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History590
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
4.52 average rating, · 166.3k ratings
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
4.52 average rating, · 119.7k ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
4.47 average rating, · 117.1k ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
4.18 average rating, · 293.5k ratings
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
4.04 average rating, · 468.2k ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
4.43 average rating, · 47.8k ratings
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Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
4.27 average rating, · 65.9k ratings
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
4.30 average rating, · 55.6k ratings
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis
4.51 average rating, · 31.5k ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
4.31 average rating, · 45.7k ratings
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Heather McGhee
4.62 average rating, · 22.3k ratings
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Rutger Bregman
4.21 average rating, · 44.2k ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoğlu
4.08 average rating, · 65.9k ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
4.23 average rating, · 38k ratings
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Revenge of the Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
4.02 average rating, · 64.5k ratings
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Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel
4.30 average rating, · 28.2k ratings
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker
4.19 average rating, · 32.9k ratings
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Steven Levitsky
4.16 average rating, · 34.3k ratings
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger
4.02 average rating, · 50.6k ratings
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber
4.19 average rating, · 28.1k ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
4.16 average rating, · 29.9k ratings
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Orientalism
Edward W. Said
4.14 average rating, · 30.9k ratings
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici
4.56 average rating, · 15.1k ratings
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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
David Simon
4.35 average rating, · 20.7k ratings
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