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Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 10,759 ratings — published 1997
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,032,486 ratings — published 2017
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 — 633,716 ratings — published 2012
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 44,955 ratings — published 2022
Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 443 ratings — published 2023
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 122,064 ratings — published 2015
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 144,996 ratings — published 2021
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 40,551 ratings — published 1985
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 18,271 ratings — published 2023
Women & Power: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 40,119 ratings — published 2017
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 820,376 ratings — published 2010
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,511,439 ratings — published 1985
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 180,719 ratings — published 2018
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 8,484 ratings — published 2007
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 24,452 ratings — published 2009
Equality: What It Means and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,445 ratings — published 2025
Flight Behavior (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 103,719 ratings — published 2012
Judge Stone (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 45,272 ratings — published 2026
I Am Ruby Bridges (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 713 ratings — published
Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 343 ratings — published 1972
St. Paul: An Urban Biography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 74 ratings — published
Spare (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 439,697 ratings — published 2023
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 950 ratings — published
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 9,258 ratings — published 2006
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,836 ratings — published 2025
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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avg rating 4.60 — 8,411 ratings — published 2025
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 27,724 ratings — published 2024
Girls Left in the Woods Become Archaeologists (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.73 — 15 ratings — published
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 618 ratings — published 2023
In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art and Public Space (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 739 ratings — published 2025
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 10,219 ratings — published 2025
The Lion Women of Tehran (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 238,388 ratings — published 2024
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (ebook)
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avg rating 3.88 — 94,112 ratings — published 2021
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 12,135 ratings — published 1986
Health and Safety: A Breakdown (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 2,488 ratings — published 2024
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World (ebook)
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avg rating 3.80 — 3,444 ratings — published 2021
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 33,564 ratings — published 2010
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 6,499 ratings — published 2011
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 724 ratings — published 2017
American Marxism (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 4,517 ratings — published 2021
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 6,337 ratings — published 2021
Abundance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 51,691 ratings — published 2025
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 67,169 ratings — published 2025
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 4,486 ratings — published 2025
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 5,452 ratings — published 2004
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,354 ratings — published 2025
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 26,456 ratings — published 2021
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 14,740 ratings — published 2000
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 27,374 ratings — published 2007
The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 152 ratings — published 2017
