The most popular politics books

Politics books are about power: who has it, how they got it and what they do with it. Government, elections, ideologies, foreign affairs and protest are all here. Read them to understand the news more deeply, from reporters, insiders and scholars across the spectrum.

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The Silk Roads
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The Silk Roads

Peter Frankopan

1978 · 2024 edition

646 pages

Theodore Rex
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Theodore Rex

Edmund Morris

Published 2001

772 pages

A Man Without a Country
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A Man Without a Country

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., カート・ヴォネガット, 金原 瑞人

2005 · 2025 edition

160 pages

My Life
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My Life

Bill Clinton

2004 · 2005 edition

969 pages

Lincoln
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Lincoln

David Herbert Donald

Published 1995

714 pages

The Fifth Risk
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The Fifth Risk

Michael Lewis

2018 · 2019 edition

256 pages

The Color of Law
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The Color of Law

Richard Rothstein

2017 · 2018 edition

342 pages

Boomerang
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Boomerang

Michael Lewis, Michael Collier

2011 · 2012 edition

213 pages

Chip War
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Chip War

Chris Miller

Published 2022

464 pages

Dopesick
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Dopesick

Beth Macy

Published 2018

376 pages

No Ordinary Time
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No Ordinary Time

Doris Kearns Goodwin

1994 · 1995 edition

633 pages

Grant
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Grant

Ron Chernow

Published 2017

1104 pages

The Happiness Advantage
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The Happiness Advantage

Shawn Achor, Irving Brant, 高橋由紀子

2008 · 2010 edition

237 pages

The Message
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The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

2024 · 2025 edition

224 pages

The 57 Bus
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The 57 Bus

Dashka Slater

Published 2017

320 pages

A Distant Mirror
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A Distant Mirror

Barbara W. Tuchman

1978 · 2017 edition

634 pages