Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live―and How Their Wealth Harms Us All
By: Michael Mechanic
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating…
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1. No Logo
By: Naomi Klein
3.89
Format: 528 pages, Paperback
With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament… read more
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"(...) losing one's job is much less frightening when getting it seemed an accident in the first place."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Competitive branding became a necessity of the machine age — within a context of manufactured sameness; image-based difference had to be manufactured along with the product."-Naomi Klein, No Logo
"Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and…"-Naomi Klein, No Logo
2. What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
By: Kristin Newman
3.81
Format: 225 pages,
A funny, sexy, and ultimately poignant memoir about mastering the art of the "vacationship." Kristi… read more
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3. From Beirut to Jerusalem
By: Thomas L. Friedman
4.07
Format: 154 pages,
This extraordinary bestseller is still the most incisive, thought-provoking book ever written about… read more
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4. Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
By: Daniel Schulman
3.67
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the … read more
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5. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
By: M.E. Thomas
3.92
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The first memoir of its kind, Confessions of a Sociopathis an engrossing, highly captivating narrat… read more
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6. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
7. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
None
Format: None pages, None
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more
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8. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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9. Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
By: Wendy Joseph
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed.… read more
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10. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage
By: Nick de Semlyen
4.12
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more
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11. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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- finance
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12. 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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13. Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
By: Erich Schwartzel
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that details the surprising role of the movie business… read more
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14. Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
By: Zoë Schiffer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“the bird is freed” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, … read more
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15. They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
By: Sarah Kendzior
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “Every sentence delivered. The pathos of truth-see… read more
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"The word “conspire"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"The desire to forget is as overwhelming as the obligation not to."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"History was a feedback loop of unlearned lessons and reverberating lies."-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
"There is no such thing as paranoia; your worst fears can come true at any moment,"-Sarah Kendzior, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent
16. The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind
By: Ben Terris
3.74
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
"No one gets today's Washington like Ben Terris…THE BIG BREAK is the definitive accounting of ‘how … read more
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17. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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18. Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission
By: Mark Leibovich
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times Bestseller "He's one of the best chroniclers of politics today." -Jake Tapp… read more
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19. Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s
By: Nicole Hemmer
4.17
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A bold new history of modern conservatism that finds its origins in the populist right-wing politic… read more
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20. Edison's Ghosts: The Untold Weirdness of History’s Greatest Geniuses
By: Katie Spalding
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Overturn everything you knew about history’s greatest minds in this raucous and hilarious book, whe… read more
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21. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
By: Jeff Sharlet
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more
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22. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
By: Sam Wasson
3.80
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more
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23. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
By: Deb Chachra
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdo… read more
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"We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not wh…"-Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
24. Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
By: Daniel Knowles
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A high-octane polemic against cars—which are ruining the world, while making us unhappy and unhealt… read more
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25. 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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"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
26. Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
By: Adam Jentleson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears… read more
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27. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
By: Emily Nussbaum
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more
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28. Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
By: Simon Kuper
4.17
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times… read more
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29. Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers
By: Landon Y. Jones
3.34
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A former People magazine editor reveals how our cult of celebrity has shaped our politics, our cult… read more
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30. All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
By: Phil Elwood
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the… read more
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31. Jackpot: How the Super-Rich Really Live―and How Their Wealth Harms Us All
By: Michael Mechanic
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating… read more
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