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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 118,157 ratings — published 2017
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,914 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 62 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 124,453 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 — 16,666 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 — 514,416 ratings — published 2016
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 56,173 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 — 120,302 ratings — published 2010
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,757 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,679 ratings — published 2015
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,789 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 — 27,814 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 — 910,576 ratings — published 2005
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 19,643 ratings — published 2024
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,135 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 174,614 ratings — published 2010
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,652 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 182,030 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 41 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,783 ratings — published 2001
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,904 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 — 206,485 ratings — published 2018
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,551 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 — 171,440 ratings — published 2006
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.38 — 46,510 ratings — published 2022
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,917 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 — 206,972 ratings — published 2001
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 34,850 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,958 ratings — published 2012
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.56 — 76,724 ratings — published 2025
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.53 — 150,176 ratings — published 2021
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,487 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,959 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 — 288,658 ratings — published 2018
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,972 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,811 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 — 39,258 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 — 19,604 ratings — published 2004
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,806 ratings — published 2018
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,288 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 295,405 ratings — published 2015
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,151 ratings — published 2014
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.88 — 55,289 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 — 174,310 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 — 47,270 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 — 113,570 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.62 — 271,653 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 — 867,085 ratings — published 2000
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,246 ratings — published 2012
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 146,831 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 — 14,215 ratings — published 2018
““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
“In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.”
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