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Fascism & Totalitarianism Books

Books selected for readers looking for fascism & totalitarianism books.

28 booksApril 2, 2026

Part of 500+ tracked lists·2 crossover shelves·107% reader overlap with Radicalism Books

1. Hannah Arendt: the Origins of Totalitarianism Expanded Edition (LOA #389)
Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn
Fits this list for its focus on fascism and totalitarianism.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
2. Erasing History
Jason Stanley, Dion Graham
Fits this list for its focus on fascism.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
3. How Fascism Works
Jason Stanley, Jason F. Stanley
Fits this list for its focus on fascism.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
4. On Fascism
Matthew C. MacWilliams
Fits this list for its focus on fascism.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
5. Antifa
Mark Bray
Fits this list for its focus on fascism.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
6. The Dictator's Handbook
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
Included for strong political alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
7. To Catch a Fascist
Christopher Mathias, Matt Godfrey
Included for strong american alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
8. How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
Included for strong book club alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Conservatism & Liberalism
9. The Nazi Mind
Laurence Rees, John Sackville
Included for strong political alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
10. The Midnight Kingdom
Jared Yates Sexton, Penguin Audio
Included for strong gifts alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
11. The Enemy Within
David Horowitz
Included for strong america alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Conservatism & Liberalism
12. Strongmen
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Included for strong world alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
13. The Anatomy of Fascism
Robert O. Paxton
Fits this list for its focus on fascism.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
14. Bloodlands
Timothy Snyder
Included for strong history alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Eastern European History
15. The Young Person's Illustrated Guide to American Fascism
Sue Coe, Stephen F. Eisenman
Fits this list for its focus on fascism.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
16. Twilight of Democracy
Anne Applebaum, Random House Audio
Included for strong political alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
17. Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
George Orwell, Andrea Karola
Fits this list for its focus on fascism and totalitarianism.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
18. The Road to Unfreedom
Timothy Snyder
Included for strong history alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
19. Blackshirts and Reds
Michael Parenti
Fits this list for its focus on fascism.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
20. On Democracies and Death Cults
Douglas Murray, Broadside Books
Included for strong political alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Human Rights
21. How to Be a Dictator
Frank Dikötter, Jack Bennett
Included for strong african alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
22. Unhumans
Jack Posobiec, Joshua Lisec
Included for strong book club alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Radical Politics
23. Unmasked
Andy Ngo
Included for strong nonfiction alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Radical Politics
24. American Reich
Eric Lichtblau, Gary Tiedemann
Included for strong modern alignment with this fascism & totalitarianism list.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism