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
- Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- 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
Ethnicity/Race / Fiction
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- 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
Political Power
- Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
Religion
- Breaking Through Silence: A No-Nonsense Love Letter to Women by Kathleen Hoy Foley
- Forget About Heaven: Don’t Yell At Me, Take It Up With My Dead Mother by Kathleen Hoy Foley
- 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
- Woman in Hiding: A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets & Other Evil Deeds by Kathleen Hoy Foley
- Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
Sex / Gender Fiction
- The Beginnings Of Grief by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
The Persecutors
Political Power
- How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
- The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
- Inquisition by Edward Peters
Science
- The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Persecuted and The Persecutors
Ethnicity / Race
- Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
- 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
Economic
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List
Religion
- The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine
- 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
- The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
- When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
Political Power
- Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
- The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
- Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
- The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
General
- The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
- 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
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
- A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
- Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
- War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
General / Fiction
