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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 494,359 ratings — published 2016
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,051 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,828 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,940 ratings — published 2015
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 94,240 ratings — published 2017
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,398 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,403 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 168,978 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,122 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,948 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,056 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 — 101,594 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,711 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 69 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,866 ratings — published 2001
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.41 — 278,308 ratings — published 2018
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,909 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.45 — 994,983 ratings — published 2017
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 61 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,892 ratings — published 2016
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.54 — 130,264 ratings — published 2021
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,710 ratings — published 2017
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 31,104 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.07 — 44,613 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 — 96,126 ratings — published 2020
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,569 ratings — published 2018
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 36,627 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 97,487 ratings — published 2009
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,771 ratings — published 2018
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,668 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 — 615,806 ratings — published 2012
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 100,778 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 — 889,890 ratings — published 2005
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,243 ratings — published 2018
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 58,384 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,881 ratings — published 2020
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,585 ratings — published 2007
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 60,867 ratings — published 2017
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,353 ratings — published 2006
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,424 ratings — published 2021
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 267,603 ratings — published 2020
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.18 — 69,826 ratings — published 2025
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,520 ratings — published 2018
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,042 ratings — published 2016
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 — 22,767 ratings — published 2010
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,367 ratings — published 2018
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 31,841 ratings — published 2015
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 18,938 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,667 ratings — published 2018
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,408 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,172,696 ratings — published 2018
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,826 ratings — published 2008
“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
“The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart. Without borders nations appeared to be becoming somewhat illusory, and people were questioning what role they had to play.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
