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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,179 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.84 — 498,922 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 — 116,494 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 362,902 ratings — published 2015
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.28 — 97,594 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 — 102,447 ratings — published
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 112,524 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 169,849 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.62 — 259,015 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 159,447 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,166 ratings — published 2018
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 101,942 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,010 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 69 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,121 ratings — published 2001
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,448 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,001,454 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 — 27,028 ratings — published 2016
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.41 — 279,780 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.54 — 132,653 ratings — published 2021
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 31,760 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,801 ratings — published 2017
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,035 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 — 96,755 ratings — published 2020
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,805 ratings — published 2018
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,040 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 98,472 ratings — published 2009
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,988 ratings — published 2018
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,735 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 — 618,169 ratings — published 2012
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 101,616 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 — 892,865 ratings — published 2005
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,392 ratings — published 2018
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 82,926 ratings — published 2025
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 59,856 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,000 ratings — published 2020
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,120 ratings — published 2007
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 60,956 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 — 358,510 ratings — published 2006
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 270,874 ratings — published 2020
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,650 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 — 55,206 ratings — published 2018
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,701 ratings — published 2018
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,149 ratings — published 2016
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 32,012 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 — 22,813 ratings — published 2010
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,319 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.15 — 175,956 ratings — published 2018
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,444 ratings — published 2013
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 163,271 ratings — published 2024
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,182,608 ratings — published 2018
“It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a man will forfeit all sensible self-interest if he finds you affable enough to share your company over a flagon of ale.”
― Fool
― Fool
“When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.”
― One Man's Meat
― One Man's Meat
