The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
By: Michiko Kakutani
3.18
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions…
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1. And Still I Rise
By: Maya Angelou
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this inspiring poem, Maya Angelou celebrates the courage of the human spirit over the harshest o… read more
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2. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
3. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
4. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
5. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
By: Nellie Bowles
4.05
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
6. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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- history
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
7. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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- politics
- history
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8. The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
By: Tim Schwab
3.72
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy t… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"The foundation enjoys unparalleled privileges in the marketplace. It is not taxed or regulated as a private company because all its deal making happens through charitable agreements. It is not scruti…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Bill Gates is not plowing hundreds of millions of dollars into journalism because he believes in the democratic ideals of the free press or because he is a personal fan of watchdog reporting. His pri…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Gates donates money from his private wealth to his private foundation. He then assembles a small group of consultants and experts at the foundation’s half-billion-dollar corporate headquarters to dec…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Across most of the diseases the Gates Foundation works on, its track record of innovation is quite weak. Gates planted its flag as the leading voice on malaria, working with a number of different com…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
9. youthjuice
By: E.K. Sathue
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more
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10. 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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11. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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- politics
- history
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12. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
13. Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History
By: Ben Mezrich
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Ben the book Elon Musk doesn’t want you to read. BREAKIN… read more
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- history
14. There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.” and the End of the Heartland
By: Steven Hyden
4.21
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen’s iconic album, Born in the U.S.A. —a record … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
15. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
By: József Debreczeni
4.53
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more
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- history
16. The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread
By: Cailin O'Connor
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The social dynamics of “alternative facts”: why what you believe depends on who you know Why sho… read more
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- history
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17. Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah (Jewish Lives)
By: Ian Buruma
4.10
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in… read more
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- history
18. Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age
By: Norman Ohler
3.90
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs… read more
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19. The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
By: Michiko Kakutani
3.18
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions… read more
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20. 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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"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.
21. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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