The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Autobiography based on a series of in-depth interviews journalist Alex Haley conducted between 1963 and Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination.
political
All the King’s Men
1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren
Democracy in America
Classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville
Walden
Book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau
Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the “travellers’ tales” literary subgenre. It is Swift’s best known …
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: , tr. Odin den’ Ivana Denisovicha, IPA: [din den van dnisvt]) is a short novel by the Russian writer and Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, first published in November 1962 in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir (New World). The story is set in a Soviet labor …
The Gulag Archipelago
Three-volume non-fiction text written between 1958 and 1968 by Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Berlin Diary
First-hand account of the rise of Nazi Germany and its road to war, as witnessed by the American journalist William L. Shirer
Atlas Shrugged
1957 novel by Ayn Rand
Dreams from My Father
Memoir by Barack Obama that explores the events of his early years in Honolulu and Chicago until his entry into Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama originally published his memoir in 1995, when he was starting his political campaign for the Illinois Senate