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The most-recommended economics & politics titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.

21 people
The Republic
Plato · 2003
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21 people
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson · 2020
21 recommenders
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20 people
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Stephen Pinker · 2012
20 recommenders
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18 people
The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
James Dale Davidson · 1999
18 recommenders
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18 people
Play Nice But Win
Michael Dell, James Kaplan · 2021
18 recommenders
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16 people
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman · 2005
16 recommenders
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16 people
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, 3rd Edition
Peter Bevelin · 2007
16 recommenders
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14 people
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
Professor James C. Scott · 1998
14 recommenders
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14 people
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli · 2014
14 recommenders
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14 people
The True Believer
Eric Hoffer · 2010
14 recommenders
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12 people
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · 1995
12 recommenders
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12 people
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond · 2016
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12 people
Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump · 2020
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11 people
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas · 2018
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11 people
On Liberty
John Stuart Mill · 1985
11 recommenders
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10 people
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?
Graham Allison · 2017
10 recommenders
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10 people
We Are the Weather
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2019
10 recommenders
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10 people
The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Balaji Srinivasan · 2022
10 recommenders
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9 people
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin · 1993
9 recommenders
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9 people
The World Is Flat
Thomas L. Friedman · 2007
9 recommenders
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9 people
What's Our Problem?
Tim Urban · 2023
9 recommenders
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9 people
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Daniel Ziblatt & Steven Levitsky · 2018
9 recommenders
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8 people
The Lessons of History
Unknown · 2010
8 recommenders
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8 people
Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall · 2015
8 recommenders
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8 people
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages
Carlota Perez · 2003
8 recommenders
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8 people
Jews Don’t Count
David Baddiel · 2021
8 recommenders
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8 people
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
William L. Shirer · 1990
8 recommenders
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8 people
Twilight of Democracy
Anne Applebaum · 2020
8 recommenders
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8 people
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
Michael E. Mann · 2021
8 recommenders
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8 people
Why We’re Polarized
Ezra Klein · 2020
8 recommenders
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7 people
Rules for Radicals
Saul D. Alinsky · 1989
7 recommenders
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7 people
Irreversible Damage
Abigail Shrier · 2020
7 recommenders
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7 people
Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville · 2003
7 recommenders
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7 people
The Gift
Lewis Hyde · 1983
7 recommenders
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6 people
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America
Jared Cohen · 2019
6 recommenders
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6 people
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
Douglas Murray · 2019
6 recommenders
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6 people
The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria · 2008
6 recommenders
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6 people
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Martin Gurri · 2014
6 recommenders
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6 people
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt · 1951
6 recommenders
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6 people
The Fourth Turning
William Strauss · 1997
6 recommenders
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5 people
It's About Damn Time
Arlan Hamilton · 2020
5 recommenders
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5 people
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Niall Ferguson · 2021
5 recommenders
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5 people
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
John Gray · 2004
5 recommenders
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5 people
City of Quartz
Mike Davis · 1992
5 recommenders
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5 people
The Law
Frédéric Bastiat · 2011
5 recommenders
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5 people
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Michael Lewis · 2021
5 recommenders
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5 people
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Steven Johnson · 2014
5 recommenders
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5 people
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum · 2017
5 recommenders
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5 people
The Argumentative Indian
Amartya Sen · 2005
5 recommenders
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5 people
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes · 1935
5 recommenders
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5 people
The Rule of Law
Tom Bingham · 2011
5 recommenders
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5 people
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
William J. Bernstein · 2008
5 recommenders
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5 people
The Open Society and its Enemies
Karl R. Popper · 2002
5 recommenders
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5 people
The Limits to Growth
Dennis L. Meadows, Donella H Meadows & Jorgen Randers · 1972
5 recommenders
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5 people
Freedom from Fear
Aung San Suu Kyi · 1991
5 recommenders
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5 people
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins · 2006
5 recommenders
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5 people
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
Sarah Kendzior · 2020
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5 people
The Passions and the Interests
Albert O. Hirschman · 1997
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5 people
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell · 1996
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5 people
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
Andrew Yang · 2018
5 recommenders
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5 people
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge · 2017
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5 people
The Captive Mind
Czeslaw Milosz · 1990
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4 people
The Accidental Superpower
Mr. Peter Zeihan · 2014
4 recommenders
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4 people
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
Philip Rucker · 2020
4 recommenders
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4 people
Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
Peter Zeihan · 2019
4 recommenders
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4 people
The Analects
Confucius · 2020
4 recommenders
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4 people
Fantasyland
Kurt Andersen · 2017
4 recommenders
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4 people
The Case Against Education
Bryan Caplan · 2018
4 recommenders
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4 people
Front Row at the Trump Show
Jonathan Karl · 2020
4 recommenders
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4 people
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn · 2009
4 recommenders
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4 people
Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger · 1995
4 recommenders
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4 people
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild · 1999
4 recommenders
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4 people
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris · 2005
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4 people
Women, Race, & Class
Angela Y. Davis · 1983
4 recommenders
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4 people
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman Jr. · 2017
4 recommenders
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4 people
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
S. Nassir Ghaemi · 2011
4 recommenders
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4 people
Chasing the Scream
Johann Hari · 2015
4 recommenders
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4 people
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
Michael Walzer · 2006
4 recommenders
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4 people
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt · 2006
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4 people
The Hundred-Year Marathon
Michael Pillsbury · 2015
4 recommenders
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4 people
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Francis Fukuyama · 2011
4 recommenders
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4 people
The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee · 2021
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4 people
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson · 2016
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4 people
Why Liberalism Failed
Patrick J. Deneen · 2018
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4 people
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Paul Kennedy · 1989
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4 people
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
Albert O. Hirschman · 1970
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4 people
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
Paul Hawken · 2017
4 recommenders
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4 people
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Ramachandra Guha · 2007
4 recommenders
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4 people
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Ronen Bergman · 2018
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4 people
Das Kapital
Karl Marx · 1867
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4 people
How the World Really Works
Vaclav Smil · 2022
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4 people
The End is Always Near
Dan Carlin · 2019
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4 people
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich · 2016
4 recommenders
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4 people
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
Dahlia Lithwick · 2022
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4 people
Winner-Take-All Politics
Jacob S Hacker and Paul Pierson · 2010
4 recommenders
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4 people
The Story of Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche (Grapevine edition)
Will Durant · 1991
4 recommenders
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4 people
Emergency: One Man's Story of a Dangerous World and How to Stay Alive in It
Neil Strauss · 2009
4 recommenders
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4 people
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Kim Zetter · 2014
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4 people
The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
Jonathan Rauch · 2021
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4 people
A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State
Harsh Madhusudan and Rajeev Mantri · 2020
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