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How Democracies Die Summary
How Democracies Die
What History Reveals About Our Future
by Steven Levitsky 2018 320 pages
4.16
25k+ ratings
History
Political Science
Politics
In Search of Time Summary
In Search of Time
Journeys Along a Curious Dimension
by Dan Falk 2009 344 pages
3.95
500+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Physics
A More Beautiful and Terrible History Summary
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
by Jeanne Theoharis 2018 288 pages
4.32
500+ ratings
History
Race
Politics
To Pixar and Beyond Summary
To Pixar and Beyond
My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
by Lawrence Levy 2016 272 pages
4.24
7k+ ratings
Business
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Memoir
The Billionaire's Apprentice Summary
The Billionaire's Apprentice
The Rise of The Indian-American Elite and The Fall of The Galleon Hedge Fund
by Anita Raghavan 2013 512 pages
4.18
1k+ ratings
Business
Finance
India
The Enlightenment Summary
The Enlightenment
A Very Short Introduction
by John Robertson 2015 144 pages
3.58
100+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Religion
A Natural History of Human Thinking Summary
A Natural History of Human Thinking
by Michael Tomasello 2014 192 pages
3.97
100+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Anthropology
Enlightenment Now Summary
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker 2018 576 pages
4.2
30k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
History
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy Summary
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
Or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
by Yanis Varoufakis 2018 224 pages
4.13
17k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Liquid Times Summary
Liquid Times
Living in an Age of Uncertainty
by Zygmunt Bauman 2013 200 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
Politics
The Meditations Summary
The Meditations
An Emperor's Guide to Mastery
by Marcus Aurelius 2017 114 pages
4.28
200k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Self Help
Fooling some of the People all of the time Summary
Fooling some of the People all of the time
A long short story
by David Einhorn 2008 400 pages
4.01
3k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
The Choice Summary
The Choice
Escape Your Past and Embrace the Possible
by Edith Eger 2017 305 pages
4.58
100k+ ratings
Memoir
Psychology
Biography
Promise Me, Dad Summary
Promise Me, Dad
A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
by Joe Biden 2017 264 pages
4.14
23k+ ratings
Memoir
Politics
Biography
Women & Power Summary
Women & Power
A Manifesto
by Mary Beard 2017 126 pages
4.03
35k+ ratings
Feminism
History
Essays
China's Great Wall of Debt Summary
China's Great Wall of Debt
Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle
by Dinny McMahon 2018 285 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
China
Economics
Politics
Divided Summary
Divided
Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
by Tim Marshall 2018
4.01
5k+ ratings
Politics
History
Geography
Factfulness Summary
Factfulness
Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling 2018 352 pages
4.36
100k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Economics
Conspiracy Summary
Conspiracy
Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
by Ryan Holiday 2018 336 pages
3.98
6k+ ratings
Business
History
Politics
The Bitcoin Standard Summary
The Bitcoin Standard
The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
by Saifedean Ammous 2018 304 pages
4.16
11k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
On Grand Strategy Summary
On Grand Strategy
by John Lewis Gaddis 2018 384 pages
3.75
4k+ ratings
History
Politics
Business
Insane Summary
Insane
America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
by Alisa Roth 2018 338 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Mental Health
Psychology
History
War on Peace Summary
War on Peace
The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
by Ronan Farrow 2018 432 pages
4.15
8k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
The Order of Time Summary
The Order of Time
by Carlo Rovelli 2018 256 pages
4.12
32k+ ratings
Science
Physics
Philosophy
The Secret Piano Summary
The Secret Piano
From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations
by Zhu Xiao-Mei 2012 330 pages
4.00
2k+ ratings
Memoir
China
History
Censored Summary
Censored
Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall
by Margaret E. Roberts 2018 288 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
China
Politics
History
She Has Her Mother's Laugh Summary
She Has Her Mother's Laugh
The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
by Carl Zimmer 2018 672 pages
4.16
6k+ ratings
Science
Biology
History
The Anna Karenina Fix Summary
The Anna Karenina Fix
Life Lessons from Russian Literature
by Viv Groskop 2018 224 pages
3.97
1k+ ratings
Russia
Books About Books
Memoir
Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning Summary
Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl 2011 192 pages
4.04
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
Cyrus the Great Summary
Cyrus the Great
The Arts of Leadership and War
by Xenophon 2007 320 pages
4.13
1k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Biography
The World As It Is Summary
The World As It Is
A Memoir of the Obama White House
by Ben Rhodes 2018 428 pages
4.3
12k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
History
Post-Truth Summary
Post-Truth
by Lee McIntyre 2018 236 pages
4.04
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
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
Economics
Business
Chanakya Neeti Summary
Chanakya Neeti
by Ashwini Parashar 2009 128 pages
3.94
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Self Help
Adaptive Markets Summary
Adaptive Markets
Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by Andrew W. Lo 2017 504 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Valley of Genius Summary
Valley of Genius
The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley
by Adam Fisher 2018 512 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
History
Technology
Business
The Ten Types of Human Summary
The Ten Types of Human
A New Understanding of Who We Are, and Who We Can Be
by Dexter Dias 2017 805 pages
4.18
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Science
Money Summary
Money
by Yuval Noah Harari 2018 144 pages
3.91
2k+ ratings
History
Economics
Finance
The Other Side of Israel Summary
The Other Side of Israel
My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
by Susan Nathan 2007 334 pages
4.06
100+ ratings
Israel
Politics
Memoir
Winners Take All Summary
Winners Take All
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas 2018 304 pages
4.14
16k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Business
Nonsense on Stilts Summary
Nonsense on Stilts
How to Tell Science from Bunk
by Massimo Pigliucci 2010 336 pages
3.92
1k+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Skepticism
Everything for Everyone Summary
Everything for Everyone
The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
by Nathan Schneider 2018 304 pages
3.93
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Moneyland Summary
Moneyland
Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take It Back
by Oliver Bullough 2018
4.2
6k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Business
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 238 pages
4.29
2k+ ratings
Race
Anti Racist
Social Justice
The Invention of Russia Summary
The Invention of Russia
The Rise of Putin and The Age of Fake News
by Arkady Ostrovsky 2017 400 pages
4.03
1k+ ratings
History
Russia
Politics
The Fifth Risk Summary
The Fifth Risk
Undoing Democracy
by Michael Lewis 2018 255 pages
4.09
45k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Fire and Fury Summary
Fire and Fury
Inside the Trump White House
by Michael Wolff 2018 339 pages
3.44
75k+ ratings
Politics
History
Biography
The Accidental Admiral Summary
The Accidental Admiral
A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
by James G. Stavridis 2014 288 pages
3.97
100+ ratings
Military Fiction
Biography
Leadership
The Complete TurtleTrader Summary
The Complete TurtleTrader
How 23 Novice Investors Became Overnight Millionaires
by Michael W. Covel 2009 288 pages
3.87
2k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Money
The Social Leap Summary
The Social Leap
The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
by William Von Hippel 2018 304 pages
4.25
1k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Evolution
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