International Studies
1. 
North Korea Undercover: Inside the World's Most Secret State
by:
John Sweeney
3.61 avg rating — 1,371 ratings 3. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron Acemoğlu
4.09 avg rating — 59,218 ratings 3. 
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
by:
Karen Piper
3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings 
5. 
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
by:
Paul Mason
3.75 avg rating — 268 ratings 
8. 
What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees
by:
Tony Juniper
4.21 avg rating — 411 ratings 
10. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating — 27,262 ratings 11. 
The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
by:
John C. Mutter
3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings 
14. 
Beijing for Beginners: An Irishman in the People's Republic
by:
Gary Finnegan
4.19 avg rating — 37 ratings 15. 
Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia
by:
Lukas Straumann
4.55 avg rating — 107 ratings 16. 
17. 
The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
by:
Meredith Hooper
3.73 avg rating — 33 ratings 18. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,063 ratings 19. 
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,875 ratings 20. 
Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia
by:
Michael Buckley
4.01 avg rating — 73 ratings 21. 
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri-La
by:
Alec Le Sueur
3.92 avg rating — 1,226 ratings