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Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso

Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory

Enzo Traverso

312 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

320 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Naomi Klein

558 pages • hardcover • 2006

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Dean Spade

152 pages • paperback • 2020

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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine

Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

Yasha Levine

384 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction history politics technology dark informative medium-paced
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Eduardo Galeano

317 pages • paperback • 1971

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

106 pages • paperback • 1963

nonfiction classics essays memoir race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Orlando Figes

768 pages • paperback • 2002

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

729 pages • paperback • 1980

nonfiction history politics reference challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

The Deficit Myth

Stephanie Kelton

336 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction economics politics challenging informative slow-paced
Propaganda and the Public Mind by Noam Chomsky

Propaganda and the Public Mind

Noam Chomsky

256 pages • paperback • 1998

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. The Unabomber by Theodore John Kaczynski

Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. The Unabomber

Theodore John Kaczynski

355 pages • paperback • 2010

nonfiction philosophy politics technology reflective slow-paced
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

504 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction history politics true crime dark slow-paced
A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes

A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution

Orlando Figes

1024 pages • paperback • 1996

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced