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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 — 503,627 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 — 117,151 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 365,972 ratings — published 2015
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.28 — 100,847 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 — 102,511 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 113,677 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 170,880 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 261,298 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 161,084 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,266 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 — 102,387 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 69 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,449 ratings — published 2001
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 119,362 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 — 172,011 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,009,929 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 — 27,162 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 — 281,472 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 — 135,304 ratings — published 2021
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,345 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 — 45,490 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 48,033 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 — 97,448 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 — 37,440 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 99,453 ratings — published 2009
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,144 ratings — published 2018
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,808 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 — 622,698 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 61,238 ratings — published 2023
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 102,323 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 — 896,774 ratings — published 2005
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 49,505 ratings — published 2018
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.15 — 95,070 ratings — published 2025
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,085 ratings — published 2020
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 53,672 ratings — published 2007
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 61,054 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 — 358,655 ratings — published 2006
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 275,258 ratings — published 2020
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.61 — 37,495 ratings — published 2025
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,858 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 — 56,110 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 — 16,252 ratings — published 2016
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 32,222 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 — 19,651 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)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.15 — 177,291 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 — 116,662 ratings — published 2012
“So it seems that the only way for terrorists to win is if its victims overreact, dismantle civil liberties and blame whole groups for the actions of a few. Doing so stirs up the very conflicts that the terrorists seek and makes it easier to recruit terrorists and continue the battle (103).”
― Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
― Progress - Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
“I am so fucking done with the world, done with the selfish, greedy, self-serving nature of men. Yeah, not all men, but enough, more than enough. Too many.”
― Your Body, My Choice: Killstreme: Harlow
― Your Body, My Choice: Killstreme: Harlow
