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Best Politics & Society Books from International
Political and social non-fiction maps the world as it is — its power structures, its inequalities, its contradictions — and sometimes imagines what it could be. International has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in politics & society, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best politics & society from International by editorial consensus.
#1
literary-fiction
The Art of War
孙武 (Sun Tzu)· 1900
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#2
literary-fiction
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli· 1515
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#3
literary-fiction
Анна Каренина
Лев Толстой· 1876
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#4
literary-fiction
πολιτεία
Plato· 1554
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#5
literary-fiction
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair· 1791
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#6
literary-fiction
The Minister's Wooing
Harriet Beecher Stowe· 1800
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#7
literary-fiction
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin· 1791
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#8
literary-fiction
De la démocratie en Amérique
Alexis de Tocqueville· 1835
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#9
literary-fiction
The Golden Bough
James George Frazer· 1890
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#10
classic-literature
The story of my life
Helen Keller· 1903
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#11
classic-literature
Signs of change
William Morris· 1888
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#12
science-fiction
Toll the hounds
Steven Erikson· 2008
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#13
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biography-memoir
Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan shozō Meijiki kankō tosho maikuro-ban shūsei
Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan)· 1991
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#14
politics-society
Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau· 1922
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#15
politics-society
The pre-election polls of 1948; the report to the Committee on Analysis of Pre-election Polls and Forecasts
Frederick Mosteller· 1949
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#16
politics-society
The life and letters of William Cobbett in England & America, based upon histherto unpublished family papers
Lewis Melville· 1913
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#17
politics-society
Land under England
O'Neill, Joseph.· 1935
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#18
politics-society
De la justice dans le révolution et dans l'église
P.-J. Proudhon· 1858
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#19
politics-society
Du principe de l'art et de sa destination sociale
P.-J. Proudhon· 1865
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#20
politics-society
Mélusine
Jean d'Arras· 1924
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#21
politics-society
The Intermediate Sex
Edward Carpenter· 1907
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#22
politics-society
L'enracinement
Simone Weil· 1949
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#23
politics-society
Histoire des musulmans d'Espagne
Reinhart Dozy· 1861
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#24
politics-society
Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples
Margaret Mead· 1911
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#25
politics-society
Patterns of Culture
Ruth Benedict· 1934
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#26
politics-society
An American dilemma
Gunnar Myrdal· 1944
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#27
politics-society
The mountain Arapesh
Margaret Mead· 1938
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#28
politics-society
Aboriginal women, sacred and profane
Phyllis Mary Kaberry· 1939
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#29
politics-society
The British in India
Percival Joseph Sir Griffiths· 1946
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#30
politics-society
Mules and Men (P.S.)
Zora Neale Hurston· 1935
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#31
politics-society
La cabala del cavallo Pegaseo
Giordano Bruno· 1864
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#32
politics-society
Old world traits transplanted
Robert Ezra Park· 1921
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#33
politics-society
Poverty and progress
Stephan Thernstrom· 1800
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#34
politics-society
Woman in Italy
William Boulting· 1910
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#35
politics-society
Flagellation & the flagellants
James Glass Bertram· 1869
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#36
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politics-society
An American Dilemma [1/2]
Gunnar Myrdal· 1944
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#37
politics-society
Indian story and song from North America
Alice C. Fletcher· 1900
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#38
politics-society
History of Women Suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton· 1881
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#39
politics-society
The Woman Who Did
Grant Allen· 1895
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#40
politics-society
The wife of Sir Isaac Harman
H. G. Wells· 1914
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#41
politics-society
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
Mary Wollstonecraft· 1787
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#42
politics-society
St. Leon
William Godwin· 1799
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#43
politics-society
Daughter of earth
Agnes Smedley· 1929
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#44
politics-society
The female spectator
Eliza Fowler Haywood· 1748
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#45
politics-society
The woman movement
Ellen Key· 1912
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#46
politics-society
The Pivot of Civilization
Margaret Sanger· 1922
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#47
politics-society
History of Sir George Ellison
Sarah Scott· 1766
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#48
politics-society
Serious proposal to the ladies, for the advancement of their true and greatest interest
Mary Astell· 1694
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#49
politics-society
Political writings
Mary Wollstonecraft· 1790
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#50
politics-society
Die Antifeministen: Ein Buch der Verteidigung
Hedwig Dohm· 1902
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
