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1984

George Orwell

1984 cover

Big Brother still watching your feed.

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A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

A Fine Balance cover
India

India's Emergency. Four people. The state decides who survives.

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Animal Farm

George Orwell

Animal Farm cover

Meet the original gas-lighting pigs.

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Anthills of the Savannah

Chinua Achebe

Anthills of the Savannah cover
Nigeria

A dictatorship and the three friends it destroys.

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Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World

Anne Applebaum

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World cover
Russia

The network behind every strongman.

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Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack

Richard Ovenden

Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack cover

Knowledge was always the target.

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Dear Leader

Jang Jin-sung

Dear Leader cover
North Korea

Kim Jong-il's poet defects with the secrets.

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Democracy in Chains

Nancy McLean

Democracy in Chains cover

Buchanan believed democracy was the problem. Koch agreed.

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Different Seasons

Stephen King

Different Seasons cover

How fascism finds the boy next door.

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End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World cover

Apocalypse as political strategy.

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God and the State

Mikhail Bakunin

God and the State cover

God and the State are the same argument. Bakunin proves it.

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How Fascism Works

Jason Stanley

How Fascism Works cover

Ten tactics. One pattern. Now you'll see it everywhere.

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Internment

Samira Ahmed

Internment cover

Resistance from inside the camp

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It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here cover

A populist wins in 1936. America becomes a dictatorship. Step by step.

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North Korea Journal

Michael Palin

North Korea Journal cover
North Korea

What a visitor is allowed to see, honestly reported.

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Nothing to Envy

Barbara Demick

Nothing to Envy cover
North Korea

Six ordinary North Koreans, looked at very closely.

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On Tyranny (Graphic Edition)

Timothy Snyder & Nora Krug

On Tyranny (Graphic Edition) cover

Twenty lessons for staying free.

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Paradise of the Blind

Dương Thu Hương

Paradise of the Blind cover
Vietnam

A Vietnamese woman carries her family's revolutionary wounds to Moscow.

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Stasiland

Anna Funder

Stasiland cover
Germany

East Germany's Stasi, interviewed by a disbeliever.

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The Autumn of the Patriarch

Gabriel García Márquez

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Caribbean

The dictator is so old nobody remembers before him. One sentence.

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The Captive Mind

Czesław Miłosz

The Captive Mind cover
Poland

How smart people talk themselves into serving tyranny.

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The Dream Hotel

Laila Lalami

The Dream Hotel cover
Morocco

They're monitoring dreams now. Hers flagged her as a threat.

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale cover
Canada

America as a theocracy. The women who survive it.

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The Jakarta Method

Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method cover

The empire’s darkest export.

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