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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 4.31 — 18,946 ratings — published 2004
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 109,020 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 — 14,586 ratings — published 2013
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,238 ratings — published 2003
Columbine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 102,798 ratings — published 2009
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 171,495 ratings — published 2010
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 37,688 ratings — published 2006
War (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13,163 ratings — published 2024
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 65,437 ratings — published 2018
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 49,587 ratings — published 2018
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 4,130,474 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 117,595 ratings — published 2010
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 5,116 ratings — published 2012
The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,822 ratings — published 2018
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 11,553 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 — 108,621 ratings — published 2015
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 5,591 ratings — published 2014
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 19,855 ratings — published 2010
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 54,049 ratings — published 2007
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 63,402 ratings — published 2012
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 34,841 ratings — published 1973
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 806,984 ratings — published 2010
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 — 20,725 ratings — published 2025
Autocracy, Inc. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 16,804 ratings — published 2024
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 124,193 ratings — published 1991
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 47,228 ratings — published 2024
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 35,529 ratings — published 2020
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017 - 2021 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.45 — 3,628 ratings — published 2022
Yashka, My Life as Peasant, Exile and Soldier (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as recent-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 76 ratings — published 2010
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as recent-history)
avg rating 4.25 — 54,204 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 3.89 — 1,579 ratings — published 2023
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 25,072 ratings — published 2021
The Nineties (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 30,205 ratings — published 2022
Rage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 26,135 ratings — published 2020
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 10,866 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 4.15 — 5,566 ratings — published 2009
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 24,544 ratings — published 1986
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 6,710 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 4.03 — 23,619 ratings — published 2010
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 4,933 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 — 15,236 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 4.17 — 9,447 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 — 58,096 ratings — published 2012
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 225,946 ratings — published 2003
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 8,090 ratings — published 2010
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 32,341 ratings — published 2015
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 4,224 ratings — published 2018
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 18,855 ratings — published 2004
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 7,053 ratings — published 2017
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 7,033 ratings — published 2018
