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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by
Barbara Ehrenreich
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 126,567 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
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Bill Bryson
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 110,475 ratings
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A Short History of Nearly Everything
by
Bill Bryson
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 83,801 ratings
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The Constitution of the United States of America
by
James Madison
4.54 of 5 stars 4.54 avg rating — 8,275 ratings
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Zeitoun
by
Dave Eggers
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 32,957 ratings
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Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health
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David Michaels
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 82 ratings
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
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Paul Krugman (Goodreads Author)
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 2,791 ratings
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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Matt Ridley
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 1,732 ratings
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
by
George Orwell
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 935,375 ratings
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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
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Elizabeth Kolbert
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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Cat's Cradle
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Kurt Vonnegut
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 133,645 ratings
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The Giver
by
Lois Lowry
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 547,548 ratings
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The Road
by
Cormac McCarthy
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 282,920 ratings
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Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua
by
Stephen Kinzer
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Revolution: A Manifesto
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Ron Paul
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 3,883 ratings
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Six Poets of the Great War: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Richard Aldington, Edmund Blunden, Edward Thomas, Rupert Brooke and Many Others
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Adrian Barlow (Editor)
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 40 ratings
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The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot
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Naomi Wolf (Goodreads Author)
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 1,694 ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Naomi Klein
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 12,921 ratings
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Little Bee
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Chris Cleave (Goodreads Author)
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 105,558 ratings
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Ella Enchanted
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 168,135 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
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Ayn Rand
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 152,448 ratings
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Moby-Dick
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Herman Melville
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 260,495 ratings
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Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
by
Stewart Brand
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 392 ratings
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The World Without Us
by
Alan Weisman
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 15,864 ratings
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Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism
by
Bertrand Russell
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Gabriel García Márquez
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 183,475 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by
Michael Pollan
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 86,197 ratings
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Anna Karenina
by
Leo Tolstoy
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 188,273 ratings
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Survivor's Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy
by
Vincent Michael Palamara
4.9 of 5 stars 4.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
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Nicholas G. Carr
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 4,966 ratings
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Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds-On the Track of Unknown Mammals in Wildest New Guinea
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Tim Flannery
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Being and Homelessness: Notes from an Underground Artist
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John H. Sibley (Goodreads Author)
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Exponential Apocalypse
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Eirik Gumeny (Goodreads Author)
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Ragtime
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E.L. Doctorow
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 14,829 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 924,627 ratings
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Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)
by
Lawrence Durrell
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2,654 ratings
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Blindness (Blindness, #1)
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José Saramago
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 63,139 ratings
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Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
by
Eoin Colfer
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 179,751 ratings
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Ethics for the New Millennium
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Dalai Lama XIV
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
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Where Love Is, There God Is Also
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Leo Tolstoy
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 285 ratings
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Karl Marx
by
Francis Wheen
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 416 ratings
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The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848
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Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 1,239 ratings
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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C.L.R. James
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 953 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 27,824 ratings
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
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Timothy Egan
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 15,468 ratings
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The Revenge of Gaia
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James E. Lovelock
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 647 ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Jared Diamond
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 95,896 ratings
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Essays
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Michel de Montaigne
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 765 ratings
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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
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Michael J. Sandel
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 2,884 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 274,031 ratings
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Greyhound
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Steffan Piper (Goodreads Author)
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,110 ratings
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All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America?
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Joel Berg
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Die Nigger Die!
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Jamil al-Amin
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
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Jon Krakauer
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 11,698 ratings
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The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Editor)
4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 47,419 ratings
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The 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology
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Eirik Gumeny (Goodreads Author) (Editor)
4.82 of 5 stars 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Under the Dome
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Stephen King
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 77,544 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 146,718 ratings
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
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Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 99,995 ratings
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 140,202 ratings
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Jitterbug Perfume
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Tom Robbins
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 34,023 ratings
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Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences
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Howard Gardner
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 780 ratings
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Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, #1)
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Suzanne Collins
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 30,411 ratings
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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Douglas Adams
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 528,883 ratings
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The Echo from Dealey Plaza: the True Story of the First African American on the White House Secret Service Detail and His Quest for Justice After the Assassination of JFK
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Abraham Bolden
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Life Application Study Bible: NIV
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Anonymous
4.63 of 5 stars 4.63 avg rating — 6,405 ratings
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Never Look Away: A Thriller
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Linwood Barclay
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 4,707 ratings
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Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir
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Clint Hill
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 3,663 ratings
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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Michael Chabon
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 91,653 ratings
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Obamaism Is Socialism
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Mattie Jaxx (Goodreads Author)
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Ill Fares the Land
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Tony Judt
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
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Plato
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 12,296 ratings
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White Teeth
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Zadie Smith
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 49,741 ratings
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The Corrections
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Jonathan Franzen
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 70,523 ratings
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Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know Is Wrong
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John Stossel
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
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Within Arm's Length: The Extraordinary Life and Career of a Special Agent in the United States Secret Service
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Dan Emmett
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 40 ratings
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مثنوی معنوی
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Rumi
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 1,823 ratings
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 178,549 ratings
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The Making of the English Working Class
by
E.P. Thompson
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 987 ratings
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I Saw Ramallah
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Mourid Barghouti
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
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Roger E.A. Farmer
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Five Days in November
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Clint Hill
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 163,342 ratings
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Capital, Vol. 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
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Karl Marx
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 5,623 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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Robert A. Caro
4.52 of 5 stars 4.52 avg rating — 2,826 ratings
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The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
by
Gerald Blaine
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 982 ratings
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
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Leo Tolstoy
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 22,040 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
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Anthony Burgess
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 221,643 ratings
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The Secrets Of The Federal Reserve
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Eustace Mullins
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Trial
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Franz Kafka
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 66,872 ratings
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Cornered : The new monopoly capitalism and the economics of destruction
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Barry C. Lynn
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
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Bill Bryson
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 6,264 ratings
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It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street
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Nomi Prins (Goodreads Author)
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Socialist Register 2006: Telling the Truth
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Colin Leys
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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Sharon Moalem
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 2,430 ratings
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
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W.E.B. Du Bois
4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Toussaint Louverture: La Révolution Française Et Le Problème Colonial
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Aimé Césaire
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West
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Scott Martelle (Goodreads Author)
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 34 ratings
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What Is the What
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4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 41,014 ratings
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