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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 492,766 ratings — published 2016
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.87 — 64,984 ratings — published 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.52 — 115,586 ratings — published 2010
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 359,248 ratings — published 2015
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 92,890 ratings — published 2017
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,382 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.47 — 110,971 ratings — published 2016
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.30 — 168,742 ratings — published 2010
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.62 — 256,389 ratings — published 2014
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.53 — 157,379 ratings — published 2020
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.44 — 76,999 ratings — published 2018
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.40 — 101,432 ratings — published 2019
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 118,608 ratings — published 2019
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 69 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.65 — 194,755 ratings — published 2001
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.41 — 277,745 ratings — published 2018
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Audiobook)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 170,714 ratings — published 2018
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.46 — 992,638 ratings — published 2017
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.54 — 129,244 ratings — published 2021
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (ebook)
by (shelved 60 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,852 ratings — published 2016
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.38 — 30,675 ratings — published 2017
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 30,854 ratings — published 2018
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.07 — 44,461 ratings — published 2018
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.82 — 95,830 ratings — published 2020
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,477 ratings — published 2018
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.36 — 36,444 ratings — published 2006
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.45 — 97,050 ratings — published 2009
Blowout (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.34 — 15,643 ratings — published 2019
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.25 — 20,687 ratings — published 2018
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 614,577 ratings — published 2012
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 100,453 ratings — published 2009
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.01 — 888,727 ratings — published 2005
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,196 ratings — published 2018
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.27 — 57,830 ratings — published 2023
Rage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.17 — 25,830 ratings — published 2020
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,384 ratings — published 2007
What Happened (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.92 — 60,815 ratings — published 2017
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,291 ratings — published 2006
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.33 — 42,348 ratings — published 2021
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 266,408 ratings — published 2020
So You Want to Talk About Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.48 — 107,445 ratings — published 2018
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,002 ratings — published 2016
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 22,759 ratings — published 2010
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 54,041 ratings — published 2018
Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.23 — 31,791 ratings — published 2015
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.19 — 64,197 ratings — published 2025
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.22 — 18,798 ratings — published 2020
21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.16 — 174,185 ratings — published 2018
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (ebook)
by (shelved 42 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.13 — 12,396 ratings — published 2013
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as current-events)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,169,172 ratings — published 2018
The Post-American World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as current-events)
avg rating 3.86 — 12,821 ratings — published 2008
“I had always believed that the [Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture] should be a safe haven that helps Americans wrestle with and better understand the difficult current issues of race, justice, and equality. In essence, the museum is a bully pulpit that provides NMAAHC with the opportunity and responsibility to clarify and contextualize concerns that often divide or perplex the American public.... I think it is important for NMAAHC, for the Smithsonian, to engage in the public square in a manner that brings reason, knowledge, and contextualization to the contemporary challenges faced by America. Actions like this are not without risk to an institution that operates within a federal umbrella. Yet I believe that museums like NMAAHC have an obligation to use their expertise, their platform, to contribute to the greater good of a nation.”
― A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
― A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump
“When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.”
― One Man's Meat
― One Man's Meat
