The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
By: Steven Conn
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A "piercing, unsentimental" ( New Yorker ) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural Ameri…
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1. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
By: Lewis Dartnell
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological societ… read more
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- nonfiction
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2. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
3. What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
By: Thomas Frank
3.76
Format: 360 pages,
With a New Afterword by the Author The New York Timesbestseller, praised as "hilariously funny . . … read more
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4. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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- history
5. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- politics
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"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
6. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- history
7. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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8. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
9. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
10. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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11. The Fetishist
By: Katherine Min
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s… read more
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12. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers
By: Frank Figliuzzi
3.64
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
13. I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
By: Madeline Pendleton
4.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her j… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"Don't listen if anyone ever tells you it's a dog-eat-dog world. Dogs are pack animals. We're stronger together."-Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
14. Exposed: The Ashley Madison Hack
By: Sophie Elmhirst
3.37
Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio
Millions of people—looking to cheat on their partners—signed up for Ashley Madison in the early 200… read more
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15. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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16. The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
By: Steven Conn
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A "piercing, unsentimental" ( New Yorker ) history that boldly challenges the idea of a rural Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- urbanism
- sociology
17. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
By: Kerry Howley
3.81
Format: 233 pages, Hardcover
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State
18. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more
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- history
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
19. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
By: Peter Robison
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more
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- history
20. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
By: Elizabeth Catte
4.02
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
21. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
