The Ezra Klein Show Book Recommendations - 2020 [Part 1]

1.
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World 4.07 avg rating — 84,767 ratings
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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Gilead (Gilead, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 121,017 ratings
3.
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy 4.03 avg rating — 9,520 ratings
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Good Enough for Government Work: The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It)
Good Enough for Government Work: The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
5.
Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics
Fragmented Democracy: Medicaid, Federalism, and Unequal Politics 4.23 avg rating — 115 ratings
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With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War
With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz 4.30 avg rating — 132,009 ratings
8.
Dune (Dune, #1)
Dune (Dune, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 1,570,345 ratings
9.
Justice, Gender, And The Family
Justice, Gender, And The Family 3.92 avg rating — 267 ratings
10.
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy 4.35 avg rating — 4,811 ratings
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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World 3.75 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Wounded in the House of a Friend
Wounded in the House of a Friend 4.29 avg rating — 190 ratings
13.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,946 ratings
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Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence 3.86 avg rating — 492 ratings
15.
No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
No Matter the Wreckage: Poems
by: Sarah Kay
4.20 avg rating — 15,622 ratings
16.
Momo
Momo 4.34 avg rating — 91,793 ratings
17.
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar 4.15 avg rating — 137,879 ratings
18.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 4.20 avg rating — 87,600 ratings
19.
Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State
Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State 4.08 avg rating — 36 ratings
20.
Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party 4.19 avg rating — 110 ratings
21.
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy 4.39 avg rating — 3,306 ratings
22.
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe 3.70 avg rating — 3,226 ratings
23.
They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy
They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy 3.97 avg rating — 228 ratings
24.
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Humankind: A Hopeful History 4.32 avg rating — 75,162 ratings
25.
The Flamethrowers
The Flamethrowers 3.51 avg rating — 23,701 ratings
26.
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory 4.25 avg rating — 215 ratings
27.
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning 3.96 avg rating — 514 ratings
28.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years 4.21 avg rating — 25,620 ratings
29.
Annihilation of Caste
Annihilation of Caste 4.61 avg rating — 8,310 ratings
30.
Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class
Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class 4.01 avg rating — 81 ratings
31.
The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil
The Heart of Man: Its Genius for Good and Evil 4.04 avg rating — 1,788 ratings
32.
The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide
The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide 3.94 avg rating — 578 ratings
33.
Say It Louder!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy
Say It Louder!: Black Voters, Voices & the Shaping of American Democracy 4.35 avg rating — 649 ratings
34.
Just Mercy
Just Mercy 4.63 avg rating — 254,493 ratings
35.
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin 4.07 avg rating — 5,471 ratings
36.
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism 4.15 avg rating — 855 ratings
37.
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931 4.22 avg rating — 2,016 ratings
38.
Nova
Nova 3.80 avg rating — 8,860 ratings
39.
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics 4.16 avg rating — 131 ratings
40.
Black Cross
Black Cross
by: Greg Iles
4.24 avg rating — 13,423 ratings
41.
Franz Von Papen Memoirs
Franz Von Papen Memoirs 3.55 avg rating — 31 ratings
42.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating — 114,819 ratings
43.
Social Limits to Growth
Social Limits to Growth 4.04 avg rating — 56 ratings
44.
Tocqueville's Discovery of America
Tocqueville's Discovery of America 4.04 avg rating — 133 ratings
45.
The Buried Giant
The Buried Giant 3.59 avg rating — 117,639 ratings
46.
The Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War
The Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War 4.30 avg rating — 601 ratings
47.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 4.02 avg rating — 375,093 ratings
48.
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
by: Bess Kalb
4.23 avg rating — 22,922 ratings
49.
Feel Free: Essays
Feel Free: Essays 3.82 avg rating — 8,147 ratings
50.
Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism
Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
51.
Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch
Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch 3.84 avg rating — 573 ratings
52.
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir
Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir 4.07 avg rating — 2,830 ratings
53.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk 4.31 avg rating — 44,284 ratings
54.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,288 ratings
55.
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans 4.12 avg rating — 91 ratings
56.
Selected works Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov, the Idiot, Crime and Punishment
Selected works Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov, the Idiot, Crime and Punishment really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
57.
The Closing of the American Mind
The Closing of the American Mind 3.76 avg rating — 5,868 ratings
58.
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy 4.07 avg rating — 3,565 ratings
59.
Russian Reader: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Adapted graded book in Russian / Pre-intermediate) (Russian Edition)
Russian Reader: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Adapted graded book in Russian / Pre-intermediate) (Russian Edition) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
60.
Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary
Post-Communist Mafia State: The Case of Hungary 3.98 avg rating — 54 ratings
61.
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4.35 avg rating — 63 ratings
62.
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement 4.42 avg rating — 4,017 ratings
63.
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence 4.27 avg rating — 135 ratings
64.
The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society 4.16 avg rating — 107 ratings
65.
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World 3.44 avg rating — 456 ratings
66.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad 3.70 avg rating — 244,163 ratings
67.
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3) 4.42 avg rating — 23,636 ratings
68.
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole
The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole 4.35 avg rating — 3,492 ratings
69.
On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller
On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller 4.07 avg rating — 509 ratings
70.
For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva
For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva 4.36 avg rating — 272 ratings
71.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 4.03 avg rating — 29,126 ratings
72.
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness 4.11 avg rating — 9,745 ratings
73.
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present 4.13 avg rating — 4,605 ratings
74.
The Illusion of the End
The Illusion of the End 3.87 avg rating — 267 ratings
75.
The End of History and the Last Man
The End of History and the Last Man 3.61 avg rating — 7,615 ratings
76.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,224 ratings
77.
The Children of Men
The Children of Men 3.67 avg rating — 51,105 ratings
78.
Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds
Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds 4.22 avg rating — 1,356 ratings
79.
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred
Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred 4.14 avg rating — 279 ratings
80.
UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record
UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record 4.03 avg rating — 2,729 ratings
81.
Sula
Sula 4.05 avg rating — 117,012 ratings
82.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating — 123,938 ratings
83.
Punishment and Inequality in America
Punishment and Inequality in America 4.09 avg rating — 171 ratings
84.
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration 4.09 avg rating — 123 ratings
85.
The Country Between Us
The Country Between Us 4.23 avg rating — 2,766 ratings
86.
Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen 4.01 avg rating — 654 ratings
87.
Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments
Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments 3.74 avg rating — 334 ratings
88.
The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave Experiment
The Lost Boys: Inside Muzafer Sherif's Robbers Cave Experiment 3.50 avg rating — 183 ratings
89.
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
90.
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life 4.24 avg rating — 7,713 ratings
91.
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion 4.49 avg rating — 28,921 ratings
92.
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity 4.27 avg rating — 22,183 ratings
93.
Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home
Laudato Si': On the Care of Our Common Home 4.24 avg rating — 3,831 ratings
94.
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,326 ratings
95.
Micromotives and Macrobehavior
Micromotives and Macrobehavior 3.99 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
96.
Summary of White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Summary of White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
97.
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change 4.24 avg rating — 6,927 ratings
98.
The Dowry: Legacies to an Italian American Daughter
The Dowry: Legacies to an Italian American Daughter really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Memoirs of Hadrian
Memoirs of Hadrian 4.22 avg rating — 34,186 ratings
100.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,983 ratings