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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 — 19,650 ratings — published 2004
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 39,497 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 — 15,043 ratings — published 2013
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,612,538 ratings — published 2003
Columbine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 105,782 ratings — published 2009
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 174,927 ratings — published 2010
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 113,275 ratings — published 2017
War (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.22 — 14,087 ratings — published 2024
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 77,797 ratings — published 2018
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 65,961 ratings — published 2018
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 50,003 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,437,709 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 120,512 ratings — published 2010
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 5,188 ratings — published 2012
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,920 ratings — published 2018
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 14,248 ratings — published 2005
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 12,127 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 — 114,091 ratings — published 2015
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,652 ratings — published 2014
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 20,801 ratings — published 2010
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 56,389 ratings — published 2007
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 67,289 ratings — published 2012
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 36,181 ratings — published 1973
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 828,994 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 4.06 — 5,252 ratings — published 2024
The Terrorist's Son: A Story of Choice (TED Books)
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avg rating 4.08 — 4,237 ratings — published 2014
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,538 ratings — published 2025
Worm: The First Digital World War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 2,334 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 — 22,657 ratings — published 2025
India: A Short History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.41 — 274 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 — 5,998 ratings — published 2017
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 19,817 ratings — published 2024
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 129,192 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 — 23,121 ratings — published 2010
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 56,978 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 — 39,521 ratings — published 2020
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017 - 2021 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.45 — 3,689 ratings — published 2022
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 9,438 ratings — published 1991
Yashka, My Life as Peasant, Exile and Soldier (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 76 ratings — published 2010
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 58,133 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 — 1,687 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 — 6,107 ratings — published
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 27,408 ratings — published 2021
The Nineties (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 31,966 ratings — published 2022
Rage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 26,524 ratings — published 2020
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 11,324 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 — 5,704 ratings — published 2009
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 25,219 ratings — published 1986
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 6,962 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 — 24,812 ratings — published 2010
