Journalism - The Atlantic (63 books)

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1	Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum 4.39 avg rating — 9,277 ratings score: 486, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum 4.28 avg rating — 13,581 ratings score: 391, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum 4.08 avg rating — 7,279 ratings score: 381, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong 4.17 avg rating — 31,614 ratings score: 292, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America by Cullen Murphy 3.57 avg rating — 851 ratings score: 289, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market – Inside the Underground Economy: Tycoons, Technology, and Power by Eric Schlosser 3.78 avg rating — 6,389 ratings score: 287, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism by Anne Applebaum 3.90 avg rating — 17,608 ratings score: 283, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer 4.13 avg rating — 12,474 ratings score: 253, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum 4.19 avg rating — 15,950 ratings score: 251, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser 3.75 avg rating — 206,499 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser 4.27 avg rating — 14,487 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe by Cullen Murphy 4.25 avg rating — 102 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State by Barton Gellman 4.04 avg rating — 1,169 ratings score: 187, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World by Robert D. Kaplan 3.33 avg rating — 1,749 ratings score: 187, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency by Barton Gellman 4.04 avg rating — 1,586 ratings score: 186, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Balkan Ghosts by Robert D. Kaplan 3.91 avg rating — 5,837 ratings score: 184, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1891–1910 by Mark Twain 4.36 avg rating — 224 ratings score: 182, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics by Ronald Brownstein 3.82 avg rating — 1,668 ratings score: 180, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer 4.05 avg rating — 2,362 ratings score: 180, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate by Mike Giglio (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 179 ratings score: 179, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles by W.E.B. Du Bois 4.37 avg rating — 363 ratings score: 179, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader by W.E.B. Du Bois 4.40 avg rating — 85 ratings score: 177, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.08 avg rating — 11,140 ratings score: 175, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.40 avg rating — 365,704 ratings score: 174, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong 4.46 avg rating — 35,286 ratings score: 173, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.38 avg rating — 30,859 ratings score: 173, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta 4.40 avg rating — 16,979 ratings score: 171, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021: An Anthology Bringing Lucidity to Science and Medical History by Ed Yong 3.93 avg rating — 413 ratings score: 171, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.50 avg rating — 40,614 ratings score: 171, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal―and How to Set Them Right by Adam Harris (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 400 ratings score: 169, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and The People Who Stopped It by Mark Bowden 4.13 avg rating — 814 ratings score: 166, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.06 avg rating — 118,931 ratings score: 165, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission by Mark Leibovich 4.17 avg rating — 3,637 ratings score: 160, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins 4.35 avg rating — 7,993 ratings score: 160, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Life As I Find It: A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities by Charles Neider (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 153, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race by Mark Twain 3.86 avg rating — 821 ratings score: 152, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain 4.18 avg rating — 9,760 ratings score: 151, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Like Young: Jazz, Pop, Youth, and Middle Age by Francis Davis 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 145, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People by Francis Davis 3.96 avg rating — 283 ratings score: 143, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Bebop & Nothingness: Jazz & Bebop at the End of the Century by Francis Davis really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings score: 141, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The American Crisis: What Went Wrong. How We Recover. by Cullen Murphy 4.34 avg rating — 197 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech by Franklin Foer 3.63 avg rating — 2,260 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Arguably: Selected Essays by Christopher Hitchens 4.20 avg rating — 9,906 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China by Robert D. Kaplan 4.26 avg rating — 520 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden 4.30 avg rating — 68,883 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide by Jeffrey Goldberg 4.08 avg rating — 301 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World by Cullen Murphy 3.75 avg rating — 839 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 7,503 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan 3.62 avg rating — 864 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite by Robert D. Kaplan 4.06 avg rating — 297 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond by Robert D. Kaplan 3.80 avg rating — 1,379 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump by Edward-Isaac Dovere really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 676 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki 3.82 avg rating — 24,745 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America by Adam Serwer 4.25 avg rating — 1,943 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Best Business Crime Writing of The Year by James Surowiecki (Editor) 3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong 4.17 avg rating — 31,614 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.70 avg rating — 39,429 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Captain America, Vol. 1: Winter in America by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Writer) 3.71 avg rating — 2,076 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Black Panther & The Crew: We Are The Streets by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Writer) 3.79 avg rating — 903 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Everything I Need I Get from You by Kaitlyn Tiffany 3.53 avg rating — 3,628 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Black Panther, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet (Black Panther, #1-3) by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Writer) 3.88 avg rating — 766 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer 4.37 avg rating — 2,328 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer 4.05 avg rating — 3,204 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars