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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 66,051 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.28 — 114,806 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,972 ratings — published 2016
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,967 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 377,895 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 — 102,861 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,133 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 175,746 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 274,138 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 169,862 ratings — published 2020
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 105,021 ratings — published 2019
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,882 ratings — published 2018
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 121,288 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 68 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.66 — 197,075 ratings — published 2001
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 294,606 ratings — published 2018
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 155,391 ratings — published 2021
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,048,624 ratings — published 2017
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 65 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,980 ratings — published 2016
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 64 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,817 ratings — published 2018
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 83,947 ratings — published 2025
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 35,390 ratings — published 2018
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,091 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 — 47,653 ratings — published 2018
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 163,207 ratings — published 2025
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,402 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 — 100,350 ratings — published 2020
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 40,093 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 106,393 ratings — published 2009
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,905 ratings — published 2018
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 16,218 ratings — published 2019
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,842 ratings — published 2007
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 67,988 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,605 ratings — published 2020
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 — 642,197 ratings — published 2012
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 50,096 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 913,779 ratings — published 2005
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 61,640 ratings — published 2017
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 106,280 ratings — published 2009
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 — 359,718 ratings — published 2006
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 226,552 ratings — published 2024
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 289,458 ratings — published 2020
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,975 ratings — published 2021
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 33,261 ratings — published 2015
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 20,845 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 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 59,776 ratings — published 2018
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 18,669 ratings — published 2023
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 16,841 ratings — published 2016
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 109,026 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 — 23,145 ratings — published 2010
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,580 ratings — published 2013
“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
“I'd already have had it vacuumed out of me if women weren't playthings in this shitty political era that we've been forced into where our rights are being taken away and classified as options- or rather non-options, in this case.”
― Your Body, My Choice: Killstreme: Harlow
― Your Body, My Choice: Killstreme: Harlow
