluxe Edition, Volume 6

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17. The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It

By: Marty Makary

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"A must-read for every American and business leader." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESFrom t… read more

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18. These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

By: Gretchen Morgenson

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial jour… read more

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19. Spider-Man: Life Story

By: Chip Zdarsky

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 1962's Amazing Fantasy #15, fifteen-year-old Peter Parker was bitten by a radioactive spider and… read more

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20. The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

By: Chapo Trap House

3.92

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Instant New York Times bestseller “Howard Zinn on acid or some bullsh*t like that.” —Tim Heidecker … read more

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"The ugly truth is that no employer hires anyone unless they can extract more value from them than they have to pay out in wages and benefits."

-Chapo Trap House, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

"Finally, as 9/11 fell on December 7, 1941, America entered World War II, and wouldn’t you know it, the US actually recovered from the Depression. It turned out that with state control of production a…"

-Chapo Trap House, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason

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21. Socialism 101: From the Bolsheviks and Karl Marx to Universal Healthcare and the Democratic Socialists, Everything You Need to Know about Socialism (Adams 101 Series)

By: Kathleen Sears

3.78

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

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12 Top history books like Socialism 101: From the Bolsheviks and Karl Marx to Universal Healthcare and the Democratic Socialists, Everything You Need to Know about Socialism (Adams 101 Series) by Kathleen Sears

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Debt: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

3.61

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3.63

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David Fitzgerald

4.36

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4.08

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Nancy MacLean

4.29

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Philip S. Gorski

4.19

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4.42

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