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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 65,725 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 114,593 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 — 510,506 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,236 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 372,537 ratings — published 2015
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 102,716 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 116,549 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 173,259 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 268,073 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 165,484 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,613 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 — 103,827 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 120,417 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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avg rating 3.66 — 196,335 ratings — published 2001
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,029,612 ratings — published 2017
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 285,780 ratings — published 2018
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 — 173,552 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.54 — 143,659 ratings — published 2021
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,596 ratings — published 2016
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 48,617 ratings — published 2018
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 34,001 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 — 46,652 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,187 ratings — published 2017
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.57 — 64,126 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 — 99,069 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 — 38,588 ratings — published 2006
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,623 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 102,514 ratings — published 2009
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 16,060 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 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 632,447 ratings — published 2012
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 125,861 ratings — published 2025
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 65,236 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 26,358 ratings — published 2020
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 49,808 ratings — published 2018
Columbine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 104,420 ratings — published 2009
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 55,308 ratings — published 2007
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.92 — 61,364 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.01 — 905,403 ratings — published 2005
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 — 359,196 ratings — published 2006
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 282,396 ratings — published 2020
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 205,039 ratings — published 2024
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 43,447 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 — 58,202 ratings — published 2018
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 32,758 ratings — published 2015
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,318 ratings — published 2020
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,536 ratings — published 2016
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 108,389 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 — 23,033 ratings — published 2010
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,537 ratings — published 2013
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,823 ratings — published 2001
“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
“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
