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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,842 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 116,671 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.83 — 512,683 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,884 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,342 ratings — published 2015
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,766 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,456 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 174,029 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,050 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 166,726 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,710 ratings — published 2018
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,262 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,739 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 68 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,624 ratings — published 2001
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 — 174,009 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,511 ratings — published 2017
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 64 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,729 ratings — published 2016
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 287,373 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 147,148 ratings — published 2021
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.56 — 71,567 ratings — published 2025
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,767 ratings — published 2018
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.15 — 34,480 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.07 — 46,996 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,276 ratings — published 2017
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 136,911 ratings — published 2025
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.82 — 99,502 ratings — published 2020
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 38,952 ratings — published 2006
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,723 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 103,776 ratings — published 2009
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 16,121 ratings — published 2019
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,235 ratings — published 2023
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 635,718 ratings — published 2012
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,437 ratings — published 2020
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,921 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.01 — 908,207 ratings — published 2005
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,786 ratings — published 2007
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,095 ratings — published 2009
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 61,478 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 — 359,329 ratings — published 2006
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 213,222 ratings — published 2024
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 284,722 ratings — published 2020
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,638 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 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 58,834 ratings — published 2018
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 32,952 ratings — published 2015
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,508 ratings — published 2020
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,617 ratings — published 2016
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,624 ratings — published 2018
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,557 ratings — published 2013
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 23,072 ratings — published 2010
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,910 ratings — published 2001
“The problem is people weaseling out of the growth. We are addicted to not being inconvenienced by reality. Even in mundane circumstances.”
― The Witches Are Coming
― The Witches Are Coming
“It is clearly in evidence that the science of creating and transmitting public opinion under the influence of collective emotion is about to become the principle science of civilization to the mastery of which all governments and all powerful interests will in the future address themselves with every resource at their command.”
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