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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 114,202 ratings — published 2017
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 66,013 ratings — published 2018
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 61 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 126,023 ratings — published 2015
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,683 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 — 516,364 ratings — published 2016
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,672 ratings — published 2007
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,784 ratings — published 2010
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,854 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 377,338 ratings — published 2015
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 20,051 ratings — published 2024
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,844 ratings — published 2005
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 47 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,913 ratings — published 2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,877 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 175,400 ratings — published 2010
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 913,152 ratings — published 2005
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,208 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,968 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 41 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,998 ratings — published 2001
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 49,030 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 207,544 ratings — published 2018
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,771 ratings — published 1988
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.38 — 47,466 ratings — published 2022
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.84 — 171,766 ratings — published 2006
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,715 ratings — published 2012
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,931 ratings — published 2008
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.75 — 207,061 ratings — published 2001
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 35,232 ratings — published 2018
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.55 — 81,914 ratings — published 2025
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 105,968 ratings — published 2009
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.53 — 154,096 ratings — published 2021
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,602 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,180 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 — 291,971 ratings — published 2018
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 50,058 ratings — published 2018
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,898 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 4.32 — 19,751 ratings — published 2004
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,889 ratings — published 2018
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,370 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,943 ratings — published 2015
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,255 ratings — published 2014
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,940 ratings — published 2025
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 — 174,675 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 — 47,565 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 — 114,726 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.62 — 273,373 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 — 869,578 ratings — published 2000
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 158,876 ratings — published 2025
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,642 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,715 ratings — published 2023
“With abortion illegal here, and with crossing state lines to acquire one without threat of jailtime for me, or threats of imprisonment to the innocent doctor for doing the procedure, I'm stuck with whatever the fuck happens now. The repercussions of another person's actions falling completely on me.”
― Your Body, My Choice: Killstreme: Harlow
― Your Body, My Choice: Killstreme: Harlow
““This is a story about two bloody feet, and how the sight of them changed a young couple’s plans. ... It’s about fine dining, a bicycle, burritos at midnight, and a girl who dreamed of being a dancer. This is a Las Vegas story.””
― The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line
― The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line
