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Cautionary Tales Books
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Monsters Eat Whiny Children (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 1,224 ratings — published 2010
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,427,433 ratings — published 1985
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 770,364 ratings — published 1962
The Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 252,365 ratings — published 2016
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,559,671 ratings — published 1945
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,471,249 ratings — published 1949
Heckedy Peg (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 4,398 ratings — published 1987
The Spider and the Fly (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 9,991 ratings — published 1829
Touch of Frost (Mythos Academy, #1)
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avg rating 3.94 — 33,913 ratings — published 2011
How Girls Are Made (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 486 ratings — published 2025
Douglas Adams: The Ends of the Earth (Audible Audio)
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avg rating 4.11 — 128 ratings — published
The World's Greatest Mistakes (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 191 ratings — published 1980
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 26,122 ratings — published 1990
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 171,726 ratings — published 1960
Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)
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avg rating 4.35 — 850 ratings — published 2023
Struggle Makes Us Human: Learning from Movements for Socialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 203 ratings — published 2020
Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism, and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 238 ratings — published 2007
The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,619 ratings — published 2020
The Responsibility of Intellectuals (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.89 — 909 ratings — published
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,822 ratings — published 2024
The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 996 ratings — published 2022
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,690 ratings — published 2020
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 2,079,562 ratings — published 1932
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 35,718 ratings — published 2023
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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avg rating 4.08 — 71,438 ratings — published 2001
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 131,216 ratings — published 2008
The Authoritarian Personality (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 379 ratings — published 1950
Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 136 ratings — published 1949
Psychological Warfare (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 898,100 ratings — published 2005
The Reformatory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.43 — 71,472 ratings — published 2023
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,842,114 ratings — published 1953
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,143 ratings — published 2023
The Making of the English Working Class (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 3,706 ratings — published 1963
Yellowface (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,034,187 ratings — published 2023
Art of Fairness: The Power of Decency in a World Turned Mean (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 216 ratings — published
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 46,549 ratings — published 2023
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 146,283 ratings — published 2021
The Light Pirate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 43,201 ratings — published 2022
Kindred (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 271,851 ratings — published 1979
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 6,528 ratings — published 2020
These Bodies Between Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 318 ratings — published 2024
The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 309 ratings — published 2023
The Curious Collection of Cautionary Tales (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.33 — 54 ratings — published
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 32,536 ratings — published 2018
Prophet Song (ebook)
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avg rating 4.03 — 84,381 ratings — published 2023
Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.40 — 2,388 ratings — published
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 447,046 ratings — published 2017
Chain-Gang All-Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 92,389 ratings — published 2023
Their Vicious Games (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 15,631 ratings — published 2023
“by now learning that almost all stories in life end in some type of heartbreak—
exhausted, turning your back:
and in so doing, making you vulnerable
to the combustion that is human interaction.
(Every human being alive and dead is a cautionary tale)”
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exhausted, turning your back:
and in so doing, making you vulnerable
to the combustion that is human interaction.
(Every human being alive and dead is a cautionary tale)”
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“Slow is beautiful, Ezra Pound. He's exacting but imprecise, Matisse. Don't argue with a fool, Mark Twain.”
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