How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics
By: Ryan Cooper
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A compelling alternative view of the relationship between our politics and our economy. Throughout…
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1. How Music Works
By: David Byrne
4.00
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
How Music Works is David Byrne’s remarkable and buoyant celebration of a subject he has spent a lif… read more
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"Performers try harder."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"You might say that the universe plays the blues."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you."-David Byrne, How Music Works
"There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself."-David Byrne, How Music Works
2. A Collapse of Horses
By: Brian Evenson
4.02
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
A stuffed bear's heart beats with the rhythm of a dead baby; Reno keeps receding to the east no mat… read more
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"Every time you think you have the world figured, trust me, that’s just when the world’s got you figured and is about to spring and break your back"-Brian Evenson, A Collapse of Horses
3. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more
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4. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
5. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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6. Forged: Writing in the Name of God
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.50
Format: None pages,
s/t: Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are Bart D. Ehrman, the New York Timesbestse… read more
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7. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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8. The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
By: Peter Brannen
3.59
Format: 464 pages, ebook
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9. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.87
Format: None pages,
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became … read more
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10. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
By: Charles C. Mann
4.23
Format: 11 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more
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11. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
12. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
13. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
By: Barbara F. Walter
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more
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"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
14. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
15. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
By: Vincent Bevins
4.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more
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"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
16. Growing Things and Other Stories
By: Paul Tremblay
3.50
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A chilling anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction from the multiple award-winning aut… read more
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17. War Lord (The Saxon Stories, #13)
By: Bernard Cornwell
4.60
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
IN THE FINAL RECKONING, CHOOSE YOUR SIDE CAREFULLY… The epic conclusion to the globally bestsell… read more
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"All men have enemies, otherwise they're not men"-Bernard Cornwell, War Lord (The Saxon Stories, #13)
"I am Uhtred, son of Uhtred, who was the son of Uhtred, and his father was also called Uhtred, and they were all lords of Bebbanburg. I am that too, though these days folk call me the Lord of the Nort…"-Bernard Cornwell, War Lord (The Saxon Stories, #13)
18. My First Book
By: Honor Levy
3.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From groundbreaking debut author Honor Levy, stories to delight and ensnare Walking the wire betwe… read more
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"I HAV3 CHOS3N T3H WAY OF FA3THFUL3SS"-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Nerf is a verb now. I'm gonna nerf all you faggots, give me that grenade."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer. 1 like = 1 prayer."-Honor Levy, My First Book
"Zoe laughs like Tinkerbell, the air whistling between the gaps in her teeth. She’s definitely not a dog."-Honor Levy, My First Book
19. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
By: Elie Mystal
4.59
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more
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20. Washington Bullets
By: Vijay Prashad
4.40
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It … read more
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21. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
By: Catherine Nixey
4.06
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more
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"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
22. Molly
By: Blake Butler
3.66
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more
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23. Private Equity: A Memoir
By: Carrie Sun
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more
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"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir
24. One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
By: Matthew Yglesias
3.88
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memor… read more
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25. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
26. The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
By: Patrick Wyman
4.15
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive… read more
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27. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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28. Rainbow Black
By: Maggie Thrash
3.96
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more
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29. Why You Should Be a Socialist
By: Nathan J. Robinson
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A primer on Democratic Socialism for those who are extremely skeptical of it. America is witnes… read more
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"Community is not valued in a society like this. Money rules absolutely."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
"The political establishment is vulnerable. And if we make our numbers count, we can change anything."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
"Part of the core socialist commitment involves insisting on pressing forward even when you're being told your goals are unachievable."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
"Equality doesn't mean ensuring everybody is the same, it means making sure some people don't get godlike power to determine the fates of others."-Nathan J. Robinson, Why You Should Be a Socialist
30. Cuckoo
By: Gretchen Felker-Martin
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Cuckoo is a searing new novel from Manhunt author Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a motley crew of ki… read more
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31. How Are You Going to Pay for That?: Smart Answers to the Dumbest Question in Politics
By: Ryan Cooper
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A compelling alternative view of the relationship between our politics and our economy. Throughout… read more
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