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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Douglas A. Blackmon

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

Ward Farnsworth

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Library Book

Susan Orlean

4.3 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Face: One Square Foot of Skin

Justine Bateman

4.2 on Amazon

3 HN comments

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

Michael J. Sandel

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Caste: A Brief History of Racism, Sexism, Classism, Ageism, Homophobia, Religious Intolerance, Xenophobia, and Reasons for Hope

University Press

3.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe, Matthew Blaney, et al.

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting)

Pamela Druckerman

4.7 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption

Alex Marlow

4.9 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody

Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century

Josh Rogin, Robert Petkoff, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds

Michael Knowles

? on Amazon

2 HN comments

Coraline

Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

4.8 on Amazon

2 HN comments

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

4.5 on Amazon

2 HN comments

What We Owe to Each Other

T. M. Scanlon

4.7 on Amazon

2 HN comments

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The_suffocatedonNov 21, 2018

Fatal Discord by Michael Massing and The Library Book by Susan Orlean look interesting. And the list has too many (51 out of 100) fictions.

meristohmonJune 13, 2021

Susan Orlean wrote The Library Book, in part about the Los Angeles Public Library burning, possibly due to arson. The fire marshal said he saw the fire so hot in one corridor that it was clear: https://www.worldcat.org/title/library-book/oclc/1039296901&...

adrianhononJune 27, 2019

Very possibly, yes. The original modern libraries in the west were effectively subscription libraries, as in, they weren’t free to use, you had to pay to become a member. It was only later that they were run by the government. That said, there is a vast gulf between them and a little box people put outside their homes with some books inside.

Further reading: The Library Book by Susan Orlean

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