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by Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.3(151,931)
Abraham Lincoln united his fiercest political rivals into a cabinet of extraordinary talent to navigate the nation through the Civil War and preserve the Union.
by Yuval Noah Harari
4.2(147,289)
Yuval Noah Harari charts humanity's ambitious, potentially risky journey from overcoming famine, disease, and war to upgrading ourselves into god-like beings through technology and bioengineering.
by Bryan Stevenson
4.6(143,058)
Bryan Stevenson, a young lawyer, confronts the racial injustice of America's legal system through the fight for Walter McMillian, a man wrongly condemned to death row, showing how mercy can improve a broken justice system.
by Barack Obama
3.8(140,803)
Barack Obama shares his vision for a united America, blending personal reflections with calls for a politics rooted in shared optimism and a pursuit of the American Dream.
by Aldous Huxley
4.2(140,217)
Huxley's novel portrays a future where genetic engineering and conditioning create a docile populace. It explores the cost of manufactured happiness and how overpopulation and propaganda bring his dystopian vision closer to home.
by Ayn Rand
3.6(130,790)
In a future where being an individual is a crime, Equality 7-2521 defies the collective 'we' to find the lost power of 'I' and personal freedom.
by Ron Chernow
4.2(128,855)
From an illegitimate orphan to a leading architect of American finance and government, Alexander Hamilton's turbulent life was a relentless fight against obscurity and opposition, forging the very foundations of a nation.
by Upton Sinclair
3.8(128,835)
In Chicago's turn-of-the-century meatpacking plants, Jurgis Rudkus and his family are destroyed by capitalism, showing the brutal cost of the American dream.
by Steven D. Levitt
4.0(121,251)
Levitt and Dubner explore the hidden incentives behind everything from prostitution and terrorism to global warming and chemotherapy, revealing the surprising logic that governs our world.
by Walter Isaacson
4.0(113,854)
by Robert A. Heinlein
4.2(112,987)
In a future where Earth's lunar penal colony revolts for independence, a one-armed computer technician, a female activist, a wise professor, and a self-aware supercomputer lead a revolution against an oppressive government, battling for freedom and the meaning of humanity.
by Karl Marx
3.6(108,580)
History is a story of class struggle. 'The Communist Manifesto' calls on the working class to unite, overthrow capitalism, and create an equal world.
by William L. Shirer
4.2(101,287)
William L. Shirer chronicles the rapid rise and catastrophic fall of Hitler's Third Reich, using an unprecedented collection of Nazi documents to detail its twelve-year reign.
by Bill Clinton
3.8(91,284)
When a cyberterror plot threatens America and a traitor lurks within his cabinet, the President of the United States vanishes, becoming both suspect and victim in a real-time race against an unprecedented attack.
by Yuval Noah Harari
4.2(88,101)
Yuval Noah Harari offers 21 urgent lessons to help humanity navigate the present and prepare for an uncertain future marked by AI, fake news, and global upheaval.
by Ursula K. Le Guin
4.2(87,815)
On a barren anarchist moon, a brilliant physicist grapples with the sacrifices of freedom and the allure of a hierarchical, resource-rich homeworld he's forbidden to embrace.
by Roxane Gay
3.9(85,671)
In a collection of sharp, funny, and deeply personal essays, Roxane Gay dissects pop culture, politics, and her evolving identity as a woman of color, challenging the rigid confines of modern feminism.
by Michael Crichton
3.7(81,438)
An intelligence agent races from Parisian labs to Antarctic volcanoes to connect seemingly unrelated events as a global conspiracy to weaponize natural disasters unfolds, aiming to stop eco-terrorists before they cause catastrophic climate chaos.
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4.2(78,475)
From a childhood marked by civil war, female mutilation, and strict Islamic dogma, Ayaan Hirsi Ali develops the will to escape a forced marriage and become a champion for free speech and women's rights, even while facing death threats and political ostracization.
by David McCullough
4.1(77,137)
From a Missouri farm to the Oval Office, Harry S. Truman unexpectedly faced the atomic age, the start of the Cold War, and the Korean conflict, showing a courageous resolve that reshaped the 20th century.
by Dave Eggers
4.1(71,730)
After Hurricane Katrina, a Syrian-American man's efforts to help his community are misunderstood, leading to his imprisonment during the War on Terror.
by Nelson Mandela
4.3(67,778)
Nelson Mandela's autobiography chronicles his transformative journey from tribal upbringing to anti-apartheid revolutionary, detailing his 27 years of imprisonment and eventual leadership in dismantling racial oppression in South Africa.
by Thomas More
3.5(59,452)
A seasoned traveler describes the radical, communal, and often unsettling customs of the isolated island of Utopia, making readers question their own 'civilized' world.
by Barbara W. Tuchman
4.2(57,945)
With the inexorable pull of a Greek tragedy, Tuchman masterfully dissects the diplomatic blunders, military mobilizations, and human failings that ignited the inferno of World War I in a single, catastrophic month.