For my Friend- Why the World is the Way it is and How to Change it
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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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Howard Zinn
4.08 avg rating — 259,680 ratings 
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,039 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 — 72,715 ratings 
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The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
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Stephanie Coontz
3.98 avg rating — 2,569 ratings 
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Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
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Dan Lyons
3.90 avg rating — 2,132 ratings 12. 
Break 'em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
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Zephyr Teachout
4.35 avg rating — 569 ratings 13. 
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
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David von Drehle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,586 ratings 14. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
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Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,356 ratings 15. 
Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
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Malcolm Harris
3.78 avg rating — 2,314 ratings 16. 
Police State: How America's Cops Get Away With Murder
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Gerry Spence
3.99 avg rating — 138 ratings 17. 
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
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Gilbert King
4.40 avg rating — 15,745 ratings 18. 
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Jessica Bruder
4.03 avg rating — 49,872 ratings 19. 
It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
by:
Stuart Stevens
4.12 avg rating — 3,964 ratings 20. 
Liar's Circus: A Strange and Terrifying Journey Into the Upside-Down World of Trump's MAGA Rallies
by:
Carl Hoffman
3.89 avg rating — 325 ratings 
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Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
by:
Jacob S. Hacker
4.09 avg rating — 537 ratings 
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
by:
Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating — 9,412 ratings 
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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
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Bart D. Ehrman
3.93 avg rating — 19,882 ratings 28. 
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
by:
Frans de Waal
3.97 avg rating — 16,184 ratings 29. 
Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time (TED Books)
by:
David Miliband
3.84 avg rating — 345 ratings 30. 
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
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Kate Harding
4.37 avg rating — 4,205 ratings 31. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings 32. 
The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs
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Ed Asner
3.90 avg rating — 537 ratings 
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How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America 4.18 avg rating — 1,988 ratings
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
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Rutger Bregman
4.21 avg rating — 41,571 ratings 37. 
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future 4.02 avg rating — 9,787 ratings
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The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
by:
Sasha Abramsky
3.64 avg rating — 853 ratings 
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The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
by:
Cathy O'Neil
3.40 avg rating — 1,246 ratings 43. 
All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives
by:
Andre Henry
4.42 avg rating — 1,261 ratings 44. 
Making a Psychopath: My Journey into Seven Dangerous Minds
by:
Mark Freestone
3.50 avg rating — 1,246 ratings 45. 
The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
by:
James Fallon
3.50 avg rating — 5,986 ratings 46. 
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I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times
by:
Monica Guzmán
3.90 avg rating — 3,244 ratings 48. 
One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America
by:
Nick Seabrook
3.70 avg rating — 246 ratings 49. 
The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
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Thom Hartmann
4.23 avg rating — 154 ratings 50. 
They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
by:
Sarah Kendzior
3.95 avg rating — 1,583 ratings 51. 
Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber
by:
Andy Borowitz
4.33 avg rating — 4,510 ratings 
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Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States
by:
Reece Jones
4.17 avg rating — 114 ratings 54. 
Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
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Craig McNamara
3.61 avg rating — 537 ratings 
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These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America 3.72 avg rating — 864 ratings
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Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy 3.96 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,917 ratings 60. 
When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
by:
Kevin F. Adler
4.25 avg rating — 781 ratings 
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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by:
Robin DiAngelo
4.16 avg rating — 170,205 ratings 63. 
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right 4.12 avg rating — 17,561 ratings
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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 — 63,320 ratings 65. 
What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
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Thomas Frank
3.85 avg rating — 12,723 ratings 66. 
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
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George Lakoff
3.97 avg rating — 6,981 ratings 67. 
The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality
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Chris C. Mooney
3.85 avg rating — 1,499 ratings