Books About Flops

1.
The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy
The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy 4.06 avg rating — 5,615 ratings
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What Were They Thinking?: The 100 Dumbest Events In Television History
What Were They Thinking?: The 100 Dumbest Events In Television History 3.73 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron 4.22 avg rating — 27,094 ratings
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 4.02 avg rating — 15,255 ratings
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Mistakes Were Made (Timmy Failure, #1)
Mistakes Were Made (Timmy Failure, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 7,671 ratings
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Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops
Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops 3.96 avg rating — 579 ratings
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Flop to the Top!
Flop to the Top! 3.44 avg rating — 248 ratings
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All-American Ads of the 70s
All-American Ads of the 70s 4.39 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists
Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists 4.01 avg rating — 975 ratings
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The Great Crash 1929
The Great Crash 1929 3.92 avg rating — 6,104 ratings
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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (Reginald Perrin, #1)
The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (Reginald Perrin, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
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Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success
Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success 4.18 avg rating — 12,134 ratings
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Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail 4.12 avg rating — 513 ratings
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The Big Book of Bad: The Best of the Worst of Everything (Factoid Books)
The Big Book of Bad: The Best of the Worst of Everything (Factoid Books) 4.01 avg rating — 150 ratings
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All American Ads of the 80's: All-American Ads
All American Ads of the 80's: All-American Ads 4.42 avg rating — 90 ratings
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The Gallery of Regrettable Food
The Gallery of Regrettable Food 4.12 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1) 4.32 avg rating — 340,757 ratings
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Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss
Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss 4.21 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Big Book of Losers (Factoid Books)
The Big Book of Losers (Factoid Books) 3.83 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Stone's Fall
Stone's Fall 3.87 avg rating — 8,677 ratings
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Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters
Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters 3.92 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Worst Laid Plans: When Bad Sex Happens to Good People
Worst Laid Plans: When Bad Sex Happens to Good People 3.45 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Fall
The Fall 4.03 avg rating — 127,583 ratings
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Shake Hands with the Devil 4.24 avg rating — 13,605 ratings
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Kmart's Ten Deadly Sins: How Incompetence Tainted an American Icon
Kmart's Ten Deadly Sins: How Incompetence Tainted an American Icon 3.52 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall 3.83 avg rating — 15,504 ratings
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Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady: A Memoir
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady: A Memoir 4.02 avg rating — 1,954 ratings
28.
The Real Coke, the Real Story
The Real Coke, the Real Story 3.76 avg rating — 125 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower (Queens of England #4)
The Lady in the Tower (Queens of England #4) 3.97 avg rating — 4,682 ratings
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Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia 3.95 avg rating — 2,624 ratings
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Automotive Atrocities: The Cars We Love to Hate
Automotive Atrocities: The Cars We Love to Hate 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher 3.85 avg rating — 83,640 ratings
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Blind Spot: Why We Fail to See the Solution Right in Front of Us
Blind Spot: Why We Fail to See the Solution Right in Front of Us 3.31 avg rating — 72 ratings
34.
What Were They Thinking?
What Were They Thinking? 3.39 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Falls (Inspector Rebus, #12)
The Falls (Inspector Rebus, #12) 4.04 avg rating — 15,123 ratings
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Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror
Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia, and the Failure of America's War on Terror 3.92 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Mortified
Mortified 3.73 avg rating — 1,536 ratings
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The Greenlanders
The Greenlanders 3.93 avg rating — 3,029 ratings
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Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It 4.06 avg rating — 1,346 ratings
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Mortified 2: Love is a Battlefield
Mortified 2: Love is a Battlefield 3.55 avg rating — 371 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,875 ratings
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Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward
Living in the Long Emergency: Global Crisis, the Failure of the Futurists, and the Early Adapters Who Are Showing Us the Way Forward 3.55 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism 3.73 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
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Vanquished
Vanquished 4.17 avg rating — 1,736 ratings
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The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives 3.79 avg rating — 1,876 ratings
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Justice Failed
Justice Failed 3.97 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches
The Revolution that Failed: Reconstruction in Natchitoches 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill
Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill 3.67 avg rating — 187 ratings
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It 3.50 avg rating — 1,330 ratings
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Needless Suffering: How Society Fails Those with Chronic Pain
Needless Suffering: How Society Fails Those with Chronic Pain 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology 3.93 avg rating — 419 ratings
52.
Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love
Great Philosophers Who Failed at Love 3.46 avg rating — 758 ratings
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All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses—And How We Can Fix It Together
All In: How Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses—And How We Can Fix It Together
by: Josh Levs
3.53 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)
Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear)
by: Jon Fine
3.61 avg rating — 652 ratings
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The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery 3.66 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries
Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries
by: Guy Winch
3.86 avg rating — 4,389 ratings
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The Peasants' Revolt: England's Failed Revolution of 1381
The Peasants' Revolt: England's Failed Revolution of 1381 3.74 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Mastergate & Power Failure
Mastergate & Power Failure 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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SO WRONG FOR SO LONG: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq (2013 Edition)
SO WRONG FOR SO LONG: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq (2013 Edition) 3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa 4.18 avg rating — 5,458 ratings
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Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico
Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico 4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health 4.13 avg rating — 1,345 ratings
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The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters
The Crash Detectives: Investigating the World's Most Mysterious Air Disasters 3.66 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age
Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age 3.83 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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Understanding the Crash
Understanding the Crash 4.13 avg rating — 46 ratings