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A list of the books that have been featured on the Colbert Report. A must read list for any member of the Colbert Nation
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State of Wonder
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3.90 avg rating — 199,567 ratings
score: 749,
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Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
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3.99 avg rating — 6,052 ratings
score: 495,
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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4.52 avg rating — 116,238 ratings
score: 477,
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5 people voted
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In the Night Kitchen
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3.99 avg rating — 18,885 ratings
score: 359,
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4 people voted
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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3.98 avg rating — 115,973 ratings
score: 356,
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4 people voted
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I Am America
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Stephen Colbert (Contributor/Editor)
3.90 avg rating — 84,102 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 93,669 ratings
score: 289,
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3 people voted
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End This Depression Now!
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Paul Krugman (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,877 ratings
score: 286,
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3 people voted
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The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities
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3.96 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
score: 283,
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3 people voted
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Canada
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3.53 avg rating — 27,972 ratings
score: 281,
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Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture
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Andy Cohen (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 17,025 ratings
score: 279,
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3 people voted
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Then Again
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3.48 avg rating — 11,515 ratings
score: 268,
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3 people voted
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King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
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3.90 avg rating — 2,549 ratings
score: 262,
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3 people voted
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The Forever War
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4.13 avg rating — 11,390 ratings
score: 261,
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Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life
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James Martin (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,969 ratings
score: 245,
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
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4.19 avg rating — 9,284 ratings
score: 241,
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3 people voted
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Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
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4.07 avg rating — 768 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America
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4.35 avg rating — 6,281 ratings
score: 183,
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2 people voted
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The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
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3.84 avg rating — 858 ratings
score: 175,
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2 people voted
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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
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3.63 avg rating — 2,552 ratings
score: 163,
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Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
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3.81 avg rating — 5,684 ratings
score: 157,
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2 people voted
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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4.34 avg rating — 112,852 ratings
score: 144,
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2 people voted
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
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3.86 avg rating — 10,227 ratings
score: 144,
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2 people voted
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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
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Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 4,971 ratings
score: 142,
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2 people voted
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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 48,571 ratings
score: 140,
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2 people voted
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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3.74 avg rating — 86,868 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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3.97 avg rating — 52,185 ratings
score: 100,
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I am a Pole
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3.82 avg rating — 5,262 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen: Invasion of the Optiklons
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3.34 avg rating — 319 ratings
score: 98,
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The Richer Sex: How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
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Liza Mundy (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 321 ratings
score: 97,
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A Good Man: Rediscovering My Father, Sargent Shriver
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3.99 avg rating — 609 ratings
score: 96,
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1 person voted
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I Hate Everyone... Starting with Me
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3.46 avg rating — 3,944 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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China Airborne
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3.86 avg rating — 617 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Over Time: My Life as a Sportswriter
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3.86 avg rating — 725 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
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3.94 avg rating — 30,583 ratings
score: 90,
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Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency
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3.93 avg rating — 164 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
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3.99 avg rating — 4,215 ratings
score: 87,
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Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops
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3.86 avg rating — 249 ratings
score: 85,
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Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character
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3.40 avg rating — 382 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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The Weight of the Nation: Surprising Lessons About Diets, Food, and Fat from the Extraordinary Series from HBO Documentary Films
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3.51 avg rating — 170 ratings
score: 82,
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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4.20 avg rating — 64,826 ratings
score: 79,
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The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century
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3.65 avg rating — 382 ratings
score: 78,
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What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
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3.93 avg rating — 13,866 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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Imagine: How Creativity Works
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Jonah Lehrer (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 53,288 ratings
score: 74,
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We’re Losing Our Minds: Rethinking American Higher Education
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3.53 avg rating — 45 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business
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3.74 avg rating — 1,123 ratings
score: 72,
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The Wolf Gift (The Wolf Gift Chronicles, #1)
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3.58 avg rating — 29,183 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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Can't Is Not an Option: My American Story
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4.22 avg rating — 532 ratings
score: 70,
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The Crisis of Zionism
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3.87 avg rating — 552 ratings
score: 69,
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New American Haggadah
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score: 64,
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The World America Made
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3.76 avg rating — 1,059 ratings
score: 62,
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The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards
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3.75 avg rating — 3,402 ratings
score: 60,
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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
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4.25 avg rating — 11,054 ratings
score: 58,
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A Governor's Story: The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future
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3.67 avg rating — 107 ratings
score: 57,
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Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting Intimacy with Your Spouse
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Ed Young (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 158 ratings
score: 56,
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The Right Fights Back
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3.64 avg rating — 238 ratings
score: 55,
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
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4.26 avg rating — 3,394 ratings
score: 54,
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My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir
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3.67 avg rating — 276 ratings
score: 53,
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Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist
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3.43 avg rating — 331 ratings
score: 52,
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Screw Business As Usual
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3.61 avg rating — 1,635 ratings
score: 51,
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Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany
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4.57 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero
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4.06 avg rating — 4,950 ratings
score: 47,
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The Toaster Project: Or a Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
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3.91 avg rating — 1,441 ratings
score: 46,
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The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age
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3.78 avg rating — 2,338 ratings
score: 43,
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A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
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3.64 avg rating — 1,679 ratings
score: 40,
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