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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 99,197 ratings — published 2017
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 115,445 ratings — published 2015
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
by (shelved 59 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,396 ratings — published 2017
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,245 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.84 — 500,962 ratings — published 2016
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.29 — 53,419 ratings — published 2007
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 364,511 ratings — published 2015
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,834 ratings — published 2010
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,212 ratings — published 2018
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 48 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,097 ratings — published 2016
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 102,480 ratings — published
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 894,504 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,114 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 170,326 ratings — published 2010
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,167 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,582 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 41 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,294 ratings — published 2001
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,536 ratings — published 2024
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,888 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 200,812 ratings — published 2018
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.84 — 169,481 ratings — published 2006
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,262 ratings — published 1988
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,847 ratings — published 2008
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,479 ratings — published 2001
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,050 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,173 ratings — published 2012
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,266 ratings — published 2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,740 ratings — published 2004
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,534 ratings — published 2020
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 280,609 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 98,964 ratings — published 2009
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,167 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,635 ratings — published 2014
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.41 — 40,110 ratings — published 2022
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.54 — 133,943 ratings — published 2021
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,447 ratings — published 2018
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,711 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,283 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,066 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 285,825 ratings — published 2015
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.44 — 107,254 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.62 — 260,130 ratings — published 2014
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 852,242 ratings — published 2000
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.37 — 10,718 ratings — published 2018
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 116,416 ratings — published 2012
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,669 ratings — published 2018
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,466 ratings — published 2013
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,031 ratings — published 2020
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.82 — 97,026 ratings — published 2020
