Ranked: The Persecuted and The Persecutors

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: The Persecuted and The Persecutors

The Persecuted

Age

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

Education

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

Ideas

1. In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
2. Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein
3. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Ethnicity / Race

1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
2. Black Boy by Richard Wright
3. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
4. The Native American Experience: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Fetterman Massacre, and Creek Mary's Blood by Dee Brown
5. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
6. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
7. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
8. The Gifts of Africa: How a Continent and Its People Changed the World by Jeff Pearce
9. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
10. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
11. Nelson Mandela: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman

Ethnicity/Race / Fiction

1. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
2. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Economic Status

1. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
2. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
3. On Pauperism in Present and Past by Jan Breman

Political Power

1. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
2. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry

Religion

1. The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy by Anthony Gottlieb
2. 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

1. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
2. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
3. Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries by Nan Sloane
4. Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
5. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
6. Woman in Hiding: A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets & Other Evil Deeds by Kathleen Hoy Foley
7. Forget About Heaven: Don’t Yell At Me, Take It Up With My Dead Mother by Kathleen Hoy Foley
8. Breaking Through Silence: A No-Nonsense Love Letter to Women by Kathleen Hoy Foley

Sex / Gender Fiction

1. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
2. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
3. The Beginnings Of Grief by Adam Haslett (You Are Not a Stranger Here)

The Persecutors

Political Power

1. How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper

Religion

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

Science

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

General

1. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
2. The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
3. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Persecuted and The Persecutors

Animal Rights

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

Ethnicity / Race

1. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
2. The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
3. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
4. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
5. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
6. Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World by Hugh Pope
7. Black Sea by Neal Ascherson

Economic

1. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
2. The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List

Religion

1. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
2. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand

Sex / Gender

1. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
2. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
3. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
4. The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine

Political Power

1. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
2. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
3. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
4. Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
5. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
6. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
7. The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill

General

1. A Philosophy of Evil by Lars Svendsen
2. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
3. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
4. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
5. Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
6. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
7. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
8. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
9. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
10. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
11. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
12. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
13. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault
14. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
15. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
16. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
17. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani

General / Fiction

• Berlin by Jason Lutes
• Candide by Voltaire