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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 66,051 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.28 — 114,812 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,990 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 — 120,971 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 377,911 ratings — published 2015
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 102,860 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 119,140 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 175,752 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 274,149 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 169,874 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 — 105,030 ratings — published 2019
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 77,883 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 121,290 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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avg rating 3.66 — 197,077 ratings — published 2001
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 294,675 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 155,422 ratings — published 2021
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,048,657 ratings — published 2017
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 65 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,981 ratings — published 2016
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 — 174,823 ratings — published 2018
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 83,991 ratings — published 2025
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 35,395 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 49,092 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 47,654 ratings — published 2018
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 163,293 ratings — published 2025
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 31,403 ratings — published 2017
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.82 — 100,352 ratings — published 2020
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 40,096 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,402 ratings — published 2009
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,905 ratings — published 2018
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 16,218 ratings — published 2019
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 56,846 ratings — published 2007
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 67,993 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 26,605 ratings — published 2020
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 642,224 ratings — published 2012
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 50,098 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 913,801 ratings — published 2005
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.92 — 61,642 ratings — published 2017
Columbine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 106,287 ratings — published 2009
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 359,717 ratings — published 2006
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 226,592 ratings — published 2024
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 289,476 ratings — published 2020
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,977 ratings — published 2021
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 33,264 ratings — published 2015
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 20,846 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 — 59,775 ratings — published 2018
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 18,670 ratings — published 2023
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 16,841 ratings — published 2016
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,026 ratings — published 2018
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 — 23,145 ratings — published 2010
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,580 ratings — published 2013
“It is the pinnacle of arrogance to assume that whatever it is that “the experts” believe now is in fact the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Scientists have believed and public health officials have promoted many wrong things over the years, for both honorable, and not so honorable reasons. Sometimes the public health message is dead wrong.”
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“... Americans were now supposed to make their own sense of the world. There was no dependable authority left to turn to, no life raft in the increasingly perilous informational sea. This coincided with an age when Americans now needed to understand more of the world than ever before. A factory worker in suburban Ohio now needed to understand the cultures of places like Bangalore and Beijing if he wanted to know why he'd lost his job. Which, incidentally, he probably had. Now broke, or under severe financial pressure, with no community leaders, no community, no news he can trust, Joe American has to turn on the Internet and tell himself a story that makes sense to him.
What story is he going to tell?”
― The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
What story is he going to tell?”
― The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
