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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 112,533 ratings — published 2017
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 119,957 ratings — published 2015
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,598 ratings — published 2018
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,620 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.83 — 508,717 ratings — published 2016
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 54,794 ratings — published 2007
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 370,661 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,630 ratings — published 2010
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,486 ratings — published 2018
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,434 ratings — published 2016
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,634 ratings — published 2005
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 902,689 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,628 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 172,540 ratings — published 2010
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,214 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 179,496 ratings — published 2018
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.17 — 17,980 ratings — published 2024
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 41 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,047 ratings — published 2001
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 203,716 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,427 ratings — published 2018
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,980 ratings — published 1988
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.84 — 170,439 ratings — published 2006
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 43,329 ratings — published 2022
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,872 ratings — published 2008
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 64,581 ratings — published 2012
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,696 ratings — published 2001
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,519 ratings — published 2018
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,051 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,091 ratings — published 2019
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 284,299 ratings — published 2018
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,704 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 101,553 ratings — published 2009
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 38,197 ratings — published 2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 19,172 ratings — published 2004
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.54 — 140,558 ratings — published 2021
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 290,773 ratings — published 2015
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,889 ratings — published 2014
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 860,024 ratings — published 2000
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,048 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.07 — 46,273 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,482 ratings — published 2018
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,019 ratings — published 2018
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.44 — 109,991 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.62 — 265,948 ratings — published 2014
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,777 ratings — published 2012
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.59 — 55,942 ratings — published 2025
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.91 — 46,627 ratings — published 2025
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,727 ratings — published 2018
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,514 ratings — published 2013
“When everyone says the same thing about some complex topic, what should come to your mind is, 'wait a minute, nothing can be that simple, something's wrong.' That's the immediate light that should go off in your brain when you ever hear unanimity on some complex topic." (The Ezra Klein Show 2021/04/23)”
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“What more can be said for the sake of our Nation than a simple wish, a humble hope, that the future not forsake this experiment in Democracy at this crucial time of need. Let us lean into these winds of change and finally create a Nation not conceived in mere words but made manifest in deeds, through the rekindled will of a great Nation.”
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