The Republic
380 BC★ 8.8
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The Prince
1532★ 8.5
A Theory of Justice
1971★ 8.3
Leviathan
1651★ 8.2
The Wretched of the Earth
1961★ 7.9
Two Treatises of Government
1689★ 7.4
On Duties (De Officiis)
44 BC★ 7.4
Utopia
1516★ 7.3
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 and the Communist Manifesto
1844★ 7.3
The Federalist Papers
1788★ 7.3
Civilization and Its Discontents
1929★ 6.9
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
1962★ 6.8
The Subjection of Women
1869★ 6.8
Discourse on Colonialism
1950★ 6.8
Between Past and Future
1961★ 6.8
Seeing like a State
1998★ 6.7
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
1935★ 6.6
The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr
1971★ 6.6
Capitalism and Freedom
1962★ 6.5
The Proper Study of Mankind
1997★ 6.4