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Hi Honey, I'm Homo! Summary
Hi Honey, I'm Homo!
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by Matt Baume 2023 272 pages
4.33
1k+ ratings
LGBT
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Queer
Hit Men Summary
Hit Men
Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
by Fredric Dannen 1990 432 pages
3.94
500+ ratings
Music
History
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The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Summary
The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy
by Donald J. Robertson 2010 316 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
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Blind Ambition Summary
Blind Ambition
The White House Years
by John W. Dean 1976 416 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
History
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Lady Sapiens. Enquête sur la femme au temps de la Préhistoire Summary
Lady Sapiens. Enquête sur la femme au temps de la Préhistoire
by Jennifer Kerner 2011 247 pages
3.66
500+ ratings
History
Feminism
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Un-Trumping America Summary
Un-Trumping America
A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
by Dan Pfeiffer 2020 273 pages
4.20
2k+ ratings
Politics
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The Uses and Abuses of History Summary
The Uses and Abuses of History
by Margaret MacMillan 2008 208 pages
3.64
2k+ ratings
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Outgrowing God Summary
Outgrowing God
A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism
by Richard Dawkins 2019 304 pages
4.06
5k+ ratings
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Neutrino Summary
Neutrino
by Frank Close 2010 176 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
Science
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Popular Science
Two Sides of the Moon Summary
Two Sides of the Moon
Our Story of the Cold War Space Race
by David Randolph Scott 2004 448 pages
4.28
500+ ratings
Space
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Biography
Where White Men Fear to Tread Summary
Where White Men Fear to Tread
The Autobiography of Russell Means
by Russell Means 1995 624 pages
4.14
1k+ ratings
Native American
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History
Thomas Jefferson Summary
Thomas Jefferson
The Art of Power
by Jon Meacham 2012 759 pages
4.04
41k+ ratings
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Mossad Summary
Mossad
The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
by Michael Bar-Zohar 2010 388 pages
4.19
14k+ ratings
History
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The Vaccine Summary
The Vaccine
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by Joe Miller 2021 288 pages
4.25
500+ ratings
Science
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The Billionaire Raj Summary
The Billionaire Raj
A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
by James Crabtree 2018 416 pages
3.84
2k+ ratings
India
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All the Shah's Men Summary
All the Shah's Men
An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
by Stephen Kinzer 2003 272 pages
4.29
10k+ ratings
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Politics
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Decoding the Heavens Summary
Decoding the Heavens
A 2,000-Year-Old Computer and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets
by Jo Marchant 2009 336 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
History
Science
Technology
Sapiens Summary
Sapiens
A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind
by David Vandermeulen 2020 248 pages
4.37
15k+ ratings
Graphic Novels
History
Science
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
2k+ ratings
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Why Bob Dylan Matters Summary
Why Bob Dylan Matters
by Richard F. Thomas 2017 368 pages
3.73
1k+ ratings
Music
Biography
Poetry
History of Modern Art Summary
History of Modern Art
by H. Harvard Arnason 1968 848 pages
4.00
8k+ ratings
Art
Art History
History
Brilliant Moon Summary
Brilliant Moon
The Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse
by Dilgo Khyentse 2008 400 pages
4.46
100+ ratings
Buddhism
Spirituality
Biography
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
The Cathedral & the Bazaar Summary
The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
by Eric S. Raymond 1999 241 pages
3.83
4k+ ratings
Technology
Programming
Computer Science
Escape from Saddam Summary
Escape from Saddam
The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
by Lewis Alsamari 2007 320 pages
4.04
100+ ratings
History
Memoir
Biography
The Quiet Damage Summary
The Quiet Damage
QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family
by Jesselyn Cook 2024 250 pages
4.46
3k+ ratings
Politics
History
Psychology
Symmetry Summary
Symmetry
A Journey into the Patterns of Nature
by Marcus du Sautoy 2007 384 pages
3.82
500+ ratings
Mathematics
Science
Popular Science
Sam Walton Summary
Sam Walton
Made In America
by Sam Walton 1993 346 pages
4.14
26k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Autobiography
World War C Summary
World War C
Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One
by Sanjay Gupta 2021 290 pages
4.04
500+ ratings
Science
Medical
Health
Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know Summary
Stuff Every Tea Lover Should Know
by Candace Rose Rardon 2020 144 pages
4.03
100+ ratings
Tea
Food
Cookbooks
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons Summary
The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons
The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
by Sam Kean 2014 416 pages
4.26
13k+ ratings
Science
History
Psychology
Best Evidence Summary
Best Evidence
by David S. Lifton 1980 920 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Conspiracy Theories
The Long Game Summary
The Long Game
China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
by Rush Doshi 2021 432 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
China
Politics
History
Liberty Summary
Liberty
Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty
by Isaiah Berlin 1969 416 pages
4.15
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Essays
The Hacker Crackdown Summary
The Hacker Crackdown
Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
by Bruce Sterling 1992 336 pages
3.80
3k+ ratings
History
Technology
Computers
Rogue State Summary
Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum 2000 393 pages
3.97
500+ ratings
Politics
History
War
Long Walk to Freedom Summary
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela 1994 656 pages
4.36
90k+ ratings
Biography
History
Africa
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown Summary
Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown
Verses for a Despotic Age
by John Lithgow 2020 104 pages
4.20
1k+ ratings
Poetry
Humor
Politics
Crash Course Summary
Crash Course
The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
by Paul Ingrassia 2009 320 pages
3.91
500+ ratings
Business
History
Economics
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character Summary
What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman 1988 256 pages
4.19
29k+ ratings
Science
Biography
Physics
The Story of a Life Summary
The Story of a Life
by Aharon Appelfeld 1983 208 pages
3.92
500+ ratings
Holocaust
Memoir
Jewish
Making It in America Summary
Making It in America
The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A.
by Rachel Slade 2024 352 pages
3.65
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Dying Citizen Summary
The Dying Citizen
How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
by Victor Davis Hanson 2021 448 pages
4.37
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Conscience of a Liberal Summary
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman 2007 296 pages
3.97
6k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts Summary
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts
by Joshua Hammer 2016 280 pages
3.50
11k+ ratings
History
Africa
Books About Books
The Quants Summary
The Quants
How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
by Scott Patterson 2010 337 pages
3.89
9k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Girls Who Rocked The World Summary
Girls Who Rocked The World
Heroines From Anne Frank to Natalie Portman
by Michelle Roehm McCann 2012 240 pages
4.05
500+ ratings
Biography
History
Feminism
Mark of a Giant Summary
Mark of a Giant
Seven People Who Changed the World
by Ted Stewart 2013 320 pages
3.96
100+ ratings
History
Biography
Historical
The Aristocracy of Talent Summary
The Aristocracy of Talent
How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
by Adrian Wooldridge 2021 481 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
History
Politics
Economics
Bad Gays Summary
Bad Gays
A Homosexual History
by Huw Lemmey 2022 368 pages
3.55
4k+ ratings
History
Queer
LGBT
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