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Your Inner Fish Summary
Your Inner Fish
a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin 2008 229 pages
4.04
29k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Why Liberalism Failed Summary
Why Liberalism Failed
by Patrick J. Deneen 2018 248 pages
3.84
3k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Waste Land Summary
Waste Land
A World in Permanent Crisis
by Robert D. Kaplan 2025 224 pages
3.61
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Current Affairs
بیست و سه سال Summary
بیست و سه سال
by علی دشتی 1974 339 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
Religion
History
Islam
War Summary
War
How Conflict Shaped Us
by Margaret MacMillan 2020 304 pages
3.58
3k+ ratings
History
War
Politics
The Capitalist Manifesto Summary
The Capitalist Manifesto
Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
by Johan Norberg 2023 304 pages
4.23
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Everyone Is African Summary
Everyone Is African
How Science Explodes the Myth of Race
by Daniel J. Fairbanks 2015 191 pages
4.12
144 ratings
Science
Race
History
Terror, Love and Brainwashing Summary
Terror, Love and Brainwashing
Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems
by Alexandra Stein 2017 236 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Psychology
Cults
Politics
Original Sin Summary
Original Sin
President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
by Jake Tapper 2025 352 pages
3.72
21k+ ratings
Politics
History
Biography
The Sum of Us Summary
The Sum of Us
What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
by Heather McGhee 2021 415 pages
4.62
21k+ ratings
Race
History
Politics
The Leadership of Muhammad Summary
The Leadership of Muhammad
by John Adair 2010 144 pages
4.09
331 ratings
Leadership
Islam
Biography
Citizens Summary
Citizens
Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
by Jon Alexander 2022 318 pages
4.04
317 ratings
Politics
Sociology
Society
Genghis Khan Summary
Genghis Khan
Life, Death, and Resurrection
by John Man 2004 400 pages
3.72
1k+ ratings
History
Biography
China
Monopoly Capital Summary
Monopoly Capital
An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order
by Paul A. Baran 1966 416 pages
4.20
276 ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism Summary
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism
And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
by Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018 240 pages
3.98
8k+ ratings
Feminism
Politics
History
Persians Summary
Persians
The Age of the Great Kings
by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2022 448 pages
4.07
2k+ ratings
History
Ancient History
Iran
Shroom Summary
Shroom
A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom
by Andy Letcher 2006 384 pages
3.87
371 ratings
History
Drugs
Science
Dreams of a Final Theory Summary
Dreams of a Final Theory
The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature
by Steven Weinberg 1987 340 pages
4.07
3k+ ratings
Science
Physics
Philosophy
The Square and the Tower Summary
The Square and the Tower
Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
by Niall Ferguson 2017 592 pages
3.65
4k+ ratings
History
Politics
Economics
The New Silk Roads Summary
The New Silk Roads
The Present and Future of the World
by Peter Frankopan 2018
3.57
8k+ ratings
History
Politics
China
Counterinsurgency Warfare Summary
Counterinsurgency Warfare
Theory and Practice
by David Galula 1964 128 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Military Fiction
War
History
Black Magic Summary
Black Magic
What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph
by Chad Sanders 2021 287 pages
4.34
491 ratings
Race
History
Leadership
Philosophy Summary
Philosophy
The Classics
by Nigel Warburton 2000 280 pages
3.94
500+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Theology
The Reactionary Mind Summary
The Reactionary Mind
Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
by Corey Robin 2011 290 pages
3.94
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Philosophy
The Last Kings of Shanghai Summary
The Last Kings of Shanghai
The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
by Jonathan Kaufman 2020 384 pages
4.27
5k+ ratings
History
China
Jewish
The Republic of Pirates Summary
The Republic of Pirates
Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
by Colin Woodard 2007 383 pages
3.89
12k+ ratings
History
Pirates
Historical
After Steve Summary
After Steve
How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
by Tripp Mickle 2022 512 pages
4.09
3k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Technology
The Great Debate Summary
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
by Yuval Levin 2013 296 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
China After Mao Summary
China After Mao
The Rise of a Superpower
by Frank Dikötter 2022 416 pages
3.91
1k+ ratings
China
History
Politics
The Big Thirst Summary
The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
by Charles Fishman 2010 400 pages
3.94
2k+ ratings
Science
Environment
Nature
George Washington's Secret Six Summary
George Washington's Secret Six
The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
by Brian Kilmeade 2013 235 pages
3.86
21k+ ratings
History
American History
American Revolution
Socialism Summary
Socialism
Utopian and Scientific
by Friedrich Engels 1880 86 pages
4.26
9k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
Theory
Hardball Summary
Hardball
How Politics Is Played, Told by One Who Knows the Game
by Chris Matthews 1988 240 pages
3.51
1k+ ratings
Politics
School
Political Science
How Innovation Works Summary
How Innovation Works
Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
by Matt Ridley 2020 320 pages
4.11
3k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Science
Trillions Summary
Trillions
How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
by Robin Wigglesworth 2021 352 pages
3.99
1k+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
On Boxing Summary
On Boxing
by Joyce Carol Oates 1987 304 pages
3.89
1k+ ratings
Sports
Essays
History
Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret Summary
Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
by F. Howard Taylor 1932 264 pages
4.28
8k+ ratings
Biography
Christian
Christianity
Natural Born Heroes Summary
Natural Born Heroes
How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance
by Christopher McDougall 2013 337 pages
3.85
10k+ ratings
History
Sports
Health
Stranger in the Shogun's City Summary
Stranger in the Shogun's City
A Japanese Woman and Her World
by Amy Stanley 2020 352 pages
3.77
2k+ ratings
History
Japan
Biography
She Said Summary
She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by Jodi Kantor 2019 310 pages
4.34
44k+ ratings
Feminism
True Crime
Politics
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism Summary
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
by Martin Wolf 2023 496 pages
3.91
1k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Occupy Summary
Occupy
by Noam Chomsky 2012 128 pages
3.59
2k+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Adults in the Room Summary
Adults in the Room
My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment
by Yanis Varoufakis 2017 561 pages
4.31
5k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Adolf Hitler Summary
Adolf Hitler
by John Toland 1958 1120 pages
4.24
3k+ ratings
History
Biography
World War II
The Premonition Summary
The Premonition
A Pandemic Story
by Michael Lewis 2021 304 pages
4.32
43k+ ratings
Science
History
Politics
The 5000 Year Leap Summary
The 5000 Year Leap
by W. Cleon Skousen 1981 337 pages
4.27
7k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Tatas Summary
The Tatas
How a Family Built a Business and a Nation
by Girish Kuber 2015 276 pages
4.34
1k+ ratings
Biography
Business
India
One Bullet Away Summary
One Bullet Away
The Making of a Marine Officer
by Nathaniel Fick 2005 372 pages
4.21
11k+ ratings
Military Fiction
War
History
It Worked for Me Summary
It Worked for Me
In Life and Leadership
by Colin Powell 2012 304 pages
4.09
7k+ ratings
Leadership
Biography
Memoir
The Montauk Project Summary
The Montauk Project
Experiments in Time
by Preston B. Nichols 1992 156 pages
3.45
500+ ratings
Conspiracy Theories
Science
History
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