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The Politics department has a library of books for you to borrow. We recommend some of our favourite US, UK, Fiction and International reads below.
UK Top Reads
How Westminster Works, and Why It Doesn't: Ian Dunt (highly recommended for A Level Students)
Failed State: Sam Freedman (highly recommended for A Level Students)
Politics on the Edge: Rory Stewart
Why Politics Matters: Alastair Campbell (highly recommended for A Level Students)
All Out War; the Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain's Political Class: Tim Shipman
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem; Tim Shipman
Social Mobility and Its Enemies: Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin
Chavs: Owen Jones
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy: Roger Eatwell and Matt Goodwin
The Establishment; Owen Jones
Chavs: Owen Jones
Cameron at 10; The Verdict: Anthony Seldon
The Jilted Generation; How Britain has Bankrupted its Youth: Ed Howker
Prisoner of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Geography: Tim Marshall
Invisible Women: Caroline Criado Perez (Excellent preparation for the Feminism unit)
How to Be A Liberal: Ian Dunt
Social Mobility and its Enemies: Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Manchin
The Spirit Level- Why Equality is Better For Everyone: Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson
US Top Reads
If Only They Didn't Speak English; Notes From Trump's America: Jon Sopel (Excellent on Trump's first term)
How America Works (and why it doesn't): Andrew Cooper (highly recommended for A Level Students)
Why We're Polarized: Ezra Klein (highly recommended for A Level Students)
The Great Wave: Michiko Kakutani
Fire and Fury; inside the Trump White House: Michael Wolff
Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House: John Heilemann and Mark Halperin
Shattered: Inside Hilary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign: Jonathan Allen
Trumped: The 2016 Election That Broke All The Rules: Larry Sabato
A More Perfect Constitution: Larry Sabato
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: Thomas Mann and Normal Ornstein
Fiction
Brave New World: Alduous Huxley
1984: George Orwell
Animal Farm: George Orwell
Primary Colours: A novel of Politics by Anonymous
Farenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
Lord of the Flies: William Golding
Slaughterhouse 5: Kurt Vonnegut
Catch 22: Joseph Heller
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway
International Politics
Conspiracyland: Mariana Spring
Prisoners of Geography: Tim Marshall
The Adults in the Room: Varis Yarakofis
Stasiland: Anna Funder
Ghosts of Spain: Giles Tremlett
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Peter Pomerantsev
Propaganda: Peter Pomerantsev
Homage to Catalonia: George Orwell
Political Ideas
Note: these are not necessarily easy reading, and we are not specifically recommending the ideas, but they are a good indication of what the these key thinkers believed!
The Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx
The Third Way: Anthony Giddens
Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand
Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes
John Rawls: A Theory of Justice
Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Max Stirner: The Individual and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority
Anthony Crosland: The Future of Socialism
Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia
Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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