(1) The Prince (2) Animal Farm (3) The Communist Manifesto (4) The Audacity of Hope (5) The Shock Doctrine (6) Fire and Fury (7) The Republic (8) Manufacturing Consent (9) Game Change (10) Dark Money
1. The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli | avg rating 3.79–302,994 ratings — published 1513
2. Animal Farm
George Orwell | avg rating 3.87–2,602,336 ratings — published 1945
3. The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx | avg rating 3.52–130,023 ratings — published 1848
4. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Barack Obama | avg rating 3.70–234,148 ratings — published 2006
5. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein | avg rating 4.22–66,324 ratings — published 2006
6. Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Michael Wolff | avg rating 3.48–47,060 ratings — published 2018
7. The Republic
Plato | avg rating 3.91–239,562 ratings — published -380
8. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Noam Chomsky | avg rating 4.23–42,285 ratings — published 1988
9. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
John Heilemann | avg rating 4.10–26,106 ratings — published 2010
10. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Jane Mayer | avg rating 4.34–31,312 ratings — published 2016
11. The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton | avg rating 4.03–57,272 ratings — published 1787
12. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns Goodwin | avg rating 4.28–269,396 ratings — published 2005
13. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder | avg rating 4.24–42,993 ratings — published 2017
14. The Art of War
Sun Tzu | avg rating 3.97–397,294 ratings — published -500
15. 1984
George Orwell | avg rating 4.15–3,066,964 ratings — published 1949
16. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander | avg rating 4.50–100,463 ratings — published 2010
17. What Happened
Hillary Rodham Clinton | avg rating 4.05–56,059 ratings — published 2017
18. Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville | avg rating 3.98–44,544 ratings — published 1840
19. America
Jon Stewart | avg rating 4.02–115,713 ratings — published 2004
20. Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right
Al Franken | avg rating 3.81–32,379 ratings — published 2003
21. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama | avg rating 3.82–312,049 ratings — published 1995
22. Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power
Rachel Maddow | avg rating 4.04–31,768 ratings — published 2012
23. Common Sense
Thomas Paine | avg rating 3.94–37,901 ratings — published 1776
24. The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | avg rating 3.76–59,230 ratings — published 1762
25. What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
Thomas Frank | avg rating 3.84–18,545 ratings — published 2004
26. All the President’s Men
Carl Bernstein | avg rating 4.18–58,998 ratings — published 1974
27. Politics
Aristotle | avg rating 3.93–56,841 ratings — published -350
28. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J.D. Vance | avg rating 3.89–246,022 ratings — published 2016
29. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt | avg rating 4.15–61,795 ratings — published 2012
30. Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand | avg rating 3.67–533,287 ratings — published 1957
31. No Logo
Naomi Klein | avg rating 3.87–41,815 ratings — published 1999
32. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Naomi Klein | avg rating 4.16–41,345 ratings — published 2014
33. Utopia
Thomas More | avg rating 3.50–95,622 ratings — published 1516
34. The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt | avg rating 4.26–23,774 ratings — published 1951
35. Nickel and Dimed: On
Barbara Ehrenreich | avg rating 3.60–232,139 ratings — published 2001
36. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Arlie Russell Hochschild | avg rating 4.12–28,126 ratings — published 2016
37. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
Noam Chomsky | avg rating 4.40–18,149 ratings — published 2002
38. Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
Al Franken | avg rating 4.35–19,758 ratings — published 2017
39. Dude, Where’s My Country?
Michael Moore | avg rating 3.41–16,230 ratings — published 2003
40. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington | avg rating 3.70–16,992 ratings — published 1996
41. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins | avg rating 3.83–36,844 ratings — published 2004
42. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
Saul D. Alinsky | avg rating 3.77–15,070 ratings — published 1969
43. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
Glenn Greenwald | avg rating 4.06–25,255 ratings — published 2014
44. The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama | avg rating 4.13–16,574 ratings — published 2011
45. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X | avg rating 4.29–279,474 ratings — published 1965
46. The Revolution: A Manifesto
Ron Paul | avg rating 4.14–12,750 ratings — published 2008
47. The Law
Frédéric Bastiat | avg rating 4.39–17,484 ratings — published 1849
48. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoğlu | avg rating 4.00–48,509 ratings — published 2012
49. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty | avg rating 4.01–63,362 ratings — published 2013
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