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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 65,645 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 113,615 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.83 — 509,524 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,921 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 371,515 ratings — published 2015
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,668 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 116,078 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 172,872 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 266,930 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 164,839 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,534 ratings — published 2018
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 103,644 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 120,231 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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avg rating 3.66 — 196,197 ratings — published 2001
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,026,497 ratings — published 2017
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 173,284 ratings — published 2018
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 285,054 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.54 — 141,993 ratings — published 2021
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,503 ratings — published 2016
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 48,510 ratings — published 2018
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 33,746 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.07 — 46,450 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 31,127 ratings — published 2017
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.82 — 98,828 ratings — published 2020
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 38,399 ratings — published 2006
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.58 — 60,023 ratings — published 2025
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 21,548 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 101,989 ratings — published 2009
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,998 ratings — published 2019
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 630,916 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 64,659 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 26,299 ratings — published 2020
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 49,747 ratings — published 2018
Columbine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 104,035 ratings — published 2009
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 55,051 ratings — published 2007
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 120,936 ratings — published 2025
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 61,300 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.01 — 903,960 ratings — published 2005
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 359,075 ratings — published 2006
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 281,283 ratings — published 2020
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 200,698 ratings — published 2024
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 43,333 ratings — published 2021
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 20,213 ratings — published 2020
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 57,856 ratings — published 2018
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,482 ratings — published 2016
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 32,659 ratings — published 2015
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,289 ratings — published 2018
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 22,983 ratings — published 2010
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,527 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,218,996 ratings — published 2018
“Tyson Brock was the stuff of alt-media legend. He had over a million followers and a few retweets from White House officials. Tyson had first gotten big while covering the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020, when Antifa labeled him a “white supremacist” and ended up nailing him in the head with what he claimed was a bottle of piss.”
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“There are signs of hope, even if they are small and inconstant. Illiberal populists, as it turns out, are pretty lousy at governing, especially during a crisis that demands a steady and stoic engagement with science. In the United States, in particular, voters saw a mismanaged pandemic become a politicized catastrophe that eventually inflicted a 9/11-level death toll almost every day, and as of this writing has killed more Americans than combat in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam combined.”
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
― Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
