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How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps Summary
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
by Ben Shapiro 2020 288 pages
4.08
5.0K ratings
Politics
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Night Falls Fast Summary
Night Falls Fast
Understanding Suicide
by Kay Redfield Jamison 2000 448 pages
4.12
6.9K ratings
Psychology
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Mental Illness
Behind the Beautiful Forevers Summary
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo 2012 278 pages
3.98
116.2K ratings
India
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Wiser Summary
Wiser
Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
by Cass R. Sunstein 2014 272 pages
3.62
428 ratings
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Making Sense of People Summary
Making Sense of People
Decoding the Mysteries of Personality
by Samuel H. Barondes 2011 230 pages
3.58
1.2K ratings
Psychology
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Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life Summary
Sex, Murder, and the Meaning of Life
A Psychologist Investigates How Evolution, Cognition, and Complexity are Revolutionizing our View of Human Nature
by Douglas T. Kenrick 2011 256 pages
3.57
667 ratings
Psychology
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Evolution
Studies in the Development of Capitalism Summary
Studies in the Development of Capitalism
by Maurice Dobb 2007 408 pages
3.84
61 ratings
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How We Know What Isn't So Summary
How We Know What Isn't So
The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
by Thomas Gilovich 1993 216 pages
3.96
3.2K ratings
Psychology
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The Certainty Illusion Summary
The Certainty Illusion
What You Don't Know and Why It Matters
by Timothy Caulfield 2025 312 pages
3.97
467 ratings
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The Art and Science of Connection Summary
The Art and Science of Connection
Why Social Health Is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and Happier
by Kasley Killam 2024 288 pages
3.89
534 ratings
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Self Help
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Who Rules the World? Summary
Who Rules the World?
by Noam Chomsky 2016 320 pages
4.05
12.3K ratings
Politics
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Brain Bugs Summary
Brain Bugs
How the Brain's Flaws Shape Our Lives
by Dean Buonomano 2011 310 pages
3.8
2.9K ratings
Science
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Neuroscience
Fed Up Summary
Fed Up
Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
by Gemma Hartley 2018 272 pages
3.71
3.7K ratings
Feminism
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Womens
The Social Conquest of Earth Summary
The Social Conquest of Earth
by Edward O. Wilson 2012 352 pages
4.02
4.3K ratings
Science
History
Biology
The Invention of Tradition Summary
The Invention of Tradition
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1992 320 pages
3.95
1.6K ratings
History
Anthropology
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The Control Revolution Summary
The Control Revolution
Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
by James R. Beniger 1986 508 pages
4.17
110 ratings
History
Technology
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The Civilizing Process Summary
The Civilizing Process
by Norbert Elias 2000 592 pages
4.24
1.0K ratings
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The Age of Diagnosis Summary
The Age of Diagnosis
How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
by Suzanne O'Sullivan 2025 320 pages
4.14
1.3K ratings
Science
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Health
White Rage Summary
White Rage
The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
by Carol Anderson 2016 246 pages
4.47
14.7K ratings
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Race
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Why Brains Need Friends Summary
Why Brains Need Friends
The Neuroscience of Social Connection
by Ben Rein 2025 256 pages
4.1
100 ratings
Psychology
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Self Help
Off the Edge Summary
Off the Edge
Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
by Kelly Weill 2022 245 pages
3.79
2.0K ratings
History
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Scripts People Live Summary
Scripts People Live
Transactional Analysis of Life Scripts
by Claude M. Steiner 1994 352 pages
4.05
1.1K ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Counselling
Unforgiving Places Summary
Unforgiving Places
The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence
by Jens Ludwig 2025 352 pages
4.25
126 ratings
Crime
Politics
History
Tits Up Summary
Tits Up
What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
by Sarah Thornton 2024 336 pages
3.68
1.7K ratings
Feminism
History
Science
All That Is Solid Summary
All That Is Solid
The Great Housing Disaster
by Danny Dorling 2014
3.54
143 ratings
Politics
Cities
Sociology
No Straight Road Takes You There Summary
No Straight Road Takes You There
Essays for Uneven Terrain
by Rebecca Solnit 2025 176 pages
4.17
801 ratings
Essays
Politics
Feminism
Slavery by Another Name Summary
Slavery by Another Name
The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by Douglas A. Blackmon 2008 480 pages
4.38
7.1K ratings
History
Race
Politics
Reveille for Radicals Summary
Reveille for Radicals
by Saul D. Alinsky 1989 256 pages
3.83
585 ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
A Protest History of the United States Summary
A Protest History of the United States
by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 2025 360 pages
4.2
107 ratings
History
Politics
American History
Worse Than Slavery Summary
Worse Than Slavery
Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice
by David M. Oshinsky 1997 320 pages
4.3
1.1K ratings
History
Race
African American
An Economist Walks into a Brothel Summary
An Economist Walks into a Brothel
And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
by Allison Schrager 2019 240 pages
3.55
2.2K ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
The Age of Abundance Summary
The Age of Abundance
How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture
by Brink Lindsey 2007 400 pages
3.51
135 ratings
Economics
History
Politics
Whole Numbers and Half Truths Summary
Whole Numbers and Half Truths
by Rukmini S. 2021 324 pages
4.22
1.1K ratings
India
Economics
Politics
Cults Summary
Cults
Faith, Healing and Coercion
by Marc Galanter 1999 304 pages
3.77
111 ratings
Cults
Psychology
Religion
I Only Say This Because I Love You Summary
I Only Say This Because I Love You
How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives
by Deborah Tannen 2001 368 pages
3.79
492 ratings
Psychology
Self Help
Communication
The Great Leveler Summary
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
by Walter Scheidel 2017 528 pages
3.81
1.6K ratings
History
Economics
Politics
Crazy Like Us Summary
Crazy Like Us
The Globalization of the American Psyche
by Ethan Watters 2010 320 pages
4.09
4.3K ratings
Psychology
Mental Health
History
De ce este România altfel? Summary
De ce este România altfel?
by Lucian Boia 2012 128 pages
3.85
2.7K ratings
History
Romania
Romanian Literature
A Slap in the Face Summary
A Slap in the Face
Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn't
by William B. Irvine 2013 264 pages
3.7
514 ratings
Philosophy
Psychology
Self Help
The Social Paradox Summary
The Social Paradox
Autonomy, Connection, and Why We Need Both to Find Happiness – An Evolutionary Psychology Guide to Overcoming Loneliness
by William Von Hippel 2025 304 pages
3.82
157 ratings
Psychology
Science
Self Help
Diversity and Complexity Summary
Diversity and Complexity
by Scott E. Page 2010 304 pages
4.12
207 ratings
Science
Economics
Business
Giants Summary
Giants
The Global Power Elite
by Peter Phillips 2018 355 pages
3.8
254 ratings
Politics
Economics
History
A Lot of People Are Saying Summary
A Lot of People Are Saying
The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
by Russell Muirhead 2019 232 pages
3.61
770 ratings
Politics
Sociology
Philosophy
Bandits Summary
Bandits
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 2001 240 pages
3.75
792 ratings
History
Sociology
Crime
How to Change the World Summary
How to Change the World
Tales of Marx and Marxism
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 2011 470 pages
3.88
976 ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Nations and Nationalism since 1780 Summary
Nations and Nationalism since 1780
Programme, Myth, Reality
by Eric J. Hobsbawm 1992 214 pages
3.91
2.1K ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
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