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Parisian Lives Summary
Parisian Lives
Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me
by Deirdre Bair 2019 368 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Biography
Memoir
France
The Grid Summary
The Grid
The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by Gretchen Bakke 2016 384 pages
3.87
4k+ ratings
Science
History
Technology
Faking It Summary
Faking It
The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music
by Hugh Barker 2007 400 pages
3.67
100+ ratings
Music
History
Journalism
No One Man Should Have All That Power Summary
No One Man Should Have All That Power
How Rasputins Manipulate the World
by Amos Barshad 2019 240 pages
3.67
100+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Putinism Summary
Putinism
Russia and Its Future with the West
by Walter Laqueur 2015 288 pages
3.30
100+ ratings
Russia
Politics
History
Life Ascending Summary
Life Ascending
The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
by Nick Lane 2009 352 pages
4.12
5k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Evolution
Oxygen Summary
Oxygen
The Molecule that Made the World
by Nick Lane 2002 384 pages
4.14
2k+ ratings
Science
Biology
Chemistry
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln Summary
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln
21 Powerful Secrets of History's Greatest Speakers
by James C. Humes 2002 224 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
Business
Self Help
Leadership
Merchants of Doubt Summary
Merchants of Doubt
How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by Naomi Oreskes 2010 274 pages
4.17
7k+ ratings
Science
Politics
History
The Truth About Markets Summary
The Truth About Markets
Why Some Nations are Rich But Most Remain Poor
by John Kay 2003 426 pages
3.86
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Other People's Money Summary
Other People's Money
The Real Business of Finance
by John Kay 2015 336 pages
3.92
1k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
It's Good to Be Queen Summary
It's Good to Be Queen
Becoming as Bold, Gracious, and Wise as the Queen of Sheba
by Liz Curtis Higgs 2015 224 pages
4.17
500+ ratings
Christian
Faith
Christian Non Fiction
Russian Roulette Summary
Russian Roulette
The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
by Michael Isikoff 2018 352 pages
4.21
6k+ ratings
Politics
History
Russia
The Existentialist's Survival Guide Summary
The Existentialist's Survival Guide
How to Live Authentically in an Inauthentic Age
by Gordon Marino 2018 272 pages
3.70
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Psychology
The Good Book Summary
The Good Book
A Humanist Bible
by A.C. Grayling 2011 597 pages
3.72
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Religion
Atheism
Leadership Summary
Leadership
In Turbulent Times
by Doris Kearns Goodwin 2018 473 pages
4.40
15k+ ratings
History
Leadership
Biography
Awakenings Summary
Awakenings
by Oliver Sacks 1973 464 pages
4.09
13k+ ratings
Science
Psychology
Medicine
Saffron Swords - Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders Summary
Saffron Swords - Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders
by Manoshi Sinha Rawal 2019 258 pages
4.23
100+ ratings
History
India
Hinduism
Fake Law Summary
Fake Law
The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies
by The Secret Barrister 2020 400 pages
4.20
4k+ ratings
Law
Politics
Crime
The Socrates Express Summary
The Socrates Express
In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers
by Eric Weiner 2020 352 pages
4.14
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Travel
Self Help
Where Good Ideas Come From Summary
Where Good Ideas Come From
The Natural History of Innovation
by Steven Johnson 2010 326 pages
4.00
15k+ ratings
Business
Science
History
Are Prisons Obsolete? Summary
Are Prisons Obsolete?
by Angela Y. Davis 2003 128 pages
4.52
27k+ ratings
Politics
Race
Social Justice
The Myth of Islamic Tolerance Summary
The Myth of Islamic Tolerance
How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims
by Robert Spencer 2005 594 pages
3.68
50+ ratings
Islam
Politics
Religion
Factory Man Summary
Factory Man
How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by Beth Macy 2014 464 pages
3.85
2k+ ratings
Business
History
Biography
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid Summary
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
by Bill Bryson 2006 288 pages
3.93
66k+ ratings
Memoir
Humor
Biography
Hard Times Create Strong Men Summary
Hard Times Create Strong Men
by Stefan Aarnio 2019 624 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Philosophy
Psychology
Buckley Summary
Buckley
William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
by Carl T. Bogus 2011 416 pages
3.76
100+ ratings
History
Biography
Politics
Cicero Summary
Cicero
The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
by Anthony Everitt 2001 364 pages
3.89
7k+ ratings
History
Biography
Ancient History
Concrete Planet Summary
Concrete Planet
The Strange and Fascinating Story of the World's Most Common Man-Made Material
by Robert Courland 2011 396 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
History
Science
Engineering
Hatching Twitter Summary
Hatching Twitter
A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
by Nick Bilton 2013 299 pages
4.04
18k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Biography
Broad Band Summary
Broad Band
The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
by Claire L. Evans 2018 288 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
History
Science
Feminism
The Ascent of Money Summary
The Ascent of Money
A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson 2007 442 pages
3.90
29k+ ratings
History
Economics
Finance
The Wal-Mart Effect Summary
The Wal-Mart Effect
How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
by Charles Fishman 2006 352 pages
3.84
3k+ ratings
Business
Economics
History
She Said Summary
She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by Jodi Kantor 2019 310 pages
4.34
41k+ ratings
Feminism
True Crime
Politics
The Return of Marco Polo's World Summary
The Return of Marco Polo's World
War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-first Century
by Robert D. Kaplan 2018 304 pages
3.78
500+ ratings
History
Politics
International Relations
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela Summary
Good Morning, Mr. Mandela
by Zelda la Grange 2014 384 pages
3.80
1k+ ratings
Biography
Africa
Memoir
No Is Not Enough Summary
No Is Not Enough
Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by Naomi Klein 2017 273 pages
4.11
10k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Meditations Summary
Meditations
With Selected Correspondence
by Marcus Aurelius 208 pages
4.25
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Classics
Ancient
A Call to Action Summary
A Call to Action
Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
by Jimmy Carter 2014 211 pages
4.04
2k+ ratings
Politics
Feminism
Religion
When Markets Collide Summary
When Markets Collide
Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change
by EL-ERIAN 2008 361 pages
3.52
500+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
7 Men Summary
7 Men
And the Secret of Their Greatness
by Eric Metaxas 2013 240 pages
4.23
6k+ ratings
Biography
History
Christian
Municipal Dreams Summary
Municipal Dreams
The Rise and Fall of Council Housing
by John Boughton 2018 336 pages
3.96
500+ ratings
History
Politics
Architecture
Why the Germans Do it Better Summary
Why the Germans Do it Better
Notes from a Grown-Up Country
by John Kampfner 2020 320 pages
3.96
3k+ ratings
History
Politics
Germany
Samsung Rising Summary
Samsung Rising
The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
by Geoffrey Cain 2020 416 pages
3.65
1k+ ratings
Business
Technology
History
Kleptopia Summary
Kleptopia
How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
by Tom Burgis 2020 464 pages
3.80
3k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Working Summary
Working
Researching, Interviewing, Writing
by Robert A. Caro 2019 231 pages
4.44
6k+ ratings
Writing
Memoir
Biography
J.R.R. Tolkien Summary
J.R.R. Tolkien
A Biography
by Humphrey Carpenter 1977 288 pages
4.04
15k+ ratings
Biography
History
Biography Memoir
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Summary
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King Jr. 1986 400 pages
4.34
23k+ ratings
Biography
History
Autobiography
Concrete Economics Summary
Concrete Economics
The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy
by Stephen S. Cohen 2015 223 pages
3.87
100+ ratings
Economics
History
Finance
My Life And Work Summary
My Life And Work
by Henry Ford 1922 140 pages
4.18
5k+ ratings
Biography
Business
History
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