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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.84 — 495,224 ratings — published 2016
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,076 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,949 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 360,411 ratings — published 2015
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 94,876 ratings — published 2017
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,407 ratings — published
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,600 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 169,103 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.62 — 257,440 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 158,220 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,081 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 — 101,661 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,754 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 69 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,907 ratings — published 2001
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.41 — 278,633 ratings — published 2018
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 — 171,018 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.45 — 996,180 ratings — published 2017
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 — 26,920 ratings — published 2016
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.54 — 130,682 ratings — published 2021
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,732 ratings — published 2017
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 31,207 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.07 — 44,694 ratings — published 2018
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 — 96,274 ratings — published 2020
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,629 ratings — published 2018
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 36,704 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 97,680 ratings — published 2009
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,826 ratings — published 2018
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,681 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 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 616,451 ratings — published 2012
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 100,924 ratings — published 2009
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.01 — 890,442 ratings — published 2005
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,282 ratings — published 2018
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 58,615 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,905 ratings — published 2020
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,678 ratings — published 2007
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 60,882 ratings — published 2017
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 — 358,383 ratings — published 2006
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.18 — 72,286 ratings — published 2025
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,463 ratings — published 2021
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 268,216 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,555 ratings — published 2018
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,057 ratings — published 2016
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 31,866 ratings — published 2015
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 22,775 ratings — published 2010
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,512 ratings — published 2018
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 19,003 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,904 ratings — published 2018
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,416 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,174,418 ratings — published 2018
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,831 ratings — published 2008
“The news in those days was full of war and migrants and nativists, and it was full of fracturing too, of regions pulling away from nations, and cities pulling away from hinterlands, and it seemed that as everyone was coming together everyone was also moving apart. Without borders nations appeared to be becoming somewhat illusory, and people were questioning what role they had to play.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke bankers with wads of cash to grant more funds to such trifling matters as the avoidance of space bullets, so they won't give NASA the money”
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