Books Mentioned in the Youtube Series Crash Course

1.
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty 4.09 avg rating β€” 59,205 ratings
2.
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power 4.07 avg rating β€” 2,780 ratings
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Why the West Rulesβ€”for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
Why the West Rulesβ€”for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future 4.11 avg rating β€” 5,828 ratings
4.
Hamlet
Hamlet 4.03 avg rating β€” 1,020,104 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating β€” 5,731,019 ratings
6.
Macbeth
Macbeth 3.89 avg rating β€” 992,049 ratings
7.
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) 4.14 avg rating β€” 1,348 ratings
8.
Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy
Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity's Unappeasable Appetite for Energy 3.78 avg rating β€” 196 ratings
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution 4.18 avg rating β€” 10,197 ratings
10.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating β€” 3,800,289 ratings
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by: Sophocles
3.72 avg rating β€” 231,999 ratings
12.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet 3.74 avg rating β€” 2,767,556 ratings
13.
The Pocket Emily Dickinson
The Pocket Emily Dickinson 4.34 avg rating β€” 220 ratings
13.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,451,229 ratings
15.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating β€” 6,688,546 ratings
16.
Poetics
Poetics
by: Aristotle
3.83 avg rating β€” 28,472 ratings
16.
The Langston Hughes Reader
The Langston Hughes Reader 4.39 avg rating β€” 216 ratings
18.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating β€” 1,156,566 ratings
19.
Frankenstein
Frankenstein 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,772,086 ratings
20.
Inferno
Inferno 4.03 avg rating β€” 200,489 ratings
21.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 3.83 avg rating β€” 1,318,879 ratings
22.
A Midsummer's Night Dream
A Midsummer's Night Dream 3.94 avg rating β€” 568,034 ratings
23.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating β€” 476,920 ratings
24.
Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World
Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World 3.67 avg rating β€” 66 ratings
25.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating β€” 114,638 ratings
26.
The First & Second Treatises of Government
The First & Second Treatises of Government 3.87 avg rating β€” 19,407 ratings
27.
The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills
The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills 4.17 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
28.
Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith
Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
29.
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa 4.19 avg rating β€” 66,205 ratings
30.
The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century
The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century 4.10 avg rating β€” 554 ratings
31.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Confessions of an English Opium Eater 3.28 avg rating β€” 10,818 ratings
32.
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia 3.96 avg rating β€” 2,558 ratings
33.
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 3.96 avg rating β€” 1,083 ratings
34.
Islands of History
Islands of History 3.78 avg rating β€” 213 ratings
35.
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present 3.84 avg rating β€” 1,000 ratings
36.
Brooke's Romeus and Juliet: Being the Original of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Brooke's Romeus and Juliet: Being the Original of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
37.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating β€” 76,393 ratings
38.
U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom) 4.52 avg rating β€” 27,061 ratings
39.
Petrarch: Poet and humanist (Writers of Italy series)
Petrarch: Poet and humanist (Writers of Italy series) 3.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
40.
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare 4.19 avg rating β€” 210 ratings
41.
Infringement Nation: Copyright 2.0 and You
Infringement Nation: Copyright 2.0 and You 4.29 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
42.
Phaedrus
Phaedrus
by: Plato
3.96 avg rating β€” 10,947 ratings
43.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre 4.16 avg rating β€” 2,259,697 ratings
44.
Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Achebe's Things Fall Apart
by: Ode Ogede
3.67 avg rating β€” 1,962 ratings
45.
Sylvia Plath Reads
Sylvia Plath Reads 4.58 avg rating β€” 283 ratings
46.
Granville Barker's Prefaces to Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Granville Barker's Prefaces to Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet 4.33 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
47.
Black Hawk: An Autobiography
Black Hawk: An Autobiography 3.60 avg rating β€” 1,310 ratings
48.
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 3.72 avg rating β€” 4,188 ratings
49.
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God
The Sovereignty and Goodness of God 2.88 avg rating β€” 3,572 ratings
50.
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. by James Otis, Esq. the Third Edition, Corrected.
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. by James Otis, Esq. the Third Edition, Corrected. 4.12 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
51.
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
The Radicalism of the American Revolution 4.08 avg rating β€” 5,311 ratings
52.
Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (KnowledgeNotes Student Guides)
Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street (KnowledgeNotes Student Guides) 3.89 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
53.
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.37 avg rating β€” 3,890 ratings
54.
The Essential Margaret Fuller
The Essential Margaret Fuller 3.70 avg rating β€” 71 ratings
55.
America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation 3.92 avg rating β€” 461 ratings
56.
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage 3.30 avg rating β€” 108,683 ratings
57.
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character 3.80 avg rating β€” 597 ratings
58.
Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992
Coercion, Capital, and European States, A.D. 990-1992 4.09 avg rating β€” 568 ratings
59.
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns
The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns 3.78 avg rating β€” 1,620 ratings