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Basic Economics Summary
Basic Economics
A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell 2000 448 pages
4.37
13.6K ratings
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A Conflict of Visions Summary
A Conflict of Visions
Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
by Thomas Sowell 1986 304 pages
4.32
4.5K ratings
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Appetite for America Summary
Appetite for America
How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
by Stephen Fried 2010 518 pages
4.20
1.2K ratings
History
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The Innocent Man Summary
The Innocent Man
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by John Grisham 2006 360 pages
3.86
82.1K ratings
True Crime
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Strategy Summary
Strategy
A History
by Lawrence Freedman 2013 768 pages
3.98
2.9K ratings
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The Revenge Of Geography Summary
The Revenge Of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
by Robert D. Kaplan 2012 432 pages
3.78
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Messi vs. Ronaldo Summary
Messi vs. Ronaldo
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by Joshua Robinson 2022 320 pages
4.19
650 ratings
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The Machiavellians Summary
The Machiavellians
Defenders of Freedom
by James Burnham 1943 305 pages
4.29
1.8K ratings
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Beyond Good and Evil Summary
Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche 1886 240 pages
4.03
107.3K ratings
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Psychology
Sex at Dawn Summary
Sex at Dawn
The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
by Christopher Ryan 2010 416 pages
3.98
31.1K ratings
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Diplomacy Summary
Diplomacy
by Henry Kissinger 1994 912 pages
4.25
9.0K ratings
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International Relations
Kybalion Summary
Kybalion
A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
by Three Initiates 1912 223 pages
4.24
15.8K ratings
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Answer to History Summary
Answer to History
by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi 1979 204 pages
3.88
556 ratings
History
Politics
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The New Jim Crow Summary
The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander 2010 290 pages
4.52
114.0K ratings
History
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Race
Man, the State, and War Summary
Man, the State, and War
A Theoretical Analysis
by Kenneth N. Waltz 1954 263 pages
3.97
2.0K ratings
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Currency Wars Summary
Currency Wars
The Making of the Next Global Crisis
by James Rickards 2011 304 pages
3.96
5.0K ratings
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes Summary
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
A History of Financial Crises
by Charles P. Kindleberger 1978 304 pages
3.94
4.2K ratings
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Bad Samaritans Summary
Bad Samaritans
The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang 2007 288 pages
4.20
5.6K ratings
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1493 Summary
1493
Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by Charles C. Mann 2011 557 pages
4.12
20.4K ratings
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The End of History and the Last Man Summary
The End of History and the Last Man
by Francis Fukuyama 1992 464 pages
3.60
7.5K ratings
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The Art of War/The Art of Warfare Summary
The Art of War/The Art of Warfare
by Sun Tzu 2002 143 pages
4.14
5.1K ratings
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Philosophy
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Summary
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot 2010 370 pages
4.13
778.2K ratings
Science
Book Club
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The Order of Time Summary
The Order of Time
by Carlo Rovelli 2017 224 pages
4.13
35.8K ratings
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The DAO of Capital Summary
The DAO of Capital
Austrian Investing in a Distorted World
by Mark Spitznagel 2013 368 pages
3.87
1.4K ratings
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Business
The Nicomachean Ethics Summary
The Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle 329 pages
4.00
56.1K ratings
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Classics
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Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric Summary
Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
by Ward Farnsworth 2010 256 pages
4.14
462 ratings
Writing
Language
Education
American Icon Summary
American Icon
Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
by Bryce G. Hoffman 2012 432 pages
4.42
4.9K ratings
Business
Biography
Leadership
Invisible Child Summary
Invisible Child
Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
by Andrea Elliott 2021 602 pages
4.71
18.1K ratings
Biography
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History
Cosmos Summary
Cosmos
by Carl Sagan 1980 384 pages
4.40
154.2K ratings
Science
Astronomy
Physics
Free to Choose Summary
Free to Choose
A Personal Statement
by Milton Friedman 1979 356 pages
4.22
9.3K ratings
Economics
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Philosophy
Einstein Summary
Einstein
His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson 2007 675 pages
4.17
195.4K ratings
Biography
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History
Evicted Summary
Evicted
Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond 2016 418 pages
4.47
108.0K ratings
Sociology
Politics
Social Justice
Basic Economics Summary
Basic Economics
A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell 2000 448 pages
4.37
13.6K ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Boys in the Boat Summary
The Boys in the Boat
Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
by Daniel James Brown 2013 404 pages
4.39
348.4K ratings
History
Book Club
Sports
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Summary
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X 1965 466 pages
4.37
282.3K ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
The Devil in the White City Summary
The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson 2003 496 pages
4.00
731.2K ratings
History
True Crime
Book Club
On Killing Summary
On Killing
The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
by Dave Grossman 1995 367 pages
4.12
11.7K ratings
Psychology
Military Fiction
War
The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway Summary
The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway
A Chronological Analysis of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger's Conglomerate Masterpiece
by Adam J. Mead 2021 782 pages
4.53
149 ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
The Joy of X Summary
The Joy of X
A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
by Steven H. Strogatz 2012 316 pages
4.06
8.5K ratings
Mathematics
Science
History
The Silk Roads Summary
The Silk Roads
A New History of the World
by Peter Frankopan 2015 636 pages
4.17
45.1K ratings
History
Politics
World History
Lost Islamic History Summary
Lost Islamic History
Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
by Firas Alkhateeb 2014 217 pages
4.44
2.9K ratings
History
Islam
Religion
Oxygen Summary
Oxygen
The Molecule that Made the World
by Nick Lane 2002 384 pages
4.14
2.8K ratings
Science
Biology
Chemistry
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Summary
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Edwin Lefèvre 1923 308 pages
4.18
19.5K ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Steve Jobs Summary
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson 2011 630 pages
4.15
1.3M ratings
Biography
Business
Technology
Corruptible Summary
Corruptible
Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us
by Brian Klaas 2021 320 pages
4.18
3.0K ratings
Politics
Psychology
History
Discipline and Punish Summary
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault 1975 333 pages
4.23
35.3K ratings
Philosophy
History
Sociology
Mind Hunter Summary
Mind Hunter
Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
by John E. Douglas 1995 397 pages
4.09
77.3K ratings
True Crime
Crime
Psychology
The Master Switch Summary
The Master Switch
The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu 2010 384 pages
3.89
7.9K ratings
History
Technology
Business
The Book of Enoch Summary
The Book of Enoch
by Anonymous 160 pages
3.98
5.4K ratings
Religion
History
Christianity
Transforming Mission Summary
Transforming Mission
Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission
by David J. Bosch 1991 587 pages
4.22
662 ratings
Theology
Christian
Christianity
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