14 best-selling audiobook books like Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America by Charles Murray

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Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

By: Charles Murray

4.10

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

The charges of systemic racism and White privilege that are tearing the country apart float free of…

"Page 15: As of the 1960 census, America was about 87 percent European, 11 percent African, something more than 1 percent Latin, and something less than 1 percent Asian."

-Charles Murray, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

"Page 15: As of the 1960 census, America was about 87 percent European, 11 percent African, something more than 1 percent Latin, and something less than 1 percent Asian."

-Charles Murray, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

"Page 39: Among people of the four races with IQs of 100, 70 percent are European or Asian. For IQs of 115, 85 percent. For IQs of 125, 90 percent. For IQs of 140, 96 percent."

-Charles Murray, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

"Page 39: Among people of the four races with IQs of 100, 70 percent are European or Asian. For IQs of 115, 85 percent. For IQs of 125, 90 percent. For IQs of 140, 96 percent."

-Charles Murray, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

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1. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

By: Corey Robin

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Hardcover

Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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  • psychology
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2. Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis

3.75

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

By: Robert D. Putnam

3.77

Format: 67 pages,

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  • cultural
  • social science
  • history
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  • sociology
Cover of The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

4. The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

By: Alastair Smith , Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutioni… read more

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  • politics
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5. The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2)

By: Thomas B. Costain

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

THE MAGNIFICENT CENTURY, the second volume of Costain's A History of the Plantagenets, covers Henry… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45

By: John Toland

3.43

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Ja… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

7. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

By: Christopher Lasch

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts hav… read more

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8. The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies

By: Ryszard Legutko

3.85

Format: 96 pages,

The book is written from a perspective of someone who after having lived for many years under commu… read more

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9. The Road to Serfdom

By: Friedrich A. Hayek

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more

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10. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

By: Charles Murray , Richard J. Herrnstein

3.59

Format: 912 pages, Paperback

The controversial book linking intelligence to class and race in modern society, and what public po… read more

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  • social science
  • race
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  • psychology
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  • sociology
  • science
"Many academic intellectuals hold middle-class values in contempt"

-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

"The moral ascendancy of equality has made it difficult to use concepts such as virtue, excellence, beauty and – above all – truth."

-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

"How large is the black-white difference? The usual answer to this question is one standard deviation. In discussing IQ tests, for example, the black mean is commonly given as 85, the white mean as 10…"

-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

"Richard Lynn was able to assemble eleven studies in his 1991 review of the literature. He estimated the median black African IQ to be 75, approximately 1.7 standard deviations below the U.S. overall …"

-Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

11. Intelligence: All That Matters

By: Stuart Ritchie

3.87

Format: None pages,

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12. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

By: Douglas Murray

4.19

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The Strange Death of Europeis a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the ac… read more

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13. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • race
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Cover of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas

14. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

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Cover of The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution by Greg Lukianoff

15. The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

By: Greg Lukianoff

3.93

Format: 432 pages, ebook

A timely deep dive into cancel culture, an account of its dangers to all Americans, and the much-ne… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
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  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Mistakes abound when groupthink goes unchallenged."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

"There is nothing about standing up for an underdog (or simply claiming to be) that means you're right."

-Greg Lukianoff, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

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16. The War on the West

By: Douglas Murray

4.28

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

An Instant New York Times Bestseller! China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim… read more

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  • history
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"To delegitimize the West, it appears to be necessary first to demonize the people who still make up the racial majority in the West. It is necessary to demonize white people."

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Race is now an issue in all Western countries in a way it has not been for decades. In the place of color blindness, we have been pushed into racial ultra-awareness. A deeply warped picture has now b…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Like all societies in history, all Western nations have racism in their histories. But that is not the only history of our countries. Racism is not the sole lens through which our societies can be un…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

"Historical criticism and rethinking are never a bad idea. However, the hunt for visible, tangible problems shouldn't become a hunt for invisible, intangible problems. Especially not if they are carri…"

-Douglas Murray, The War on the West

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17. Social Justice Fallacies

By: Thomas Sowell

4.45

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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Cover of Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter

18. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

By: John McWhorter

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question… read more

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  • race
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  • sociology
  • audiobook
"To tar America as insufficiently aware of slavery is more about smugness and noble victimhood than forging something new and needed."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"Antiracism should focus strongly on ending the war on drugs, and there is no need for legions of whites to be instructed in how privileged they are for this to happen."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"[P]rofound social change can happen without the entire populace being junior scholars about racist injustice. Such change has been happening world-wide for several centuries."

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

"They are unreachable for the simple reason that they are arguing from religion rather than reason, trying to foist their dogma into the public square out of a misguided sense that they are the world'…"

-John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

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19. Feminism Against Progress

By: Mary Harrington

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason … read more

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  • history
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"But the weakness of these proposals isn't that they're unworkable, or even that they're 'traditional,' but that they're not traditional enough. For most of history, men and women worked together, in …"

-Mary Harrington, Feminism Against Progress

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20. America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

By: Christopher F. Rufo

4.30

Format: 352 pages, ebook

For decades, left-wing radicals patiently built a revolution in the shadows. Then suddenly, after t… read more

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"The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic."

-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

"The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully."

-Christopher F. Rufo, America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

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21. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

By: Coleman Hughes

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more

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  • cultural
  • race
  • history
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  • audiobook
"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"

-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

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22. Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

By: Henry Kissinger

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and… read more

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  • politics
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"Well before the end of the 20th century however print had lost its former dominance. This resulted in, among other things, a different kind of person getting elected as leader. One who can present hi…"

-Henry Kissinger, Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

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23. Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever

By: John McWhorter

3.95

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered sho… read more

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24. 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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  • science
  • nonfiction
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Cover of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher     Caldwell

25. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

By: Christopher Caldwell

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A major American intellectual makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms inte… read more

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  • cultural
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Cover of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven

26. T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

By: Carole Hooven

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Testosterone: Misunderstood. Mythologized. Controversial. A Harvard evolutionary biologist debun… read more

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27. Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

By: Charles Murray

4.10

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

The charges of systemic racism and White privilege that are tearing the country apart float free of… read more

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  • audiobook
"Page 15: As of the 1960 census, America was about 87 percent European, 11 percent African, something more than 1 percent Latin, and something less than 1 percent Asian."

-Charles Murray, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

"Page 39: Among people of the four races with IQs of 100, 70 percent are European or Asian. For IQs of 115, 85 percent. For IQs of 125, 90 percent. For IQs of 140, 96 percent."

-Charles Murray, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

"Non-Latino Latino White 60.0% 12.1% Black 12.4% 0.4% East Asian 2.4% 0.0% South Asian 1.5% 0.0% Filipino/Pacific Islander 1.1% 0.0% Native American 0.7% 0.2% Southeast Asian 0.6% 0.0% Ot…"

-Charles Murray, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

"Page 67: For jobs that require a college degree, race differences in cognitive ability in the workplace should be minimized by the process of obtaining that college degree. But it hasn’t worked that …"

-Charles Murray, Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America

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28. Discrimination and Disparities

By: Thomas Sowell

4.47

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A searching re-examination of the assumptions, and the evidence for and against, current approaches… read more

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Cover of The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics by Richard Hanania

29. The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics

By: Richard Hanania

3.87

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Richard Hanania has come out of nowhere to become one of the best-known writers in the nation in th… read more

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  • history
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Cover of Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023) by Steve Sailer

30. Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023)

By: Steve Sailer

4.37

Format: 458 pages, Paperback

“If the meritocracy were real, Steve Sailer would be one of the most famous writers in the world. S… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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31. Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality

By: Paul Levy

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"The Quantum Revelation is mind-blowing." - Sting To say that quantum physics is the greatest sc… read more

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22 must-read history books like Facing Reality: Two Truths about Race in America by Charles Murray

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The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

Corey Robin

4.27

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Common Sense

Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis

3.75

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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Robert D. Putnam

3.77

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The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

Alastair Smith , Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

4.03

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Democracy: The God That Failed

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

4.17

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Intellectuals and Society

Thomas Sowell

4.29

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Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980

Charles Murray

3.86

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Bruce Cannon Gibney

3.95

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