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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future by Joseph E. Stiglitz

The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

Joseph E. Stiglitz

448 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction economics politics sociology challenging informative slow-paced
Poor People by William T. Vollmann
Poor People
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William T. Vollmann

Poor People

William T. Vollmann

434 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction economics history sociology challenging reflective slow-paced
The Circle by Dave Eggers

The Circle

The Circle #1

Dave Eggers

504 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
fiction dystopian speculative fiction dark reflective tense medium-paced
Capital Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital by Karl Marx

Capital Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital

Capital #1

Karl Marx

1141 pages • first pub 1867 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America by Matt Taibbi

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

Matt Taibbi

253 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction business economics politics challenging informative fast-paced
Your Fathers, Where Are They? and the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers

Your Fathers, Where Are They? and the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Dave Eggers

212 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
fiction contemporary challenging reflective fast-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

13 hours, 14 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Chris Hedges

240 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction politics sociology challenging reflective slow-paced
What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage by Norman G. Finkelstein
What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage
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Norman G. Finkelstein

What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage

Norman G. Finkelstein

96 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Incerto #1

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

316 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

5.0jpowerj's review
nonfiction business economics challenging informative reflective slow-paced