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#1

The Origins of Totalitarianism

ByHannah Arendt

1948 • 87 Readers • 580 pages • 4.4

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2014 • 4 Readers • 187 pages • 4

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

ByMerlin Sheldrake

2020 • 210 Readers • 370 pages • 4.5

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When We Cease to Understand the World

ByBenjamín Labatut,Adrian Nathan West(Translator)

2020 • 166 Readers • 192 pages • 4.1

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Discourse on Colonialism

ByAimé Césaire,Joan Pinkham(Translator)

1950 • 29 Readers • 102 pages • 4.4

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The Mother of All Questions

ByRebecca Solnit

2017 • 45 Readers • 176 pages • 4.2

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Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

ByMax Cutler,Kevin Conley

2022 • 19 Readers • 406 pages • 2.9

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#1-3 of 3 in The Copenhagen Trilogy

Childhood / Youth / Dependency

ByTove Ditlevsen,Tiina Nunnally(Translator),+1 more

1967 • 44 Readers • 384 pages • 3.8

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

2006 • 47 Readers • 4.8

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It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

ByJoe Vallese(Editor)

2022 • 59 Readers • 400 pages • 4.2

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The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times

ByWolfram Eilenberger

2020 • 3 Readers

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Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

2020 • 28 Readers • 368 pages • 4.3

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Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

2020 • 181 Readers • 240 pages • 4

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Black Skin, White Masks

ByFrantz Fanon,Richard Philcox(Translator)

1952 • 62 Readers • 206 pages • 3.9

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The Sleeping Beauties

BySuzanne O'Sullivan

2021 • 12 Readers • 336 pages • 5

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Philosophy in a new key

BySusanne Katherina Knauth Langer

2 Readers

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When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold

ByAlia Trabucco Zerán,Sophie Hughes(Translator)

2022 • 4 Readers • 242 pages

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Living a Feminist Life

2017 • 11 Readers • 312 pages • 4.5

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2010 • 245 Readers • 304 pages • 4.3

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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

ByRashid Khalidi

79 Readers • 4.3

#1

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

ByEsmé Weijun Wang

2019 • 87 Readers • 224 pages • 4.3

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Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua

ByStephen Kinzer

1991 • 4 Readers • 450 pages

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Sandino's daughters revisited

ByMargaret Randall

1 Reader

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Notes on Suicide

BySimon Critchley

2015 • 3 Readers • 92 pages

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The Devil You Know: Stories of Human Cruelty and Compassion

ByGwen Adshead,Eileen Horne

2021 • 6 Readers • 5

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Culture and Imperialism

ByEdward W. Said

1993 • 24 Readers • 422 pages • 4

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Strong Female Character

2023 • 87 Readers • 287 pages • 4.5

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An Anthropologist on Mars

1995 • 56 Readers • 318 pages • 4.3

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1 Joseph Campbell and Power of Myth

The Power of Myth

ByJoseph Campbell,Bill Moyers

1988 • 119 Readers • 231 pages • 4

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ByErika Fatland,Kari Dickson(Translator)

2014 • 11 Readers • 477 pages • 4

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A Philosophy of Walking

ByFrédéric Gros,John Howe(Translator)

2009 • 18 Readers • 273 pages • 3

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

ByNorman Ohler,Shaun Whiteside(Translator)

2015 • 68 Readers • 360 pages • 3.7

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

ByAmanda Montell

82 Readers • 3.5

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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

ByLaura Cumming

6 Readers • 4.3

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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

ByJudith Butler

1989 • 90 Readers • 236 pages • 4.6

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The Observable Universe: An Investigation

ByHeather McCalden

4 Readers

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In the Darkroom

2016 • 13 Readers • 434 pages • 5

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Revolting Prostitutes

ByJuno Mac,Molly Smith

2018 • 16 Readers • 278 pages • 4.8

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2001 • 20 Readers • 224 pages • 5

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A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

4 Readers • 4

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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

ByWilliam Styron

1990 • 47 Readers • 96 pages • 3.7

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Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

ByChristina Lamb

2020 • 9 Readers • 384 pages

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Disability Visibility

ByAlice Wong(Editor),Harriet McBryde Johnson(Contributor)

2020 • 81 Readers • 309 pages • 4.2

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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

2023 • 57 Readers • 612 pages • 4.5

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Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

2023 • 7 Readers

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

2015 • 354 Readers • 300 pages • 3.9

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Gravity and Grace

1947 • 17 Readers • 183 pages • 4.3

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BySathnam Sanghera

2 Readers

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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

ByMadhumita Murgia

13 Readers • 3.3

#1

Naming Nature The Clash Between Instinct and Science

ByCarol Kaesuk Yoon

2009 • 4 Readers • 353 pages • 4

#1

Color: A Master Class: Art History · Masterpieces · Symbolism · Techniques

ByCamille Viéville

1 Reader

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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

ByJonathan Balcombe

2016 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

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Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It

2022 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

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The Land in Our Bones

ByLayla K. Feghali

1 Reader