Books have the power to challenge our perspectives, reveal hidden truths, and inspire us to think critically about the world around us. Stories—both real and imagined—can illustrate the importance of freedom, the consequences of unchecked power, and the resilience of those who fight for justice. Whether through dystopian fiction, historical accounts, or thought-provoking analysis, these books help us understand society in new ways. Which books have made you reflect deeply on freedom, truth, and the structures that shape our world?
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1984
George Orwell
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Boris Grabnar (Translator)
Celâl Üster (Translator)
Celâl Üstüner (Translator)
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Night
Elie Wiesel
Stella Rodway (Translator)
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Bela Shayevich (translator)
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin
Vox
Christina Dalcher
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
The Running Man
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
Lilith's Brood
Octavia E. Butler
Chain Gang All Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi
Mattias Ripa (Translator)
Education and Peace
Maria Montessori
Helen Lane (Translator)
Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks
How Fascism Works
Jason Stanley
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Jay
Ringworld
Larry Niven
A Time of Changes
Robert Silverberg
1Q84
Haruki Murakami
Jay Rubin (Translator)
Philip Gabriel
The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
Stanislav Aseyev
Станіслав Асєєв
Nina Murray (Translator)
Zenia Tompkins (Translator)
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Cyberspies
Gordon Corera
Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
Sarah Moses (Translator)
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde
Unwind
Neal Shusterman
Fascism: A Warning
Madeleine Albright
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Thomas P. Whitney
H.T. Willetts
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
Rachael Denhollander
The Inheritance Trilogy
N.K. Jemisin
The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy
Adam C. Jones
Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Serhii Plokhy
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Myra Bergman Ramos (Translator)
The Wanting Way: Poems
Adam Wolfond
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture
Janet Campbell Hale
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence
Keith Ellison
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
