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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 65,498 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.84 — 506,691 ratings — published 2016
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 110,306 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,932 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 368,816 ratings — published 2015
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,592 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,795 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 171,835 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 263,805 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,871 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,391 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 — 102,987 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 68 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,783 ratings — published 2001
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,752 ratings — published 2019
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 — 172,621 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,017,819 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.54 — 138,239 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 — 27,325 ratings — published 2016
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 283,120 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,905 ratings — published 2018
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,014 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,238 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,981 ratings — published 2017
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.82 — 98,053 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 — 37,872 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 100,592 ratings — published 2009
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,342 ratings — published 2018
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.60 — 47,856 ratings — published 2025
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,879 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 52 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 626,444 ratings — published 2012
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 62,828 ratings — published 2023
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 103,052 ratings — published 2009
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,616 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 900,204 ratings — published 2005
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.14 — 106,401 ratings — published 2025
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,178 ratings — published 2020
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 61,145 ratings — published 2017
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 54,290 ratings — published 2007
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,838 ratings — published 2006
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 278,004 ratings — published 2020
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,085 ratings — published 2021
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 19,908 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 4.23 — 56,885 ratings — published 2018
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,369 ratings — published 2016
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 32,400 ratings — published 2015
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 187,466 ratings — published 2024
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,980 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 — 22,902 ratings — published 2010
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,499 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,206,295 ratings — published 2018
“I hope that the [Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture] never retreats from embracing controversy and, no matter how multifaceted or incendiary the issue, NMAAHC will strive to help the public find contextualization and common ground in a safe and civil environment. I trust that the museum will always be a bully pulpit where boldness and innovation are more than just words. And to use that platform to combat the creeping sense of selective historical amnesia that limits America's ability to understand its past, and itself. I hope that NMAAHC will always celebrate its diverse staff in ways that nurture, protect, and challenge. And it is my hope that the museum will prod and remind other cultural entities, both within and outside of the Smithsonian, that the ultimate goal is to make a people, make a country better.”
― A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
― A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
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