Sanjay's Essential NonFiction

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Moneyball
Moneyball 4.27 avg rating — 141,362 ratings
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When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants 3.53 avg rating — 14,872 ratings
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 4.01 avg rating — 885,849 ratings
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 133,655 ratings
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Think Like a Freak
Think Like a Freak 3.86 avg rating — 55,660 ratings
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So, Now You Know...: A Compendium of Completely Useless Information
So, Now You Know...: A Compendium of Completely Useless Information 3.58 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Fresh Off the Boat
Fresh Off the Boat 3.68 avg rating — 13,728 ratings
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Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives 3.97 avg rating — 6,982 ratings
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Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think 4.03 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
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Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators
Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators 3.64 avg rating — 486 ratings
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
by: Wes Moore
3.87 avg rating — 56,993 ratings
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Listening to Prozac
Listening to Prozac 3.70 avg rating — 1,483 ratings
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis 3.85 avg rating — 488,850 ratings
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Deterring Democracy
Deterring Democracy 4.06 avg rating — 891 ratings
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating — 23,239 ratings
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene 4.16 avg rating — 189,065 ratings
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The Gene: An Intimate History
The Gene: An Intimate History 4.36 avg rating — 54,024 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community 3.85 avg rating — 8,660 ratings
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Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion 3.58 avg rating — 6,316 ratings
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The Road to Serfdom
The Road to Serfdom 4.15 avg rating — 25,382 ratings
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Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems 4.22 avg rating — 14,334 ratings
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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism 4.20 avg rating — 5,607 ratings
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Economics in One Lesson
Economics in One Lesson 4.17 avg rating — 21,135 ratings
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American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power 3.86 avg rating — 126 ratings
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics 4.16 avg rating — 23,023 ratings
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
Capital in the Twenty First Century 4.06 avg rating — 33,859 ratings
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Economic Facts and Fallacies
Economic Facts and Fallacies 4.23 avg rating — 6,041 ratings
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Black Rednecks and White Liberals 4.37 avg rating — 9,541 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty 4.09 avg rating — 59,219 ratings
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War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires 4.17 avg rating — 871 ratings
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Ages of Discord
Ages of Discord 4.11 avg rating — 407 ratings
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Secular Cycles
Secular Cycles 4.12 avg rating — 200 ratings
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The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite 3.83 avg rating — 2,197 ratings
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David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants 3.97 avg rating — 189,412 ratings
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 329,323 ratings
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Principles: Summary
Principles: Summary
by: Ray Dalio
4.10 avg rating — 7,322 ratings
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating — 564,634 ratings
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The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning 3.78 avg rating — 8,181 ratings
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The Story of Inventions
The Story of Inventions 4.29 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea 3.88 avg rating — 28,308 ratings