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99.
The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, & Colonization
by:
Walter D. Mignolo
3.98 avg rating — 88 ratings
102.
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
by:
Philippe Ariès
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,192 ratings
102.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
by:
Judith Butler
4.05 avg rating — 18,780 ratings
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The Trial
by:
Franz Kafka
3.94 avg rating — 377,373 ratings
105.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by:
Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating — 23,239 ratings
106.
The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914
by:
Philipp Blom
4.03 avg rating — 1,419 ratings
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-69
by:
Stephen E. Ambrose
3.99 avg rating — 13,754 ratings
107.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by:
Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,685 ratings
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by:
David Harvey
4.13 avg rating — 7,147 ratings
110.
The Bog Man and the Archaeology of People
by:
Don Brothwell
4.11 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Letters from a Stoic
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Seneca
4.33 avg rating — 52,583 ratings
112.
The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
by:
James Fenimore Cooper
3.70 avg rating — 101,129 ratings
113.
Twelve Years a Slave
by:
Solomon Northup
4.22 avg rating — 123,137 ratings
114.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by:
Michel Foucault
4.24 avg rating — 35,775 ratings
115.
Going Forth By Day (Children of Stone, #2)
by:
Mary R. Woldering
4.35 avg rating — 78 ratings
115.
The Legendary Life of Bee Ho Gray
by:
Clark Gray
4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
115.
The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism
by:
Ishay Landa
4.54 avg rating — 121 ratings
115.
The Creation of Me, Them and Us
by:
Heather Marsh
4.55 avg rating — 42 ratings
115.
The Thresher
by:
Paul Christensen
3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings
115.
Paris Talks: Addresses Given by 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1911
by:
Abdu'l-Bahá
4.82 avg rating — 300 ratings
115.
Le partage du sensible: Esthétique et politique
by:
Jacques Rancière
3.90 avg rating — 1,708 ratings
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Voices in Crystal (Children of Stone, #1)
by:
Mary R. Woldering
4.35 avg rating — 78 ratings
122.
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
by:
Miep Gies
4.30 avg rating — 66,124 ratings
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
by:
Michel Foucault
4.09 avg rating — 14,198 ratings
125.
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
by:
Daniel Walker Howe
4.16 avg rating — 8,618 ratings
125.
Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
by:
Mamie Till-Mobley
4.44 avg rating — 1,229 ratings
125.
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
by:
Susan Brownmiller
4.05 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
125.
Assassins of Memory
by:
Pierre Vidal-Naquet
3.97 avg rating — 72 ratings
125.
Constructing Social Reality: An Inquiry into the Normative Foundations of Social Change
by:
Michael Karlberg
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
125.
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
by:
Michael Parenti
4.53 avg rating — 805 ratings
125.
Poetics of Relation
by:
Édouard Glissant
4.44 avg rating — 560 ratings
125.
The 33 Strategies of War
by:
Robert Greene
4.23 avg rating — 19,251 ratings
133.
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by:
Stephen Greenblatt
3.87 avg rating — 10,656 ratings
133.
The Reader
by:
Bernhard Schlink
3.78 avg rating — 226,249 ratings
133.
Faust, First Part
by:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.83 avg rating — 84,128 ratings
133.
Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and the Post-modern
by:
Douglas Kellner
3.90 avg rating — 121 ratings
133.
War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.46 avg rating — 236 ratings
133.
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
by:
Christina Sharpe
4.30 avg rating — 4,131 ratings
139.
Dialectic of Enlightenment
by:
Max Horkheimer
4.11 avg rating — 8,007 ratings
139.
The Man Without Qualities
by:
Robert Musil
4.19 avg rating — 7,191 ratings
139.
Culture and Society, 1780-1950
by:
Raymond Williams
4.04 avg rating — 444 ratings
139.
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
by:
Stephen Crane
3.30 avg rating — 108,691 ratings
139.
Can the Subaltern Speak? Postkolonialität und subalterne Artikulation
by:
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
3.95 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
139.
Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.37 avg rating — 124 ratings
145.
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America 1932-72
by:
William Manchester
4.43 avg rating — 2,161 ratings
145.
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
by:
Judith Flanders
4.18 avg rating — 2,690 ratings
145.
The First and Second Discourses
by:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.69 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
145.
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
by:
Rainer Maria Rilke
3.93 avg rating — 9,669 ratings
145.
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by:
Loung Ung
4.35 avg rating — 52,427 ratings
145.
The Death of the Author
by:
Roland Barthes
3.93 avg rating — 3,080 ratings
145.
Sister Carrie
by:
Theodore Dreiser
3.77 avg rating — 41,370 ratings
145.
Critique of Black Reason (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
by:
Achille Mbembe
4.08 avg rating — 502 ratings
145.
Liberalism: A Counter-History
by:
Domenico Losurdo
4.39 avg rating — 1,088 ratings
154.
The Neurotic Personality of Our Time
by:
Karen Horney
4.25 avg rating — 1,808 ratings
154.
The Edwardian Turn of Mind
by:
Samuel Hynes
3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
154.
The Shock of the New
by:
Robert Hughes
3.74 avg rating — 35,755 ratings
154.
Phenomenology of Spirit
by:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3.96 avg rating — 19,986 ratings
154.
Steppenwolf
by:
Hermann Hesse
4.13 avg rating — 206,767 ratings
154.
Grenzenloses Vergnügen: Der Aufstieg der Massenkultur 1850-1970
by:
Kaspar Maase
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
154.
Notes from Underground
by:
Fyodor Dostoevsky
4.17 avg rating — 209,284 ratings
154.
Mansfield Park
by:
Jane Austen
3.86 avg rating — 371,713 ratings
154.
Necropolitics
by:
Achille Mbembe
4.23 avg rating — 1,789 ratings
154.
Ethics
by:
Baruch Spinoza
4.10 avg rating — 20,278 ratings
164.
The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat
by:
Bob Drury
4.43 avg rating — 4,532 ratings
164.
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by:
Richard Rhodes
4.40 avg rating — 23,886 ratings
164.
What is an Author?
by:
Michel Foucault
3.78 avg rating — 874 ratings
164.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
by:
Italo Calvino
4.02 avg rating — 108,228 ratings
164.
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
by:
Angus Wilson
3.66 avg rating — 635 ratings
164.
The Divided City: On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens
by:
Corinne Pache
4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
164.
The Way Things Are
by:
Lucretius
3.97 avg rating — 14,247 ratings
171.
Scoop
by:
Evelyn Waugh
3.79 avg rating — 22,003 ratings
171.
Escape from Freedom
by:
Erich Fromm
4.27 avg rating — 15,571 ratings
171.
The Sociological Imagination
by:
C. Wright Mills
4.16 avg rating — 3,267 ratings
171.
The Plot Against America
by:
Philip Roth
3.81 avg rating — 67,303 ratings
171.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.69 avg rating — 148,974 ratings
171.
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
by:
Sigmund Freud
3.64 avg rating — 7,781 ratings
171.
Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
by:
Daniel Defoe
3.51 avg rating — 48,078 ratings
171.
Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman
by:
Nicole Loraux
4.03 avg rating — 154 ratings
171.
The Condition of the Working Class in England
by:
Friedrich Engels
4.03 avg rating — 3,605 ratings
180.
Major Barbara
by:
George Bernard Shaw
3.66 avg rating — 7,244 ratings
180.
Man and Superman
by:
George Bernard Shaw
3.85 avg rating — 4,661 ratings
180.
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
by:
Alain Badiou
3.88 avg rating — 1,880 ratings
180.
The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy
by:
Laurence Sterne
3.73 avg rating — 22,671 ratings
180.
Women, Race & Class
by:
Angela Y. Davis
4.59 avg rating — 33,019 ratings
180.
In Search of Lost Time
by:
Marcel Proust
4.34 avg rating — 13,694 ratings
186.
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction
by:
Joan Didion
4.43 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
186.
Or I'll Dress You in Mourning: The Story of El Cordobes and the New Spain He Stands For
by:
Larry Collins
4.42 avg rating — 1,008 ratings
186.
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
by:
Tom Holland
4.23 avg rating — 25,520 ratings
186.
The Zoo Story and Other Plays
by:
Edward Albee
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,963 ratings
186.
The Skin of Our Teeth
by:
Thornton Wilder
3.83 avg rating — 5,107 ratings
186.
Relational Aesthetics
by:
Nicolas Bourriaud
3.69 avg rating — 1,232 ratings
186.
The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991
by:
Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.29 avg rating — 7,612 ratings
186.
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
by:
Susan Sontag
4.14 avg rating — 10,000 ratings
186.
Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein
by:
Peter Fairclough
3.81 avg rating — 458 ratings
186.
The Communist Manifesto
by:
Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating — 189,271 ratings
196.
Edward II
by:
Christopher Marlowe
3.66 avg rating — 7,236 ratings
196.
Post-Modernism
by:
Charles Jencks
3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings
196.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by:
Toni Morrison
3.97 avg rating — 476,993 ratings
196.
Tom Jones
by:
Henry Fielding
3.75 avg rating — 34,038 ratings
196.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by:
Shoshana Zuboff
4.06 avg rating — 12,765 ratings
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