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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 19,827 ratings — published 2004
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 40,111 ratings — published 2006
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 15,141 ratings — published 2013
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,632,049 ratings — published 2003
Columbine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 106,313 ratings — published 2009
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 175,773 ratings — published 2010
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 114,882 ratings — published 2017
War (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.22 — 14,254 ratings — published 2024
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 77,885 ratings — published 2018
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 66,052 ratings — published 2018
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 50,099 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,494,760 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 120,991 ratings — published 2010
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 5,202 ratings — published 2012
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,941 ratings — published 2018
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 14,368 ratings — published 2005
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 12,230 ratings — published 2018
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 115,134 ratings — published 2015
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 5,693 ratings — published 2014
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 21,060 ratings — published 2010
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 56,869 ratings — published 2007
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 68,085 ratings — published 2012
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 36,472 ratings — published 1973
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 834,335 ratings — published 2010
The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice (TED Books)
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,249 ratings — published 2014
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.12 — 4,633 ratings — published 2025
Worm: The First Digital World War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 2,340 ratings — published 2011
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 22,893 ratings — published 2025
India: A Short History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.39 — 280 ratings — published 2014
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 20,240 ratings — published 2024
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 130,319 ratings — published 1991
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 59,386 ratings — published 2024
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 40,278 ratings — published 2020
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017 - 2021 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.45 — 3,701 ratings — published 2022
Yashka, My Life as Peasant, Exile and Soldier (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 75 ratings — published 2010
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 58,845 ratings — published 1997
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,708 ratings — published 2023
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 6,199 ratings — published
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 27,815 ratings — published 2021
The Nineties (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 32,216 ratings — published 2022
Rage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 26,607 ratings — published 2020
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 11,402 ratings — published 2018
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 5,732 ratings — published 2009
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 25,345 ratings — published 1986
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 7,014 ratings — published 2021
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 25,114 ratings — published 2010
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,012 ratings — published 1996
Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 15,325 ratings — published 2020
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 10,055 ratings — published 2020
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 59,491 ratings — published 2012
