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Get Rich or Lie Trying Summary
Get Rich or Lie Trying
Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy
by Symeon Brown 2022 304 pages
3.85
852 ratings
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Shattered Nation Summary
Shattered Nation
Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State
by Danny Dorling 2023 288 pages
3.97
119 ratings
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Personality, Character, and Intelligence Summary
Personality, Character, and Intelligence
Part Three from What the Dog Saw
by Malcolm Gladwell 2009 100 pages
3.91
752 ratings
Psychology
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Self Help
Young, Gifted, and Black Summary
Young, Gifted, and Black
Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students
by Theresa Perry 2003 196 pages
4.04
322 ratings
Education
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Criminology For Dummies Summary
Criminology For Dummies
by Steven Briggs 2009 384 pages
3.90
232 ratings
Reference
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The Third Chimpanzee Summary
The Third Chimpanzee
The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
by Jared Diamond 1991 407 pages
4.08
28.2K ratings
Science
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تئوری انتخاب Summary
تئوری انتخاب
در آمدی بر روان شناسی امید
by William Glasser 592 pages
4.05
859 ratings
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The Sirens' Call Summary
The Sirens' Call
How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
by Christopher L. Hayes 2025 336 pages
4.05
3.1K ratings
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Who Speaks for Islam? Summary
Who Speaks for Islam?
What a Billion Muslims Really Think
by Dalia Mogahed 2008 204 pages
4.05
1.1K ratings
Islam
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Labor of Love Summary
Labor of Love
The Invention of Dating
by Moira Weigel 2016 304 pages
3.70
1.3K ratings
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The Velvet Rope Economy Summary
The Velvet Rope Economy
How Inequality Became Big Business
by Nelson D. Schwartz 2020 352 pages
4.09
1.0K ratings
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Smart on Crime Summary
Smart on Crime
A Career Prosecutor's Plan to Make Us Safer
by Kamala Harris 2009 205 pages
3.74
320 ratings
Politics
Memoir
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Punishment Without Crime Summary
Punishment Without Crime
How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
by Alexandra Natapoff 2018 352 pages
4.16
424 ratings
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A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper Summary
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
by John Allen Paulos 1997 224 pages
3.59
996 ratings
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In Our Hands Summary
In Our Hands
A Plan To Replace The Welfare State
by Charles Murray 2006 214 pages
3.74
289 ratings
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Holding It Together Summary
Immersive
Holding It Together
How Women Became America's Safety Net
by Jessica Calarco 2024 336 pages
4.17
848 ratings
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History
Conspirituality Summary
Conspirituality
How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
by Derek Beres 2023 384 pages
4.03
1.3K ratings
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The Origins of Woke Summary
The Origins of Woke
Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics
by Richard Hanania 2023 270 pages
3.77
247 ratings
Politics
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Black Folk Summary
Black Folk
The Roots of the Black Working Class
by Blair L.M. Kelley 2023 352 pages
4.49
370 ratings
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Race
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Asking for It Summary
Asking for It
The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do about It
by Kate Harding 2014 261 pages
4.37
4.2K ratings
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Gender Studies
Anti-Tech Revolution Summary
Anti-Tech Revolution
Why and How
by Theodore John Kaczynski 2016 268 pages
3.92
585 ratings
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Technology
Free Speech And Why It Matters Summary
Free Speech And Why It Matters
by Andrew Doyle 2021 128 pages
4.25
927 ratings
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Sociology
Spoilt Rotten Summary
Spoilt Rotten
The Toxic Cult Of Sentimentality
by dalrymple-theodore 2010 256 pages
3.96
1.1K ratings
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Essays
The Color of Money Summary
The Color of Money
Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
by Mehrsa Baradaran 2017 371 pages
4.47
2.3K ratings
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Race
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The Social Instinct Summary
The Social Instinct
How Cooperation Shaped the World
by Nichola Raihani 2021 304 pages
3.93
606 ratings
Science
Psychology
Biology
The English Summary
The English
A Portrait of a People
by Jeremy Paxman 1998 309 pages
3.56
2.5K ratings
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British Literature
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Cities Summary
Cities
The First 6,000 Years
by Monica L. Smith 2019 304 pages
3.26
426 ratings
History
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Cities
Wildland Summary
Wildland
The Making of America's Fury
by Evan Osnos 2021 465 pages
4.23
2.0K ratings
Politics
History
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A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6 Summary
A Study of History, Abridgement of Vols 1-6
by Arnold J. Toynbee 1947 640 pages
4.10
519 ratings
History
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World History
The Age of Grievance Summary
The Age of Grievance
by Frank Bruni 2024 288 pages
4.10
1.5K ratings
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Psychology
Delay, Deny, Defend Summary
Delay, Deny, Defend
Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It
by Jay M. Feinman 2010 256 pages
4.06
577 ratings
Politics
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History
How Migration Really Works Summary
How Migration Really Works
A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics
by Hein de Haas 2023 436 pages
4.38
1.6K ratings
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History
Enshittification Summary
Enshittification
Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
by Cory Doctorow 2025 352 pages
4.18
1.2K ratings
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The Sociology Book Summary
The Sociology Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
by Sam Atkinson 2015 352 pages
4.01
1.1K ratings
Sociology
Reference
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Virtually Human Summary
Virtually Human
The Promise and the Peril of Digital Immortality
by Martine Rothblatt 2014 368 pages
3.48
179 ratings
Science
Philosophy
Technology
The End of the Myth Summary
The End of the Myth
From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
by Greg Grandin 2019 369 pages
4.28
2.9K ratings
History
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American History
Lifehouse Summary
Lifehouse
Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire
by Adam Greenfield 2024 272 pages
3.87
52 ratings
Politics
Social Justice
Self Help
Adrift Summary
Adrift
America in 100 Charts
by Scott Galloway 2022 320 pages
3.89
2.3K ratings
Politics
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The Injustice of Place Summary
The Injustice of Place
Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
by Kathryn J. Edin 2023 352 pages
4.16
586 ratings
History
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Sociology
American Marxism Summary
American Marxism
by Mark R. Levin 2021 317 pages
4.17
4.1K ratings
Politics
History
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المراقبة السائلة Summary
المراقبة السائلة
by Zygmunt Bauman 2012 160 pages
3.79
474 ratings
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Tocqueville Summary
Tocqueville
A Very Short Introduction
by Harvey C. Mansfield 2007 124 pages
3.51
150 ratings
History
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Solitude Summary
Solitude
A Singular Life in a Crowded World
by Michael Harris 2017 256 pages
3.67
2.1K ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Hatred of Democracy Summary
Hatred of Democracy
by Jacques Rancière 2005 106 pages
3.71
930 ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
Silent Coup Summary
Silent Coup
How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
by Claire Provost 2023 296 pages
4.36
188 ratings
Politics
History
Economics
The Penguin and the Leviathan Summary
The Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
by Yochai Benkler 2011 274 pages
3.70
351 ratings
Business
Economics
Psychology
How to Be Less Stupid About Race Summary
How to Be Less Stupid About Race
On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
by Crystal Marie Fleming 2018 240 pages
4.28
2.7K ratings
Race
Anti Racist
Social Justice
The Book of Learning and Forgetting Summary
The Book of Learning and Forgetting
by Frank Smith 1998 144 pages
4.08
346 ratings
Education
Psychology
Sociology
Methodology of the Oppressed Summary
Methodology of the Oppressed
by Chela Sandoval 2000 232 pages
4.14
409 ratings
Feminism
Theory
Academic
Kids These Days Summary
Kids These Days
Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
by Malcolm Harris 2017 261 pages
3.78
2.3K ratings
Economics
Sociology
Politics
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