Journalism - The Atlantic
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
by:
Anne Applebaum
4.08 avg rating — 7,071 ratings 4. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,340 ratings 5. 
Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
by:
Cullen Murphy
3.56 avg rating — 839 ratings 6. 
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by:
Eric Schlosser
3.78 avg rating — 6,368 ratings 7. 
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
by:
Anne Applebaum
3.90 avg rating — 16,818 ratings 8. 
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by:
George Packer
4.13 avg rating — 12,371 ratings 
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Eric Schlosser
3.75 avg rating — 206,251 ratings 11. 
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
by:
Eric Schlosser
4.27 avg rating — 14,175 ratings 11. 
Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
by:
Cullen Murphy
4.26 avg rating — 100 ratings 13. 
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
by:
Barton Gellman
4.04 avg rating — 1,139 ratings 13. 
Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World
by:
Robert D. Kaplan
3.33 avg rating — 1,726 ratings 
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Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1891–1910
by:
Mark Twain
4.36 avg rating — 223 ratings 18. 
Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics 3.81 avg rating — 1,641 ratings
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Shatter the Nations: ISIS and the War for the Caliphate
by:
Mike Giglio
4.41 avg rating — 176 ratings 20. 
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
by:
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.36 avg rating — 355 ratings 
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by:
Ed Yong
4.47 avg rating — 32,533 ratings 25. 
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.38 avg rating — 30,599 ratings 27. 
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
by:
Tim Alberta
4.41 avg rating — 15,677 ratings 
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The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal―and How to Set Them Right
by:
Adam Harris
3.94 avg rating — 390 ratings 31. 
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and The People Who Stopped It
by:
Mark Bowden
4.13 avg rating — 797 ratings 
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Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission
by:
Mark Leibovich
4.17 avg rating — 3,601 ratings 
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Life As I Find It: A Treasury of Mark Twain Rarities
by:
Charles Neider
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings 36. 
Mark Twain's Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
by:
Mark Twain
3.86 avg rating — 818 ratings 
40. 
Bebop & Nothingness: Jazz & Bebop at the End of the Century
by:
Francis Davis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings 41. 
The American Crisis: What Went Wrong. How We Recover.
by:
Cullen Murphy
4.34 avg rating — 196 ratings 41. 
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by:
Franklin Foer
3.62 avg rating — 2,238 ratings 
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The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
by:
Robert D. Kaplan
4.28 avg rating — 481 ratings 
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Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
by:
Jeffrey Goldberg
4.08 avg rating — 298 ratings 46. 
God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
by:
Cullen Murphy
3.76 avg rating — 826 ratings 48. 
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
by:
Scott Stossel
3.85 avg rating — 7,431 ratings 49. 
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age
by:
Robert D. Kaplan
3.62 avg rating — 806 ratings 50. 
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In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
by:
Robert D. Kaplan
3.81 avg rating — 1,340 ratings 52. 
Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 666 ratings
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The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America
by:
Adam Serwer
4.25 avg rating — 1,878 ratings 
56. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,340 ratings 57. 
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by:
Clint Smith
4.70 avg rating — 38,107 ratings 
60. 
Black Panther, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet (Black Panther, #1-3)
by:
Ta-Nehisi Coates
3.90 avg rating — 722 ratings 62. 
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
by:
George Packer
4.38 avg rating — 2,266 ratings 