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Required Reading of the Top 10 US Colleges
1.
The Prince
by:
NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
3.84 avg rating β 371,432 ratings
2.
Heart of Darkness
by:
Joseph Conrad
3.43 avg rating β 545,780 ratings
3.
The Republic
by:
Plato
3.96 avg rating β 220,212 ratings
3.
Leviathan
by:
Thomas Hobbes
3.70 avg rating β 51,358 ratings
5.
The Elements of Style
by:
William Strunk Jr.
4.18 avg rating β 86,240 ratings
6.
Democracy in America
by:
Alexis de Tocqueville
4.05 avg rating β 26,629 ratings
7.
Globalization and its Discontents
by:
Joseph E. Stiglitz
3.87 avg rating β 8,111 ratings
8.
The Communist Manifesto
by:
Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating β 189,273 ratings
9.
Politics
by:
Aristotle
3.98 avg rating β 41,882 ratings
10.
History of the Peloponnesian War
by:
Thucydides
3.94 avg rating β 39,937 ratings
11.
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
by:
Martin Luther King Jr.
4.72 avg rating β 8,438 ratings
12.
The Odyssey
by:
Homer
3.82 avg rating β 1,156,723 ratings
13.
Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
by:
John Womack Jr.
4.10 avg rating β 545 ratings
14.
The Iliad
by:
Homer
3.92 avg rating β 494,696 ratings
15.
The Social Contract
by:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.78 avg rating β 55,704 ratings
16.
Robinson Crusoe
by:
Daniel Defoe
3.68 avg rating β 325,004 ratings
17.
Frankenstein
by:
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
3.89 avg rating β 1,772,439 ratings
18.
The Nicomachean Ethics
by:
Aristotle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 57,313 ratings
19.
Civilization and Its Discontents
by:
Sigmund Freud
3.79 avg rating β 43,516 ratings
19.
The Discourses
by:
NiccolΓ² Machiavelli
4.07 avg rating β 9,585 ratings
21.
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
by:
Marshall McLuhan
4.10 avg rating β 4,051 ratings
22.
Confessions
by:
Augustine of Hippo
3.99 avg rating β 71,272 ratings
23.
The Canterbury Tales
by:
Geoffrey Chaucer
3.52 avg rating β 234,635 ratings
23.
Persuasion
by:
Jane Austen
4.15 avg rating β 752,861 ratings
25.
A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations
by:
Daniel Fleisch
4.42 avg rating β 584 ratings
26.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
by:
Samuel P. Huntington
3.78 avg rating β 13,748 ratings
27.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by:
Thomas S. Kuhn
4.03 avg rating β 29,127 ratings
28.
The Logic of Congressional Action
by:
R. Douglas Arnold
3.53 avg rating β 91 ratings
29.
Public Finance
by:
Harvey S. Rosen
3.93 avg rating β 183 ratings
30.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
by:
Joseph A. Schumpeter
3.99 avg rating β 2,893 ratings
31.
Diplomacy
by:
Henry Kissinger
4.25 avg rating β 9,163 ratings
32.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
by:
Max Weber
3.91 avg rating β 14,705 ratings
33.
To End a War
by:
Richard Holbrooke
4.07 avg rating β 707 ratings
34.
Ethnic Groups in Conflict, Updated Edition With a New Preface
by:
Donald L. Horowitz
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 111 ratings
35.
Leadership Without Easy Answers
by:
Ronald A. Heifetz
4.10 avg rating β 930 ratings
36.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by:
Daniel Kahneman
4.17 avg rating β 564,640 ratings
37.
A Primer for Policy Analysis
by:
Edith Stokey
3.66 avg rating β 38 ratings
38.
A Theory of Justice
by:
John Rawls
3.95 avg rating β 13,399 ratings
39.
Principles of Corporate Finance
by:
Richard A. Brealey
3.93 avg rating β 899 ratings
40.
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
by:
Jay Heinrichs
3.57 avg rating β 7,087 ratings
41.
Invisible Man
by:
Ralph Ellison
3.92 avg rating β 198,742 ratings
42.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by:
James Agee
3.97 avg rating β 3,972 ratings
43.
Anthropology and Modern Life
by:
Franz Boas
3.97 avg rating β 234 ratings
44.
The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
by:
James Ferguson
4.28 avg rating β 633 ratings
45.
On Liberty
by:
John Stuart Mill
3.96 avg rating β 41,828 ratings
46.
The Metaphysics of Morals
by:
Immanuel Kant
3.94 avg rating β 2,724 ratings
47.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by:
Adam Smith
3.88 avg rating β 34,381 ratings
48.
Calculus: Early Transcendentals
by:
James Stewart
3.97 avg rating β 953 ratings
49.
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
by:
Christopher D. Manning
4.12 avg rating β 261 ratings
50.
Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace
by:
Lawrence Lessig
3.69 avg rating β 13 ratings
51.
Rethinking the Public Sphere
by:
Nancy Fraser
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 19 ratings
52.
Statistics with STATA
by:
Lawrence C. Hamilton
3.74 avg rating β 34 ratings
53.
Office Hours
by:
Norm Foster
4.10 avg rating β 21 ratings
54.
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by:
Stuart Russell
4.20 avg rating β 4,386 ratings
55.
Two Treatises of Government
by:
John Locke
3.87 avg rating β 19,408 ratings
56.
Macroeconomics
by:
Olivier J. Blanchard
3.87 avg rating β 767 ratings
57.
Lectures on Macroeconomics
by:
Olivier J. Blanchard
4.17 avg rating β 47 ratings
58.
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 2
by:
Karl Marx
4.10 avg rating β 2,143 ratings
59.
Economics
by:
Paul Krugman
4.01 avg rating β 216 ratings
60.
Japanese: The Spoken Language, Part 1
by:
Eleanor Harz Jorden
3.43 avg rating β 81 ratings
61.
Introduction to Econometrics (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)
by:
James H. Stock
3.57 avg rating β 242 ratings
62.
The Problem of Social Cost
by:
R.H. Coase
4.09 avg rating β 33 ratings
63.
Econometrics
by:
Fumio Hayashi
4.11 avg rating β 116 ratings
64.
Analytical Politics
by:
Melvin J. Hinich
3.75 avg rating β 8 ratings
65.
Macroeconomics
by:
Robert J. Barro
3.69 avg rating β 39 ratings
66.
Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory
by:
Thomas J. Sargent
3.85 avg rating β 20 ratings
67.
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by:
Sophocles
3.72 avg rating β 232,021 ratings
68.
A Short Guide to Writing About Art (The Short Guide Series)
by:
Sylvan Barnet
3.94 avg rating β 821 ratings
69.
The Evolution of Cooperation
by:
Robert Axelrod
4.25 avg rating β 2,279 ratings
70.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by:
Benjamin Franklin
3.85 avg rating β 89,883 ratings
71.
The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent
by:
J.C. Harle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 18 ratings
72.
Learning and Teaching
by:
Harold James Sheridan
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
73.
Cyborg Citizen
by:
Chris Habl Gray
3.19 avg rating β 58 ratings
74.
The Technological Society
by:
Jacques Ellul
4.31 avg rating β 1,158 ratings
75.
The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?
by:
David Brin
3.94 avg rating β 553 ratings
76.
A Social History of American Technology
by:
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
3.61 avg rating β 90 ratings
77.
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
by:
Walter Benjamin
4.29 avg rating β 12,266 ratings
78.
Simulacra and Simulation
by:
Jean Baudrillard
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 15,971 ratings
79.
The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
by:
James R. Beniger
4.16 avg rating β 107 ratings