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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: Politics (29 books)

The best classic books from the Politics genre.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell

4.36 (69)

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

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Animal Farm

Animal Farm

George Orwell

4.17 (46)

Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes.

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All the King's Men

All the King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

4.4 (5)

MASON CITY.<br> To get there you follow Highway 58, going northeast out of the city, and it is a good highway and new. Or was new, that day we went up it.</b>

207
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#143
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The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

5.0 (1)

How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?

136
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#203
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The Public Burning

The Public Burning

Robert Coover

4.0 (1)

97
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#214
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Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

4.33 (3)

The cell door slammed behind Rubashov.

93
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Main Street

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

5.0 (1)

Chapter 1: On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky.

90
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#245
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Sybil

Sybil

Benjamin Disraeli

3.0 (2)

'I'll take the odds against Caravan.'

86
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#274
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The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

Ayn Rand

4.14 (7)

Howard Roark laughed.

77
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Democracy in America; and Two essays on America

Democracy in America; and Two essays on America

Alexis de Tocqueville

4.0 (3)

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