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Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,869 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 117,245 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 — 513,373 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 — 120,038 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 374,869 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 — 102,776 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,719 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 174,210 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,611 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 167,060 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 77,722 ratings — published 2018
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 104,381 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,806 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 68 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,698 ratings — published 2001
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,038,631 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 148,169 ratings — published 2021
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 — 174,114 ratings — published 2018
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 64 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 27,757 ratings — published 2016
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 287,812 ratings — published 2018
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.56 — 73,493 ratings — published 2025
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,819 ratings — published 2018
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.15 — 34,607 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 — 47,091 ratings — published 2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 31,280 ratings — published 2017
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 140,463 ratings — published 2025
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 — 99,602 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 — 39,048 ratings — published 2006
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,753 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 104,138 ratings — published 2009
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 16,146 ratings — published 2019
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,521 ratings — published 2023
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 — 636,677 ratings — published 2012
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 26,469 ratings — published 2020
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,932 ratings — published 2018
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,064 ratings — published 2005
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,928 ratings — published 2007
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,257 ratings — published 2009
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 61,478 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 — 359,359 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 4.30 — 215,421 ratings — published 2024
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,407 ratings — published 2020
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 43,692 ratings — published 2021
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 — 58,957 ratings — published 2018
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 32,996 ratings — published 2015
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,552 ratings — published 2020
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,637 ratings — published 2016
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 108,639 ratings — published 2018
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,564 ratings — published 2013
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 — 23,082 ratings — published 2010
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,915 ratings — published 2001
“Fiecare timp ar trebui judecat dupa faptele care l-au aprins.”
― Mâța Vinerii
― Mâța Vinerii
“To not know is bad. To not want to know is worse.”
― The Great Taking
― The Great Taking
