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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 4.19 — 122,995 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 — 205,676 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 — 73,292 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,581,750 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 254,964 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 — 43,242 ratings — published 2004
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.56 — 71,554 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 — 187,531 ratings — published 2018
What Is the What (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 88,060 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 — 369,379 ratings — published 2013
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 9,072 ratings — published 1971
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,298,085 ratings — published 1947
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,785 ratings — published 2007
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 2,050,254 ratings — published 2014
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,395,061 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 — 152,121 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 — 11,927 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 — 14,683 ratings — published 2012
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 4.04 — 469,262 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 — 777,450 ratings — published 2003
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as world-events)
avg rating 3.67 — 143,130 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 — 37,849 ratings — published 1998
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 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2026
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 2,320,355 ratings — published 2015
Israel: What Went Wrong? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 552 ratings — published 2026
The Oxford Illustrated History of the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
The Second Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,515 ratings — published 1989
The Maniac (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,004 ratings — published 2023
The Unfinished Business of 1776: Why the American Revolution Never Ended (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.43 — 14 ratings — published
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,592 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 3.71 — 58 ratings — published 2026
The Safekeep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.05 — 145,576 ratings — published 2024
Life and Death in Shanghai (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.33 — 14,196 ratings — published 1986
Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower's Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.58 — 725 ratings — published 2026
Biological War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 32 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 3.60 — 246 ratings — published
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.01 — 399 ratings — published 2026
The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 229 ratings — published
Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 1,369 ratings — published 2026
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 1,733 ratings — published 2025
The Radical Spanish Empire: How Paperwork Politics Remade the New World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2026
Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.41 — 29 ratings — published
Credit to the Nation: Eastern European Jewish Immigrant Bankers and the Shaping of American Finance, 1873–1930 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,711 ratings — published 2006
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,668 ratings — published 2023
Adolfo Kaminsky The Forger of Paris: Authorized Biography. New and Expanded Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,712 ratings — published 2018
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as world-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 10,390 ratings — published 2007
Code Name: Pale Horse: How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 7,733 ratings — published 2025
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,006 ratings — published 2026
“It was such a relief to think about world affairs! Like coming out of solitary confinement.”
― The Watch Tower
― The Watch Tower
“For us on the East Coast of the United States the systematic change in the calendar begins on December 31, 2017. It starts in the South Pacific nation of Samoa, which is always the first country to welcome in the New Year. Just 101 miles to the east is American Samoa, which will have to wait for an entire day to pass, before they can celebrate the New Year in….
Around the globe there are 39 different local time zones, which cause this phenomenon to take place over a period of 26 hours, before everyone on Earth enters the New Year.
The year of 2018 is first celebrated at 5 a.m. on December 31, 2017, in Samoa and on Christmas Island in Kiribati. I have actually been on that small island, located in the figurative center of the largest ocean in the world. Only fifteen minutes later, the New Year arrives on Chatham Island in New Zealand.
It isn’t until 8 a.m. that larger land masses are affected and then by 9 a.m., much of Australia and parts of Russia can ring in the New Year. In rapid succession North & South Korea, China and the Philippines fall to the moving clock. By noon Indonesia, Thailand and 10 more countries enter into the New Year. Having been in Malaysia and Thailand, I personally know what it’s like, hanging from your heels, on the opposite side of the Earth from where we are now.
The ever moving midnight hour visits our troops in Afghanistan, at 2:30 p.m. and washes over Europe, starting at 4 p.m. It continues to flow over the continent until leaving the United Kingdom three hours later. Entering the Atlantic Ocean it does not reappear in America, until it reaches parts of Brazil at 9 p.m.
Midnight finally comes to us on the east coast of North America where we celebrate the New Year with more gusto than anywhere else on Earth. In the United States and Canada we celebrate for three hours, before handing the baton over to Alaska, Hawaii and the United States owned Pacific Islands. By 7 a.m. the last of the American Islands in the Pacific Ocean can finally herald in 1918. I have heard it said that if you had the resources and time, you could fly from Sydney to Honolulu and celebrate the New Year twice. I can imagine that this little bit of fun could be quite expensive!”
―
Around the globe there are 39 different local time zones, which cause this phenomenon to take place over a period of 26 hours, before everyone on Earth enters the New Year.
The year of 2018 is first celebrated at 5 a.m. on December 31, 2017, in Samoa and on Christmas Island in Kiribati. I have actually been on that small island, located in the figurative center of the largest ocean in the world. Only fifteen minutes later, the New Year arrives on Chatham Island in New Zealand.
It isn’t until 8 a.m. that larger land masses are affected and then by 9 a.m., much of Australia and parts of Russia can ring in the New Year. In rapid succession North & South Korea, China and the Philippines fall to the moving clock. By noon Indonesia, Thailand and 10 more countries enter into the New Year. Having been in Malaysia and Thailand, I personally know what it’s like, hanging from your heels, on the opposite side of the Earth from where we are now.
The ever moving midnight hour visits our troops in Afghanistan, at 2:30 p.m. and washes over Europe, starting at 4 p.m. It continues to flow over the continent until leaving the United Kingdom three hours later. Entering the Atlantic Ocean it does not reappear in America, until it reaches parts of Brazil at 9 p.m.
Midnight finally comes to us on the east coast of North America where we celebrate the New Year with more gusto than anywhere else on Earth. In the United States and Canada we celebrate for three hours, before handing the baton over to Alaska, Hawaii and the United States owned Pacific Islands. By 7 a.m. the last of the American Islands in the Pacific Ocean can finally herald in 1918. I have heard it said that if you had the resources and time, you could fly from Sydney to Honolulu and celebrate the New Year twice. I can imagine that this little bit of fun could be quite expensive!”
―
