The ten books from political science that non-political scientist should read: a personal list

Reinhard Benedict, Imaginary Communities

James Q. Wilson, Bureaucracy

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Jay, Hamilton, and Madison, The Federalist Papers

Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, Vol. 1

George Washington Plunkett and William L. Roidon, Plunkett of Tammy Hall

Charles S. Murray, On Democracy

George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950 

EE Schattschneider, The Semisovereign People