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History, Politics & Society

History, Politics & Society

14,931 books

The past, power, and how we live together.

History11,945
World History255
Military History851
Politics4,759
Political Science189
Sociology974
Feminism1,929
Race1,191

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Know My Name
Chanel Miller
4.68 average rating, · 269.8k ratings
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The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
4.45 average rating, · 1M ratings
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Becoming
Michelle Obama
4.43 average rating, · 1.2M ratings
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Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson
4.62 average rating, · 269.3k ratings
- Book Club
- Memoir
- Politics
- Social Justice
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1984
George Orwell
4.20 average rating, · 5.7M ratings
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Night
Elie Wiesel
4.38 average rating, · 1.4M ratings
- Biography
- Classics
- History
- Memoir
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand
4.39 average rating, · 1M ratings
- Biography
- Book Club
- Historical
- History
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The Complete Maus
Art Spiegelman
4.58 average rating, · 262k ratings
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Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
4.28 average rating, · 1.9M ratings
- Book Club
- Historical
- Historical Romance
- Audiobook
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
4.33 average rating, · 1.3M ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
4.20 average rating, · 4.3M ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
4.37 average rating, · 919.9k ratings
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris
4.32 average rating, · 1.2M ratings
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Percival Everett
4.41 average rating, · 576.3k ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie ten Boom
4.48 average rating, · 364.7k ratings
- Biography
- Christian
- Classics
- History
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The Happiest Man on Earth
Eddie Jaku
4.62 average rating, · 139.4k ratings
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
4.15 average rating, · 2.5M ratings
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The Holy Bible: King James Version
Anonymous
4.45 average rating, · 325.6k ratings
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40 average rating, · 373.7k ratings
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Small Great Things
Jodi Picoult
4.36 average rating, · 453.4k ratings
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The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Edith Eger
4.57 average rating, · 137.3k ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Daniel James Brown
4.39 average rating, · 368.7k ratings
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
4.52 average rating, · 166.3k ratings
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We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.39 average rating, · 338.4k ratings
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