Understanding Fascism Reading List (nonfiction)
1. 
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
by:
Jason F. Stanley
4.23 avg rating — 12,629 ratings 2. 
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
by:
Kathleen Belew
4.21 avg rating — 3,220 ratings 
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White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out 3.98 avg rating — 1,711 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating — 144,592 ratings
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by:
Carol Anderson
4.47 avg rating — 14,603 ratings 9. 
Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre
by:
Jeff Sparrow
4.14 avg rating — 276 ratings 
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
by:
Steven Levitsky
4.16 avg rating — 30,330 ratings 
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating — 89,956 ratings 15. 
Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America
by:
Vegas Tenold
3.80 avg rating — 1,163 ratings 16. 
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left
by:
Jonah Goldberg
3.95 avg rating — 6,004 ratings 
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It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
by:
Dale Beran
4.05 avg rating — 920 ratings 
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Origins and Doctrine of Fascism: With Selections from Other Works
by:
Giovanni Gentile
3.76 avg rating — 184 ratings 
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Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
by:
Andrew Marantz
4.20 avg rating — 3,049 ratings 24. 
Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right’s Challenge to State and Empire
by:
Matthew N. Lyons
4.30 avg rating — 46 ratings 25. 
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Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States
by:
Bradley W. Hart
3.96 avg rating — 736 ratings 28. 
The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
by:
John B. Judis
3.74 avg rating — 1,565 ratings 29. 
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
by:
Linda Gordon
3.82 avg rating — 1,271 ratings 
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The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America
by:
Mae Brussell
3.78 avg rating — 41 ratings 
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Young Mussolini and the Intellectual Origins of Fascism
by:
A. James Gregor
4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings 34. 
The Party Program: Essence, Principles and Goals of the Nsdap
by:
Alfred Rosenberg
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf
by:
Adolf Hitler
3.80 avg rating — 664 ratings 
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Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera: The Foundations of the Spanish Phalanx 4.35 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Blood and soil: Richard Walther Darré and Hitler's "Green Party"
by:
Anna Bramwell
3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
by:
Hannah Arendt
4.20 avg rating — 31,565 ratings 50. 
Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967
by:
Nigel Copsey
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream
by:
Leonard Zeskind
3.89 avg rating — 222 ratings 55. 
Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life
by:
Natasha Lennard
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 533 ratings 55. 
Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump
by:
David Neiwert
3.95 avg rating — 1,263 ratings 
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Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
by:
Talia Lavin
3.87 avg rating — 5,880 ratings 59. 
Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
by:
Seyward Darby
4.18 avg rating — 3,496 ratings 60. 
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
by:
Jim Wallis
4.07 avg rating — 1,728 ratings 61. 
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
by:
Mark Sedgwick
3.71 avg rating — 236 ratings 
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Walking Away from Hate: Our journey through extremism
by:
Jeanette Manning
3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings 61. 
The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal
by:
Mary L. Trump
4.10 avg rating — 3,502 ratings 61. 
The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism
by:
Ishay Landa
4.54 avg rating — 121 ratings 
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Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State
by:
Götz Aly
4.03 avg rating — 458 ratings 61. 
A Realistic Path to Peace: From Genocide to Global War... And How We Can Change It
by:
Dee Knight
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 71. 
Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right
by:
Ronald Beiner
3.41 avg rating — 140 ratings 71. 
The Progressive Revolution: Liberal Fascism Through the Ages, Vol. I: 2007-08 Writings
by:
Ellis Washington
2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 71. 
LIBERAL FASCISM: the Secret History of American Nazism exposed by Dr. Rex Curry
by:
Micky Barnetti
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 71. 
War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.46 avg rating — 236 ratings 71. 
The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups & Right-wing Extremists
by:
Martin A. Lee
3.88 avg rating — 98 ratings 71. 
Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement
by:
Michael Barkun
3.80 avg rating — 80 ratings 71. 
Reflections on Violence (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)
by:
Georges Sorel
3.57 avg rating — 488 ratings 78. 
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
by:
J. Sakai
4.18 avg rating — 1,027 ratings 78. 
Understanding Fascism: Writings on Caste, Class and the State
by:
K. Balagopal
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 78. 
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Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy
by:
Nancy S. Love
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings 81. 
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe
by:
David I. Kertzer
4.16 avg rating — 3,037 ratings 81. 
FIGHTING FASCISM: Anti-fascism, Free Speech and Political Violence (C4SS Mutual Exchange)
by:
Cory Massimino
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 
81. 
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
by:
Chris Hedges
4.03 avg rating — 4,666 ratings 81. 
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Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse
by:
Shane Burley
4.06 avg rating — 104 ratings 88. 
The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism
by:
Michael Hudson
4.49 avg rating — 86 ratings 91. 
The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace
by:
Eric Rauchway
3.87 avg rating — 176 ratings 
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A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism 3.71 avg rating — 371 ratings
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The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town 1922-1945 4.10 avg rating — 1,105 ratings
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A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Volume 15) (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)
by:
Michael Barkun
3.81 avg rating — 243 ratings 97. 
A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust & Denial in the Americas 1492 to the Present
by:
Ward Churchill
4.07 avg rating — 322 ratings 
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Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity
by:
Tamir Bar-on
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 8 ratings 99. 
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide 4.27 avg rating — 2,669 ratings