Vox's Books to Read to Understand the World

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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession 4.05 avg rating — 3,313 ratings
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Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More
Getting Better: Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More 3.62 avg rating — 204 ratings
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic 4.39 avg rating — 28,865 ratings
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena 4.12 avg rating — 55,467 ratings
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? 4.16 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
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Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients 4.10 avg rating — 9,120 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community 3.85 avg rating — 8,658 ratings
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating — 75,027 ratings
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Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendacy
Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendacy 3.39 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
by: T.R. Reid
4.26 avg rating — 7,621 ratings
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The History of White People
The History of White People 4.07 avg rating — 3,174 ratings
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Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations 3.78 avg rating — 7,139 ratings
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Social Democratic America
Social Democratic America 3.41 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure
Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure 3.83 avg rating — 895 ratings
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Practice of Everyday Life
Practice of Everyday Life 4.10 avg rating — 4,001 ratings
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Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces 4.32 avg rating — 3,972 ratings
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The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed
The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed 3.81 avg rating — 187 ratings
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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 — 113,289 ratings
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No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: Negotiate or Die
No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: Negotiate or Die 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design 4.09 avg rating — 41,142 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water 4.28 avg rating — 11,659 ratings
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City: Urbanism and Its End
City: Urbanism and Its End 4.06 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture
The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World's Most Troubled Drug Culture 3.97 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Design of Everyday Things
The Design of Everyday Things 4.15 avg rating — 46,465 ratings
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The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election
The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election 3.82 avg rating — 222 ratings
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The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World 3.91 avg rating — 3,110 ratings
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The Human Nature of Playwriting
The Human Nature of Playwriting 4.29 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
by: Sean Howe
4.05 avg rating — 7,450 ratings
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Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic 3.82 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
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Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: On Rock Music 3.97 avg rating — 873 ratings
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What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church
What Would Jesus Deconstruct?: The Good News of Postmodernism for the Church 3.93 avg rating — 444 ratings