Best books in Politics & Society
From Machiavelli to Hannah Arendt, from Tocqueville to contemporary debates on democracy. Barack Obama, Noam Chomsky and Fareed Zakaria lead this category — and rarely agree with each other, which makes their selections all the more revealing.
Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker
recommended by 7 people
Animal Farm
George Orwell
recommended by 6 people
Factfulness
Hans Rosling
recommended by 6 people
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
recommended by 5 people
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
recommended by 4 people
Destined for War
Graham Allison
recommended by 4 people
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
recommended by 4 people
Whole earth discipline
Stewart Brand
recommended by 4 people
Tools and Weapons
Brad Smith
recommended by 4 people
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
recommended by 4 people
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer
recommended by 4 people
American Marriage
Tayari Jones
recommended by 4 people
Brotopia
Emily Chang
recommended by 3 people
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
recommended by 3 people
Expert Political Judgment
Philip E. Tetlock
recommended by 3 people
Das Kapital
Karl Marx
recommended by 3 people
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the twenty-first century
Thomas Piketty
recommended by 3 people
What We Owe the Future
William MacAskill
recommended by 3 people
The Great trasformation
Karl Polanyi
recommended by 2 people
American Story
David M. Rubenstein
recommended by 2 people
Madness of Crowds
Douglas Murray
recommended by 2 people
The new Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
recommended by 2 people
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
recommended by 2 people
The rise and fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer
recommended by 2 people