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1	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter 4.29 avg rating — 47,903 ratings score: 696, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.40 avg rating — 315,833 ratings score: 627, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 4.52 avg rating — 102,757 ratings score: 591, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari 4.38 avg rating — 911,818 ratings score: 584, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4.28 avg rating — 3,965,831 ratings score: 526, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 4.27 avg rating — 206,500 ratings score: 466, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 110,658 ratings score: 390, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 27,542 ratings score: 386, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 4.11 avg rating — 915,869 ratings score: 349, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance 3.87 avg rating — 394,329 ratings score: 300, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville 3.53 avg rating — 536,797 ratings score: 294, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein 4.26 avg rating — 45,502 ratings score: 283, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 75,903 ratings score: 270, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot 1909-1935 by T.S. Eliot 4.29 avg rating — 280 ratings score: 258, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 276,617 ratings score: 249, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 107,890 ratings score: 248, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville 4.04 avg rating — 24,928 ratings score: 234, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo 3.98 avg rating — 107,441 ratings score: 223, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson 4.63 avg rating — 215,073 ratings score: 223, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X 4.35 avg rating — 255,484 ratings score: 217, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.11 avg rating — 9,435 ratings score: 195, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Bhagavad Gita by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa 4.16 avg rating — 67,981 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Orientalism by Edward W. Said 4.10 avg rating — 23,498 ratings score: 189, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh 4.19 avg rating — 32,658 ratings score: 188, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay 3.84 avg rating — 4,482 ratings score: 177, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America by Arthur C. Brooks 4.10 avg rating — 1,288 ratings score: 175, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Act of Creation by Arthur Koestler 4.25 avg rating — 480 ratings score: 166, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	A Collection of Essays by George Orwell 4.30 avg rating — 7,443 ratings score: 160, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine of Hippo (Creator) 3.95 avg rating — 59,958 ratings score: 159, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Once and Future King by T.H. White 4.07 avg rating — 106,303 ratings score: 157, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order & Freedom by Robert A. Nisbet 4.24 avg rating — 296 ratings score: 133, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 823,657 ratings score: 128, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Animal Liberation by Peter Singer (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 9,898 ratings score: 123, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell 3.96 avg rating — 572,119 ratings score: 108, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 4.54 avg rating — 91,902 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Gandhi: An Autobiography by Mahatma Gandhi 4.10 avg rating — 67,687 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande 4.04 avg rating — 64,440 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Stormy Weather (Skink #3) by Carl Hiaasen (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 16,992 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll 3.98 avg rating — 3,825 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy And The Path To War In Vietnam by Gordon M. Goldstein 3.87 avg rating — 363 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom by Ryan T. Anderson 4.39 avg rating — 343 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs - and Who Will Take It by Sean Trende 3.89 avg rating — 99 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer 4.13 avg rating — 11,867 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu 4.08 avg rating — 46,052 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Hayek 4.16 avg rating — 22,595 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa, #1) by Steven Saylor 3.94 avg rating — 8,788 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 152,282 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Influence - Science and Practice - The Comic by Robert B. Cialdini (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 541 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	The Affluent Society by John K Galbrath really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,801 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith 4.06 avg rating — 4,138 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions by Thorstein Veblen 3.89 avg rating — 3,544 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell 4.18 avg rating — 863 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Essays: A Selection by M.A. Screech 4.06 avg rating — 2,302 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Coming To Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World by Daniel Yankelovich 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	The Magic of Dialogue: Transforming Conflict into Cooperation by Daniel Yankelovich 3.82 avg rating — 66 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 60) by Robert J. Gordon 4.19 avg rating — 1,805 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell 3.96 avg rating — 174,891 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin 4.19 avg rating — 44,282 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	The Journals of John Cheever by John Cheever 4.21 avg rating — 732 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Kabir: Ecstatic Poems by Kabir 4.24 avg rating — 885 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 7,418 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Patrimony by Philip Roth 4.20 avg rating — 5,006 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco 3.37 avg rating — 2,561 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian F. Haney-López 4.20 avg rating — 1,221 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America by Tamara Draut 3.88 avg rating — 123 ratings score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements by Adrienne Maree Brown (Editor/Contributor) 3.94 avg rating — 3,742 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen 4.04 avg rating — 51,937 ratings score: 46, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 11,831 ratings score: 45, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam 4.03 avg rating — 4,002 ratings score: 44, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah 3.88 avg rating — 961 ratings score: 43, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	Specialization and Trade: A Re-introduction to Economics by Arnold Kling 4.14 avg rating — 190 ratings score: 40, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic by Esther Perel 4.17 avg rating — 34,176 ratings score: 39, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks 4.06 avg rating — 208,775 ratings score: 36, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle 4.50 avg rating — 194,399 ratings score: 35, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	My Own Country: A Doctor's Story by Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 11,411 ratings score: 34, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman 4.31 avg rating — 6,758 ratings score: 32, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch 4.20 avg rating — 33,179 ratings score: 31, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks 4.15 avg rating — 21,570 ratings score: 29, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics by Marianne A. Ferber (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 27, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power by John Kenneth Galbraith 3.83 avg rating — 109 ratings score: 25, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology by Lee Ross really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 487 ratings score: 24, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Brown Face, Big Master by Joyce Gladwell 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings score: 23, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War by Eliot A. Cohen (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 243 ratings score: 22, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero by David Remnick 4.27 avg rating — 4,352 ratings score: 20, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets by Robert Kuttner 3.94 avg rating — 79 ratings score: 18, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff 4.10 avg rating — 5,913 ratings score: 17, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	A Prayer for the City by H.G. Bissinger 4.20 avg rating — 1,186 ratings score: 16, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila 4.06 avg rating — 920 ratings score: 15, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren 4.08 avg rating — 62,048 ratings score: 14, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	My Brilliant Friend (My Brilliant Friend #1) by Elena Ferrante 4.02 avg rating — 296,836 ratings score: 13, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray 3.79 avg rating — 5,257 ratings score: 12, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas 4.30 avg rating — 2,499 ratings score: 10, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry by Paul Starr 4.15 avg rating — 1,148 ratings score: 9, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes 3.85 avg rating — 5,226 ratings score: 8, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi 4.20 avg rating — 4,515 ratings score: 7, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology by Gregory Bateson 4.25 avg rating — 1,342 ratings score: 6, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter 4.01 avg rating — 2,636 ratings score: 4, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze 4.20 avg rating — 1,602 ratings score: 3, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy by Kenneth Pomeranz 3.66 avg rating — 823 ratings score: 2, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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These books were recommended by the following podcast guests (in parentheses)...

1) The Fire Next Time (Cory Booker)
2) The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (Cory Booker)
3) The Story of My Experiments With Truth (Cory Booker)
4) The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Cory Booker; Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia)
5) Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (David Chang)
6) The Bhagavad Gita (David Chang)
7) The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (David Chang)
8) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Bill Gates; Bruce Friedrich; Jennifer Doudna)
9) Seveneves (Bill Gates)
10) The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Bill Gates; Bruce Friedrich; Grant Gordon)
11) Stormy Weather (Jim Yong Kim)
12) Orientalism (Jim Yong Kim)
13) The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation (Jim Yong Kim)
14) Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power (Rachel Maddow)
15) Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam (Rachel Maddow)
16) The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Rachel Maddow)
17) Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom (Michael Needham)
18) The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs - and Who Will Take It (Michael Needham)
19) The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America (Michael Needham)
20) The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Neera Tanden)
21) Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Neera Tanden)
22) Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Grover Norquist)
23) The Road to Serfdom (Grover Norquist)
24) Roman Blood (Grover Norquist)
25) Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Bruce Friedrich)
26) Influence: Science and Practice: The Comic (Bruce Friedrich)
27) Eating Animals (Bruce Friedrich; Ezra Klein)
28) The Affluent Society (Robert Reich)
29) The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Robert Reich)
30) The Theory Of The Leisure Class: An Economic Study Of Institutions (Robert Reich)
31) The Act of Creation (Arianna Huffington)
32) Meditations (Arianna Huffington)
33) Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (Andrew Sullivan)
34) The Confessions of St. Augustine (Andrew Sullivan)
35) The Essays: A Selection (Andrew Sullivan)
36) A Collection of Essays (Andrew Sullivan)
37) Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot (Andrew Sullivan)
38) Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World (Alice Rivlin)
39) The Magic of Dialogue (Alice Rivlin)
40) The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (Alice Rivlin)
41) David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Tom Perez)
42) The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Tom Perez)
43) No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II (Tom Perez)
44) The Once and Future King (Moby)
45) The Journals of John Cheever (Moby)
46) Kabir: Ecstatic Poems (Moby)
47) One Hundred Years of Solitude (Jessica Valenti; Melissa Bell)
48) Bad Feminist (Jessica Valenti)
49) Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Jessica Valenti)
50) Patrimony (Jesse Eisenberg)
51) Ilustrado (Jesse Eisenberg)
52) Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class (Heather McGhee)
53) Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America (Heather McGhee)
54) Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (Heather McGhee)
55) The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business (Ben Thompson)
56) The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World (Ben Thompson)
57) Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis (Hillary Clinton; Francis Fukuyama)
58) Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Hillary Clinton)
59) Democracy in America (Yuval Levin)
60) The Quest For Community: A Study In The Ethics Of Order And Freedom (Yuval Levin)
61) Specialization and Trade: A Re-introduction to Economics (Yuval Levin)
62) Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic (Trevor Noah)
63) Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Trevor Noah)
64) Between the World and Me (Trevor Noah)
65) The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Atul Gawande)
66) The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Atul Gawande)
67) My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (Atul Gawande)
68) Pride and Prejudice (Melissa Bell)
69) And the Pursuit of Happiness (Melissa Bell)
70) We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families (Grant Gordon)
71) Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Grant Gordon; Jonathan Cohn; Michael Bennet)
72) Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (Jessica Valenti)
73) Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Cory Booker; Angela J. Davis)
74) Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics (Neera Tanden)
75) Animal Liberation (Bruce Friedrich)
76) American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power (Robert Reich)
77) The Person and the Situation: Perspectives of Social Psychology (Malcolm Gladwell)
78) Brown Face Big Master (Malcolm Gladwell)
79) Military Misfortunes: The Anatomy of Failure in War (Malcolm Gladwell)
80) The Autobiography of Malcolm X (W. Kamau Bell; Keith Ellison)
81) King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero (W. Kamau Bell)
82) Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (W. Kamau Bell)
83) Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (Arlie Hochschild)
84) Metaphors We Live By (Arlie Hochschild)
85) A Prayer for the City (Dr. Leana Wen)
86) Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City (Dr. Leana Wen)
87) All the King's Men (Molly Ball)
88) My Brilliant Friend (Molly Ball)
89) Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (Francis Fukuyama; JD Vance)
90) Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Francis Fukuyama; Ron Brownstein; Kara Swisher)
91) Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Jonathan Cohn)
92) The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry (Jonathan Cohn)
93) The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Joseph Stiglitz)
94) The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Joseph Stiglitz)
95) Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology (Deborah Tannen)
96) Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Deborah Tannen)
97) Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (David Frum)
98) The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 (David Frum)
99) The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (David Frum)

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message 2: by Supriya (new)

Aug 16, 2019 11:46PM

You're a treasure for making this list!

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message 3: by El (new)

Sep 13, 2020 05:40PM

Sarah wrote: "These books were recommended by the following podcast guests (in parentheses)...

1) The Fire Next Time (Cory Booker)
2) The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (..."

THANK YOU!!!!!

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