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The Lucifer Effect Summary
The Lucifer Effect
Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
by Philip G. Zimbardo 2007 551 pages
3.90
27k+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Philosophy
How Democracies Die Summary
How Democracies Die
What History Reveals About Our Future
by Steven Levitsky 2018 320 pages
4.16
33k+ ratings
Politics
History
Political Science
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Summary
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard P. Feynman 1985 352 pages
4.26
200k+ ratings
Science
Biography
Physics
The Nvidia Way Summary
The Nvidia Way
Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
by Tae Kim 2024 268 pages
4.32
4k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Biography
Muhammad Summary
Muhammad
A Prophet for Our Time
by Karen Armstrong 2006 256 pages
4.08
3k+ ratings
Religion
Islam
History
The Choice Summary
The Choice
Embrace the Possible
by Edith Eger 2017 321 pages
4.57
100k+ ratings
Memoir
Psychology
Biography
Revenge of the Tipping Point Summary
Revenge of the Tipping Point
by Malcolm Gladwell 2024 352 pages
4.02
60k+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
History
Money Summary
Money
by Yuval Noah Harari 2018
3.90
2k+ ratings
History
Economics
Finance
The Tyranny of Merit Summary
The Tyranny of Merit
What's Become of the Common Good?
by Michael J. Sandel 2020 272 pages
4.19
14k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
Black Skin, White Masks Summary
Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon 1952 232 pages
4.26
19k+ ratings
Philosophy
Race
Politics
The Republic Summary
The Republic
by Plato 416 pages
3.97
200k+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Politics
The Snowball Summary
The Snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder 2008 832 pages
4.16
54k+ ratings
Biography
Business
Finance
The Anatomy of Fascism Summary
The Anatomy of Fascism
by Robert O. Paxton 2004 336 pages
4.22
5k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
The Attention Merchants Summary
The Attention Merchants
The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by Tim Wu 2016 403 pages
4.07
4k+ ratings
Psychology
Technology
Business
The Book of Enoch Summary
The Book of Enoch
by Anonymous 160 pages
3.96
5k+ ratings
Religion
History
Christianity
The Polyester Prince Summary
The Polyester Prince
The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani
by Hamish McDonald 1998 296 pages
3.89
1k+ ratings
Biography
Business
India
The Big Short Summary
The Big Short
Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis 2010 287 pages
4.30
100k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Finance
God Is Not One Summary
God Is Not One
The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter
by Stephen Prothero 2010 388 pages
3.77
4k+ ratings
Religion
History
Philosophy
Everything Is Tuberculosis Summary
Everything Is Tuberculosis
The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green 2025 198 pages
4.33
200k+ ratings
History
Science
Health
Capital Returns Summary
Capital Returns
Investing Through the Capital Cycle: A Money Manager’s Reports 2002-15
by Edward Chancellor 2015 225 pages
4.38
1k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Capital Summary
Capital
A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by Karl Marx 1887 1152 pages
4.30
14k+ ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Politics
Einstein Summary
Einstein
His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson 2007 675 pages
4.17
200k+ ratings
Biography
Science
History
Broken Money Summary
Broken Money
Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make it Better
by Lyn Alden 2023 538 pages
4.60
2k+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Money
How Civil Wars Start Summary
How Civil Wars Start
And How to Stop Them
by Barbara F. Walter 2022 320 pages
4.24
6k+ ratings
Politics
History
War
Team of Rivals Summary
Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 916 pages
4.29
200k+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Man's Search for Meaning Summary
Man's Search for Meaning
A Young Adult Edition
by Viktor E. Frankl 2017 186 pages
4.39
3k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Self Help
100 Baggers Summary
100 Baggers
Stocks That Return 100-To-1 and How to Find Them
by Christopher W. Mayer 2015 215 pages
4.20
3k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Silencing the Past Summary
Silencing the Past
Power and the Production of History
by Michel-Rolph Trouillot 1995 216 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Where Good Ideas Come From Summary
Where Good Ideas Come From
by Steven Johnson 2010 340 pages
3.99
15k+ ratings
Business
History
Science
Homo Ludens Summary
Homo Ludens
A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
by Johan Huizinga 1938 230 pages
3.98
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Game Design
Hard Times Create Strong Men Summary
Hard Times Create Strong Men
by Stefan Aarnio 2019 554 pages
4.08
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Philosophy
Psychology
Manias, Panics, and Crashes Summary
Manias, Panics, and Crashes
A History of Financial Crises
by Charles P. Kindleberger 1978 304 pages
3.93
4k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
History
The Grand Chessboard Summary
The Grand Chessboard
American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
by Zbigniew Brzeziński 1997 240 pages
3.98
3k+ ratings
Politics
History
International Relations
The Soundscape Summary
The Soundscape
Our Environment and the Tuning of the World
by R. Murray Schafer 1977 320 pages
4.13
500+ ratings
Music
Art
Science
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator Summary
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Edwin Lefèvre 1923 308 pages
4.18
20k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Humankind Summary
Humankind
by Rutger Bregman 2019 480 pages
4.32
81k+ ratings
History
Psychology
Philosophy
A History of Modern Iran Summary
A History of Modern Iran
by Ervand Abrahamian 2008 228 pages
3.89
1k+ ratings
History
Iran
Middle East
Man, the State, and War Summary
Man, the State, and War
A Theoretical Analysis
by Kenneth N. Waltz 1954 263 pages
3.97
2k+ ratings
Politics
International Relations
Political Science
Night Summary
Night
by Elie Wiesel 1956 120 pages
4.38
1.3M+ ratings
Classics
History
Memoir
Man's Search for Meaning Summary
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl 1946 165 pages
4.37
800k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
History
Currency Wars Summary
Currency Wars
The Making of the Next Global Crisis
by James Rickards 2011 318 pages
3.96
5k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
The Diary of a Young Girl Summary
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank 1947 283 pages
4.20
4.2M+ ratings
Classics
History
Biography
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Summary
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
by Paul Kennedy 1987 677 pages
4.14
6k+ ratings
History
Politics
Economics
End Times Summary
End Times
Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
by Peter Turchin 2023 368 pages
4.06
2k+ ratings
History
Politics
Economics
The Machine That Changed the World Summary
The Machine That Changed the World
The Story of Lean Production
by James P. Womack 1990 327 pages
4.03
2k+ ratings
Business
Management
History
Titan Summary
Titan
The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow 1998 832 pages
4.15
38k+ ratings
Biography
History
Business
Basic Economics Summary
Basic Economics
A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowellm 2000 786 pages
4.37
14k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Revenge of Geography Summary
The Revenge of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
by Robert D. Kaplan 2012 448 pages
3.79
6k+ ratings
History
Politics
Geography
The Poisoner's Handbook Summary
The Poisoner's Handbook
Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
by Deborah Blum 2010 319 pages
4.02
37k+ ratings
History
Science
True Crime
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 Summary
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1
An Introduction
by Michel Foucault 1976 176 pages
4.02
25k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Theory
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