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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.27 — 93,199 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 58 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 112,225 ratings — published 2015
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 64,995 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.84 — 493,224 ratings — published 2016
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,436 ratings — published 2007
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,421 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,649 ratings — published 2010
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,014 ratings — published 2018
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,389 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 — 26,860 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 — 889,087 ratings — published 2005
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 168,801 ratings — published 2010
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,074 ratings — published 2016
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,533 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,333 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 41 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,787 ratings — published 2001
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,508 ratings — published 2018
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.83 — 168,876 ratings — published 2006
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 198,556 ratings — published 2018
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,823 ratings — published 2008
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 13,422 ratings — published 2024
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 36,487 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 — 18,465 ratings — published 2004
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,063 ratings — published 2020
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.41 — 277,898 ratings — published 2018
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 30,915 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 60,237 ratings — published 2012
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 97,188 ratings — published 2009
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,634 ratings — published 2019
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,207 ratings — published 2018
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,400 ratings — published 2014
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 — 170,757 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 — 44,505 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 281,479 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.62 — 256,592 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 — 847,112 ratings — published 2000
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.54 — 129,550 ratings — published 2021
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.41 — 37,809 ratings — published 2022
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,709 ratings — published 2018
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.44 — 105,417 ratings — published 2015
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 115,421 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 — 54,117 ratings — published 2018
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,400 ratings — published 2013
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.82 — 95,911 ratings — published 2020
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,437 ratings — published 2018
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 64,097 ratings — published 2012
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.71 — 13,912 ratings — published 2008
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,650 ratings — published 2016
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 42,035 ratings — published 2009
“It is the pinnacle of arrogance to assume that whatever it is that “the experts” believe now is in fact the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Scientists have believed and public health officials have promoted many wrong things over the years, for both honorable, and not so honorable reasons. Sometimes the public health message is dead wrong.”
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““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
