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Open Socrates Summary
Open Socrates
The Case for a Philosophical Life
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4.00
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On Sparta Summary
On Sparta
by Plutarch 260 pages
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The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time Summary
The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time
by Will Durant 2002 127 pages
3.72
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The Rape of the Mind Summary
The Rape of the Mind
The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
by Joost A.M. Meerloo 1956 326 pages
4.22
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Cooked Summary
Cooked
A Natural History of Transformation
by Michael Pollan 2013 468 pages
4.08
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Sapiens and Homo Deus Summary
Sapiens and Homo Deus
The E-book Collection: A Brief History of Humankind and A Brief History of Tomorrow
by Yuval Noah Harari 2017 816 pages
4.41
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The Book of Giants Summary
The Book of Giants
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by Joseph B. Lumpkin 2014 224 pages
4.12
262 ratings
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Stuff Matters Summary
Stuff Matters
Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
by Mark Miodownik 2013 272 pages
4.11
20.3K ratings
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The Technology Trap Summary
The Technology Trap
Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
by Carl Benedikt Frey 2019 480 pages
4.13
579 ratings
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The Origins and History of Consciousness Summary
The Origins and History of Consciousness
by Erich Neumann 1949 493 pages
4.32
1.6K ratings
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An Era of Darkness Summary
An Era of Darkness
The British Empire in India
by Shashi Tharoor 2016 360 pages
4.17
12.2K ratings
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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" Summary
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
by Patrick J. Buchanan 2008 544 pages
4.19
1.9K ratings
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World War II
Tribe Summary
Tribe
On Homecoming and Belonging
by Sebastian Junger 2016 182 pages
4.02
47.8K ratings
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Boomerang Summary
Boomerang
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by Michael Lewis 2011 218 pages
3.90
46.8K ratings
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The Idea Factory Summary
The Idea Factory
Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
by Jon Gertner 2012 432 pages
4.20
8.4K ratings
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Just for Fun Summary
Just for Fun
The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by Linus Torvalds 2001 288 pages
3.96
4.7K ratings
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Marx Summary
Marx
A Very Short Introduction
by Peter Singer 1980 108 pages
3.70
3.1K ratings
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Capitalism without Capital Summary
Capitalism without Capital
The Rise of the Intangible Economy
by Jonathan Haskel 2017 288 pages
3.78
2.4K ratings
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Five Families Summary
Five Families
The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
by Selwyn Raab 2005 784 pages
4.14
6.2K ratings
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The Innovators Summary
The Innovators
How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson 2011 542 pages
4.12
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How Propaganda Works Summary
How Propaganda Works
by Jason F. Stanley 2015 376 pages
3.56
700 ratings
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Censored Summary
Censored
Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall
by Margaret E. Roberts 2018 281 pages
4.17
117 ratings
China
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History
Unhumans Summary
Unhumans
The Secret History of Communist Revolutions
by Jack Posobiec 2024 272 pages
4.08
625 ratings
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Invisible Doctrine Summary
Invisible Doctrine
The Secret History of Neoliberalism
by George Monbiot 2024 224 pages
4.41
1.7K ratings
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Who Owns England? Summary
Who Owns England?
How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back
by Guy Shrubsole 2019 385 pages
4.22
1.3K ratings
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Environment
National Identity Summary
National Identity
by Anthony D. Smith 1991 240 pages
3.70
233 ratings
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Fingerprints of the Gods Summary
Fingerprints of the Gods
The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
by Graham Hancock 1995 578 pages
4.16
14.8K ratings
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Destiny of the Republic Summary
Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard 2011 339 pages
4.22
80.2K ratings
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Fake Law Summary
Fake Law
The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
by The Secret Barrister 2020 400 pages
4.20
4.7K ratings
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At the Existentialist Café Summary
At the Existentialist Café
by Sarah Bakewell 2016 440 pages
4.24
18.2K ratings
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The Polymath Summary
The Polymath
Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility
by Waqas Ahmed 2019 333 pages
3.86
391 ratings
Self Help
Psychology
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Shape Summary
Shape
The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse
by Jordan Ellenberg 2021 480 pages
3.73
2.0K ratings
Science
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The Best and the Brightest Summary
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam 1969 688 pages
4.27
12.6K ratings
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War
SEAL Team Six Summary
SEAL Team Six
Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
by Howard E. Wasdin 2011 331 pages
4.06
17.9K ratings
Military Fiction
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Ramayana Unravelled Summary
Ramayana Unravelled
Lesser Known Facets of Rishi Vālmiki’s Epic
by Ami Ganatra 2022 236 pages
4.38
597 ratings
History
Mythology
Religion
What Went Wrong with Capitalism Summary
What Went Wrong with Capitalism
by Ruchir Sharma 2024 384 pages
3.91
462 ratings
Economics
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The Great Displacement Summary
The Great Displacement
Climate Change and the Next American Migration
by Jake Bittle 2023 368 pages
4.28
3.4K ratings
Science
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Black Edge Summary
Black Edge
Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
by Sheelah Kolhatkar 2017 295 pages
4.20
16.1K ratings
Business
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Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince Summary
Discovering the Hidden Wisdom of The Little Prince
In Search of Saint-Exupéry's Lost Child
by Pierre Lassus 2014 240 pages
3.31
49 ratings
Books About Books
Memoir
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The Worldly Philosophers Summary
The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L. Heilbroner 1953 368 pages
4.16
8.7K ratings
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Target Tehran Summary
Target Tehran
How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East
by Yonah Jeremy Bob 2023 432 pages
4.06
316 ratings
Israel
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Mama Lola Summary
Mama Lola
A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn
by Karen McCarthy Brown 1991 440 pages
4.04
1.3K ratings
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The Genius of Israel Summary
The Genius of Israel
The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
by Dan Senor 2023 336 pages
4.38
1.1K ratings
Israel
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The Road to Freedom Summary
The Road to Freedom
Economics and the Good Society
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2024 384 pages
4.03
535 ratings
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How to Tell a Joke Summary
How to Tell a Joke
An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor
by Marcus Tullius Cicero 2021 321 pages
3.21
177 ratings
Philosophy
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The Bible Code Summary
The Bible Code
by Michael Drosnin 1997 264 pages
2.88
2.1K ratings
Religion
Christian
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The Anarchist Cookbook Summary
The Anarchist Cookbook
by William Powell 1971 160 pages
3.50
2.5K ratings
Politics
Banned Books
Reference
The Constitution of Knowledge Summary
The Constitution of Knowledge
A Defense of Truth
by Jonathan Rauch 2021 318 pages
4.26
1.5K ratings
Politics
Philosophy
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Strangers in Their Own Land Summary
Strangers in Their Own Land
Anger and Mourning on the American Right
by Arlie Russell Hochschild 2016 242 pages
4.12
17.4K ratings
Politics
Sociology
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India Wins Freedom Summary
India Wins Freedom
The Complete Version
by Abul Kalam Azad 1978 297 pages
4.20
1.1K ratings
History
India
Politics
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