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
4.21
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
3.92
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Boris Grabnar (Translator)
Celâl Üster (Translator)
Celâl Üstüner (Translator)
4.04
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
4.09
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
3.88
Night
Elie Wiesel
Stella Rodway (Translator)
4.34
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Bela Shayevich (translator)
3.71
On Tyranny
Timothy Snyder
4.13
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Vox
Christina Dalcher
3.32
Slaughterhouse 5
Kurt Vonnegut
4.09
The Running Man
3.66
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
4.35
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt
4.24
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.05
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
4.42
Lilith's Brood
Octavia E. Butler
3.87
Chain Gang All Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4.13
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick
3.94
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.17
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi
Mattias Ripa (Translator)
4.34
Education and Peace
Maria Montessori
Helen Lane (Translator)
4.5
Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks
3.86
How Fascism Works
Jason Stanley
4.03
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton
James Madison
John Jay
4.57
Ringworld
Larry Niven
3.67
A Time of Changes
Robert Silverberg
3
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Haruki Murakami
Jay Rubin (Translator)
Philip Gabriel
3.66
The Torture Camp on Paradise Street
Stanislav Aseyev
Станіслав Асєєв
Nina Murray (Translator)
Zenia Tompkins (Translator)
0
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.1
Cyberspies
Gordon Corera
3.75
Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
3.62
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
Sarah Moses (Translator)
3.74
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde
4.07
Unwind
Neal Shusterman
4.02
Fascism: A Warning
Madeleine Albright
4.1
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
4.05
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Thomas P. Whitney
H.T. Willetts
4.05
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.38
What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
Rachael Denhollander
4.75
The Inheritance Trilogy
N.K. Jemisin
4.08
The New Flesh: Life and Death in the Data Economy
Adam C. Jones
0
Indian Horse
Richard Wagamese
4.31
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Serhii Plokhy
4.09
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Myra Bergman Ramos (Translator)
4.2
The Wanting Way: Poems
Adam Wolfond
0
The Jailing of Cecelia Capture
Janet Campbell Hale
5
Prophet Song
Paul Lynch
4.14
Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence
Keith Ellison
4.5
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
