17 must-read history books like Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy by Mark Sedgwick

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Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy

By: Mark Sedgwick

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Since the start of the twenty-first century, the political mainstream has been shifting to the righ…

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1. The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq

By: Jonathan Wright , Hassan Blasim

3.50

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

This blistering debut by "perhaps the best writer of Arabic fiction alive" (The Guardian)is the fir… read more

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2. In Praise of Shadows

By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki , Thomas J. Harper , Charles Moore , None

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and e… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. The Buried Giant

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more

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"Are you still there, Axl?"

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"The Giant, once buried, now stirs."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"The Giant, once well buried, now stirs."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

"A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did."

-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

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4. Making Sense of the Alt-Right

By: George Hawley

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

During the 2016 election, a new term entered the mainstream American political lexicon: "alt-right,… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • far right
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5. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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6. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

By: Angela Nagle

4.08

Format: 88 pages, ebook

Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Subjection of Women

By: John Stuart Mill

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

..".John Mill disagrees with the argument that women are naturally less good at some things than me… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. Frogs

By: Aristophanes , Arthur Sidgwick

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The Frogs (Ancient Greek: Batrakhoi, Batrachoi) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristop… read more

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9. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.32

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

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10. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

11. On the Shortness of Life

By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more

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12. The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

By: Max Boot

3.65

Format: 432 pages,

America's "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflic… read more

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13. A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline

By: Hans-Hermann Hoppe

3.49

Format: 320 pages,

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14. 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

15. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

By: Benedict Anderson

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more

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16. Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia

By: John Gray

4.25

Format: None pages,

For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a cons… read more

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17. Skippy Dies

By: Paul Murray

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

A tragic comedy of epic sweep and dimension, Skippy Dies wrings every last drop of humour and hopel… read more

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18. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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19. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

4.10

Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever w… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire..."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth. No. 75"

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

"No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias."

-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

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21. Feminism Against Progress

By: Mary Harrington

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason … read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"But the weakness of these proposals isn't that they're unworkable, or even that they're 'traditional,' but that they're not traditional enough. For most of history, men and women worked together, in …"

-Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress

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22. 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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23. Bronze Age Mindset

By: Bronze Age Pervert

3.84

Format: 198 pages, Kindle Edition

Some say that this book, found in a safebox in the port area of Kowloon, was dictated, because Bron… read more

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  • history
  • far right
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"You idolize peasants. You look up to island savages living “at one with Nature,"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Well as rare as beautiful bodies are, the mind in the same condition is even more rare. Let us strive, in our decrepit, cancerous and fetid world, for what is concrete and what we can try to attain. …"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

"Animals walk around in a state of permanent religious intoxication. This is the natural condition of the mind and intellect, the moment-to-moment perception, of man as well. I heard some computer foo…"

-Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset

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24. The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

By: Louise Perry

4.28

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Ditching the stuffy hang-ups and benighted sexual traditionalism of the past is an unambiguously po… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Prostitution has never been a matter of personal choice or female empowerment. Rather, the role of 'buyer' versus 'seller' has always been determined not only by sex but also by race, nationality and…"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

"Sex workers can act as sources of sex advice only if we understand sex to be a skillset that must be learned and refined across different partners, with good sex a result not of intimacy but of good …"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

"We should treat our sexual partners with dignity. We should not regard other people as merely body parts to be enjoyed. We should aspire to love and mutuality in all of our sexual relationships, rega…"

-Louise Perry, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century

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25. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

By: Matthew Dallek

3.97

Format: None pages, Audiobook

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

By: René Guénon

4.13

Format: 276 pages, Paperback

René Guénon's Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines can serve as an introduction to all his … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"If, as must be done in this instance, the word atom be taken in its true sense of “ indivisible,"

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

"Indeed the study of the Easy as we know it today, if undertaken in a really direct way, would be of great assistance towards the understanding of all Antiquity, on account of that very quality of fix…"

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

"Europeans, since the days when they began to believe in :progress" and in "evolution," that is to say since a little more than a century ago, profess to see a sign of inferiority in this absence of c…"

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

"The differences between East and West seem to have been continually on the increase, but this divergence can be said to have been one-sided, in the sense that it is only the West which has changes, w…"

-René Guénon, Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

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27. How Dawkins Got Pwned

By: Mencius Moldbug

3.96

Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover how scientist Richard Dawkins got pwned by Universalism, the world’s most powerful parasit… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. East and West

By: René Guénon

3.92

Format: 188 pages, Hardcover

In East and West Guénon diagnoses the fundamental 'abnormality' of Western civilization vis-à-vis t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"What westerners call progress is for nothing but change and instability; [...] he who has reached a state of equilibrium no longer feels this need, just as he who has found no longer seeks."

-René Guénon, East and West

"les psychologues, par exemple, limitent ordinairement leurs observations à un seul type d’humanité, l’Occidental moderne, et ils étendent abusivement les résultats ainsi obtenus jusqu’à prétendre en …"

-René Guénon, East and West

"If sentiment, considered in general, is to be put into its proper place in relation to intelligence, [...] then there is a hierarchy to be observed. The modern world has precisely reversed the natura…"

-René Guénon, East and West

"Of all the superstitions preached by those very people who profess that they never stop inveighing against "superstition," that of "science " and "reason", is the only one which does not seem, at fir…"

-René Guénon, East and West

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29. Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy

By: Mark Sedgwick

3.73

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Since the start of the twenty-first century, the political mainstream has been shifting to the righ… read more

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  • history
  • far right
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck

30. Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

By: Richard Beck

4.03

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking argument on how the decades-long War on Terror changed virtually every aspect of A… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

16 Best politics books like Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy by Mark Sedgwick

Transform Your Habits

Making Sense of the Alt-Right

George Hawley

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right

Angela Nagle

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Subjection of Women

John Stuart Mill

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.32

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10 Best history books like The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century by Louise Perry

Transform Your Habits

The War on the West

Douglas Murray

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

Nellie Bowles

4.05

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Feminism Against Progress

Mary Harrington

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

Coleman Hughes

4.46

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