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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating — 63,326 ratings 3. 
The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes 3.87 avg rating — 3,579 ratings
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Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
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Naomi Oreskes
4.17 avg rating — 7,786 ratings 7. 
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
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Jenny Nordberg
4.11 avg rating — 13,993 ratings 
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
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Ben Goldacre
4.10 avg rating — 9,120 ratings 10. 
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating — 778,752 ratings 11. 
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
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Craig Whitlock
4.25 avg rating — 6,409 ratings 12. 
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Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
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Justin Farrell
3.69 avg rating — 1,846 ratings 15. 
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
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Gillian Thomas
4.33 avg rating — 450 ratings 
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Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices 4.23 avg rating — 17,336 ratings
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Super Imperialism. The Economic Strategy of American Empire. Third Edition
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Michael Hudson
4.39 avg rating — 281 ratings 22. 
After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort
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Eric Dean Wilson
4.02 avg rating — 172 ratings 
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
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Scott Ellsworth
4.19 avg rating — 1,307 ratings 
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
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Tom Vanderbilt
3.72 avg rating — 8,118 ratings 29. 
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
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H.W. Brands
3.91 avg rating — 1,166 ratings 29. 
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
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Angela Nagle
3.45 avg rating — 6,559 ratings 
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
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Heather McGhee
4.62 avg rating — 20,496 ratings 34. 
Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows
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Rose Eveleth
4.01 avg rating — 244 ratings 
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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Jessica Bruder
4.03 avg rating — 49,873 ratings 37. 
After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
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Ben Rhodes
4.20 avg rating — 4,824 ratings 38. 
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
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Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating — 39,741 ratings 
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Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going 4.17 avg rating — 3,527 ratings
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
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Amanda Gorman
4.54 avg rating — 34,658 ratings 
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Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union
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Richard Kreitner
3.92 avg rating — 407 ratings 48. 
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
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Ty Seidule
4.41 avg rating — 5,503 ratings 49. 
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
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Brian Greene
4.04 avg rating — 5,900 ratings 
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After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
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Jessica Goudeau
4.58 avg rating — 1,886 ratings 52. 
This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — plus plenty of valet parking! — in America's Gilded Capital
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Mark Leibovich
3.48 avg rating — 7,028 ratings 53. 
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,940 ratings 
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What I Told My Daughter: Lessons from Leaders on Raising the Next Generation of Empowered Women
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Nina Tassler
3.58 avg rating — 1,210 ratings 57. 
Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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David Sheff
4.17 avg rating — 102,391 ratings 58. 
Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today's Rip-off Artists 3.71 avg rating — 808 ratings
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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Beth Macy
4.07 avg rating — 44,186 ratings 60. 
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Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
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Adam Jentleson
4.25 avg rating — 2,555 ratings 62. 
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
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Bill Gates
4.12 avg rating — 50,135 ratings 63. 
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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John Green
4.36 avg rating — 161,050 ratings 64. 
No One's World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn 3.64 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order 3.60 avg rating — 205 ratings
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The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
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Peter Frankopan
3.58 avg rating — 7,781 ratings 68. 
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live 4.01 avg rating — 2,789 ratings
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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
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Sathnam Sanghera
4.09 avg rating — 8,326 ratings 70. 
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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Daniel Immerwahr
4.46 avg rating — 19,119 ratings 71. 
Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic
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Emma Goldberg
3.86 avg rating — 671 ratings 
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America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
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Erika Lee
4.33 avg rating — 1,126 ratings 
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The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
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Katharina Pistor
4.03 avg rating — 913 ratings 78. 
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
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Adam Gopnik
3.86 avg rating — 1,026 ratings 79. 
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
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Greg Grandin
4.28 avg rating — 3,038 ratings 
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A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism
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Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.86 avg rating — 297 ratings 
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War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century 4.09 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military 3.65 avg rating — 4,943 ratings
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
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James W. Loewen
3.97 avg rating — 72,721 ratings 88. 
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches From the Border
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Francisco Cantú
3.97 avg rating — 15,190 ratings 89. 
Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything 3.94 avg rating — 5,854 ratings
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
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Jane Mayer
4.18 avg rating — 4,569 ratings 
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Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall
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Amy Chua
3.78 avg rating — 975 ratings 93. 
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
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Sandy Tolan
4.12 avg rating — 18,016 ratings 
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Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order (Boston Review Books)
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Rajan Menon
3.68 avg rating — 151 ratings 
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster 4.37 avg rating — 61,004 ratings
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
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Masha Gessen
4.19 avg rating — 6,913 ratings