Ranked: The Persecuted and The Persecutors

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

The Persecuted

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

Economic Status

1. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
2. On Pauperism in Present and Past by Jan Breman

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

1. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
2. Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
3. Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
4. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Persecutors

Religion

1. Inquisition by Edward Peters

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

The Persecuted and The Persecutors

Ethnicity / Race

1. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
2. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
3. Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World by Hugh Pope
4. Black Sea by Neal Ascherson

Religion

1. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright

General

1. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
2. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
3. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
4. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
5. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
6. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
7. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
8. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
9. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
10. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani