This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: The Persecuted and The Persecutors
Certain groups tend to be persecuted for various reason. There are those who persecute others for various reason. Understanding why people get persecuted and why persecutors persecute can facilitate the creation of solutions to the problem of persecution.
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
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World by Jeff Pearce
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- 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
- The Native American Experience: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood by Dee Brown
- Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
- Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
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
- The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
- Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
- The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
- 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 Persecutors
Religion- Inquisition by Edward Peters
- The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
The Persecuted and The Persecutors
Ethnicity / Race
- Black Sea by Neal Ascherson
- The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World by Hugh Pope
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
Income
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Religion
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
Sex / Gender
Political Power
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
General
- Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- 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
- Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
- A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
- Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
General / Fiction
- Berlin by Jason Lutes
