This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: The Persecuted and The Persecutors
The Persecuted
Age
- The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul by Connie Zweig
Education
Ideas
- In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Native American Experience: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood by Dee Brown
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World by Jeff Pearce
- Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
- Nelson Mandela: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
Ethnicity/Race / Fiction
- The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Economic Status
- Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
- October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
- On Pauperism in Present and Past by Jan Breman
Religion
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
- The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
- Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
- Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
The Persecutors
Religion- Inquisition by Edward Peters
- The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
Science
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
- The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
The Persecuted and The Persecutors
Ethnicity / Race
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
- Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
- Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World by Hugh Pope
- Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
Income
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Religion
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
Sex / Gender
- The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
- When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
Political Power
- The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
- The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill
General
- A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
- Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
- The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
- Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
- Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani