The Persecuted and The Persecutors

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

General

• A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 by Alistair Horne

Age

• The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul by Connie Zweig

Education

• Elevating Equity and Justice: 10 U.S. Supreme Court Cases Every Teacher Should Know by Robert Kim

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

Ethnicity/Race

• 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

• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• 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

• Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
• Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
• My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
• Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
• Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider by Peter Gay

Political Power / Fiction

• The Angels (Part Three) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
• Human Acts by Han Kang
• Litost (Part Five) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
• Lost Letters (Part One) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
• Lost Letters (Part Four) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison 
• A Quiet Life by William Cooper, Michael McKinley

Religion

• The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
• 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

• Breaking Through Silence: A No-Nonsense Love Letter to Women by Kathleen Hoy Foley
• Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal
• 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

General

• 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

Ethnicity/Race

• [Upcoming] The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell

Political Power

• How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
• Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
• The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War by Mark Galeotti

Political Power / Fiction

• The Trial of Donald H. Rumsfeld by William Cooper

Religion

• The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
• Inquisition by Edward Peters

Science

• Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie

The Persecuted and The Persecutors

General

• 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
• Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
• Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
• An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
• Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
• 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
• Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
• Empire by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
• Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
• 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
• The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
• The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
• Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
• Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
• 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
• Social Justice Fallacies 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
• The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
• War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neill 
• The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie

General / Fiction

• The Angels (Part Six) by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
• Berlin by Jason Lutes
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
• Candide by Voltaire
• The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom

Animal Rights

• Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba

Animal Rights / Fiction

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London

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 

• Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
• 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
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

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
• Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
• When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan

Political Power

• The God That Failed Edited by Richard Crossman
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
• The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
• Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
• 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
• A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
• Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future by Abby Smith Rumsey

Political Power / Fiction

• Animal Farm by George Orwell