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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 65,346 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.84 — 503,647 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,161 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 365,995 ratings — published 2015
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.28 — 100,863 ratings — published 2017
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,512 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,685 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 170,889 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 261,317 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 161,092 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,265 ratings — published 2018
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 102,389 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 69 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,450 ratings — published 2001
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 119,366 ratings — published 2019
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 64 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 172,018 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,009,995 ratings — published 2017
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,165 ratings — published 2016
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 281,486 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.54 — 135,326 ratings — published 2021
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,349 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 30,857 ratings — published 2017
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,493 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 48,037 ratings — published 2018
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.82 — 97,450 ratings — published 2020
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,441 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 99,466 ratings — published 2009
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,147 ratings — published 2018
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,807 ratings — published 2019
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 622,752 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 61,244 ratings — published 2023
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 102,325 ratings — published 2009
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.01 — 896,820 ratings — published 2005
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 49,506 ratings — published 2018
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 95,170 ratings — published 2025
Rage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 26,087 ratings — published 2020
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 53,679 ratings — published 2007
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 358,656 ratings — published 2006
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.92 — 61,054 ratings — published 2017
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 275,280 ratings — published 2020
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.61 — 37,566 ratings — published 2025
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,862 ratings — published 2021
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,111 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 107,791 ratings — published 2018
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,253 ratings — published 2016
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 32,225 ratings — published 2015
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 22,863 ratings — published 2010
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 19,654 ratings — published 2020
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,478 ratings — published 2013
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 177,305 ratings — published 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,669 ratings — published 2012
“But if I am certain of anything, it is that it is well within our power as citizens to return to a more civic and more confident democratic life, if we so choose. We do not have to remain slaves to our anger and our fears. We do not have to destroy our own traditions and institutions out of rage and resentment. We do not have to live this way. That is why I wrote this book.”
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
“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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