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John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
4
13 minThomas Paine
Common Sense
411 minMary Beard
Women and Power
413 minIsabel Allende
The Soul of a Woman
414 minDavid Byrne
How Music Works
413 minGuy Debord
The Society of the Spectacle
422 minAnne Bogel
I’d Rather Be Reading
414 minPatrick Radden Keefe
Rogues
417 minJean Baudrillard
Simulacra and Simulation
416 minBertrand Russell
The Conquest of Happiness
414 minAnne Lamott
Dusk, Night, Dawn
48 minSarah Bakewell
How to Live
415 minMorgan Jerkins
This Will Be My Undoing
412 minRick Steves
Travel as a Political Act
4.115 minKristen Ghodsee
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
414 minDan Savage
American Savage
414 minChristopher Hitchens
The Trial of Henry Kissinger
411 minJoan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking
3.923 minRoxane Gay
Bad Feminist
3.98 minKatherine May
Wintering
3.914 minMary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
3.99 minAlain de Botton
Status Anxiety
3.918 minByung-Chul Han
The Burnout Society
3.913 minBertrand Russell
The Problems of Philosophy
3.916 minAlain de Botton
The Architecture of Happiness
3.914 minAmin Maalouf
In the Name of Identity
3.99 minEula Biss
On Immunity
3.910 minAnne Lamott
Stitches
3.910 minBaratunde Thurston
How To Be Black
3.914 minJeff Bezos
Invent and Wander
3.96 min