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The Warmth of Other Suns Summary
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 pages
4.48
111.6K ratings
History
Race
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Summary
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by Jack Weatherford 2004 352 pages
4.06
79.9K ratings
History
Biography
Asia
Malcolm X Summary
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable 2011 608 pages
4.18
19.8K ratings
Biography
History
Race
Infantry Attacks Summary
Infantry Attacks
by Erwin Rommel 1937 265 pages
4.20
3.4K ratings
History
Military Fiction
War
The Shortest History of China Summary
The Shortest History of China
by Linda Jaivin 2021 263 pages
3.98
2.4K ratings
History
China
Asia
Dreams from My Father Summary
Dreams from My Father
A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama 1995 453 pages
3.94
228.9K ratings
Biography
Memoir
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The Persian Expedition Summary
The Persian Expedition
by Xenophon 375 pages
4.11
9.5K ratings
History
Classics
Ancient History
Bachelor Girl Summary
Bachelor Girl
The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
by Betsy Israel 2002 304 pages
3.71
1.0K ratings
History
Feminism
Womens
Free Summary
Free
A Child and a Country at the End of History
by Lea Ypi 2021 288 pages
4.30
18.9K ratings
Memoir
History
Biography
Ibn Khaldun Summary
Ibn Khaldun
An Intellectual Biography
by Robert Irwin 2018 256 pages
3.63
327 ratings
History
Biography
Philosophy
A Little History of Science Summary
A Little History of Science
by William Bynum 2012 263 pages
3.81
1.9K ratings
Science
History
History Of Science
Cult of the Dead Cow Summary
Cult of the Dead Cow
How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
by Joseph Menn 2019 256 pages
3.74
2.3K ratings
Technology
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Hackers
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches Summary
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches
The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris 1974 288 pages
3.92
4.8K ratings
Anthropology
History
Sociology
The March Of Folly Summary
The March Of Folly
From Troy To Vietnam
by Barbara W. Tuchman 1984 447 pages
4.02
7.1K ratings
History
Politics
War
Dead Wake Summary
Dead Wake
The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson 2015 430 pages
4.13
155.4K ratings
History
Book Club
Historical
The Dawn of Everything Summary
The Dawn of Everything
A New History of Humanity
by David Graeber 2021 692 pages
4.19
23.5K ratings
History
Anthropology
Science
Turtles All The Way Down Summary
Turtles All The Way Down
Vaccine Science and Myth
by Anonymous 2022 556 pages
4.64
574 ratings
Health
Science
Vaccines
We Have Never Been Woke Summary
We Have Never Been Woke
The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
by Musa al-Gharbi 2024 432 pages
4.29
489 ratings
Politics
Sociology
Cultural
The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy Summary
The Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy
An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade
by Pietra Rivoli 2005 258 pages
3.69
2.9K ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Big Three in Economics Summary
The Big Three in Economics
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
by Mark Skousen 2007 264 pages
3.59
831 ratings
Economics
History
Politics
What We Owe the Future Summary
What We Owe the Future
by William MacAskill 2022 335 pages
3.83
6.1K ratings
Philosophy
Science
History
القرآن الكريم Summary
القرآن الكريم
by Anonymous 604 pages
4.38
71.1K ratings
Classics
Philosophy
Religion
Callings Summary
Callings
The Purpose and Passion of Work
by Dave Isay 2016 266 pages
3.92
1.6K ratings
Short Stories
Memoir
Essays
Ghetto Summary
Ghetto
The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea
by Mitchell Duneier 2015 304 pages
3.74
571 ratings
History
Sociology
Race
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life Summary
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
by Russell "Russ" Roberts 2014 261 pages
3.93
3.2K ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Self Help
A History of Bangladesh Summary
A History of Bangladesh
by Willem van Schendel 2009 374 pages
4.21
234 ratings
History
Bangladesh
Asia
Start-up Nation Summary
Start-up Nation
The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
by Dan Senor 2009 304 pages
4.11
12.4K ratings
Business
Economics
Israel
Beyond The Story Summary
Beyond The Story
10-Year Record of BTS
by Myeongseok Kang 2023 544 pages
4.63
10.7K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Music
Power Play Summary
Power Play
Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century
by Tim Higgins 2021 400 pages
4.08
1.8K ratings
Business
Biography
Technology
Kleptopia Summary
Kleptopia
How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
by Tom Burgis 2020 464 pages
3.80
3.9K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
G.I. Gurdjieff Summary
G.I. Gurdjieff
The War Against Sleep
by Colin Wilson 1980 136 pages
3.85
239 ratings
Biography
Philosophy
Psychology
The Color of Law Summary
The Color of Law
A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
by Richard Rothstein 2017 368 pages
4.44
43.4K ratings
History
Race
Politics
Sandworm Summary
Sandworm
A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
by Andy Greenberg 2019 368 pages
4.35
9.3K ratings
Technology
Politics
History
Viking Age Iceland Summary
Viking Age Iceland
by Jesse L. Byock 2001 448 pages
4.09
656 ratings
History
Medieval
Historical
Bangladesh Summary
Bangladesh
A Legacy of Blood
by Anthony Mascarenhas 1986 192 pages
4.11
905 ratings
History
Bangladesh
Politics
Adam Smith's The "Wealth of Nations" Summary
Adam Smith's The "Wealth of Nations"
A Modern-day Interpretation of an Economic Classic
by Karen McCreadie 2009 128 pages
3.35
133 ratings
Economics
Finance
History
The Teachers Summary
The Teachers
A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession
by Alexandra Robbins 2023 372 pages
4.17
3.9K ratings
Education
Teaching
Sociology
The Visionaries Summary
The Visionaries
Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
by Wolfram Eilenberger 2020 399 pages
3.92
1.1K ratings
Philosophy
History
Biography
Digital Gold Summary
Digital Gold
Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
by Nathaniel Popper 2015 416 pages
4.15
6.8K ratings
Business
Economics
Finance
Our Dollar, Your Problem Summary
Our Dollar, Your Problem
An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff 2025 360 pages
4.20
290 ratings
Economics
Finance
History
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy Summary
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy
A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
by Michael Baxandall 1972 200 pages
3.96
3.0K ratings
Art
Art History
History
The Old Regime and the French Revolution Summary
The Old Regime and the French Revolution
by Alexis de Tocqueville 1856 300 pages
4.05
2.5K ratings
History
Politics
France
Letters to a Young Contrarian Summary
Letters to a Young Contrarian
by Christopher Hitchens 2001 141 pages
4.13
12.5K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
The Immortality Key Summary
The Immortality Key
Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
by Brian C. Muraresku 2020 352 pages
4.25
5.8K ratings
History
Religion
Philosophy
Nonzero Summary
Nonzero
The Logic of Human Destiny
by Robert Wright 2001 448 pages
3.98
2.8K ratings
History
Science
Philosophy
Hitchcock/Truffaut Summary
Hitchcock/Truffaut
by François Truffaut 1966 368 pages
4.48
9.0K ratings
Film
Biography
Media Tie In
Against the Grain Summary
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott 2017 312 pages
4.13
4.5K ratings
History
Anthropology
Politics
A Life Worth Living Summary
A Life Worth Living
Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning
by Robert Zaretsky 2013 240 pages
4.01
605 ratings
Philosophy
Biography
France
Dialectic of Enlightenment Summary
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Philosophical Fragments
by Max Horkheimer 1947 304 pages
4.11
7.9K ratings
Philosophy
Theory
Sociology
Lies My Teacher Told Me Summary
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen 1995 383 pages
3.97
72.0K ratings
History
Education
Politics
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