Ranked: The Persecuted and The Persecutors

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: The Persecuted and The Persecutors

The Persecuted

General

1. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne

Age

1. The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul by Connie Zweig

Education

1. Elevating Equity and Justice: 10 U.S. Supreme Court Cases Every Teacher Should Know by Robert Kim

Ideas

1. In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
2. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
3. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Ethnicity / Race

1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
2. Black Boy by Richard Wright
3. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
4. The Native American Experience: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood by Dee Brown
5. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
6. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
7. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
8. The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World by Jeff Pearce
9. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
10. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
11. Nelson Mandela: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman

Ethnicity /Race / Fiction

1. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
2. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
3. Beloved by Toni Morrison

Economic Status

1. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
2. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
3. On Pauperism in Present and Past by Jan Breman

Political Power

1. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
2. Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Don Kladstrup, and Petie Kladstrup
3. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
4. Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
5. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
6. Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay
7. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry

Political Power / Fiction

1. A Quiet Life by William Cooper, Michael McKinley
2. Lost Letters (Part One) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
3. Lost Letters (Part Four) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
4. Litost (Part Five) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
5. The Angels (Part Three) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
6. Human Acts by Han Kang
7. A Mercy by Toni Morrison 

Religion

1. The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
2. Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by James A. Connor

Sex / Gender

1. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
2. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
3. Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal
4. Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
5. Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
6. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
7. Woman in Hiding: A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets & Other Evil Deeds by Kathleen Hoy Foley
8. Forget About Heaven: Don’t Yell At Me, Take It Up With My Dead Mother by Kathleen Hoy Foley
9. Breaking Through Silence: A No-Nonsense Love Letter to Women by Kathleen Hoy Foley

Sex / Gender Fiction

1. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
2. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
3. The Beginnings Of Grief by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)

The Persecutors

General

1. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
2. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
3. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ethnicity/Race

1. The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell

Political Power

1. The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War by Mark Galeotti
2. How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
3. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Political Power / Fiction

1. The Trial of Donald H. Rumsfeld by William Cooper

Religion

1. Inquisition by Edward Peters
2. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis

Science

1. Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie

The Persecuted and The Persecutors

General

1. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
2. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
3. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
4. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neill
5. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
6. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
7. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
8. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
9. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
10. Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
11. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
12. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
13. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
14. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
15. The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
16. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
17. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
18. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
19. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
20. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
21. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
22. Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
23. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
24. The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
25. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
26. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
27. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
28. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
29. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
30. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
31. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
32. Empire by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri

General / Fiction

1. Berlin by Jason Lutes
2. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
3. The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
4. Candide by Voltaire
5. The Angels (Part Six) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)

Animal Rights

• Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba

Animal Rights / Fiction

1. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Ethnicity / Race

1. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
2. The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
3. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
4. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
5. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
6. Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World by Hugh Pope
7. Black Sea by Neal Ascherson

Economic

1. Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis by James Rickards
2. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
3. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
4. The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List

Religion

1. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
2. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
3. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

Sex / Gender

1. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
2. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
3. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
4. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
5. The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine

Political Power

1. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
2. The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Vali Nasr
3. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
4. The God That Failed Edited by Richard Crossman
5. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
6. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
7. Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
8. When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future by Abby Smith Rumsey
9. Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
10. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
11. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
12. The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill
13. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell

Political Power / Fiction

• Animal Farm by George Orwell