9 must-read nonfiction books like On the Paris Commune by Karl Marx

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On the Paris Commune

By: Karl Marx

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Paris Commune in 1871 played a key role in the development of socialist thought. In the midst o…

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Cover of Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6) by Terry Pratchett

1. Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.18

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingd… read more

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"Bein’ human means judgin’ all the time,"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Do you understand what’s going on here?"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Everywhere I look, I see something holy."

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

"Hah! The leopard does not change his shorts, my girl!"

-Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (Discworld, #23; Witches, #6)

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2. The State and Revolution

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

1917-ci ilin avqust-sentyabr aylarında yazılan yaradıcı marksizmin bu görkəmli əsəri – “Dövlət və i… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamen…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"We must also note that Engels is most definite in calling universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social-De…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

"Take any parliamentary country, from America to Switzerland, from France to England, Norway and so forth - in these countries the real business of the 'state' is preformed behind the scenes and is ca…"

-Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution

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3. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

By: Walter Benjamin , Rodney Livingstone , Michael W. Jennings , Brigid Doherty , None , Howard Eiland , Thomas Y. Levin

4.02

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Benjamin's famous 'Work of Art' essay sets out his boldest thoughts--on media and on culture in gen… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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4. L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop) (Les Rougon-Macquart, #7)

By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir(1877) is the story of a woman's struggl… read more

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5. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

6. The Second Sex

By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit

By: Fredric Jameson

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this major new study, philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers an innovative rea… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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9. La tía Tula

By: Miguel de Unamuno

4.11

Format: 15 pages, Hardcover

Esta novela narra la vida de Gertrudis, tambien llamada la Tia Tula, y los sacrificios que realiza … read more

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10. The Social Contract

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The truth brings no man a fortune"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

11. Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976

By: Michel Foucault , Arnold I. Davidson , David Macey

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

An examination of relations between war and politics From 1971 until his death in 1984, Michel Fouc… read more

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12. Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.00

Format: 64 pages,

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revol… read more

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13. The Nicomachean Ethics

By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Philosophy can make people sick."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"A man without regrets cannot be cured."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."

-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

14. The Conquest of Bread

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Breadis Peter Kropotkin's most ext… read more

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15. The Sea Wolf

By: Jack London

4.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel begins when Van Weyden is swept overboard into San Francisco Bay, and plucked from the se… read more

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16. On the Genealogy of Morals

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith

4.13

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."

-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

17. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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18. Nana

By: Émile Zola

3.84

Format: 473 pages, Paperback

Wenn die üppige blonde Nana auf der Bühne des Pariser Varietétheaters steht, spürt jeder: sie hat k… read more

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"The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"Kalau kau sendiri tidak senang melakukan sesuatu, itu bukan alasan untuk mencegah orang lain menyukainya."

-Émile Zola, Nana

"The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too."

-Émile Zola, Nana

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19. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

By: Friedrich Engels

4.24

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Modern socialism is not a doctrine, Engels explains, but a working-class movement growing out of th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by th…"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

"Las fuerzas activas de la sociedad obran, mientras no las conocemos y contamos con ellas, exactamente lo mismo que las fuerzas de la naturaleza: de un modo ciego, violento, destructor. Pero, una vez …"

-Friedrich Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

Cover of El extraño caso de el Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde by Michael       Lawrence

20. El extraño caso de el Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde

By: Michael Lawrence

3.76

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

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21. On the Paris Commune

By: Karl Marx

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Paris Commune in 1871 played a key role in the development of socialist thought. In the midst o… read more

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7 Top history books like On the Paris Commune by Karl Marx

Transform Your Habits

The State and Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Hegel Variations: On the Phenomenology of Spirit

Fredric Jameson

3.85

Transform Your Habits

The Social Contract

Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick

3.99

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17 Top fiction books like Nana by Émile Zola

Transform Your Habits

Rachel Ray

Anthony Trollope , John Sutherland

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert , Margaret Mauldon , Malcolm Bowie , Mark Overstall

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Elsa

Louis Aragon

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Eugénie Grandet

Honoré de Balzac , Sylvia Raphael , Christopher Prendergast

3.79

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