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The Post-American World Summary
The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria 2008 292 pages
3.86
12.8K ratings
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On the Good Life Summary
On the Good Life
by Marcus Tullius Cicero 384 pages
4.00
2.0K ratings
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Common Sense Summary
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine 1776 104 pages
4.00
38.2K ratings
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Women & Power Summary
Women & Power
A Manifesto
by Mary Beard 2017 115 pages
4.02
38.0K ratings
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations Summary
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith 1776 1076 pages
3.88
34.2K ratings
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The Golden Road Summary
The Golden Road
How Ancient India Transformed the World
by William Dalrymple 2024 432 pages
4.18
1.4K ratings
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Win Bigly Summary
Win Bigly
Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter
by Scott Adams 2017 304 pages
3.73
5.0K ratings
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The Spy and the Traitor Summary
The Spy and the Traitor
The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
by Ben Macintyre 2018 384 pages
4.52
80.8K ratings
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Gomorrah Summary
Gomorrah
by Roberto Saviano 2006 320 pages
3.80
21.5K ratings
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True Crime
Finnish Lessons Summary
Finnish Lessons
What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?
by Pasi Sahlberg 2011 167 pages
3.89
825 ratings
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The Big Con Summary
The Big Con
How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
by Mariana Mazzucato 2023 352 pages
3.62
1.8K ratings
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How the World Works (Real Story Summary
How the World Works (Real Story
by Noam Chomsky 2011 416 pages
4.13
5.0K ratings
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Powershift Summary
Powershift
Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century
by Alvin Toffler 1990 640 pages
4.00
1.1K ratings
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Where We Stand Summary
Where We Stand
Class Matters
by bell hooks 2000 164 pages
4.23
2.8K ratings
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Social Justice
Merchants of Doubt Summary
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by Naomi Oreskes 2010 274 pages
4.17
7.7K ratings
Science
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Drug Use for Grown-Ups Summary
Drug Use for Grown-Ups
Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear
by Carl L. Hart 2021 304 pages
4.02
4.5K ratings
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Grundrisse Summary
Grundrisse
Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
by Karl Marx 1857 904 pages
4.28
1.9K ratings
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How the Word Is Passed Summary
How the Word Is Passed
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith 2021 336 pages
4.71
37.3K ratings
History
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Social Justice
An Era of Darkness Summary
An Era of Darkness
The British Empire in India
by Shashi Tharoor 2016 360 pages
4.17
12.2K ratings
History
India
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Speechless Summary
Speechless
Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
by Michael J. Knowles 2021 383 pages
4.25
2.8K ratings
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Eichmann in Jerusalem Summary
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
by Hannah Arendt 1963 312 pages
4.20
30.8K ratings
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The Myth of Islamic Tolerance Summary
The Myth of Islamic Tolerance
How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims
by Robert Spencer 2005 594 pages
3.68
62 ratings
Islam
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Religion
Leadership Summary
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
by Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 473 pages
4.40
15.3K ratings
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The Rape of the Mind Summary
The Rape of the Mind
The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
by Joost A.M. Meerloo 1956 326 pages
4.22
874 ratings
Psychology
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1929 Summary
1929
Inside the Greatest Crash in History--and How It Shattered a Nation
by Andrew Ross Sorkin 2025 577 pages
4.49
271 ratings
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The Starfish and the Spider Summary
The Starfish and the Spider
The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations
by Ori Brafman 2006 240 pages
3.83
6.2K ratings
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How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World Summary
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
A Handbook for Personal Liberty
by Harry Browne 1973 387 pages
4.06
1.5K ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
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Dongri To Dubai Summary
Dongri To Dubai
Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
by S. Hussain Zaidi 2012 378 pages
3.95
10.5K ratings
Crime
India
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Unhumans Summary
Unhumans
The Secret History of Communist Revolutions
by Jack Posobiec 2024 272 pages
4.08
625 ratings
History
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" Summary
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
by Patrick J. Buchanan 2008 544 pages
4.19
1.9K ratings
History
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World War II
Making Sense Summary
Making Sense
by Sam Harris 2020
4.13
2.1K ratings
Philosophy
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A Field Guide to Lies Summary
A Field Guide to Lies
Critical Thinking in the Information Age
by Daniel J. Levitin 2016 292 pages
3.76
4.6K ratings
Psychology
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Self Help
Lincoln on Leadership Summary
Lincoln on Leadership
Executive Strategies for Tough Times
by Donald T. Phillips 1993 193 pages
4.15
7.5K ratings
Leadership
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Animal Liberation Now Summary
Animal Liberation Now
The Definitive Classic Renewed
by Peter Singer 2023 368 pages
4.53
964 ratings
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Animals
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Seeing Like a State Summary
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C. Scott 1998 461 pages
4.21
6.3K ratings
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The Second Founding Summary
The Second Founding
How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
by Eric Foner 2019 224 pages
4.23
2.5K ratings
History
American History
Civil War
What Went Wrong with Capitalism Summary
What Went Wrong with Capitalism
by Ruchir Sharma 2024 384 pages
3.91
462 ratings
Economics
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How to Read Lacan Summary
How to Read Lacan
by Slavoj Žižek 2006 144 pages
3.95
3.3K ratings
Philosophy
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Down with the System Summary
Down with the System
A Memoir
by Serj Tankian 2024 352 pages
4.44
4.5K ratings
Music
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India Wins Freedom Summary
India Wins Freedom
The Complete Version
by Abul Kalam Azad 1978 297 pages
4.20
1.1K ratings
History
India
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The Anarchist Cookbook Summary
The Anarchist Cookbook
by William Powell 1971 160 pages
3.50
2.5K ratings
Politics
Banned Books
Reference
Boomerang Summary
Boomerang
Travels in the New Third World
by Michael Lewis 2011 218 pages
3.90
46.8K ratings
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy Summary
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
by Yanis Varoufakis 2013 224 pages
4.13
19.6K ratings
Economics
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Armchair Economist Summary
Armchair Economist
Economics & Everyday Life
by Steven E. Landsburg 1993 256 pages
3.74
4.0K ratings
Economics
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Political Ponerology Summary
Political Ponerology
A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
by Andrew M. Lobaczewski 2006 244 pages
4.08
365 ratings
Politics
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The Road to Freedom Summary
The Road to Freedom
Economics and the Good Society
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2024 384 pages
4.03
535 ratings
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How Propaganda Works Summary
How Propaganda Works
by Jason F. Stanley 2015 376 pages
3.56
700 ratings
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Philosophy
History
The Best and the Brightest Summary
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam 1969 688 pages
4.27
12.6K ratings
History
Politics
War
Girl on Girl Summary
Girl on Girl
How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
by Sophie Gilbert 2025 352 pages
4.19
318 ratings
Feminism
Pop Culture
History
The Worldly Philosophers Summary
The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L. Heilbroner 1953 368 pages
4.16
8.7K ratings
Economics
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History
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