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The Second World War

Winston S. Churchill

1948 ★ 3.8

Lenin's tomb

David Remnick

1993 ★ 3.7

Disgrace

J. M. Coetzee

1999 ★ 3.7

The education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

1907

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2006 ★ 4.3

Queen of the Conquered

Kacen Callender

2019

Advise and Consent

Allen Drury

1959

The Mystic Masseur

V. S. Naipaul

1957

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

1776 ★ 4.1

Candide

Voltaire

1759 ★ 4.0

La Divina Commedia

Dante Alighieri

1726 ★ 3.9

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

1862 ★ 4.3

Don Quijote de la Mancha

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1605 ★ 3.9

Inferno

Dante Alighieri

1782 ★ 4.3

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

1810 ★ 3.9

It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis

1935 ★ 3.6

Gulag

Anne Applebaum

2003 ★ 4.5

A small town in Germany

John le Carré

1968 ★ 2.8

Diaries

Joseph Goebbels

1948 ★ 2.3

Visage volé

Mercè Ubach Dorca, Latifa, Chekeba Hachemi

2001 ★ 2.1

Havana Storm

Ignacio Gómez Calvo, Dirk Cussler, Clive Cussler

2014 ★ 4.0

Imperial Life in the Emerald City

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

2007 ★ 3.7

Lituma en los Andes

Mario Vargas Llosa

1993 ★ 3.7

We Were Eight Years in Power

Ta-Nehisi Coates

2017 ★ 4.1

Pyongyang

Guy Delisle

2005 ★ 3.6

Utopia

Thomas More

1684 ★ 3.4

Žert

Milan Kundera

1969 ★ 4.2

Ab urbe condita

Titus Livius

1659 ★ 4.2

JFK and the unspeakable

James W. Douglass

2008 ★ 4.8

There Was a Country

Chinua Achebe

2013 ★ 4.2

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