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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 117,471 ratings — published 2017
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,883 ratings — published 2018
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 123,755 ratings — published 2015
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,650 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.83 — 513,682 ratings — published 2016
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 56,005 ratings — published 2007
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,117 ratings — published 2010
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,737 ratings — published 2018
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 375,108 ratings — published 2015
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,780 ratings — published 2005
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 47 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,776 ratings — published 2016
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,534 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,863 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 174,321 ratings — published 2010
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,247 ratings — published 2020
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 19,452 ratings — published 2024
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 181,663 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 41 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,737 ratings — published 2001
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,845 ratings — published 2018
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.35 — 206,131 ratings — published 2018
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,489 ratings — published 1988
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.84 — 171,286 ratings — published 2006
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.38 — 46,135 ratings — published 2022
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,915 ratings — published 2008
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,931 ratings — published 2001
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.15 — 34,685 ratings — published 2018
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,640 ratings — published 2012
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.53 — 148,740 ratings — published 2021
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.89 — 18,426 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,859 ratings — published 2019
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.40 — 288,055 ratings — published 2018
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,947 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,327 ratings — published 2009
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,111 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 31 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,579 ratings — published 2004
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.56 — 74,488 ratings — published 2025
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,773 ratings — published 2018
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.37 — 11,262 ratings — published 2018
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.18 — 294,740 ratings — published 2015
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,119 ratings — published 2014
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.88 — 54,465 ratings — published 2025
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 — 174,160 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 — 47,146 ratings — published 2018
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 — 113,006 ratings — published 2015
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,918 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 — 866,092 ratings — published 2000
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,094 ratings — published 2012
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 142,278 ratings — published 2025
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as current-affairs)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,151 ratings — published 2018
“Reading history is like binge-watching the highlight reels from past seasons of current affairs.”
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“(O)n a whole range of issues, there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the current political economic system. It is, of course, largely subliminal, not carefully worked out, and lacks a coherent vision for what needs to be done -- but there can be little doubt that this shift has happened, and is deepening. People are increasingly disenchanted, and they are hungry for alternatives.”
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