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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 99,714 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 60 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 115,777 ratings — published 2015
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
by (shelved 59 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,849 ratings — published 2017
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,277 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.84 — 501,815 ratings — published 2016
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 53,491 ratings — published 2007
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 365,022 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 — 116,918 ratings — published 2010
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,225 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 — 27,114 ratings — published 2016
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 102,495 ratings — published
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,294 ratings — published 2016
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 895,186 ratings — published 2005
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,467 ratings — published 2020
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 170,504 ratings — published 2010
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,847 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 41 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,359 ratings — published 2001
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,718 ratings — published 2024
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.10 — 47,943 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 201,041 ratings — published 2018
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.84 — 169,540 ratings — published 2006
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,309 ratings — published 1988
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,852 ratings — published 2008
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,498 ratings — published 2001
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,150 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,393 ratings — published 2012
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,320 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 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,776 ratings — published 2004
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,558 ratings — published 2020
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 280,862 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 99,121 ratings — published 2009
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.54 — 134,372 ratings — published 2021
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 119,220 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 27,659 ratings — published 2014
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.41 — 40,350 ratings — published 2022
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,475 ratings — published 2018
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 — 171,793 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 — 45,355 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,091 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 286,280 ratings — published 2015
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 — 107,462 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.62 — 260,449 ratings — published 2014
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 853,001 ratings — published 2000
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,742 ratings — published 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,497 ratings — published 2012
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,791 ratings — published 2018
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,473 ratings — published 2013
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,803 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,047 ratings — published 2020
“Goodbye, sir, I hope everything turns out for the best, In the current state of affairs, we no longer know what's for the best and what's for the worst”
― Death with Interruptions
― Death with Interruptions
“Until there is a common vocabulary and a shared historical memory, there is no peace in any society, only an absence of war... The search for a common narrative must, at times, be forced upon a society. Few societies seem able to do this willingly.”
― War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
― War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
