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Books Read in College

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

6,225 members

73 reviews

4.2

4 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, sadenergy, Eddie2000, Nonconformisto

2

The Republic of Plato

25,582 members

163 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, sadenergy, Eddie2000

3

by Edward W. Said

6,795 members

53 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, sadenergy, Eddie2000

4

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

1,518 members

9 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, sadenergy, Eddie2000

5

by William Shakespeare

15,752 members

191 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sadenergy, Eddie2000

6

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn

9,042 members

95 reviews

4

2 Members: dhm, sadenergy

7

5,890 members

58 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, sadenergy

8

by Simone de Beauvoir

2,940 members

22 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sadenergy, Eddie2000

9

The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects

by Marshall McLuhan

2,408 members

36 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dhm, sadenergy
Explanations: dhm: I'm hoping to spur a chnage in this list's settings such that I can add books -- a nice idea but private, I think...

10

2,178 members

11 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sadenergy, Eddie2000

11

Democracy in America

by Alexis de Tocqueville

1,259 members

8 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: sadenergy, Nonconformisto

12

The Purloined Letter [short story]

by Edgar Allan Poe

469 members

19 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, sadenergy

13

by Jacques Derrida

467 members

3.8

2 Members: sadenergy, Eddie2000

14

Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance

1 member

2 Members: ManWithAnAgenda, sadenergy

15

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,236 members

777 reviews

4.1

Member: sadenergy

16

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

9,316 members

392 reviews

4.2

Member: sadenergy

17

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

7,243 members

55 reviews

3.9

Member: sadenergy

18

The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction

by Michel Foucault

6,468 members

34 reviews

3.9

Member: sadenergy

19

by Octavia E. Butler

4,259 members

154 reviews

4

Member: sadenergy

20

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

by Judith Butler

3,840 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: sadenergy

21

The Human Condition

by Hannah Arendt

3,408 members

28 reviews

4.2

Member: sadenergy

22

The Marx-Engels Reader

3,146 members

13 reviews

3.9

Member: sadenergy

23

Black Skin, White Masks

by Frantz Fanon

2,999 members

18 reviews

4.1

Member: sadenergy

24

2,432 members

47 reviews

4.1

Member: sadenergy

25

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

by Sigmund Freud

2,324 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sadenergy

26

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

by Drew Gilpin Faust

2,098 members

54 reviews

4

Member: sadenergy

27

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

by Émile Durkheim

1,754 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: sadenergy

28

by Akwaeke Emezi

1,519 members

59 reviews

4

Member: sadenergy

29

Where I Was From

944 members

16 reviews

3.8

Member: sadenergy

30

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings

722 members

1 review

½ 3.7

Member: sadenergy

31

by Walter Lippmann

682 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sadenergy

32

If He Hollers, Let Him Go

by Chester Himes

659 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: sadenergy

33

The Library of Babel [short story]

by Jorge Luis Borges

653 members

13 reviews

4.2

Member: sadenergy

34

Jonny Appleseed

by Joshua Whitehead

619 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: sadenergy

35

How to Read Lacan

by Slavoj Žižek

553 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sadenergy

36

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

521 members

11 reviews

3.9

Member: sadenergy

37

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

by Walter Benjamin

463 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: sadenergy

38

The Public and Its Problems: An Essay in Political Inquiry

438 members

4 reviews

4

Member: sadenergy

39

War and the Iliad

416 members

1 review

4

Member: sadenergy

40

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

by Meghan O'Rourke

372 members

13 reviews

4

Member: sadenergy

41

364 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: sadenergy

42

Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920

by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

296 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: sadenergy

43

Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

by Danielle S. Allen

279 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: sadenergy

44

Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

by David Hurst Thomas

264 members

4 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sadenergy

45

Means Without End: Notes on Politics

by Giorgio Agamben

263 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: sadenergy

46

Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

by Steven D. Lavine

262 members

½ 3.7

Member: sadenergy

47

The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

258 members

15 reviews

4.1

Member: sadenergy

48

by Eve L. Ewing

239 members

6 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: sadenergy

49

Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan

by Kim Phillips-Fein

238 members

4 reviews

4

Member: sadenergy

50

Feminism/Postmodernism

by Linda J. Nicholson

231 members

½ 3.5

Member: sadenergy

51

by Ibn Khaldūn

221 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: sadenergy

52

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

by Peniel E. Joseph

209 members

2 reviews

4

Member: sadenergy

53

by Suzan-Lori Parks

197 members

4 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sadenergy

54

Where is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury

by Cathy Crimmins

195 members

3 reviews

4.2

Member: sadenergy

55

The Pasteurization of France

by Bruno Latour

168 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sadenergy

56

Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy

167 members

5 reviews

4.1

Member: sadenergy

57

Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule

by Ann Laura Stoler

166 members

4.1

Member: sadenergy

58

A Stricken Field

by Martha Gellhorn

156 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sadenergy

59

All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s

by Robert O. Self

109 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: sadenergy

60

Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge

by Bernard S. Cohn

102 members

½ 3.5

Member: sadenergy

61

The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood

94 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sadenergy

62

The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery

by Vincent Brown

92 members

½ 4.5

Member: sadenergy

63

Everyday Things in Premodern Japan

by Susan B. Hanley

90 members

1 review

4

Member: sadenergy

64

From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography

by Jeremy D. Popkin

79 members

3

Member: sadenergy

65

Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown

76 members

½ 4.4

Member: sadenergy

66

The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina

by Manisha Sinha

71 members

½ 3.7

Member: sadenergy

67

Religion in Japanese History

by Joseph M. Kitagawa

70 members

Member: sadenergy

68

Democracy: A Case Study

by David A. Moss

59 members

5

Member: sadenergy

69

Critical Terms for Media Studies

by W. J. T. Mitchell

57 members

Member: sadenergy

70

by Janet Coleman

35 members

½ 3.5

Member: sadenergy

71

People's Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier

by Ruha Benjamin

34 members

5

Member: sadenergy

72

Matewan before the Massacre: Politics, Coal and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community

by Rebecca J. Bailey

29 members

½ 2.5

Member: sadenergy

73

Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan

19 members

Member: sadenergy

74

by John B Sowell

16 members

4

Member: sadenergy

75

Industrializing the Rockies: Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914 (Mining the American West)

by David A. Wolff

10 members

Member: sadenergy

76

Challenged by Coeducation: Women's Colleges Since the 1960s

by Leslie Miller-Bernal

10 members

Member: sadenergy

77

What Is Public History Globally?: Working with the Past in the Present

8 members

1

Member: sadenergy

78

Remembering Lattimer: Labor, Migration, and Race in Pennsylvania Anthracite Country

by Paul A. Shackel

8 members

Member: sadenergy

79

Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners & World War I

by Carl R. Weinberg

7 members

Member: sadenergy

80

Mundelein Voices: The Women's College Experience, 1930 - 1991

by Ann M. Harrington

5 members

Member: sadenergy

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