Best Politics Books | Summaries & Audio

Politics Book Summaries

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money

by Woody Tasch • 2008

Fast money erodes soil and community. The argument for investing at the speed of compost.

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🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 💰 Sustainable Investing 🐌 Slow Food Movement ⏳ Patient Capital

Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money

Fast money erodes soil and community. The argument for investing at the speed of compost.

by Woody Tasch 2008 240 pages

3.57

198 ratings

🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Food Systems 💰 Sustainable Investing 🐌 Slow Food Movement ⏳ Patient Capital

The Queen's Crown

by Jennifer Anne Davis • 2023

After her sister's murder, a princess marries the king to find the killer in his court.

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🧚 Fantasy Romance 🏛️ Political Intrigue 🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 💍 Arranged Marriage 🔥 Slow Burn

The Queen's Crown

After her sister's murder, a princess marries the king to find the killer in his court.

by Jennifer Anne Davis 2023 306 pages

3.84

304 ratings

🧚 Fantasy Romance 🏛️ Political Intrigue 🗡️ Enemies To Lovers 💍 Arranged Marriage 🔥 Slow Burn

The Great Acceleration

by Robert Colvile • 2016

Why everything from politics to dinner is getting faster, and why the middle ground is disappearing.

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📈 Social Acceleration 📱 Attention Economy 🌊 Information Overload ⏳ Short-Term Thinking 🧠 Behavioral Psychology

The Great Acceleration

Why everything from politics to dinner is getting faster, and why the middle ground is disappearing.

by Robert Colvile 2016 401 pages

3.56

165 ratings

📈 Social Acceleration 📱 Attention Economy 🌊 Information Overload ⏳ Short-Term Thinking 🧠 Behavioral Psychology

The Love You Fight For

by Brit Benson • 2024

A fleeing senator's daughter collides with a small-town mechanic, reigniting a dangerous attraction.

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🏡 Small Town Romance 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🖤 Trauma Survivor Heroine 🐕 Golden Retriever Hero 💔 Second Chance Romance

The Love You Fight For

A fleeing senator's daughter collides with a small-town mechanic, reigniting a dangerous attraction.

by Brit Benson 2024 366 pages

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7k+ ratings

🏡 Small Town Romance 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🖤 Trauma Survivor Heroine 🐕 Golden Retriever Hero 💔 Second Chance Romance

Slavery by Another Name

by Douglas A. Blackmon • 2008

The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.

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⛓️ Forced Labor 📜 Jim Crow Era 🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🔗 Mass Incarceration Origins 💰 Racial Capitalism

Slavery by Another Name

The 13th Amendment's exception for criminals became a new slavery that lasted eighty years.

by Douglas A. Blackmon 2008 480 pages

4.38

7k+ ratings

⛓️ Forced Labor 📜 Jim Crow Era 🏗️ Reconstruction Era 🔗 Mass Incarceration Origins 💰 Racial Capitalism

The Brothers

by Stephen Kinzer • 2013

The Secretary of State and CIA director were brothers. They ran the Cold War as a family crusade.

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📜 Cold War 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🕵️ Covert Operations 💣 Regime Change 🏛️ Eisenhower Era

The Brothers

The Secretary of State and CIA director were brothers. They ran the Cold War as a family crusade.

by Stephen Kinzer 2013 416 pages

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4k+ ratings

📜 Cold War 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🕵️ Covert Operations 💣 Regime Change 🏛️ Eisenhower Era

Trail of Tears

by John Ehle • 1988

A written language, a newspaper, a Supreme Court win. None of it stopped the removal.

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🏞️ Forced Removal 🪶 Cherokee History 📜 Treaty Betrayal 🔄 Cultural Assimilation 🏛️ Jacksonian America

Trail of Tears

A written language, a newspaper, a Supreme Court win. None of it stopped the removal.

by John Ehle 1988 424 pages

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4k+ ratings

🏞️ Forced Removal 🪶 Cherokee History 📜 Treaty Betrayal 🔄 Cultural Assimilation 🏛️ Jacksonian America

How to Lose a Country

by Ece Temelkuran • 2019

A democracy collapses step by step, and the playbook looks the same from Turkey to the West.

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🗳️ Democratic Backsliding 🎙️ Populist Movements 📰 Post-Truth Politics 👩 Misogyny And Politics 🤝 Resistance Movements

How to Lose a Country

A democracy collapses step by step, and the playbook looks the same from Turkey to the West.

by Ece Temelkuran 2019 289 pages

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2k+ ratings

🗳️ Democratic Backsliding 🎙️ Populist Movements 📰 Post-Truth Politics 👩 Misogyny And Politics 🤝 Resistance Movements

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

by Eric Foner • 1971

The ideology that built the Republican Party made its clash with the slave South inevitable.

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🏛️ Antebellum America ⚔️ Sectional Conflict 🗳️ Political Antislavery 📜 Constitutional Crisis 🧠 Racial Ideology

Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men

The ideology that built the Republican Party made its clash with the slave South inevitable.

by Eric Foner 1971 400 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏛️ Antebellum America ⚔️ Sectional Conflict 🗳️ Political Antislavery 📜 Constitutional Crisis 🧠 Racial Ideology

The President Is Missing

by Bill Clinton • 2018

To stop a crippling cyberattack, the president vanishes to find the hacker who can disarm it.

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🏛️ Political Thriller 💻 Techno-Thriller 🔍 Traitor Within 🎯 President In Peril 🏃‍♂️ Off The Grid

The President Is Missing

To stop a crippling cyberattack, the president vanishes to find the hacker who can disarm it.

by Bill Clinton 2018 513 pages

3.86

100k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Thriller 💻 Techno-Thriller 🔍 Traitor Within 🎯 President In Peril 🏃‍♂️ Off The Grid

Palestine

by Jimmy Carter • 2006

The peace treaty Carter brokered was honored. The promises to Palestinians inside it were not.

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🗺️ Israel Palestine 🤝 Middle East Diplomacy 🚧 Occupied Territories 🔗 Us-Israel Relations 🌐 Liberal Internationalism

Palestine

The peace treaty Carter brokered was honored. The promises to Palestinians inside it were not.

by Jimmy Carter 2006 288 pages

3.92

5k+ ratings

🗺️ Israel Palestine 🤝 Middle East Diplomacy 🚧 Occupied Territories 🔗 Us-Israel Relations 🌐 Liberal Internationalism

Sidewalk

by Mitchell Duneier • 1999

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

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🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate 👮 Police Discretion 🚶‍♀️ Street Harassment

Sidewalk

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

by Mitchell Duneier 1999 400 pages

4.15

1k+ ratings

🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate 👮 Police Discretion 🚶‍♀️ Street Harassment

Entitled

by Kate Manne • 2020

The entitlement that fuels incel killers also explains why doctors dismiss pain and rapists walk.

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👑 Male Entitlement 📚 Feminist Philosophy ⚖️ Rape Culture 🩺 Medical Sexism 🧹 Domestic Labor

Entitled

The entitlement that fuels incel killers also explains why doctors dismiss pain and rapists walk.

by Kate Manne 2020 269 pages

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6k+ ratings

👑 Male Entitlement 📚 Feminist Philosophy ⚖️ Rape Culture 🩺 Medical Sexism 🧹 Domestic Labor

How to Talk to a Science Denier

by Lee McIntyre • 2021

Science denial isn't an information problem. It's an identity trap, and more facts spring it.

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🔬 Science Denial 🗣️ Science Communication 🛡️ Identity-Protective Cognition 🗳️ Post-Truth Politics 👁️ Conspiracy Theories

How to Talk to a Science Denier

Science denial isn't an information problem. It's an identity trap, and more facts spring it.

by Lee McIntyre 2021 264 pages

3.87

1k+ ratings

🔬 Science Denial 🗣️ Science Communication 🛡️ Identity-Protective Cognition 🗳️ Post-Truth Politics 👁️ Conspiracy Theories

Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws

by Hunter Lewis • 2017

Prosperity requires free prices, not central plans, and the hundred laws that explain why.

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🧐 Austrian Economics 🗽 Classical Liberalism 📚 Economic Literacy 🏷️ Price Theory 💵 Monetary Inflation

Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws

Prosperity requires free prices, not central plans, and the hundred laws that explain why.

by Hunter Lewis 2017 425 pages

3.55

11 ratings

🧐 Austrian Economics 🗽 Classical Liberalism 📚 Economic Literacy 🏷️ Price Theory 💵 Monetary Inflation

American Lion

by Jon Meacham • 2008

How an orphan's fury for the elite built the modern presidency by breaking every established rule.

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🏛️ American Presidency 🏞️ Jacksonian Era 🗳️ Jacksonian Democracy 🔗 Nullification Crisis 💵 Bank War

American Lion

How an orphan's fury for the elite built the modern presidency by breaking every established rule.

by Jon Meacham 2008 483 pages

3.86

57k+ ratings

🏛️ American Presidency 🏞️ Jacksonian Era 🗳️ Jacksonian Democracy 🔗 Nullification Crisis 💵 Bank War

Strongmen

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat • 2020

Authoritarians from Mussolini to Trump run the same playbook. A century of evidence shows how.

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🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🎭 Cult Of Personality 📢 Propaganda 💰 Kleptocracy ⚔️ Political Violence

Strongmen

Authoritarians from Mussolini to Trump run the same playbook. A century of evidence shows how.

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat 2020 384 pages

4.27

5k+ ratings

🏛️ Authoritarian Regimes 🎭 Cult Of Personality 📢 Propaganda 💰 Kleptocracy ⚔️ Political Violence

Buckley

by Sam Tanenhaus • 2025

How a yachtsman with a magazine built the movement that elected Reagan.

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🏛️ Conservative Movement 🌐 Cold War Politics 📺 Political Media 🚩 Anti-Communism 🎙️ Public Intellectuals

Buckley

How a yachtsman with a magazine built the movement that elected Reagan.

by Sam Tanenhaus 2025 1040 pages

4.21

500+ ratings

🏛️ Conservative Movement 🌐 Cold War Politics 📺 Political Media 🚩 Anti-Communism 🎙️ Public Intellectuals

Life Without Lawyers

by Philip K. Howard • 2009

America didn't add too many laws. Law itself became the mindset, and common sense lost.

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⚖️ Legal Reform 📋 Tort Reform 🏛️ Bureaucratic Dysfunction 🛡️ Liability Culture 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Life Without Lawyers

America didn't add too many laws. Law itself became the mindset, and common sense lost.

by Philip K. Howard 2009 224 pages

3.65

176 ratings

⚖️ Legal Reform 📋 Tort Reform 🏛️ Bureaucratic Dysfunction 🛡️ Liability Culture 🗽 Classical Liberalism

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

by Thomas J. Sugrue • 1996

Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.

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🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization 🏠 Housing Segregation ✈️ White Flight

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

Detroit collapsed from job loss and housing segregation decades before the 1967 riot finished it.

by Thomas J. Sugrue 1996 416 pages

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2k+ ratings

🏙️ Urban History ⚖️ Racial Inequality 🏭 Deindustrialization 🏠 Housing Segregation ✈️ White Flight

Labours of Love

by Madeleine Bunting • 2020

The work that sustains us from birth to death has been deliberately erased from economic view.

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🏥 Care Work 🔄 Social Reproduction 🎭 Emotional Labor 📉 Feminist Economics 🤝 Ethics Of Care

Labours of Love

The work that sustains us from birth to death has been deliberately erased from economic view.

by Madeleine Bunting 2020 343 pages

4.07

160 ratings

🏥 Care Work 🔄 Social Reproduction 🎭 Emotional Labor 📉 Feminist Economics 🤝 Ethics Of Care

How the World Thinks

by Julian Baggini • 2018

The West asks what is true. India asks what liberates. A map of philosophy beyond Europe.

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🧭 Comparative Philosophy 🛐 Comparative Religion 🪞 Conceptions Of Self ⚖️ Moral Philosophy ☸️ Eastern Philosophy

How the World Thinks

The West asks what is true. India asks what liberates. A map of philosophy beyond Europe.

by Julian Baggini 2018 398 pages

3.67

3k+ ratings

🧭 Comparative Philosophy 🛐 Comparative Religion 🪞 Conceptions Of Self ⚖️ Moral Philosophy ☸️ Eastern Philosophy

The Veiled Throne

by Ken Liu • 2021

His mother's empire is a slaughterhouse. The woman he loves is its conquered princess.

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🛠️ Engineered Magic ⚔️ War And Imperialism 🏛️ Mythic Fantasy 📜 Stories Within Stories 💔 Divided Loyalties

The Veiled Throne

His mother's empire is a slaughterhouse. The woman he loves is its conquered princess.

by Ken Liu 2021 982 pages

4.13

5k+ ratings

🛠️ Engineered Magic ⚔️ War And Imperialism 🏛️ Mythic Fantasy 📜 Stories Within Stories 💔 Divided Loyalties

Imperial Hubris

by Michael Scheuer • 2004

Al-Qaeda is not a terror group but an insurgency, and American policy is its top recruiter.

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🎯 Counterterrorism ⚔️ Counterinsurgency 🔥 Blowback Politics 🕌 Islamist Movements 🌐 Realist Foreign Policy

Imperial Hubris

Al-Qaeda is not a terror group but an insurgency, and American policy is its top recruiter.

by Michael Scheuer 2004 352 pages

3.81

1k+ ratings

🎯 Counterterrorism ⚔️ Counterinsurgency 🔥 Blowback Politics 🕌 Islamist Movements 🌐 Realist Foreign Policy

Air Awakens

by Elise Kova • 2015

A library apprentice's forbidden letters to the crown prince awaken wind magic and a fatal bond.

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📚 Magical Library 🌪️ Elemental Magic 💌 Secret Correspondence 🔗 Fated Bond 💔 Tortured Hero

Air Awakens

A library apprentice's forbidden letters to the crown prince awaken wind magic and a fatal bond.

by Elise Kova 2015 342 pages

3.97

63k+ ratings

📚 Magical Library 🌪️ Elemental Magic 💌 Secret Correspondence 🔗 Fated Bond 💔 Tortured Hero

What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? The Positive Impact of Christianity in History

by D. James Kennedy • 1994

What would a world without Christianity look like? The missing parts are the best ones.

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⛪ Church History 🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🏛️ Western Civilization 🎨 Faith And Culture 📜 Calvinism

What If Jesus Had Never Been Born? The Positive Impact of Christianity in History

What would a world without Christianity look like? The missing parts are the best ones.

by D. James Kennedy 1994 288 pages

4.01

449 ratings

⛪ Church History 🛡️ Christian Apologetics 🏛️ Western Civilization 🎨 Faith And Culture 📜 Calvinism

The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival

by John Bagot Glubb • 1978

Ten generations: energy, conquest, affluence, decay. The West is running out of time.

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🏛️ Imperial Decay 🔄 Cyclical History 🌍 Geopolitics 🎭 Moral Decline 📜 Philosophy Of History

The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival

Ten generations: energy, conquest, affluence, decay. The West is running out of time.

by John Bagot Glubb 1978 52 pages

4.21

500+ ratings

🏛️ Imperial Decay 🔄 Cyclical History 🌍 Geopolitics 🎭 Moral Decline 📜 Philosophy Of History

I'd Rather We Got Casinos

by Larry Wilmore • 2009

A comedian petitions the NAACP to rename Black people 'chocolate.' He's only half kidding.

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🎭 Racial Satire 🖤 Black Identity 🗣️ Language And Race 🏛️ Political Humor 📺 Media Representation

I'd Rather We Got Casinos

A comedian petitions the NAACP to rename Black people 'chocolate.' He's only half kidding.

by Larry Wilmore 2009 224 pages

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1k+ ratings

🎭 Racial Satire 🖤 Black Identity 🗣️ Language And Race 🏛️ Political Humor 📺 Media Representation

It's All About Muhammad

by F.W. Burleigh • 2014

Muhammad wasn't a prophet: epilepsy produced the Koran and psychopathy drove the conquests.

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🕌 Early Islam 🧠 Psychological Biography 🔍 Religious Criticism ⚔️ Religion And Violence 💥 New Atheism

It's All About Muhammad

Muhammad wasn't a prophet: epilepsy produced the Koran and psychopathy drove the conquests.

by F.W. Burleigh 2014 556 pages

3.96

158 ratings

🕌 Early Islam 🧠 Psychological Biography 🔍 Religious Criticism ⚔️ Religion And Violence 💥 New Atheism

Worthless

by Aaron Clarey • 2011

The labor market's college report card: which majors earn and which are a $40,000 mistake.

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🧭 Career Guidance 🎓 Higher Education 🤔 College Skepticism 💼 Career Pragmatism 📊 Labor Economics

Worthless

The labor market's college report card: which majors earn and which are a $40,000 mistake.

by Aaron Clarey 2011 180 pages

3.99

339 ratings

🧭 Career Guidance 🎓 Higher Education 🤔 College Skepticism 💼 Career Pragmatism 📊 Labor Economics

The New World Economy

by Randy Charles Epping • 2020

One disruption anywhere now hits everywhere. A map of the new global economy for beginners.

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🌐 Global Economics 📚 Economic Literacy 💻 Digital Economy 🤖 Technological Disruption ⚖️ Economic Inequality

The New World Economy

One disruption anywhere now hits everywhere. A map of the new global economy for beginners.

by Randy Charles Epping 2020 351 pages

3.64

152 ratings

🌐 Global Economics 📚 Economic Literacy 💻 Digital Economy 🤖 Technological Disruption ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Why Trust Matters

by Benjamin Ho • 2021

Trust is a calculated risk, not a feeling. How it built civilization, and why it's eroding.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🤝 Social Trust 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📡 Costly Signaling ⭐ Reputation Systems

Why Trust Matters

Trust is a calculated risk, not a feeling. How it built civilization, and why it's eroding.

by Benjamin Ho 2021 336 pages

3.70

56 ratings

🧠 Behavioral Economics 🤝 Social Trust 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 📡 Costly Signaling ⭐ Reputation Systems

The Apostle

by Brad Thor • 2009

A kidnapped American doctor. Scot Harvath must break a terrorist out of prison to save her.

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🚑 Hostage Rescue 🕵️ Covert Operations 🇦🇫 Afghanistan War 🏛️ Washington Politics 💰 Mercenaries

The Apostle

A kidnapped American doctor. Scot Harvath must break a terrorist out of prison to save her.

by Brad Thor 2009 358 pages

4.16

21k+ ratings

🚑 Hostage Rescue 🕵️ Covert Operations 🇦🇫 Afghanistan War 🏛️ Washington Politics 💰 Mercenaries

After the Fall

by Ben Rhodes • 2022

America's post-Cold War mistakes taught the world's authoritarians how to dismantle democracy.

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🧭 Post-Cold War Order 🌍 Global Authoritarianism 🚧 Democratic Erosion 📡 Information Warfare 🗳️ Nationalist Populism

After the Fall

America's post-Cold War mistakes taught the world's authoritarians how to dismantle democracy.

by Ben Rhodes 2022 384 pages

4.15

157 ratings

🧭 Post-Cold War Order 🌍 Global Authoritarianism 🚧 Democratic Erosion 📡 Information Warfare 🗳️ Nationalist Populism

The Poisoner's Revenge

by Jeff Wheeler • 2019

Sealed in a crypt with a corpse, a dying poisoner must survive to exact her revenge.

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🏰 Court Intrigue 🧪 Poisoner Protagonist 🔥 Slow-Burn Revenge 🕵️ Female Spy 🦇 Gothic Atmosphere

The Poisoner's Revenge

Sealed in a crypt with a corpse, a dying poisoner must survive to exact her revenge.

by Jeff Wheeler 2019 40 pages

4.31

2k+ ratings

🏰 Court Intrigue 🧪 Poisoner Protagonist 🔥 Slow-Burn Revenge 🕵️ Female Spy 🦇 Gothic Atmosphere

Except for Palestine

by Marc Lamont Hill • 2021

Why American progressives, fierce on injustice everywhere, stay quiet when it comes to Palestine.

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🌍 Middle East Policy 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Anti-Imperialism ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

Except for Palestine

Why American progressives, fierce on injustice everywhere, stay quiet when it comes to Palestine.

by Marc Lamont Hill 2021 227 pages

4.19

4k+ ratings

🌍 Middle East Policy 🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy 🏚️ Settler Colonialism ✊ Anti-Imperialism ☮️ Nonviolent Resistance

The Devil's Chessboard

by David Talbot • 2015

He built the CIA. Kennedy fired him. Then he led the cover-up of Kennedy's murder.

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🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🥶 Cold War Politics 🕶️ Covert Operations 💥 Regime Change 🧠 Mind Control Experiments

The Devil's Chessboard

He built the CIA. Kennedy fired him. Then he led the cover-up of Kennedy's murder.

by David Talbot 2015 704 pages

4.35

8k+ ratings

🕵️ Intelligence Agencies 🥶 Cold War Politics 🕶️ Covert Operations 💥 Regime Change 🧠 Mind Control Experiments

Copper Chain

by James Maxwell • 2017

Ancient chains bind dragons to a conqueror's command. One exiled healer can break them.

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🐉 Dragon Rider Fantasy ⚔️ Military Epic Fantasy 🏛️ Lost Ancient Civilization 🔮 Reluctant Chosen One 💔 Forbidden Love Triangle

Copper Chain

Ancient chains bind dragons to a conqueror's command. One exiled healer can break them.

by James Maxwell 2017 382 pages

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4k+ ratings

🐉 Dragon Rider Fantasy ⚔️ Military Epic Fantasy 🏛️ Lost Ancient Civilization 🔮 Reluctant Chosen One 💔 Forbidden Love Triangle

Me and White Supremacy

by Layla F. Saad • 2020

A 28-day guided journal to excavate your own white supremacy and actually change something.

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📖 Antiracism Workbooks 📝 Workbook Exercises 👤 White Privilege 🧠 Internalized Bias 🖤 Anti-Blackness

Me and White Supremacy

A 28-day guided journal to excavate your own white supremacy and actually change something.

by Layla F. Saad 2020 238 pages

4.33

30k+ ratings

📖 Antiracism Workbooks 📝 Workbook Exercises 👤 White Privilege 🧠 Internalized Bias 🖤 Anti-Blackness

Killing Lincoln

by Bill O'Reilly • 2011

The Civil War is ending, but a matinee idol is rehearsing Abraham Lincoln's murder.

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📖 Narrative History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 🔫 Assassination 🕵️‍♂️ Manhunt 🕊️ Martyrdom

Killing Lincoln

The Civil War is ending, but a matinee idol is rehearsing Abraham Lincoln's murder.

by Bill O'Reilly 2011 324 pages

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100k+ ratings

📖 Narrative History 🏛️ Presidential Biography 🔫 Assassination 🕵️‍♂️ Manhunt 🕊️ Martyrdom

Wrath and Ruin

by James Maxwell • 2025

A diviner's hidden bloodline makes her the rightful heir to an empire sliding into tyranny and war.

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478

🏛️ Political Fantasy 👑 Hidden Heir ✨ Divination Magic 😰 Reluctant Ruler ⚔️ Warrior Queen

Wrath and Ruin

A diviner's hidden bloodline makes her the rightful heir to an empire sliding into tyranny and war.

by James Maxwell 2025 359 pages

4.63

478 ratings

🏛️ Political Fantasy 👑 Hidden Heir ✨ Divination Magic 😰 Reluctant Ruler ⚔️ Warrior Queen

The Rant Zone

by Dennis Miller • 2001

Twelve rants, zero apologies: Dennis Miller on child stars, alternative medicine, and the Clintons.

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375

🎭 Political Satire 😤 Rant Comedy 📺 Pop Culture Criticism 📝 Essay Collections 🚫 Political Incorrectness

The Rant Zone

Twelve rants, zero apologies: Dennis Miller on child stars, alternative medicine, and the Clintons.

by Dennis Miller 2001 208 pages

3.57

375 ratings

🎭 Political Satire 😤 Rant Comedy 📺 Pop Culture Criticism 📝 Essay Collections 🚫 Political Incorrectness

College Unbound

by Jeffrey J. Selingo • 2013

Only half of college students graduate, debt tops a trillion, and the model is being unmade.

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🏛️ Higher Education Reform 💸 Student Debt Crisis 📋 Competency-Based Education 📊 Personalized Learning 💻 Online Education

College Unbound

Only half of college students graduate, debt tops a trillion, and the model is being unmade.

by Jeffrey J. Selingo 2013 238 pages

3.79

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Higher Education Reform 💸 Student Debt Crisis 📋 Competency-Based Education 📊 Personalized Learning 💻 Online Education

Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

by Maxine Berg • 2023

Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.

4.42

🏛️ Economic History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🍬 Colonial Commodities 🟤 Racial Capitalism

Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

Sugar, copper, cotton, and credit: how enslaved labor built the Industrial Revolution.

by Maxine Berg 2023 282 pages

4.42

26 ratings

🏛️ Economic History ⛓️ Atlantic Slavery 🏭 Industrial Revolution 🍬 Colonial Commodities 🟤 Racial Capitalism

The Yom Kippur War

by 50Minutes • 2016

How a Yom Kippur ambush shattered Israel's myth, drew in superpowers, and led to Camp David.

3.00

⚔️ Arab-Israeli Conflict 🕵️‍♂️ Intelligence Failures 🤝 Cold War Diplomacy ☢️ Nuclear Brinkmanship 🛡️ Military Technology

The Yom Kippur War

How a Yom Kippur ambush shattered Israel's myth, drew in superpowers, and led to Camp David.

by 50Minutes 2016 40 pages

3.00

3 ratings

⚔️ Arab-Israeli Conflict 🕵️‍♂️ Intelligence Failures 🤝 Cold War Diplomacy ☢️ Nuclear Brinkmanship 🛡️ Military Technology

The Theft of a Decade

by Joseph C. Sternberg • 2019

The economy isn't broken for Millennials. It's working exactly as Boomer policy designed it to.

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📊 Generational Economics 🎓 Student Debt Crisis 🏠 Housing Affordability 💼 Labor Market Shifts ⚖️ Intergenerational Inequality

The Theft of a Decade

The economy isn't broken for Millennials. It's working exactly as Boomer policy designed it to.

by Joseph C. Sternberg 2019 280 pages

3.42

221 ratings

📊 Generational Economics 🎓 Student Debt Crisis 🏠 Housing Affordability 💼 Labor Market Shifts ⚖️ Intergenerational Inequality

Modern Money Mechanics

by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago • 2009

Banks create money when they lend, not the government. The Fed only controls the starting point.

4.07

🏦 Federal Reserve 💰 Money Creation 🏛️ Fractional Reserve Banking 📊 Monetary Policy 📈 Macroeconomics

Modern Money Mechanics

Banks create money when they lend, not the government. The Fed only controls the starting point.

by Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 2009 44 pages

4.07

75 ratings

🏦 Federal Reserve 💰 Money Creation 🏛️ Fractional Reserve Banking 📊 Monetary Policy 📈 Macroeconomics

Easy Money

by Vivek Kaul • 2013

Money's 2,500-year history is a single story: governments debase, bubbles burst, and no one learns.

4.16

224

🪙 Monetary History 🫧 Financial Bubbles 🏦 Central Banking 🥇 Gold Standard 💸 Currency Debasement

Easy Money

Money's 2,500-year history is a single story: governments debase, bubbles burst, and no one learns.

by Vivek Kaul 2013 300 pages

4.16

224 ratings

🪙 Monetary History 🫧 Financial Bubbles 🏦 Central Banking 🥇 Gold Standard 💸 Currency Debasement

The New Age of Sexism

by Laura Bates • 2025

Deepfake porn and biased code run AI, and the industry is looking away.

4.26

12k+

🎯 Algorithmic Bias 📵 Online Harassment 📜 Tech Regulation 👩‍💻 Feminist Technology ⚖️ Data Justice

The New Age of Sexism

Deepfake porn and biased code run AI, and the industry is looking away.

by Laura Bates 2025 352 pages

4.26

12k+ ratings

🎯 Algorithmic Bias 📵 Online Harassment 📜 Tech Regulation 👩‍💻 Feminist Technology ⚖️ Data Justice

Overkill

by James Barrington • 2004

A British agent finds a Russian nuclear weapon headed for London, while its handlers hunt him.

4.28

1k+

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🥶 Cold War Echoes ☢️ Nuclear Threat 🕵️ Lone Operative ⏳ Race Against Time

Overkill

A British agent finds a Russian nuclear weapon headed for London, while its handlers hunt him.

by James Barrington 2004 772 pages

4.28

1k+ ratings

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🥶 Cold War Echoes ☢️ Nuclear Threat 🕵️ Lone Operative ⏳ Race Against Time

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