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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.18 — 124,690 ratings — published 2015
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.35 — 206,629 ratings — published 2018
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,601 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,606,421 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 256,974 ratings — published 2005
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,380 ratings — published 2004
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.56 — 77,475 ratings — published 2025
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 194,301 ratings — published 2018
What Is the What (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.15 — 88,252 ratings — published 2006
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.39 — 371,271 ratings — published 2013
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,239 ratings — published 1971
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,325,925 ratings — published 1947
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 56,246 ratings — published 2007
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,066,914 ratings — published 2014
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,401,455 ratings — published 1956
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 152,982 ratings — published 1960
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 11,995 ratings — published 2003
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 3.87 — 14,730 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.04 — 472,301 ratings — published 1997
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,941 ratings — published 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,822 ratings — published 2003
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,037 ratings — published 1998
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,333 ratings — published 2021
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,098 ratings — published 2023
The War of the Revolutiom - Volume I
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 17 ratings — published 1952
Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World—Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,890 ratings — published 1999
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,911 ratings — published 1955
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.88 — 55,555 ratings — published 2025
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 5,546 ratings — published 2025
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 75,416 ratings — published 2026
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.92 — 17,998 ratings — published 2024
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 2,778 ratings — published 2025
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 15,312 ratings — published 2025
Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 369 ratings — published
In Sha Allah, If God Wills It: The Real-Life Story of an Afghan Combat Interpreter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2026
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 2,371,264 ratings — published 2015
Israel: What Went Wrong? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 762 ratings — published 2026
The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.00 — 3 ratings — published
The Second Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,524 ratings — published 1989
The Maniac (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 31,040 ratings — published 2023
The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 16 ratings — published
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,650 ratings — published 2018
Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.62 — 173 ratings — published 2026
The Safekeep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.05 — 157,055 ratings — published 2024
Life and Death in Shanghai (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,228 ratings — published 1986
Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 964 ratings — published 2026
Biological War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,536 ratings — published 2026
Those Who Are About to Die: A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 313 ratings — published
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 477 ratings — published 2026
The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 309 ratings — published
“It was such a relief to think about world affairs! Like coming out of solitary confinement.”
― The Watch Tower
― The Watch Tower
“They labeled people Snowflakes and Bleeding Hearts -
Then they sent in ICE and Frozen Hearts.
But Wildfire season is coming.
Soon, ICE will melt, and hearts will burn.”
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Then they sent in ICE and Frozen Hearts.
But Wildfire season is coming.
Soon, ICE will melt, and hearts will burn.”
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