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The Innocent Man Summary
The Innocent Man
Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
by John Grisham 2006 360 pages
3.86
81k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
Mystery
Shakespeare's Freedom Summary
Shakespeare's Freedom
by Stephen Greenblatt 2010 160 pages
3.81
100+ ratings
Literary Criticism
Literature
History
In Our Hands Summary
In Our Hands
A Plan To Replace The Welfare State
by Charles Murray 2006 214 pages
3.74
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Sociology
The Story of a Life Summary
The Story of a Life
by Aharon Appelfeld 1983 208 pages
3.92
500+ ratings
Holocaust
Memoir
Jewish
The Innovators Summary
The Innovators
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson 2011 542 pages
4.12
38k+ ratings
History
Biography
Business
Bachelor Girl Summary
Bachelor Girl
The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
by Betsy Israel 2002 304 pages
3.71
1k+ ratings
History
Feminism
Womens
Loonshots Summary
Loonshots
How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
by Safi Bahcall 2019 368 pages
4.01
8k+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Science
Parisian Lives Summary
Parisian Lives
Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me
by Deirdre Bair 2019 368 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
France
The Grid Summary
The Grid
The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by Gretchen Bakke 2016 384 pages
3.87
4k+ ratings
Science
History
Technology
The Color of Money Summary
The Color of Money
Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
by Mehrsa Baradaran 2017 371 pages
4.48
2k+ ratings
History
Race
Economics
Faking It Summary
Faking It
The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music
by Hugh Barker 2007 400 pages
3.67
100+ ratings
Music
History
Journalism
No One Man Should Have All That Power Summary
No One Man Should Have All That Power
How Rasputins Manipulate the World
by Amos Barshad 2019 240 pages
3.67
100+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Putinism Summary
Putinism
Russia and Its Future with the West
by Walter Laqueur 2015 288 pages
3.30
100+ ratings
Russia
Politics
History
Life Ascending Summary
Life Ascending
The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by Nick Lane 2009 352 pages
4.12
5k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Oxygen Summary
Oxygen
The Molecule that Made the World
by Nick Lane 2002 384 pages
4.14
2k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Chemistry
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln Summary
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln
21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers
by James C. Humes 2002 224 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
Business
Self Help
Leadership
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
7k+ ratings
Science
Politics
History
The Truth About Markets Summary
The Truth About Markets
Why Some Nations are Rich But Most Remain Poor
by John Kay 2003 426 pages
3.86
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Other People's Money Summary
Other People's Money
The Real Business of Finance
by John Kay 2015 336 pages
3.92
1k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
It's Good to Be Queen Summary
It's Good to Be Queen
Becoming as Bold, Gracious, and Wise as the Queen of Sheba
by Liz Curtis Higgs 2015 224 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Christian
Faith
Christian Non Fiction
Russian Roulette Summary
Russian Roulette
The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
by Michael Isikoff 2018 352 pages
4.21
6k+ ratings
Politics
History
Russia
The Existentialist's Survival Guide Summary
The Existentialist's Survival Guide
How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age
by Gordon Marino 2018 272 pages
3.70
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
The Good Book Summary
The Good Book
A Humanist Bible
by A.C. Grayling 2011 597 pages
3.72
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Atheism
Leadership Summary
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
by Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 473 pages
4.40
15k+ ratings
History
Leadership
Biography
Awakenings Summary
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks 1973 464 pages
4.09
13k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Medicine
Saffron Swords - Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders Summary
Saffron Swords - Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders
by Manoshi Sinha Rawal 2019 258 pages
4.23
100+ ratings
History
India
Hinduism
Fake Law Summary
Fake Law
The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
by The Secret Barrister 2020 400 pages
4.20
4k+ ratings
Law
Politics
Crime
The Socrates Express Summary
The Socrates Express
In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
by Eric Weiner 2020 352 pages
4.14
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Travel
Self Help
Where Good Ideas Come From Summary
Where Good Ideas Come From
The Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson 2010 326 pages
4.00
15k+ ratings
Business
Science
History
Are Prisons Obsolete? Summary
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis 2003 128 pages
4.52
27k+ ratings
Politics
Race
Social Justice
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
50+ ratings
Islam
Politics
Religion
Factory Man Summary
Factory Man
How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by Beth Macy 2014 464 pages
3.85
2k+ ratings
Business
History
Biography
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Summary
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
by Bill Bryson 2006 288 pages
3.93
66k+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Hard Times Create Strong Men Summary
Hard Times Create Strong Men
by Stefan Aarnio 2019 624 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Philosophy
Psychology
Buckley Summary
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
by Carl T. Bogus 2011 416 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Cicero Summary
Cicero
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by Anthony Everitt 2001 364 pages
3.89
7k+ ratings
History
Biography
Ancient History
Concrete Planet Summary
Concrete Planet
The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
by Robert Courland 2011 396 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
History
Science
Engineering
Hatching Twitter Summary
Hatching Twitter
A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
by Nick Bilton 2013 299 pages
4.04
18k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Biography
Broad Band Summary
Broad Band
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by Claire L. Evans 2018 288 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
History
Science
Feminism
The Ascent of Money Summary
The Ascent of Money
A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson 2007 442 pages
3.90
29k+ ratings
History
Economics
Finance
The Wal-Mart Effect Summary
The Wal-Mart Effect
How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
by Charles Fishman 2006 352 pages
3.84
3k+ ratings
Business
Economics
History
She Said Summary
She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by Jodi Kantor 2019 310 pages
4.34
41k+ ratings
Feminism
True Crime
Politics
The Return of Marco Polo's World Summary
The Return of Marco Polo's World
War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
by Robert D. Kaplan 2018 304 pages
3.78
500+ ratings
History
Politics
International Relations
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela Summary
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
by Zelda la Grange 2014 384 pages
3.80
1k+ ratings
Biography
Africa
Memoir
No Is Not Enough Summary
No Is Not Enough
Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by Naomi Klein 2017 273 pages
4.11
10k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Meditations Summary
Meditations
With Selected Correspondence
by Marcus Aurelius 208 pages
4.25
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Ancient
A Call to Action Summary
A Call to Action
Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
by Jimmy Carter 2014 211 pages
4.04
2k+ ratings
Politics
Feminism
Religion
When Markets Collide Summary
When Markets Collide
Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
by EL-ERIAN 2008 361 pages
3.52
500+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
7 Men Summary
7 Men
And the Secret of Their Greatness
by Eric Metaxas 2013 240 pages
4.23
6k+ ratings
Biography
History
Christian
Municipal Dreams Summary
Municipal Dreams
The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
by John Boughton 2018 336 pages
3.96
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Architecture
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