Democracy in America
1840★ 8.6
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The Souls of Black Folk
1903★ 8.2
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
1905★ 7.1
The Communist Manifesto
1848★ 7.0
Civilization and Its Discontents
1929★ 6.9
Suicide
1897★ 6.8
The Power Elite
1956★ 6.8
The Division of Labor in Society
1893★ 6.8
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
1912★ 6.8
The Theory of the Leisure Class
1899★ 6.7
Structural Anthropology
1959★ 6.7
Guns, Germs and Steel
1997★ 6.7
The Vocation Lectures
1919★ 6.7
The Muqaddimah
1377★ 6.7
Tristes Tropiques
1955★ 6.6
Black Skin, White Masks
1952★ 6.6
The Uses of Literacy
1957★ 6.6
History of Sexuality, Volume 1
1976★ 6.6
The Labyrinth of Solitude
1950★ 6.5
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
1963★ 6.5