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1 | Date | Title | Average Rating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Mar 2016 | Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson | 4.89 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon | 4.85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | May 2020 | The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California by Mark Arax | 4.515 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong | 4.46 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer | 4.45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition by Richard Dawkins | 4.4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell | 4.39 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones | 4.38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Mar 2022 | An Immense World: How Animal Sense Reveal The Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong | 4.375 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell | 4.32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey Sachs | 4.3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Ola Rosling | 4.29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank | 4.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt | 4.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan | 4.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson | 4.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin | 4.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty | 4.2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond | 4.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander and Cornel West | 4.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Jan 2024 | Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller | 4.171 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Oct 2021 | Freedom at Midnight by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre | 4.15 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Black Flags: The Rise of Isis by Joby Warrick | 4.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Aug 2022 | How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now by Stanislas Dehaene | 4.125 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt | 4.1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough | 4.1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge | 4.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Nov 2021 | The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein | 4.086 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott | 4.085 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will Heal Our Brains and Revolutionize Our Health by R. Douglas Fields | 4.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert | 4.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Dec 2021 | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann | 4.046875 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe | 4.0375 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business by C Duhigg | 4.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt | 4.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest by Angela Stent | 3.9954 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond | 3.98 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan | 3.97 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It by Richard V. Reeves | 3.9615 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev | 3.96 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon | 3.95 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker | 3.94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford | 3.93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin | 3.91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald | 3.91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson | 3.9 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert | 3.89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Nov 2022 | How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney | 3.85667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer | 3.85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Aug 2021 | The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson | 3.85 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild | 3.85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Mar 2024 | Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas | 3.81176 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Mar 2025 | Her Honor: My Life on the Bench...What Works, What's Broken, and How to Change It by LaDoris Hazzard Cordell | 3.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Sep 2023 | The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy | 3.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph E. Stiglitz | 3.8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | 3.8 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Mar 2012 | Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | 3.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande | 3.79 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Sep 2025 | The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin | 3.7857 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by A Banerjee & E Duflo | 3.78 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt | 3.78 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Aug 2024 | The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer | 3.7767 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein | 3.77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald | 3.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen | 3.75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | 1776 by David McCullough | 3.75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis | 3.73 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | iGen by Jean M. Twenge Ph.D | 3.71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen | 3.7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari | 3.697 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard | 3.6944 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier | 3.68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein | 3.687 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson | 3.6785 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Feb 2020 | Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell | 3.67 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't by Nate Silver | 3.67 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger | 3.67 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | On the Move by Oliver Sacks | 3.66 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Apr 2021 | Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures by Melvin Sheldrake | 3.657 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Jul 2025 | Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway | 3.65 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil | 3.64 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Dec 2022 | California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid by Katherine Blunt | 3.636 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | 3/2021 | The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry | 3.621 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Nov 2023 | Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty | 3.614 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton | 3.61 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato | 3.6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | May 2025 | The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government by Brody Mullins and Luke Mullins | 3.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker | 3.59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Jun 2021 | An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives by Matt Richtel | 3.589 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Jun 2025 | Abundance by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson | 3.5842 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Aug 2023 | God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn | 3.58 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Jan 2014 | Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson | 3.58 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - and Us by Richard O. Prum | 3.56 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves by Eric Kandel | 3.55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Discussion of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman | 3.55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks | 3.5 |