Ranked: Politics

This is a subjective Ranked version of Genre: Politics


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