Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India
By: Siddhartha Deb
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An incisive, lyrically written, and deeply-reported account of India's descent into authoritarianis…
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1. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- history
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
2. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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- history
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3. Salvation of a Saint
By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith
4.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect Xwas a hit with critics and readers alike. The first major English… read more
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4. The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
By: Sujata Massey
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her f… read more
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5. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
6. The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy
By: Arundhati Roy , David Barsamian
4.00
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
A skillful interviewer can reveal aspects of a writer's voice in simple yet telling ways. As a nove… read more
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7. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
By: Asha Bandele , Patrisse Khan-Cullors
3.67
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the moveme… read more
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8. Capitalism: A Ghost Story
By: Arundhati Roy
3.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farm… read more
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9. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
By: Morgan Housel
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more
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- history
10. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
By: Amanda Montell
4.29
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more
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"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
11. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
12. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- history
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
13. 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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- 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
14. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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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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- history
- 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)
16. Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
4.40
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more
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17. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
By: Samuel Stein
3.94
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
“This superbly succinct and incisive book” on urban planning and real estate argues gentrification … read more
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18. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.57
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. DavisFor over f… read more
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- history
19. Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
By: Andrea J. Ritchie
4.58
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
An exploration of how emergent strategies can help us meet this moment, survive what is to come, an… read more
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20. The Case for Open Borders
By: John Washington
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration … read more
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21. Anarcho-Indigenism: Conversations on Land and Freedom
By: Francis Dupuis-Déri
3.82
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
As early as the end of the 19th century, anarchists such as Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus becam… read more
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22. Environmentalism from Below: How Global People's Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet
By: Ashley Dawson
4.40
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A global account of the grassroots environmental movements on the frontlines of the climate crisis.… read more
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23. Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India
By: Siddhartha Deb
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
An incisive, lyrically written, and deeply-reported account of India's descent into authoritarianis… read more
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- india
- history
24. White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
By: William J. Barber II
4.39
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An explosive work with far-ranging historical implications, White Poverty promises to be one of the… read more
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25. The Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy
By: Federico Finchelstein
4.10
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Meet today's almost fascists and learn the warning signs to intercept them on the road from populis… read more
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- history
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26. Murder and the Movies
By: David Thomson
3.16
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A renowned movie critic on film’s treatment of one of mankind’s darkest murder “[Thomson’s] anal… read more
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- history
27. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
28. My Seditious Heart: Collected Nonfiction
By: Arundhati Roy
4.44
Format: 989 pages, Hardcover
Bookended by her two award-winning novels, The God of Small Things (1997) and The Ministry of Utmos… read more
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- india
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29. Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War
By: Andrew Lee
4.27
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
A revolutionary new study of gentrification ... and how to stop it. Cities around the world are in… read more
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30. The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism
By: Jessica Whyte
4.31
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalismWhy did the rise of human rights in the 1970s co… read more
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31. Decolonization: Unsung Heroes of the Resistance
By: Pierre Singaravélou
4.24
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Full of gripping historical vignettes and evocative photographs, an accessible overview of the dyna… read more
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