13 best-selling nonfiction books like Quién es fascista by Emilio Gentile

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Quién es fascista

By: Emilio Gentile

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

¿Vuelve el fascismo? ¿Son fascistas Trump, Erdogan, Orbán, Bolsonaro, Salvini...? Cien años después…

"Nella ricerca storica non vale la regola che sia la maggioranza a stabilire la verità storica, ma vale soltanto ciò che dalla ricerca e dalla conoscenza dei fatti corrisponde alla realtà storica, come risulta dai documenti. Nessuna presunzione, neppure involontaria, ma solo accertamento dei fatti storici."

-Emilio Gentile, Quién es fascista

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1. Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction

By: Norberto Bobbio , Allan Cameron

3.83

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Politicians and pundits have long disparaged their opponents with polemicist cries of "leftist!" or… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

By: Hannah Arendt

4.20

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."

-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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3. La leggenda del santo bevitore

By: Joseph Roth , Chiara Colli Staude

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

La leggenda del santo bevitorefu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1939, pochi mesi dopo la morte d… read more

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4. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

5. The Meaning of Hitler

By: Sebastian Haffner , Ewald Osers

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a remarkable historical and psychological examination of the enigma of Adolf Hitler--who he… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. 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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  • politics
"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

7. Soul

By: John Berger , Andrei Platonov , Robert Chandler , None

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A New York Review Books Original The Soviet writer Andrey Platonov saw much of his work suppressed … read more

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8. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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9. Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

By: Camille Paglia

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the fiery intellectual provocateur: a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and chal… read more

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10. The Anatomy of Fascism

By: Robert O. Paxton

2.69

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract.… read more

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11. Capitalism: A Short History

By: Jürgen Kocka

4.75

Format: 2112 pages,

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12. The Autumn of the Patriarch

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.87

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is … read more

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"honeyed by the breezes of love"

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

"fear of death is the amber of happiness"

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

"...el miedo a la muerte es el rescoldo de la felicidad..."

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

"Sabía que estaba condenado sin remedio a no morir de amor."

-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

13. Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought

By: A. James Gregor

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Fascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expressio… read more

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14. Las bicicletas son para el verano

By: Fernando Fernán Gómez

4.57

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Nacido en el seno del teatro, durante una gira por America de la compania Maria Guerrero y Fernando… read more

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15. Fatelessness

By: Imre Kertész , Tim Wilkinson

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without a… read more

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16. The Burnout Society

By: Byung-Chul Han

5.00

Format: 172 pages,

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather… read more

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17. Poema de mio Cid

By: Anonymous

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

Poema epico, se trata del texto mas representativo del arte de los juglares espanoles de la Edad Me… read more

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18. The Denial of Death

By: Daniel Goleman , Ernest Becker , Sam Keen

4.32

Format: 80 pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, "The Denial of Death" is… read more

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19. Darkness at Noon

By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more

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  • politics
"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

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20. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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21. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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22. No sleep till Shengal

By: Zerocalcare

4.45

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nella primavera del 2021 Zerocalcare si reca in Iraq, per far visita alla comunità ezida di Shengal… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. The Story of Russia

By: Orlando Figes

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

By: Irene Vallejo

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

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25. Il fascismo eterno

By: Umberto Eco

4.33

Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition

“Ritengo sia possibile indicare una lista di caratteristiche tipiche di quello che vorrei chiamare … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"L’Ur-Fascismo si basa su un “populismo qualitativo"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Libertà e liberazione sono un compito che non finisce mai."

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"It would be so much easier for us, if there appeared on the world scene somebody saying "I want to reopen Auschwitz, I want the Black Shirts to parade again in the Italian squares". Life is not that …"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

"Fu il fascismo italiano a convincere molti leader liberali europei che il nuovo regime stesse attuando interessanti riforme sociali in grado di fornire un’alternativa moderatamente rivoluzionaria all…"

-Umberto Eco, Il fascismo eterno

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26. The Russian Revolution

By: Rosa Luxemburg

3.97

Format: 42 pages, Kindle Edition

Rosa Luxemburg was one of the most eminent of Marxist theorists, famous for supporting a democratic… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Clearly, not uncritical apologetics but penetrating and thoughtful criticism is alone capable of bringing out the treasures of experiences and teachings."

-Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution

"W Finlandii proletariat socjalistyczny miał już dominującą pozycję, dopóki walczył jako część zwartej, rewolucyjnej falangi Rosji; posiadał większość w parlamencie, w armii, doprowadził do całkowitej…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution

"It [the proletariat] should and must at once undertake socialist measures in the most energetic, unyielding and unhesitant fashion, in other words, exercise a dictatorship, but a dictatorship of the …"

-Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution

".. the homemade wisdom of the parliamentary nursery: in order to carry anything, you must first have a majority. The same, they say, applies to revolution: first let's become a "majority." The true d…"

-Rosa Luxemburg, The Russian Revolution

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27. Así se domina el mundo: Desvelando las claves del poder mundial

By: Pedro Baños

3.95

Format: 594 pages, Kindle Edition

Alianzas, manipulación, rivalidad, guerra psicológica… Mejor que Juego de tronos: las claves de la … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"se ha puesto de moda la palabra "postverdad" para definir el contexto global de desinformación, aunque en realidad sería más acertado denominarlo "prementira", "multimentira" o "plurimentira", pues l…"

-Pedro Baños, Así se domina el mundo: Desvelando las claves del poder mundial

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28. The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth

By: Ken Krimstein

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"For me, in the ashes, it’s not enough to describe what happened, but to focus unforgivingly on what actually happened, to provide a road map, a game plan for how hell happens, not just in Nazi German…"

-Ken Krimstein, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth

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29. El fascismo

By: Ernest Mandel

3.91

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

La historia del fascismo es también la historia del análisis teórico del mismo. La aparición simult… read more

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30. El viejo periodismo

By: Martín Caparrós

4.02

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

El llamado nuevo periodismo cosechó un éxito ruidoso que llega hasta nuestros días. Martín Caparrós… read more

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31. Quién es fascista

By: Emilio Gentile

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

¿Vuelve el fascismo? ¿Son fascistas Trump, Erdogan, Orbán, Bolsonaro, Salvini...? Cien años después… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Nella ricerca storica non vale la regola che sia la maggioranza a stabilire la verità storica, ma vale soltanto ciò che dalla ricerca e dalla conoscenza dei fatti corrisponde alla realtà storica, com…"

-Emilio Gentile, Quién es fascista

12 must-read history books like Quién es fascista by Emilio Gentile

Transform Your Habits

Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction

Norberto Bobbio , Allan Cameron

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Hannah Arendt

4.20

Transform Your Habits

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Mary Beard

3.59

The Meaning of Hitler

Sebastian Haffner , Ewald Osers

3.46

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Transform Your Habits

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Foster Wallace

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Dare la vita

Michela Murgia

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Frontiera: perché sarà un nuovo secolo americano

Francesco Costa

3.79

Transform Your Habits

California. La fine del sogno

Francesco Costa

4.13

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