REPOSTING FOR UPDATED READING LIST
-- I can hardly believe it's been two years since I started this.
And I hope this year's elections will contribute to undoing some of the damage done in the past four years and go some way towards restoring the U.S. to what the country used to be.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!
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Books read are checked off, with the year of reading added in parentheses (and with everything read prior to 2018 just marked like that, since 2018 was the year when I came up with this project.)
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Could there possibly be a better day on which to finally follow up on my Freedom and Future Library post?
Truth be told, I'd been hoping to compile this much faster, but RL threw a major spanner in the works pretty much all of last week and both of the past weekends. But, anyway, here we are at last.
Thank you once more to everybody who contributed ideas and suggestions! A special thank you to Knight of Angels, whom some on BookLikes may remember as Troy, and who instantly took up the baton and came up with a magnificent Freedom and Equality Library in the space of a single day, which I'm shamelessly including in mine in its entirety (as I am also including everybody else's reading recommendations, of course). -- This list contains plenty of books that are new to me, as well as a number of books (and shorter texts) that I've already read but am planning to revisit, or have been revisiting every so often already anyway.
So, here is the complete list in alphabetical order -- in the coming days, I'm planning to also break it down into topical reading lists, to make it somewhat easier to parse. English titles of the books included in my library in another language are given in parentheses.
Edward Abby
- Desert Solitaire
John Adams
- Revolutionary Writings, 1755-1783 (2 volumes)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
- Half of a Yellow Sun √ (2018)
- We Should All Be Feminists √ (2020)
Madeleine Albright
- Fascism: A Warning
- Madam Secretary: A Memoir
- The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on Faith, God and World Affairs
- Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Svetlana Alexievich
- Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
- The Unwomanly Face of War
- Voices from Chernobyl
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Heretic
- Infidel
- Nomad
Isabel Allende
- De amor y de sombra (Of Love and Shadow) √ (prior to 2018)
Akhil Reed Amar / Les Adams
- The Bill of Rights Primer: A Citizen’s Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights
Amnesty International, Neil Gaiman, Matt Haig, and Others
- Here I Stand: Stories that Speak for Freedom
Maya Angelou
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Kofi Annan
- Interventions: A Life in War and Peace √ (2019)
- We the Peoples: The 2001 Nobel Lecture √ (prior to 2018)
Jean Anouilh
- Antigone √ (prior to 2018)
Louise Arbour
- War Crimes and the Culture of Peace √ (prior to 2018)
Hannah Arendt
- Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics / Civil Disobedience / On Violence / Thoughts on Politics and Revolution
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil √ (prior to 2018)
- The Origins of Totalitarianism
- The Portable Hannah Arendt
- Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975
Anthony Arnove, Colin Firth, David Horspool
- The People Speak: Voices That Changed Britain
Thomas Asbridge
- The Greatest Knight
Ed Asner / Ed. Weinberger
- The Grouchy Historian
Aristophanes
- The Complete Plays, especially:
- The Birds
- Clouds
- The Knights
- Lysistrata √ (prior to 2018)
Aristotle
- The Politics
- The Nicomachean Ethics
Timothy Garton Ash
- Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
Assemblée constituante (France)
- Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen (1789) (Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen) √ (prior to 2018)
Assemblée nationale (France)
- Articles constitutionnels (1789) / Constitution de France (1791) (Constitutional Articles of 1989 and Constitution of 1791) √ (prior to 2018)
Margaret Atwood
- Freedom
- Hag Seed √ (2019)
- The Handmaid's Tale √ (prior to 2018)
- The Testaments √ (2019)
Akram Aylisli
- Stone Dreams
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- My Own Words
Bernard Bailyn
- The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
James Baldwin
- Collected Essays
- Giovanni's Room
- If Beale Street Could Talk
Edward Ball
- Slaves in the Family
John Dudley Ball
- In the Heat of the Night √ (prior to 2018)
Pat Barker
- The Regeneration Trilogy (Regeneration / The Eye in the Door / The Ghost Road)
Violet Barungi, Felix Chami, and Ayeta Anne Wangusa (eds.), Various Authors
- Tears of Hope: A Collection of Short Stories by Ugandan Rural Women
Violet Barungi and Hilda Twongyeirwe (eds.), Various Authors
- Beyond the Dance: Voices of Women on Female Genital Mutilation
Violet Barungi, Hilda Twongyeirwe, and Rebecca Salonen (eds.), Various Authors
- Taboo: Voices of Women in Uganda on Female Genital Mutilation
Gary Jonathan Bass
- Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals
Mary Beard
- Women & Power: A Manifesto
Simone de Beauvoir
- Le deuxième sexe (The Second Sex)
- Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter)
Zdenka Becker
- Samy
Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat
- Peace in the Making: The Menachem Begin-Anwar Sadat Personal Correspondence
John Bercow
- Unspeakable √ (2020)
Louis de Bernières
- Birds Without Wings √ (prior to 2018)
Preet Bharara
- Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law
Benazir Bhutto
- Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography
Kai Bird / Martin J. Sherwin
- American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Black Hawk
- The Autobiography of Black Hawk
Ray Bradbury
- Fahrenheit 451 √ (prior to 2018)
Taylor Branch
- America in the King Years 1954-63: Parting the Waters
- America in the King Years 1963-65: Pillar of Fire
- America in the King Years 1965-68: At Canaan's Edge
Willy Brandt
- Erinnerungen (My Life in Politics) √ (prior to 2018)
Bertolt Brecht
- Antigone: In a Version by Bertolt Brecht
- Der Aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui ) √ (prior to 2018)
- Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and Her Children) √ (prior to 2018)
Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter
- The Nixon Tapes (2 volumes: 1971-72 & 1973)
Dee Brown
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Susan Brownmiller
- Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
- Four Noble Truths
Thi Bui
- Best We Could Do
NoViolet Bulawayo
- We Need New Names
Edmund Burke
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
Pete Buttigieg
- Shortest Way Home
Clayborne Carson (ed.), Various Authors
- Reporting Civil Rights
Rachel Carson
- Silent Spring
Aimé Césaire
- Discours Sur Le Colonialisme
William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Paul Ortiz, Robert Parris
- Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South
Ruoxi Chen
- The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Winston Churchill
- Their Finest Hour
Marcus Tullius Cicero
- An Attack on an Enemy of Freedom (Philippicae) √ (prior to 2018)
- Selections from the Writings of Cicero
Christopher Clark
- The Sleepwalkers
Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Between the World and Me
Andrew Cockburn
- Kill Chain
Sara Collins
- The Confessions of Frannie Langton
James Comey
- A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
Arthur Conan Doyle
- Danger! √ (2019)
Maryse Condé
- Moi, Tituba sorcière (I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem)
Richard Condon
- The Manchurian Candidate √ (prior to 2018)
Members of the Constitutional Congress
- The Constitution of the United States (1787) √ (prior to 2018)
Gordon Corera
- Intercept
Rory Cormac
- Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy
Charlie Craggs
- To My Trans Sisters
Stephen Crane
- The Red Badge of Courage
Caroline Criado-Pérez
- Invisible Women
Juana Inés de la Cruz
- La Respuesta (The Answer) √ (prior to 2018)
Euclides da Cunha
- Rebellion in the Backlands
Dalai Lama XIV
- Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World
- Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
- The Power of Compassion: A Collection of Lectures √ (prior to 2018)
Edwidge Danticat
- Breath, Eyes, Memory
Danny Danziger, John Gillingham
- 1215: The Year of Magna Carta
Charles Darwin
- The Origin of Species
- The Voyage of the Beagle
Richard Dawkins
- The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
John W. Dean
- The Nixon Defense
- The Rehnquist Choice: The Untold Story of the Nixon Appointment That Redefined the Supreme Court
Michel Debré, Comité Consultatif Constitutionnel
- Constitution de la 5e République française (1958) (Constitution of the Fifth French Republic)
Daniel C. Dennett
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
René Descartes
- Discours de la méthode
Jared Diamond
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed √ (prior to 2018)
Jared Diamond, James A. Robinson
- Natural Experiments of History
Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Grand Inquisitor √ (prior to 2018)
Frederick Douglass
- Autobiographies / Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass, James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Olaudah Equiano, Nat Turner, William W. Brown, Henry Bibb, Sojouner Truth, William Craft, Harriet Jacobs, and J.D.Green; William L. Andrews and Henry Louis Gates (eds.)
- Slave Narratives
Philip Dray
- At the Hands of Persons Unknown
W.E.B. Du Bois
- The Souls of Black Folk
Daphne Du Maurier
- Rule Britannia
George B. Dyson
- Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution Of Global Intelligence
Angela Eagle, Imran Ahmed
- The New Serfdom
Wolfram Eilenberger
- Zeit der Zauberer (The Time of the Magicians)
Albert Einstein
- Essays in Humanism
T.S. Eliot
- Murder in the Cathedral
Joseph J. Ellis
- American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Founding of the Republic
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation √ (prior to 2018)
Ralph Ellison
- Invisible Man
Mona Eltahawy
- Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Selected Essays √ (prior to 2018)
Bernardine Evaristo
- Girl, Woman, Other √ (2020)
Ronan Farrow
- War on Peace
Sebastian Faulks
- Birdsong
- War
- A Week in December
Gaël Faye
- Petit pays (Small Country) √ (2020)
Ann Fessler
- The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Their Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Joachim Fest
- Hitler √ (prior to 2018)
Lion Feuchtwanger
- Die Geschwister Oppermann (The Oppermanns)
- Die Jüdin von Toledo (Raquel, the Jewess of Toledo / A Spanish Ballad) √ (prior to 2018)
- Jud Süß
- Narrenweisheit oder Tod und Verklärung des Jean-Jacques Rousseau ('Tis Folly to Be Wise, or, Death and Transfiguration of Jean-Jaques Rousseau)
John E. Finn
- Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights
Helen Fitzgerald
- Viral
Patrick Flanery
- I Am No One
Moderata Fonte
- The Worth of Women √ (prior to 2018)
Aminatta Forna
- The Memory of Love √ (2019)
John Foxe
- Foxe’s Book of Martyrs
Pope Francis, Dominique Wolton
- A Future of Faith: The Path of Change in Politics and Society
Anne Frank
- The Diary of Anne Frank √ (prior to 2018)
Viktor E. Frankl
- Man’s Search for Meaning
Benjamin Franklin
- Writings
Marilyn French
- The Women's Room √ (prior to 2018)
Betty Friedan
- The Feminine Mystique
Thomas L. Friedman
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Max Frisch
- Biedermann und die Brandstifter (The Firebugs) √ (prior to 2018)
Francis Fukuyama
- The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Mary Fulbrook
- A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust
Alexandra Fuller
- Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight √ (2019)
Richard Buckminster Fuller
- Critical Path
Ernest J. Gaines
- A Lesson Before Dying
John Kenneth Galbraith
- The Great Crash, 1929
Joachim Gauck
- Freiheit (Freedom) √ (prior to 2018)
- Winter im Sommer -- Frühling im Herbst: Erinnerungen (Winter in Summer -- Spring in Fall: Memoirs)
Charles de Gaulle
- Mémoires de guerre (War Memoirs)
William Gibson
- Pattern Recognition
Richard J. Goldstone
- For Humanity: Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator √ (prior to 2018)
Mikhail Gorbachev
- Memoirs
- Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World
Al Gore
- The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-making
- An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Stephen Jay Gould
- Bully for Brontosaurus
- Ever Since Darwin
- The Panda's Thumb
Philip Gourevitch
- We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Carrie Gracie
- Equal
David Graeber
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years √ (prior to 2018)
Katharine Graham
- Personal History
George Grant
- The American Patriot’s Handbook: The Writings, History, and Spirit of a Free Nation
Ulysses S. Grant
- Memoirs and Selected Letters
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- Spartacus
Toby Green
- A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
Allen C. Guelzo
- The American Mind
Michihiko Hachiya
- Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
Sebastian Haffner (ed.), Various Authors
- Versailles 1919: Aus der Sicht von Zeitzeugen (Versailles 1919: Seen Through the Eyes of Contemporary Witnesses)
Jonathan Haidt
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Matt Haig
- Notes on a Nervous Planet
Alex Haley
- Roots: The Saga of an American Family √ (prior to 2018)
Alexander Hamilton
- Writings
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
- The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and others, Bernard Bailyn (ed.)
- The Debate on the Constitution: Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification: September 1787-August 1788 (2 volumes)
Zahra Hankir (ed.), Christiane Amanpour (foreword), Various Authors
- Our Women on the Ground
Yuval Noah Harari
- Money
Nino Haratischwili
- Die Katze und der General (The Cat and the General)
Kate Harding
- Asking for It: Slut-shaming, Victim-blaming, and How We Can Change America's Rape Culture
Luke Harding
- The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
Melissa V. Harris-Perry
- Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
Stephen Hawking
- A Brief History of Time
Michael V. Hayden
- Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Natalie Haynes
- A Thousand Ships
Seamus Heaney, Sophocles
- The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles’ Antigone
Joseph Heller
- Catch-22
- Something Happened
- Work
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Das Leben der anderen (The Lives of Others) √ (prior to 2018)
Alexander Herzen
- My Past and Thoughts: The Memoirs of Alexander Herzen
Hermann Hesse
- Narziß und Goldmund (Narcissus and Goldmund)
- Siddhartha √ (prior to 2018)
Rolf Hochhuth
- Juristen (Lawyers) √ (prior to 2018)
- Der Stellvertreter (The Deputy) √ (prior to 2018)
Andrew Hodges
- Alan Turing: The Enigma
David E. Hoffman
- The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
Tom Holland
- Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
Selina Hossain
- River of My Blood
David Howarth
- We Die Alone
Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen (The Sphere and Duties of Government / The Limits of State Action)
David Hume
- An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
- Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
John Hume
- A New Ireland: Politics, Peace, and Reconciliation
Aldous Huxley
- Brave New World √ (prior to 2018)
Samuel Hynes, Anne Matthews, Nancy Caldwell Sorel (eds.), Various Authors
- Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938-1946
International Committee of the Red Cross
- Basic Rules of the Geneva Conventions and Their Additional Protocols
Peter H. Irons
- Brennan Vs. Rehnquist: The Battle for the Constitution
Michael Isikoff, David Corn
- Russian Roulette
Hamid Ismailov
- The Devils' Dance
Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón
- The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
Thomas Jefferson
- Writings
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln, William Lloyd Garrison, Andrew Jackson, and others, John Grafton (ed.)
- The Declaration of Independence and Other Great Documents of American History 1775-1865 √ (prior to 2018)
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Otis, John Dickinson, Samuel Adams, Joseph Galloway, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, Samuel Seabury, Thomas Hutchinson, and others, Gordon Wood (ed.)
- The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1764-1776 (2 volumes)
Dan Jones
- Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty
Reece Jones
- Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
Ernst Jünger
- In Stahlgewittern (Storms of Steel)
André Kaminski
- Nächstes Jahr in Jerusalem (Kith and Kin)
Hasnain Kazim
- Post von Karlheinz
Patrick Radden Keefe
- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
John Keegan
- The Face of Battle
China Keitetsi
- Child Soldier: Fighting for My Life
Sarah Kendzior
- The View from Flyover Country
John F. Kennedy
- Let the Word Go Forth: Speeches, Statements, and Writings 1947 to 1963
- A Nation of Immigrants
- Profiles in Courage
Robert F. Kennedy
- Thirteen Days
Navid Kermani
- Ausnahmezustand: Reisen in eine beunruhigte Welt (State of Emergency: Travels in a Troubled World)
- Einbruch der Wirklichkeit: Auf dem Flüchtlingstreck durch Europa (Upheaval: The Refugee Trek through Europe)
- Entlang den Gräben: Eine Reise durch das östliche Europa bis nach Isfahan (Along the Trenches: A Trip Through Eastern Europe to Isfahan)
- Vergesst Deutschland!: Eine patriotische Rede (Forget Germany!: A Patriotic Speech)
- Zwischen Koran und Kafka: West-östliche Erkundungen (Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities)
Ian Kershaw
- Hitler: A Biography
John Maynard Keynes
- The Economic Consequences of the Peace
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Martin Luther King Jr.
- A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
- Letter from the Birmingham Jail √ (prior to 2018)
- Why We Can't Wait √ (prior to 2018)
Naomi Klein
- No Is Not Enough
Helen J. Knowles
- The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty
Arthur Koestler
- Darkness at Noon
Clea Koff
- The Bone Woman: A Forensic Anthropologist's Search for Truth in the Mass Graves of Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo √ (prior to 2018)
Eugen Kogon
- Der SS-Staat (The Theory and Practice of Hell) √ (prior to 2018)
Ted Koppel
- Lights Out: A Cyberattack: A Nation Unprepared: Surviving the Aftermath
Mark Kurlansky
- 1968: The Year That Rocked the World
Tony Kushner
- Angels in America
Stanley I. Kutler
- The Wars of Watergate
Aung San Suu Kyi
- Freedom from Fear
John Le Carré
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold √ (prior to 2018)
Denis Leary
- Why We Don’t Suck and How All of Us Need to Stop Being Such Partisan Little Bitches
Harper Lee
- To Kill a Mockingbird √ (prior to 2018)
Hyeonseo Lee
- The Girl with Seven Names √ (2019)
Ursula K. Le Guin
- No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Nathan the Wise, Minna von Barnhelm, and Other Plays and Writings √ (prior to 2018)
C.S. Lewis
- The Screwtape Letters √ (prior to 2018)
Michael Lewis
- Liar's Poker
- The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Sinclair Lewis
- It Can't Happen Here
Savyon Liebrecht
- Die Banalität der Liebe (The Banality of Love) √ (prior to 2018)
Juliette Lichtenstein
- Permanence du discours sur Israël
Michael Lienesch
- In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
Mark Lilla
- The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics
Abraham Lincoln
- The Gettysburg Address √ (prior to 2018)
- Selected Speeches and Writings
Astrid Lindgren
- Die Menschheit hat den Verstand verloren: Tagebücher 1939-1945 (A World Gone Mad: The Diaries of Astrid Lindgren, 1939-45) √ (2019)
John Locke
- Second Treatise of Government
- Political Writings
James W. Loewen
- Lies My Teacher Told Me
Chris Lowney
- A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain
Martin Luther
- Von der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen (The Freedom of a Christian) √ (prior to 2018)
- Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings
Margaret MacMillan
- Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
William MacAskill
- Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
Tony Macaulay
- Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms with the Troubles
Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Prince
Okky Madasari
- The Years of Voiceless
James Madison
- Writings
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
- The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland
Eve Makis
- The Spice Box Letters √ (2020)
Malcolm X
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
David Mamet
- Glengarry Glen Ross √ (prior to 2018)
Peter C. Mancall
- Origins and Ideologies of the American Revolution
Nelson Mandela
- Long Walk to Freedom
Abby Mann
- Judgment at Nuremberg
Heinrich Mann
- Der Untertan (Man of Straw) √ (prior to 2018)
Klaus Mann
- Mephisto √ (prior to 2018)
Thomas Mann
- Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen (Reflections of an Unpolitical Man) √ (prior to 2018)
- Deutsche Hörer! Radiosendungen nach Deutschland aus den Jahren 1940-1945 (Listen, Germany! -- Letters to German listeners broadcast on BBC in 1940-1945) √ (prior to 2018)
Marcus Aurelius
- Meditations
Joyce Marlow (ed.), Various Authors
- Votes for Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes
Milton Sanford Mayer
- They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 √ (prior to 2018)
Sarah McBride
- Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
John McIlwain
- Magna Carta In Salisbury
Bethany McLean, Joe Nocera
- All The Devils Are Here: Unmasking the Men Who Bankrupted the World
Francesca Melandri
- Alle, außer mir (original title: Sangue giusto -- "The Right [or Just] Blood")
Maria Rosa Menocal
- The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
Maria Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Michael Sells (eds.), Various Authors
- The Literature of Al-Andalús
Fatima Mernissi
- Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Muslim Society
Jamie Frederic Metzl
- Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Martin Middlebrook
- The First Day on the Somme
John Stuart Mill
- On Liberty
- The Subjection of Women
Frank Millar
- David Trimble: The Prince of Peace
John Milton
- Areopagitica and Other Writings
Nadifa Mohamed
- The Orchard of Lost Souls
Michel de Montaigne
- Essays
Amanda Montell
- Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
Montesquieu
- De l'esprit des lois
Anne Moody
- Coming of Age in Mississippi
Thomas More
- Utopia √ (prior to 2018)
James McGrath Morris
- Eye On the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press
Toni Morrison
- Beloved √ (prior to 2018)
- The Song of Solomon
- The Bluest Eye
- Race
- The Origin of Others
John Mortimer
- The Anti-Social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole √ (prior to 2018)
- The Fascist Beast √ (prior to 2018)
Lisa Mosconi
- The XX Brain
Mo Moulton
- Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World For Women
Scholastique Mukasonga
- Notre-Dame du Nil (Our Lady of the Nile)
John Muir
- Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
Una Mullally (ed.), Emmet Kiran, Aisling Bea, Tara Flynn, Lisa McInerney, Louise O'Neill, Caitlin Moran, Anne Enright, and Sinéad Gleeson
- Repeal The 8th
Herta Müller
- Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel)
Miyamoto Musashi
- The Book of Five Rings
Azar Nafisi
- Reading Lolita in Tehran
Taslima Nasrin
- No Country for Women
- Revenge
- Shame
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
- The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Muna Ndulo
- Security, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation: When the Wars End
Viet Thanh Nguyen
- The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen (ed./contrib.), Various Authors
- The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
Anthony Nott
- Investigating Organised Crime and War Crimes
Sara Novic
- Girl at War
Bill Nye
- Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
Barack Obama
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
- The Audacity of Hope
- We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama
Michelle Obama
- Becoming √ (2019)
Lawrence O'Donnell
- Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Keith Olbermann
- Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values
Iris Origo
- War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans Montpensier
- Against Marriage: The Correspondence of La Grande Mademoiselle
George Orwell
- Animal Farm √ (prior to 2018)
- 1984 √ (prior to 2018)
- The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage
Nicholas O'Shaughnessy
- Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda
Carl von Ossietzky
- Rechenschaft: Publizistik aus den Jahren 1913-1933 (roughly equivalent with the English language compilation The Stolen Republic: Selected Writings)
Ovid
- Gedichte aus der Verbannung (Tristia, Epistulae ex Ponto)
Thomas Paine
- Collected Writings: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets / Articles & Letters
Dexter Palmer
- Version Control
Parlamentarischer Rat
- Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (1949) (German Constitution) √ (prior to 2018)
Blaise Pascal
- Pensées
J.J. Patrick
- Alternative War
Robert O. Paxton
- The Anatomy of Fascism
Iain Pears
- The Dream Of Scipio √ (prior to 2018)
Shimon Peres
- Battling for Peace: A Memoir
Markéta Pilátová
- Der Held von Madrid (The Hero of Madrid)
- Mit Bat'a im Dschungel (In the Jungle with Bat'a)
Christine de Pizan
- Le Débat Sur Le Roman De La Rose (The Debate on the Romance of the Rose) √ (prior to 2018)
- La Cité des Dames (The City of the Ladies) √ (prior to 2018)
- Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (The Ballad of Joan of Arc) √ (prior to 2018)
Valerie Plame Wilson
- Fair Game √ (2018)
Plato
- The Republic
Thomas Powers
- Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb
Dith Pran and Kim DePaul (eds.), Various Authors
- Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors
Terry Pratchett
- Guards! Guards! √ (2019)
Helen Prejean
- Dead Man Walking √ (prior to 2018)
Qiu Miaojin
- Last Words from Montmartre
Claudia Rankine
- Citizen: An American Lyric
Christoph Ransmayr
- Die letzte Welt (The Last World)
Jody Raphael
- Rape Is Rape
Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner
- What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism
Slavomir Rawicz
- The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
- Tagebuch eines Verzweifelten (Diary of a Man in Despair)
Christopher Reeve
- Nothing is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life
Kathy Reichs
- Grave Secrets √ (2019)
Tom Reiss
- The Black Count √ (2019)
Erich Maria Remarque
- Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) √ (prior to 2018)
T.R. Richmond
- What She Left
Jon Ronson
- The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the “Alt-Right”
Reginald Rose
- Twelve Angry Men √ (prior to 2018)
Joseph Roth
- Unter dem Bülowbogen: Prosa zur Zeit (roughly equivalent with the English language collection What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933)
Philip Roth
- The Plot Against America
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Les Confessions
- Du Contrat social
- Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes (Discourse on the Origin of Inequality)
- Émile, ou, de l'éducation
- Les Reveries Du Promeneur Solitaire (Reveries of the Solitary Walker)
Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig
- A Very Stable Genius
Salman Rushdie
- East, West √ (prior to 2018)
- Home
- Shame √ (prior to 2018)
- Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
- Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
Joanna Russ
- How to Suppress Women's Writing
Carl Sagan
- Cosmos
- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Le Petit Prince √ (prior to 2018)
Andrei Sakharov
- Memoirs
Zainab Salbi
- Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
Carl Sandburg
- Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
Ben Sasse
- Them: Why We Hate Each Other -- And How to Heal
Marjane Satrapi
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood & The Story of a Return
Dorothy L. Sayers
- Are Women Human? √ (prior to 2018)
- Gaudy Night √ (prior to 2018)
- Love All √ (2020)
Sydney Schanberg
- The Killing Fields
Barry Scheck, Jim Dwyer, Peter Neufeld
- Actual Innocence √ (prior to 2018)
Friedrich von Schiller
- Don Carlos √ (prior to 2018)
Bernhard Schlink
- Der Vorleser (The Reader)
Helmut Schmidt
- Sechs Reden (Six Speeches) √ (prior to 2018)
Inge Scholl
- Die Weisse Rose (The White Rose)
Erwin Schrödinger
- 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism'
Tom Schulman
- Dead Poets Society √ (prior to 2018)
A. Brad Schwartz
- Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News
André Schwarz-Bart
- Le dernier des Justes (The Last of the Just)
Seneca
- Letters from a Stoic
Julia Serano
- Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
William Shakespeare
- Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power √ (prior to 2018)
- Uneasy Lies The Head: William Shakespeare on Power √ (prior to 2018)
- The Merchant of Venice √ (prior to 2018)
... but really: The Complete Works √ (prior to 2018)
Kamila Shamsie
- Home Fire √ (2018)
Ntozake Shange
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
George Bernard Shaw
- Saint Joan
William L. Shirer
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
Anna Maria Sigmund
- Die Frauen der Nazis (Women of the Third Reich)
Ignazio Silone
- Bread and Wine
Peter Singer
- Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
- The Life You Can Save: How to Play Your Part in Ending World Poverty
- Practical Ethics
Adam Smith
- An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Helen Zenna Smith
- Not So Quiet...: Stepdaughters of War
Zadie Smith
- Feel Free: Essays
Timothy Snyder
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons form the Twentieth Century
Takuan Soho
- The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman
Rebecca Solnit
- Men Explain Things to Me
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago √ (prior to 2018)
- The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
Sophocles
- Antigone √ (prior to 2018)
Vladimir Sorokin
- Der Zuckerkreml (Sugar Kreml)
Sonia Sotomayor
- My Beloved World √ (2020)
Dale Spender
- The Writing or the Sex?: Or, Why You Don't Have to Read Women's Writing to Know It's No Good
Art Spiegelman
- The Complete Maus
Norman Spinrad
- Bug Jack Barron
Ron Stallworth
- Black Klansman
Saša Stanišić
- Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert (How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone) √ (2020)
- Herkunft (Origin) √ (2020)
Alexander Starritt
- We Germans
John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath √ (prior to 2018)
- The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to The Grapes of Wrath √ (prior to 2018)
Gloria Steinem
- Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender
Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Globalization and Its Discontents
Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin √ (prior to 2018)
Barry Strauss
- The Spartacus War
Susan Stryker
- Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution
Rachel Swaby
- Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
Emma Talbott, Meera Bowman-Johnson, Veronica Kugler, Phiroozeh Petigara, Blaire Topash-Caldwell, Nashormeh Lindo, Michelle "Mush" Lee, Jennifer De Leon, Lisa Jones, Natalie Baszile, Nayomi Munaweera, Massimo Mila, Belva Davis, America Ferrera, Porochista Khakpour, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, Musimbi Kanyoro, Deborah Santana, Samina Ali, Marian Wright Edelman, and Lalita Tademy
- All the Women in My Family Sing: Women Write the World: Essays on Equality, Justice, and Freedom (Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God)
Natasha Tarpley
- I Love My Hair!
Max Tegmark
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Janne Teller
- Krieg: Stell dir vor, er wäre hier (War)
Sheri S. Tepper
- Six Moon Dance
Reg Theriault
- How to Tell When You're Tired: A Brief Examination of Work
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- Petals of Blood
Angie Thomas
- The Hate U Give
Mike Thomson
- Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
Henry David Thoreau
- Civil Disobedience √ (prior to 2018)
- Walden √ (prior to 2018)
Jacobo Timerman
- Preso sin Nombre, Celda sin Numero (Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number)
Alexis de Tocqueville
- Democracy in America
J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Lord of the Rings √ (prior to 2018)
Robert Tressel
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
George W.S. Trow
- Within the Context of No Context
Dalton Trumbo
- Johnny Got His Gun
Chogyam Trungpa
- Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
Sojourner Truth
- The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Barbara W. Tuchman
- The Guns of August
- The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Kurt Tucholsky
- Das Tucholsky Lesebuch (The Tucholsky Reader)
- Tucholsky in Berlin: Gesammelte Feuilletons 1912-1930 (Collected Feature Articles)
Patricia Justine Tumang and Jenesha de Rivera(eds.), Various Authors
- Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time
Katy Tur
- Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
Desmond Tutu
- No Future Without Forgiveness
Mark Twain
- Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
Hilda Twongyeirwe (ed.), Various Authors
- I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival
- Nothing to See Here
Lao Tzu
- Tao Te Ching
Sun Tzu
- The Art of War √ (prior to 2018)
Morihei Ueshiba
- The Art of Peace
United Nations
- Charter of the United Nations √ (prior to 2018)
- Statute of the International Court of Justice √ (prior to 2018)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights √ (prior to 2018)
Ayu Utami
- Enrico's Love Story
Sandra Uwiringiyimana
- How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child √ (2019)
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- The Ox-Bow Incident √ (prior to 2018)
Mario Vargas Llosa
- Conversación en la Catedral
- Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society
- La fiesta del chivo
- Making Waves
Vassillis Vassilikos
- Z
Timur Vermes
- Er ist wieder da (Look Who's Back)
Andrei Volos
- Hurramabad
Voltaire
- Candide √ (prior to 2018)
Michael Walzer
- Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations
George Washington
- Farewell Address √ (2018 and prior)
- Writings
George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, and others, John H. Rhodehamel (ed.)
- American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglas, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Gregory Suriano (ed.)
- Great American Speeches
George Washington, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Lee, Daniel Webster, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Chief Joseph, Grover Cleveland, Booker T. Washington, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John F. and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Betty Friedan, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and others, Ted Widmer (ed.)
- American Speeches: Political Oratory from Patrick Henry to Barack Obama (2 volumes)
George Washington, Queen Elizabeth I, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mahatma Gandhi, Clarence Darrow, Emmeline Pankhurst, Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, George S Patton, Stalin, Martin Luther King, John F Kennedy, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, George W. Bush, and others, Simon Sebag Montefiore (ed.)
- Speeches That Changed the World
Edward J. Watts
- Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Richard von Weizsäcker
- Vier Zeiten: Erinnerungen
- Im Gespräch mit Ulrich Wickert: In der Freiheit bestehen
Lindy West
- Shrill
- The Witches Are Coming
Phyllis Wheatley
- Memoir and Poetry √ (2020)
Theodore H. White
- Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon
- The Making of the President 1960
- The Making of the President 1972
Colson Whitehead
- The Underground Railroad
Elie Wiesel
- The Night Trilogy: Night / Dawn / The Accident (Day)
Samantha Wilcoxson
- Luminous
Oscar Wilde
- The Decay of Lying: And other Essays √ (prior to 2018)
Paul R. Williams
- Peace with Justice?: War Crimes and Accountability in the Former Yugoslavia
Garry Wills
- Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
Jay Winik
- April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Michael Wolff
- Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Mary Wollstonecraft
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman √ (prior to 2018)
Gordon S. Wood
- Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Bob Woodward
- Shadow
- The Last of the President's Men
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
- All the President's Men
Virginia Woolf
- Liberty
- A Room of One's Own √ (prior to 2018)
- Street Haunting and Other Essays
- The Waves
Jonathan Wright
- Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman
Richard Wright
- Black Boy
- Native Son
- Injustice
Robert Wright
- The Moral Animal
Paul Yoon
- Run Me to Earth
Muhammad Yunus
- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Fareed Zakaria
- In Defense of a Liberal Education
Yevgeny Zamyatin
- We
Gerhard Zeillinger
- Überleben: Der Gürtel des Walter Fantl (Survival: Walter Fantl's Belt)
Howard Zinn
- Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
- A History of the American Empire
- A People's History of the United States
- A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
- The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
Émile Zola
- J'accuse √ (prior to 2018)
Shoshana Zuboff
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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