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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 — 19,539 ratings — published 2004
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 39,009 ratings — published 2006
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 117,009 ratings — published 2017
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 14,944 ratings — published 2013
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,586,286 ratings — published 2003
Columbine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 105,185 ratings — published 2009
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 174,136 ratings — published 2010
War (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.22 — 13,893 ratings — published 2024
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 77,711 ratings — published 2018
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 65,855 ratings — published 2018
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 49,923 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,363,014 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 119,968 ratings — published 2010
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 5,177 ratings — published 2012
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,912 ratings — published 2018
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 14,154 ratings — published 2005
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 12,006 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 — 112,560 ratings — published 2015
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,629 ratings — published 2014
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 20,607 ratings — published 2010
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 55,864 ratings — published 2007
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 66,407 ratings — published 2012
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 35,886 ratings — published 1973
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 824,081 ratings — published 2010
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 5,123 ratings — published 2024
The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice (TED Books)
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,228 ratings — published 2014
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,698 ratings — published 2025
Worm: The First Digital World War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 2,328 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 — 22,364 ratings — published 2025
India: A Short History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.40 — 268 ratings — published 2014
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5,997 ratings — published 2017
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 19,312 ratings — published 2024
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 127,973 ratings — published 1991
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 23,079 ratings — published 2010
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 54,494 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 4.49 — 38,706 ratings — published 2020
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017 - 2021 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.45 — 3,679 ratings — published 2022
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 9,426 ratings — published 1991
Yashka, My Life as Peasant, Exile and Soldier (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 76 ratings — published 2010
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 57,293 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 — 1,672 ratings — published 2023
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 5,998 ratings — published
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 26,815 ratings — published 2021
The Nineties (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 31,455 ratings — published 2022
Rage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 26,453 ratings — published 2020
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 11,233 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 — 5,674 ratings — published 2009
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 25,081 ratings — published 1986
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 6,897 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 — 24,503 ratings — published 2010
