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The Spook Who Sat by the Door Summary
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
by Sam Greenlee 1969 256 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
Historical Fiction
Race
Classics
The Price of Inequality Summary
The Price of Inequality
How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2012 523 pages
4.02
9k+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Business
High Conflict Summary
High Conflict
Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
by Amanda Ripley 2021 368 pages
4.27
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Politics
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar Summary
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar
What Everyone Needs to Know
by P.W. Singer 2013 320 pages
3.83
1k+ ratings
Technology
Science
Politics
Lords of Finance Summary
Lords of Finance
The Bankers Who Broke the World
by Liaquat Ahamed 2009 564 pages
4.03
16k+ ratings
History
Economics
Finance
The End of Poverty Summary
The End of Poverty
Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by Jeffrey D. Sachs 2005 464 pages
3.69
11k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Poverty
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning Summary
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
by Peter Zeihan 2022 512 pages
4.17
12k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Das Kapital Summary
Das Kapital
by Karl Marx 1867 356 pages
4.09
22k+ ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
Debt Summary
Debt
The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber 2011 534 pages
4.21
25k+ ratings
History
Economics
Anthropology
Iran Awakening Summary
Iran Awakening
A Memoir of Revolution and Hope
by Shirin Ebadi 2006 232 pages
4.17
5k+ ratings
Iran
Memoir
History
The Knowledge Gap Summary
The Knowledge Gap
The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System β€” and How to Fix it
by Natalie Wexler 2019 336 pages
4.14
5k+ ratings
Education
Teaching
Parenting
Chaos Summary
Chaos
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
by Tom O'Neill 2019 504 pages
4.04
30k+ ratings
History
True Crime
Crime
On the Good Life Summary
On the Good Life
by Marcus Tullius Cicero 384 pages
4.00
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
History
The Network State Summary
The Network State
How To Start a New Country
by Balaji S. Srinivasan 2022 262 pages
3.97
500+ ratings
Politics
Technology
Philosophy
History of Modern India Summary
History of Modern India
by Bipan Chandra 2009 352 pages
4.08
2k+ ratings
History
India
Politics
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution Summary
The Crowd & The Psychology of Revolution
by Gustave Le Bon 2015 286 pages
4.18
100+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
Sociology
Hood Feminism Summary
Hood Feminism
Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
by Mikki Kendall 2020 267 pages
4.36
59k+ ratings
Feminism
Race
Social Justice
The Wealth of Nations Summary
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith 2010 416 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Philosophy
Long Walk to Freedom Summary
Long Walk to Freedom
by Nelson Mandela 1994 656 pages
4.36
91k+ ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Diplomacy Summary
Diplomacy
by Henry Kissinger 1994 912 pages
4.25
9k+ ratings
History
Politics
International Relations
The Price of Tomorrow Summary
The Price of Tomorrow
Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future
by Jeff Booth 2020 232 pages
4.09
3k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Common Sense Summary
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine 1776 104 pages
4.00
38k+ ratings
History
Classics
Philosophy
Enrique's Journey Summary
Enrique's Journey
by Sonia Nazario 2005 294 pages
3.88
16k+ ratings
Biography
Book Club
School
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State Summary
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
by Catharine A. MacKinnon 1989 352 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
Philosophy
Secrets to Winning at Office Politics Summary
Secrets to Winning at Office Politics
by Marie G. McIntyre 2005 288 pages
4.03
500+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Management
How to Be an Antiracist Summary
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi 2019 305 pages
4.37
100k+ ratings
Race
Social Justice
Politics
The Man Who Broke Capitalism Summary
The Man Who Broke Capitalism
How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy
by David Gelles 2022 272 pages
4.02
2k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Biography
The Panama Papers Summary
The Panama Papers
Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
by Frederik Obermaier 2016 400 pages
4.08
4k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
How to Lie with Statistics Summary
How to Lie with Statistics
by Darrell Huff 1954 142 pages
3.84
17k+ ratings
Science
Business
Mathematics
Naked Economics Summary
Naked Economics
Undressing the Dismal Science
by Charles Wheelan 2002 384 pages
4.03
19k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Tangled Up in Blue Summary
Tangled Up in Blue
Policing the American City
by Rosa Brooks 2021 384 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Politics
Memoir
Social Justice
The Science of Fear Summary
The Science of Fear
Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't β€” and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger
by Daniel Gardner 2008 339 pages
3.97
5k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Politics
The Wisdom of Crowds Summary
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki 2004 306 pages
3.82
24k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Economics
Pleasure Activism Summary
Pleasure Activism
The Politics of Feeling Good
by Adrienne Maree Brown 2019 441 pages
4.24
9k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
Social Justice
Without Their Permission Summary
Without Their Permission
How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed
by Alexis Ohanian 2013 272 pages
3.70
2k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Are Prisons Obsolete? Summary
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis 2003 128 pages
4.52
28k+ ratings
Politics
Race
Social Justice
How the World Ran Out of Everything Summary
How the World Ran Out of Everything
Inside the Global Supply Chain
by Peter S. Goodman 2024 416 pages
4.11
500+ ratings
Economics
Business
History
Capitalism in America Summary
Capitalism in America
An Economic History of the United States
by Alan Greenspan 2018 496 pages
4.07
2k+ ratings
Economics
History
Business
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ Summary
The Ayatollah Begs to Differ
The Paradox of Modern Iran
by Hooman Majd 2008 272 pages
3.77
2k+ ratings
Iran
History
Politics
You Talkin' To Me? Summary
You Talkin' To Me?
Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
by Sam Leith 2011 256 pages
3.75
1k+ ratings
Writing
Philosophy
Language
I'm Just Saying Summary
I'm Just Saying
A Guide to Maintaining Civil Discourse in an Increasingly Divided World
by Milan Kordestani 2023 268 pages
4.26
7k+ ratings
Communication
Self Help
Psychology
A Promised Land Summary
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama 2020 768 pages
4.32
200k+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
Politics
Lajja Summary
Lajja
Shame
by Taslima Nasrin 1993 216 pages
3.54
5k+ ratings
Bangladesh
Historical Fiction
India
Empire Summary
Empire
How Britain Made the Modern World
by Niall Ferguson 2003 422 pages
3.93
9k+ ratings
History
Politics
Economics
Riddles in Hinduism Summary
Riddles in Hinduism
The Annotated Critical Selection
by B.R. Ambedkar 1954 296 pages
4.19
500+ ratings
History
Religion
India
Machiavelli Summary
Machiavelli
A Very Short Introduction
by Quentin Skinner 1981 110 pages
3.84
500+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Politics
Keynes Hayek Summary
Keynes Hayek
The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
by Nicholas Wapshott 2011 400 pages
3.91
2k+ ratings
Economics
History
Politics
The Singapore Story Summary
The Singapore Story
Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
by Lee Kuan Yew 1998 680 pages
4.28
3k+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy Summary
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
by John J. Mearsheimer 2006 484 pages
4.09
3k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
Damned Lies and Statistics Summary
Damned Lies and Statistics
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
by Joel Best 1998 190 pages
3.74
500+ ratings
Politics
Science
Mathematics
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