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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 82,619 ratings — published 2025
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 126,232 ratings — published 2015
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 207,768 ratings — published 2018
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 73,907 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,626,483 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 258,535 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 — 43,534 ratings — published 2004
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,050 ratings — published 2015
The Showman (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 2,810 ratings — published
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 200,386 ratings — published 2018
What Is the What (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 88,453 ratings — published 2006
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 373,096 ratings — published 2013
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 9,384 ratings — published 1971
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 4,349,066 ratings — published 1947
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 56,727 ratings — published 2007
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,080,565 ratings — published 2014
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,409,062 ratings — published 2012
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 153,941 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)
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avg rating 4.36 — 12,047 ratings — published 2003
Argo: How the CIA & Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 14,791 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 475,218 ratings — published 1997
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 786,309 ratings — published 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 144,573 ratings — published 2003
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 38,279 ratings — published 1998
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 — 19,761 ratings — published 2004
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,982 ratings — published 2014
The Greatest Generation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 20,064 ratings — published 1998
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 23,064 ratings — published 2025
Footnotes in Gaza (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 7,308 ratings — published 2009
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 3,023 ratings — published 2012
Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 11,026 ratings — published 2025
Requiem for Gaza (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 14 ratings — published
No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 967 ratings — published 2024
My Russia: What I Saw Inside the Kremlin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 117 ratings — published
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 82,059 ratings — published 2002
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 58,838 ratings — published 2024
City of Widows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 851 ratings — published 2026
Falling Man (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.26 — 17,735 ratings — published 2007
Mathey Girls: A Novel (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.30 — 137 ratings — published
End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.47 — 1,372 ratings — published 2026
A Russian Journal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,842 ratings — published 1948
Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 375 ratings — published 2026
Adrift: America in 100 Charts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,567 ratings — published 2022
The Book of Genocides (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 50 ratings — published 2026
Swan Song: Diana, My Sister (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 5,812 ratings — published 2026
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 9,246 ratings — published 2019
I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 315 ratings — published
Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the New Colombia (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 1,213 ratings — published 2012
Brothers No More: A Vietnam Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
Deployed: A Physician on the Front Lines of Global Health (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 6 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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