6 Top politics books like Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

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Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s

By: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

4.13

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

'Direct Action & Sabotage' (1912) by William Trautman, ' It's History, Philosophy And Function' (19…

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1. Alias Grace

By: Margaret Atwood

4.04

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her emp… read more

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"The small details of life often hide a great significance."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"[...] he often talked to himself and he was the best conversationalist he knew; [...]"

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

"I don’t know why it is, a girl of fifteen or sixteen is accounted a woman, but a boy of fifteen or sixteen is still a boy."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

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2. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.01

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungr… read more

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"Master, I go hunting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"Bu bir taş. Gerçek Lisan’da ise “tolk"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra..."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

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3. Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.32

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Ch… read more

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"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

"There’s no point in believing in things that exist."

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (Discworld, #13)

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4. Skinny Legs and All

By: Tom Robbins

4.06

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations... It sounds… read more

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"This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper."

-Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

"Kalbim bir üçüncü dünya ülkesi/Senin aşkınsa İsviçre'den gelmiş bir turist"

-Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

"My heart is a Latin American food stall and your love is a health inspector from Zurich."

-Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

"Yedi cücelerin tek tıraş olanı Ahmak'tı. Bu bize, tıraş olmaktaki bilgelik hakkında bir fikir verebilir"

-Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

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5. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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6. Mother Night

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.23

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: Alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Mother Night is a darin… read more

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"When you're dead you're dead."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"It’s all I’ve seen, all I’ve been through,"

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

"The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

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7. The Man in the High Castle

By: Philip K. Dick

3.60

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assume… read more

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"Don’t you feel it?"

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"Dreadful low-class jingoistic racist invectives, unworthy of me."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

"We are all insects. Groping towards something terrible or divine."

-Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

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8. Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most impo… read more

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9. Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It … read more

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10. Breakfast of Champions

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more

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11. The Mist

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

It's a hot, lazy day, perfect for a cookout, until you see those strange dark clouds. Suddenly a vi… read more

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"¿Sabes qué es el talento? Es la maldición de ambicionar."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"Dreams, after all, are insubstantial things, like mist itself."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"Nothing in nature is that even; man is the inventor of straight edges."

-Stephen King, The Mist

"...then went back to showing me how I could help my family most efficiently by dying young."

-Stephen King, The Mist

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12. The Jungle

By: Upton Sinclair , Earl Lee , None , Kathleen De Grave

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stoc… read more

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  • politics

13. The Long Earth (The Long Earth, #1)

By: Terry Pratchett , Stephen Baxter

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

From the back jacket: NORMALLY, WHEN THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO, HE LISTENED TO THE SILENCE. The Silen… read more

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14. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

15. Witches Abroad (Discworld, #12; Witches #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Be careful what you wish for... Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who h… read more

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16. At the Mountains of Madness

By: H.P. Lovecraft , China Miéville , S.T. Joshi

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and… read more

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17. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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  • politics
"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

18. The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more

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19. The Telling (Hainish Cycle #8)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Once a culturally rich world, the planet Aka has been utterly transformed by technology. Records of… read more

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20. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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21. The Tommyknockers

By: Stephen King

3.60

Format: 747 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Librarian's Note: This is alternate cover edition #2 ISBN 10: 0451156609 ISBN13: 9780451156600… read more

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"The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry."

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

"One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred-pound Coke machine, one need worry about nothing else."

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

"The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on…"

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

"I have just drawn my weapon and killed a Coke machine, sir." Claudell Weems said hollowly inside his mask. Andy Torgeson turned toward him. "And you never even ordered it to halt, or fired a warning …"

-Stephen King, The Tommyknockers

22. The Satanic Verses

By: Salman Rushdie

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Versesis Salman Rushdi… read more

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23. Starship Troopers

By: Robert A. Heinlein

4.01

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The historians can’t seem to settle whether to call this one "The Third Space War" (or the fourth),… read more

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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

"When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived."

-Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

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24. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.13

Format: 180 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and n… read more

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"COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

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25. Night Shift

By: Stephen King , John D. MacDonald

4.04

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by th… read more

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"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"If seven hundred monkeys typed for seven hundred years, one of them would turn out the works of Shakespeare,"

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"There are spiritually noxious places, buildings where the milk of the cosmos has become sour and rancid. This church is such a place; I would swear to it."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

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26. Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.78

Format: 197 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is h… read more

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"Where the hell did demons live, anyway?"

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Most of history is pretty appaling, when you look hard at it. Or even not very hard."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

"Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

-Terry Pratchett, Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4)

27. Blues for Mister Charlie

By: James Baldwin

3.64

Format: 211 pages, Paperback

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With … read more

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28. The Hollow Places

By: T. Kingfisher

3.80

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in thi… read more

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"If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"No one has zombie raccoons roaming around their museum. That would just be silly."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"We had passed close in space, but separated by far too much time to make a difference."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

"You're from Florida. There's got to be more holes to hell in Florida than any other state."

-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

29. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. Direct Action & Sabotage: Three Classic IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s

By: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

4.13

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

'Direct Action & Sabotage' (1912) by William Trautman, ' It's History, Philosophy And Function' (19… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • labor
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31. Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a Militant Working-Class Culture

By: Julius Deutsch

4.00

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The Austromarxist era of the 1920s was a unique chapter in socialist history. Trying to carve out a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

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4.36

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