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Lajja Summary
Lajja
Shame
by Taslima Nasrin 1993 216 pages
3.54
5.5K ratings
Bangladesh
Historical Fiction
India
When McKinsey Comes to Town Summary
When McKinsey Comes to Town
by Walt Bogdanich 2022 368 pages
3.80
9.9K ratings
Business
Politics
History
Das Kapital Summary
Das Kapital
by Karl Marx 1867 356 pages
4.09
22.9K ratings
Philosophy
Economics
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The New Geography of Jobs Summary
The New Geography of Jobs
by Enrico Moretti 2012 294 pages
4.03
2.7K ratings
Economics
Business
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Chaos Summary
Chaos
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
by Tom O'Neill 2019 504 pages
4.04
30.2K ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
Feminism Is for Everybody Summary
Feminism Is for Everybody
Passionate Politics
by bell hooks 2000 123 pages
4.16
26.7K ratings
Feminism
Politics
Social Justice
Hood Feminism Summary
Hood Feminism
Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
by Mikki Kendall 2020 267 pages
4.36
59.5K ratings
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
Policy Paradox Summary
Policy Paradox
The Art of Political Decision Making
by Deborah Stone 1988 448 pages
3.87
1.2K ratings
Politics
Political Science
Grad School
Lords of Finance Summary
Lords of Finance
The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed 2009 564 pages
4.03
16.1K ratings
History
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Finance
Long Walk to Freedom Summary
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela 1994 656 pages
4.36
91.5K ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
The Price of Tomorrow Summary
The Price of Tomorrow
Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future
by Jeff Booth 2020 232 pages
4.09
3.4K ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar Summary
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know
by P.W. Singer 2013 320 pages
3.83
1.4K ratings
Technology
Science
Politics
The Spook Who Sat by the Door Summary
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
by Sam Greenlee 1969 256 pages
4.35
3.4K ratings
Historical Fiction
Race
Classics
Moral Tribes Summary
Moral Tribes
Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
by Joshua D. Greene 2013 432 pages
4.02
3.2K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
History of Modern India Summary
History of Modern India
by Bipan Chandra 2009 352 pages
4.08
2.3K ratings
History
India
Politics
Beyond Order Summary
Beyond Order
12 More Rules For Life
by Jordan B. Peterson 2021 382 pages
4.15
28.7K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Philosophy
A Secular Age Summary
A Secular Age
by Charles Margrave Taylor 2007 874 pages
4.27
1.8K ratings
Philosophy
Religion
History
How to Kill a City Summary
How to Kill a City
Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
by Peter Moskowitz 2017 272 pages
4.09
3.6K ratings
Urban Planning
Politics
Urbanism
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State Summary
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
by Catharine A. MacKinnon 1989 352 pages
4.00
516 ratings
Feminism
Politics
Philosophy
Wealth, Poverty and Politics Summary
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
An International Perspective
by Thomas Sowell 2015 328 pages
4.36
2.0K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Naked Economics Summary
Naked Economics
Undressing the Dismal Science
by Charles Wheelan 2002 384 pages
4.03
19.2K ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
What Money Can't Buy Summary
What Money Can't Buy
The Moral Limits of Markets
by Michael J. Sandel 2012 256 pages
3.93
13.6K ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
Enrique's Journey Summary
Enrique's Journey
by Sonia Nazario 2005 294 pages
3.88
16.7K ratings
Biography
Book Club
School
The Panama Papers Summary
The Panama Papers
Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
by Frederik Obermaier 2016 400 pages
4.08
4.3K ratings
Politics
Economics
History
The Signal and the Noise Summary
The Signal and the Noise
Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
by Nate Silver 2012 544 pages
3.97
51.6K ratings
Science
Business
Economics
Secrets to Winning at Office Politics Summary
Secrets to Winning at Office Politics
by Marie G. McIntyre 2005 288 pages
4.03
751 ratings
Business
Psychology
Management
The End of Poverty Summary
The End of Poverty
Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by Jeffrey D. Sachs 2005 464 pages
3.69
11.2K ratings
Economics
Politics
Poverty
Pleasure Activism Summary
Pleasure Activism
The Politics of Feeling Good
by Adrienne Maree Brown 2019 441 pages
4.24
9.0K ratings
Feminism
Politics
Social Justice
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution Summary
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution
by Gustave Le Bon 2015 286 pages
4.18
242 ratings
Psychology
Politics
Sociology
The Man Who Broke Capitalism Summary
The Man Who Broke Capitalism
How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy
by David Gelles 2022 272 pages
4.02
2.2K ratings
Business
Economics
Biography
Why Civil Resistance Works Summary
Why Civil Resistance Works
The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
by Erica Chenoweth 2011 320 pages
4.02
574 ratings
Politics
History
Activism
Empire Summary
Empire
How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson 2003 422 pages
3.93
9.5K ratings
History
Politics
Economics
The Meritocracy Trap Summary
The Meritocracy Trap
How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
by Daniel Markovits 2019 448 pages
3.83
2.1K ratings
Politics
Economics
Sociology
The Singapore Story Summary
The Singapore Story
Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
by Lee Kuan Yew 1998 680 pages
4.28
3.2K ratings
Biography
History
Politics
On the Good Life Summary
On the Good Life
by Marcus Tullius Cicero 384 pages
4.00
2.0K ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning Summary
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
by Peter Zeihan 2022 512 pages
4.17
12.2K ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Animal Liberation Summary
Animal Liberation
by Peter Singer 1975 324 pages
4.30
11.0K ratings
Philosophy
Animals
Vegan
Iran Awakening Summary
Iran Awakening
A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
by Shirin Ebadi 2006 232 pages
4.17
5.6K ratings
Iran
Memoir
History
A Promised Land Summary
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama 2020 768 pages
4.32
258.5K ratings
Biography
Memoir
Politics
The Wisdom of Crowds Summary
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki 2004 306 pages
3.82
24.6K ratings
Psychology
Business
Economics
How the World Ran Out of Everything Summary
How the World Ran Out of Everything
Inside the Global Supply Chain
by Peter S. Goodman 2024 416 pages
4.11
950 ratings
Economics
Business
History
Riddles in Hinduism Summary
Riddles in Hinduism
The Annotated Critical Selection
by B.R. Ambedkar 1954 296 pages
4.19
554 ratings
History
Religion
India
Selections from the Prison Notebooks Summary
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
by Antonio Gramsci 1947 483 pages
4.20
5.2K ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Conspirators' Hierarchy Summary
Conspirators' Hierarchy
The Story of the Committee of 300
by John Coleman 2010 302 pages
3.76
636 ratings
Conspiracy Theories
History
Politics
American Made Summary
American Made
What Happens to People When Work Disappears
by Farah Stockman 2021 418 pages
4.31
1.4K ratings
Politics
Economics
Sociology
How to Lie with Statistics Summary
How to Lie with Statistics
by Darrell Huff 1954 142 pages
3.84
17.4K ratings
Science
Business
Mathematics
How to Be an Antiracist Summary
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi 2019 305 pages
4.37
117.8K ratings
Race
Social Justice
Politics
Trust Me, I'm Lying Summary
Trust Me, I'm Lying
Confessions of a Media Manipulator
by Ryan Holiday 2012 259 pages
3.86
12.0K ratings
Business
Psychology
Politics
The Concise 48 Laws of Power Summary
The Concise 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene 2011 195 pages
4.13
4.7K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Business
Limitarianism Summary
Limitarianism
The Case Against Extreme Wealth
by Ingrid Robeyns 2023 336 pages
4.03
1.2K ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
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