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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 65,945 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.83 — 514,888 ratings — published 2016
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.28 — 113,024 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,430 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 376,125 ratings — published 2015
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,796 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,341 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 174,799 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.62 — 272,037 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,944 ratings — published 2020
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,638 ratings — published 2019
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,789 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,996 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 68 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,830 ratings — published 2001
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,042,821 ratings — published 2017
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 289,088 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 151,025 ratings — published 2021
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 — 174,402 ratings — published 2018
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 — 27,842 ratings — published 2016
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.55 — 77,991 ratings — published 2025
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,937 ratings — published 2018
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.15 — 34,961 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 — 47,344 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,337 ratings — published 2017
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 149,650 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 — 99,889 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 — 39,370 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 105,118 ratings — published 2009
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,835 ratings — published 2018
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 16,185 ratings — published 2019
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 56,299 ratings — published 2007
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,135 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,513 ratings — published 2020
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 — 639,038 ratings — published 2012
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,987 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 — 911,178 ratings — published 2005
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,700 ratings — published 2009
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 61,542 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 — 359,464 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 — 220,496 ratings — published 2024
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 287,107 ratings — published 2020
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,797 ratings — published 2021
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,671 ratings — published 2020
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 — 59,302 ratings — published 2018
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 33,105 ratings — published 2015
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 16,720 ratings — published 2016
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 18,485 ratings — published 2023
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,740 ratings — published 2018
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,565 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 — 23,113 ratings — published 2010
“There is no longer a question of who Trump is. We're horrified not just every day, but nearly hourly. The question now is who we are as a people.”
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“The former president buzzes in. “The biggest problem we have is that America just doesn’t win anymore. Whether it’s trade deals or military actions. As your president, I’ll get America winning again. We’ll soon be back and banging beautiful broads like we used to.”
“That’s uglyaphobic, and unfair to attractively challenged Americans. I go back to Thomas Jefferson, ‘All men are created equal,’ and…while you know…you know the deal.”
“Even now, people stop me on the street and say what an awesome peacemaker I am. On day one, the Ukrainian war ends. I’ll get both leaders in a room. There’ll be tough negotiations, but they’ll be fair. There’ll be diplomatic sleepovers in Moscow and Kyiv, where no fighting will be tolerated except a robust pillow fight. Pretty soon I’ll be considered the greatest peacemaker of all time, bigger than Gandhi or the Dalai Lama. Maybe not as great as Christ, but a close second.”
― This Side of Reality: How to survive this war and the next 15 to follow
“That’s uglyaphobic, and unfair to attractively challenged Americans. I go back to Thomas Jefferson, ‘All men are created equal,’ and…while you know…you know the deal.”
“Even now, people stop me on the street and say what an awesome peacemaker I am. On day one, the Ukrainian war ends. I’ll get both leaders in a room. There’ll be tough negotiations, but they’ll be fair. There’ll be diplomatic sleepovers in Moscow and Kyiv, where no fighting will be tolerated except a robust pillow fight. Pretty soon I’ll be considered the greatest peacemaker of all time, bigger than Gandhi or the Dalai Lama. Maybe not as great as Christ, but a close second.”
― This Side of Reality: How to survive this war and the next 15 to follow
