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Digital Gold Summary
Digital Gold
Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
by Nathaniel Popper 2015 416 pages
4.15
6k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Finance
Walt Whitman Summary
Walt Whitman
A Life
by Justin Kaplan 1980 464 pages
3.96
100+ ratings
Biography
Poetry
History
Fortune's Formula Summary
Fortune's Formula
The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
by William Poundstone 2006 386 pages
4.18
4k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
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
3.78
4k+ ratings
Religion
History
Philosophy
Pakistan on the Brink Summary
Pakistan on the Brink
The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan
by Ahmed Rashid 2012 256 pages
3.77
500+ ratings
Politics
Pakistan
History
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst Summary
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
by Daniel Reingold 2006 368 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
The Bridge Summary
The Bridge
The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
by David Remnick 2010 656 pages
4.10
4k+ ratings
Biography
Politics
History
Currency Wars Summary
Currency Wars
The Making of the Next Global Crisis
by James Rickards 2011 304 pages
3.96
4k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
The New Case for Gold Summary
The New Case for Gold
by James Rickards 2016 192 pages
3.98
1k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
The Rational Optimist Summary
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley 2010 448 pages
3.98
12k+ ratings
Economics
History
Science
END OF OIL Summary
END OF OIL
by Paul Roberts 2004 412 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Politics
Science
Environment
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33 Summary
The Crisis of the Old Order 1919-33
by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 1957 576 pages
4.19
100+ ratings
History
Biography
American History
Social Acceleration Summary
Social Acceleration
A New Theory of Modernity
by Hartmut Rosa 2005 470 pages
4.35
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Sociology
History
Liar's Poker Summary
Liar's Poker
by Michael Lewis 1989 310 pages
4.15
100k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
Justice Summary
Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?
by Michael J. Sandel 2007 308 pages
4.30
26k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Law
The Sound of Music Story Summary
The Sound of Music Story
How A Beguiling Young Novice, A Handsome Austrian Captain, and Ten Singing von Trapp Children Inspired the Most Beloved Film of All Time
by Tom Santopietro 2015 324 pages
3.75
500+ ratings
History
Music
Biography
Heavens on Earth Summary
Heavens on Earth
The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia
by Michael Shermer 2018 320 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
Science
Philosophy
Religion
9 Lessons in Brexit Summary
9 Lessons in Brexit
by Ivan Rogers 2019 46 pages
4.06
500+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
Who Owns England? Summary
Who Owns England?
How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back
by Guy Shrubsole 2019 385 pages
4.23
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Environment
The Man Who Solved the Market Summary
The Man Who Solved the Market
How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
by Gregory Zuckerman 2019 359 pages
4.04
15k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Biography
The 5000 Year Leap Summary
The 5000 Year Leap
by W. Cleon Skousen 1981 337 pages
4.27
7k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
A Short History of Nearly Everything Summary
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson 2003 544 pages
4.22
400k+ ratings
Science
History
Humor
Too Big to Fail Summary
Too Big to Fail
The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
by Andrew Ross Sorkin 2009 600 pages
4.15
41k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
Applied Economics Summary
Applied Economics
Thinking Beyond Stage One
by Thomas Sowell 2003 256 pages
4.18
2k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Economic Facts and Fallacies Summary
Economic Facts and Fallacies
by Thomas Sowell 2007 262 pages
4.24
5k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Intellectuals and Society Summary
Intellectuals and Society
by Thomas Sowell 2009 416 pages
4.29
3k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
Pandora's Seed Summary
Pandora's Seed
The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
by Spencer Wells 2010 256 pages
3.77
1k+ ratings
Science
History
Anthropology
A History of the World in 6 Glasses Summary
A History of the World in 6 Glasses
by Tom Standage 2005 336 pages
3.81
31k+ ratings
History
Food
Historical
Kushner, Inc. Summary
Kushner, Inc.
Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
by Vicky Ward 2019 304 pages
3.53
2k+ ratings
Politics
Biography
History
The Last Greatest Magician in the World Summary
The Last Greatest Magician in the World
Howard Thurston versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards
by Jim Steinmeyer 2011 384 pages
3.84
100+ ratings
History
Magic
Biography
Freefall Summary
Freefall
America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2010 361 pages
3.88
4k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Finance
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone Summary
Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone
by Astra Taylor 2019 368 pages
4.21
500+ ratings
Politics
Philosophy
History
Tramp for the Lord Summary
Tramp for the Lord
by Corrie ten Boom 1971 192 pages
4.49
25k+ ratings
Christian
Biography
History
First They Killed My Father Summary
First They Killed My Father
A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung 2000 238 pages
4.35
50k+ ratings
History
Memoir
Biography
El pez en el agua Summary
El pez en el agua
by Mario Vargas Llosa 1993 618 pages
4.02
1k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
Nobel Prize
Our Malady Summary
Our Malady
Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
by Timothy Snyder 2020 179 pages
4.15
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Memoir
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train Summary
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History of Our Times
by Howard Zinn 1994 214 pages
4.35
3k+ ratings
History
Politics
Memoir
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Summary
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
by Fareed Zakaria 2020 320 pages
3.96
5k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Work Summary
Work
A History of How we spend our Time
by James Suzman 2020 464 pages
3.84
2k+ ratings
History
Anthropology
Economics
The Founding Fathers on Leadership Summary
The Founding Fathers on Leadership
Classic Teamwork in Changing Times
by Donald T. Phillips 1997 272 pages
3.86
100+ ratings
Leadership
History
Business
The Republic of Tea Summary
The Republic of Tea
The Story of the Creation of a Business, as Told Through the Personal Letters of Its Founders
by Mel Ziegler 1992 336 pages
3.79
100+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Biography
Unknown Market Wizards Summary
Unknown Market Wizards
The Best Traders You've Never Heard of
by Jack D. Schwager 2020 376 pages
4.29
1k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich Summary
Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich
How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey 2020 232 pages
3.87
100+ ratings
Economics
History
Business
First Principles Summary
First Principles
What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
by Thomas E. Ricks 2020 416 pages
4.08
3k+ ratings
History
Politics
Philosophy
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man Summary
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
by Emmanuel Acho 2020 256 pages
4.38
27k+ ratings
Race
Social Justice
Anti Racist
Science and Religion Summary
Science and Religion
A Very Short Introduction
by Thomas Dixon 1903 168 pages
3.68
100+ ratings
Religion
Science
Philosophy
At the Existentialist Café Summary
At the Existentialist Café
by Sarah Bakewell 2016 440 pages
4.24
17k+ ratings
Philosophy
History
Biography
LeBron, Inc. Summary
LeBron, Inc.
The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete
by Brian Windhorst 2019 256 pages
3.85
1k+ ratings
Sports
Biography
Basketball
What Evolution Is Summary
What Evolution Is
by Ernst W. Mayr 2001 318 pages
4.02
3k+ ratings
Science
Evolution
Biology
Half Broke Horses Summary
Half Broke Horses
by Jeannette Walls 2009 272 pages
4.09
100k+ ratings
Memoir
Biography
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