This is a subjective Ranked version of Genre: Politics
- The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present by David Runciman
- The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
- The Divided State: Factional Structures and the Crisis of Democracy by Joonhong Park
- Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics by Joseph S. Nye
- The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
- How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
- How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato
- [Upcoming] The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Vali Nasr
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
- Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
- After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy by Christopher J. Coyne
- Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
- The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
- Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
- Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
- Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
- The Politics by Aristotle
- The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations by Edward Hallett Carr
- The Essential Wisdom of the Presidents edited by Carol Kelly-Gangi
- The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington
- Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade by Nina J. Easton
- Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan
