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The Accidental Superpower Summary
The Accidental Superpower
The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
by Peter Zeihan 2014 384 pages
4.30
4k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Common Sense Summary
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine 1776 104 pages
4.00
39k+ ratings
History
Classics
Philosophy
Social Justice Fallacies Summary
Social Justice Fallacies
by Thomas Sowell 2023 225 pages
4.38
2k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
A Freewheelin' Time Summary
A Freewheelin' Time
A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
by Suze Rotolo 2008 369 pages
3.85
4k+ ratings
Music
Memoir
Biography
The Worldly Philosophers Summary
The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L. Heilbroner 1953 368 pages
4.16
9k+ ratings
Economics
Philosophy
History
No More Tears Summary
No More Tears
The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson
by Gardiner Harris 2025 464 pages
4.17
20k+ ratings
History
Business
Science
Diana Summary
Diana
Her True Story in Her Own Words
by Andrew Morton 1993 432 pages
3.84
30k+ ratings
Biography
History
Memoir
Stoicism and the Art of Happiness Summary
Stoicism and the Art of Happiness
by Donald J. Robertson 2013 224 pages
4.13
2k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
Dongri To Dubai Summary
Dongri To Dubai
Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
by S. Hussain Zaidi 2012 378 pages
3.95
10k+ ratings
Crime
India
History
Capitalism Summary
Capitalism
The Unknown Ideal
by Ayn Rand 1946 340 pages
3.90
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
The Technology Trap Summary
The Technology Trap
Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
by Carl Benedikt Frey 2019 480 pages
4.10
500+ ratings
Economics
Technology
History
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language Summary
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
by David W. Anthony 2007 568 pages
3.99
4k+ ratings
History
Linguistics
Anthropology
Lincoln on Leadership Summary
Lincoln on Leadership
Executive Strategies for Tough Times
by Donald T. Phillips 1993 193 pages
4.16
7k+ ratings
Leadership
Business
History
Our Dollar, Your Problem Summary
Our Dollar, Your Problem
An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff 2025 360 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Economics
Finance
History
The Constitution of Knowledge Summary
The Constitution of Knowledge
A Defense of Truth
by Jonathan Rauch 2021 318 pages
4.25
1k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Liberalism and Its Discontents Summary
Liberalism and Its Discontents
by Francis Fukuyama 2022 190 pages
3.90
3k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2 Summary
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2
The Use of Pleasure
by Michel Foucault 1984 304 pages
4.06
4k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Theory
Devil Take the Hindmost Summary
Devil Take the Hindmost
A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor 1996 400 pages
3.99
2k+ ratings
Finance
History
Economics
The Immortality Key Summary
The Immortality Key
Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
by Brian C. Muraresku 2020 352 pages
4.24
6k+ ratings
History
Religion
Philosophy
The Post-American World Summary
The Post-American World
Release 2.0
by Fareed Zakaria 2008 336 pages
3.86
12k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
The Road to Freedom Summary
The Road to Freedom
Economics and the Good Society
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2024 384 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
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
3k+ ratings
History
Philosophy
Biography
The End of Education Summary
The End of Education
Redefining the Value of School
by Neil Postman 1995 224 pages
3.97
1k+ ratings
Education
Philosophy
Sociology
Inglorious Empire Summary
Inglorious Empire
What the British Did to India
by Shashi Tharoor 2016 288 pages
4.17
12k+ ratings
History
India
Politics
The Code Breaker Summary
The Code Breaker
Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by Walter Isaacson 2021 536 pages
4.28
41k+ ratings
Science
Biography
History
Why We're Polarized Summary
Why We're Polarized
by Ezra Klein 2020 336 pages
4.21
20k+ ratings
Politics
History
Psychology
"Believing Women" in Islam Summary
"Believing Women" in Islam
Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
by Asma Barlas 2002 274 pages
4.26
1k+ ratings
Islam
Religion
Feminism
Less Than Nothing Summary
Less Than Nothing
Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
by Slavoj Žižek 2012 1056 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Theory
National Identity Summary
National Identity
by Anthony D. Smith 1991 240 pages
3.71
243 ratings
History
Politics
Sociology
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
4.07
450 ratings
Israel
History
Middle East
How the Word Is Passed Summary
How the Word Is Passed
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith 2021 336 pages
4.70
40k+ ratings
History
Race
Social Justice
Bibi Summary
Bibi
My Story
by Benjamin Netanyahu 2022 733 pages
4.43
2k+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
The Best and the Brightest Summary
The Best and the Brightest
by David Halberstam 1969 720 pages
4.27
12k+ ratings
History
Politics
War
The Sing Sing Files Summary
The Sing Sing Files
One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
by Dan Slepian 2024 224 pages
4.46
2k+ ratings
True Crime
Crime
History
Red Notice Summary
Red Notice
A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
by Bill Browder 2015 380 pages
4.44
100k+ ratings
History
Politics
Russia
God Is Red Summary
God Is Red
A Native View of Religion
by Vine Deloria Jr. 1972 325 pages
4.16
2k+ ratings
Religion
Native American
History
Boomerang Summary
Boomerang
Travels in the New Third World
by Michael Lewis 2011 218 pages
3.90
47k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Lady Justice Summary
Lady Justice
Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
by Dahlia Lithwick 2022 368 pages
4.36
3k+ ratings
Politics
Feminism
Law
Atlantis Summary
Atlantis
The Antediluvian World
by Ignatius L. Donnelly 1882 44 pages
3.67
500+ ratings
History
Mythology
Classics
Fake Law Summary
Fake Law
The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
by The Secret Barrister 2020 372 pages
4.18
5k+ ratings
Law
Politics
Crime
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
18k+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
The Billion Dollar Spy Summary
The Billion Dollar Spy
A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
by David E. Hoffman 2015 336 pages
4.23
16k+ ratings
History
Espionage
Russia
Muhammad Summary
Muhammad
A Biography of the Prophet
by Karen Armstrong 1991 290 pages
4.18
7k+ ratings
Religion
Islam
History
The Creation of Patriarchy Summary
The Creation of Patriarchy
by Gerda Lerner 1986 318 pages
4.38
2k+ ratings
Feminism
History
Womens
Why Empires Fall Summary
Why Empires Fall
Rome, America and the Future of the West
by Peter Heather and John Rapley 1983 208 pages
3.60
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Economics
Ramayana Unravelled Summary
Ramayana Unravelled
Lesser Known Facets of Rishi Vālmiki’s Epic
by Ami Ganatra 2022 236 pages
4.38
500+ ratings
History
Mythology
Religion
Bitita's Diary Summary
Bitita's Diary
The Childhood Memoirs of Carolina Maria de Jesus
by Carolina Maria de Jesus 1960 180 pages
4.49
10k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Brazil
The Second Founding Summary
The Second Founding
How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
by Eric Foner 2019 224 pages
4.23
2k+ ratings
History
American History
Civil War
Matrix of Power Summary
Matrix of Power
Secrets of World Control
by Jordan Maxwell 2000 108 pages
4.09
227 ratings
Conspiracy Theories
History
Politics
Censored Summary
Censored
Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall
by Margaret E. Roberts 2018 280 pages
4.18
123 ratings
China
Politics
History
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