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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 65,498 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 — 506,706 ratings — published 2016
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 110,323 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 — 117,938 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,841 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 — 102,593 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,800 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 171,837 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.62 — 263,820 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,881 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,392 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 — 102,990 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 68 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,786 ratings — published 2001
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,752 ratings — published 2019
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 — 172,627 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,017,847 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.54 — 138,251 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 — 27,325 ratings — published 2016
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 283,131 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,906 ratings — published 2018
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,018 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,241 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,982 ratings — published 2017
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 — 98,056 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 — 37,874 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 100,597 ratings — published 2009
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,343 ratings — published 2018
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.60 — 47,904 ratings — published 2025
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,879 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 52 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 626,460 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 62,837 ratings — published 2023
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 103,057 ratings — published 2009
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,618 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 — 900,212 ratings — published 2005
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.14 — 106,462 ratings — published 2025
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,178 ratings — published 2020
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 61,147 ratings — published 2017
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 54,295 ratings — published 2007
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 — 358,839 ratings — published 2006
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 278,014 ratings — published 2020
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,086 ratings — published 2021
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,909 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 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,890 ratings — published 2018
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,369 ratings — published 2016
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 32,400 ratings — published 2015
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 187,526 ratings — published 2024
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,981 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 — 22,903 ratings — published 2010
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,499 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,206,361 ratings — published 2018
“I had always believed that the [Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture] should be a safe haven that helps Americans wrestle with and better understand the difficult current issues of race, justice, and equality. In essence, the museum is a bully pulpit that provides NMAAHC with the opportunity and responsibility to clarify and contextualize concerns that often divide or perplex the American public.... I think it is important for NMAAHC, for the Smithsonian, to engage in the public square in a manner that brings reason, knowledge, and contextualization to the contemporary challenges faced by America. Actions like this are not without risk to an institution that operates within a federal umbrella. Yet I believe that museums like NMAAHC have an obligation to use their expertise, their platform, to contribute to the greater good of a nation.”
― A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
― A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
“To not know is bad. To not want to know is worse.”
― The Great Taking
― The Great Taking
