Escape from Camp 14
Blaine Harden
2011 · 2013 edition
252 pages
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This is Your Brain on Music
Daniel J. Levitin
2006 · 2019 edition
322 pages
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu
Published 2012
529 pages
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
1994 · 2023 edition
284 pages
Voices from Chernobyl
Svetlana Alexievich, Svetlana Aleksievich
1997 · 2015 edition
240 pages
A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell
Published 2019
368 pages
Fear
Bob Woodward, Zoryna Timmerman
2014 · 2019 edition
448 pages
Notorious RBG
Irin Carmon
Published 2015
227 pages
Killing Kennedy
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard Bill O Reilly, Martin Dugard
2012 · 2017 edition
432 pages
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris, Grover Gardner
1979 · 2010 edition
920 pages
Missoula
Jon Krakauer
Published 2015
368 pages
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
2014 · 2021 edition
256 pages
Gut
Giulia Enders
2014 · 2026 edition
304 pages
March
John Lewis
Published 2013
121 pages
American Lion
Jon Meacham
2008 · 2009 edition
483 pages
How to Do Nothing
Jenny Odell
2019 · 2020 edition
232 pages
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
1972 · 2024 edition
234 pages
First They Killed My Father
Loung Ung
2000 · 2017 edition
336 pages
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein
Published 2007
558 pages
Half The Sky
Nicholas D. Kristof
2009 · 2017 edition
432 pages
Wings of Fire
P. Ganguli, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
1998 · 2011 edition
180 pages
Stamped
Jason Reynolds
2020 · 2025 edition
336 pages
Leviathan (Mint Editions (Political and Social Narratives))
Thomas Hobbes
1887 · 2021 edition
552 pages
A Fever in the Heartland
Timothy Egan
Published 2023
432 pages