Ranked: The Persecuted and The Persecutors

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


The Persecuted
Age
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


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

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. Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
  4. Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
  5. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  6. Woman in Hiding: A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets & Other Evil Deeds by Kathleen Hoy Foley
  7. Forget About Heaven: Don’t Yell At Me, Take It Up With My Dead Mother by Kathleen Hoy Foley
  8. 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

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


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

The Persecuted and The Persecutors

Animal Rights / Fiction

Ethnicity / Race

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. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  6. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
  7. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
  8. Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
  9. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  10. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
  11. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
  12. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  13. The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
  14. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
  15. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  16. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
  17. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
  18. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
  19. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
  20. Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
  21. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
  22. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
  23. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
  24. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  25. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  26. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  27. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
  28. Empire by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri

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