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An incomplete but useful list of classics might be the list following. You may wish to start with wikipedia entries on them, or other sources, but reading the texts themselves is useful!

Plato: The Republic

Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics; and Politics

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan John Locke: Two Treatises of Government

Rousseau: The Social Contract

Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws De Toqueville: Democracy in America

Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto; and Das Kapital.

JS Mill: On Liberty (the classic Utilitarian Enlightenment work)

John Rawls: A Theory of Justice (A hugely important work on rights and principles of political decisionmaking)

Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia (a right-wing / libertarian oriented response to Rawls)

Michael Sandel: Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (critique of liberalism and introducing communitarianism)