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Welcome to the Non-Fiction Group. 33 Neoma Aug 2012 Dec 2023 7 64328
"The Ministry of Truth: the biography of George Orwell's 1984," Dorian Lynskey, 2019. 0 Timeflyer 5 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 8 184
Anybody know of a good book about the real reasons for various wars? 10 raccoon Oct 2025 6 hrs ago 2 2213
The Fallen/Louise Brangan 0 cbabe Jun 10 Jun 10 4 457
'The devil's child': the rise and fall of the only female yakuza -- The Guardian - Long Read 0 erronis May 21 May 21 1 850
Grappling with her father's unpublished narrative of Tule Lake incarceration, Tamiko Nimura constructs her own memoir of 0 cbabe May 20 May 20 0 551
(The weather underground child)Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground/ 1 cbabe May 19 May 19 6 661
Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang 8 RainCaster May 14 May 14 21 1643
Excellent read 0 kairos12 May 14 May 14 3 617
'It's not a story that's over': inside the battle against hatred in America 2 cbabe Apr 28 Apr 28 4 978
American Reich: A murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and 1 cbabe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 6 1138
This historian dug up the hidden history of 'amateur' blackface in America 2 cbabe Mar 2026 Mar 2026 11 1114
This message was self-deleted by its author 3 bucolic_frolic Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 1259
Our Migrant Souls 0 cbabe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 1 979
I just finished 107 Days by Kamala Harris. 4 MIButterfly Jan 2026 Jan 2026 9 1550
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man/John Perkins 3 cbabe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 10 1425
American Reich A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate 0 cbabe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 5 2480
'Firestorm' review: Inside one of the deadliest fires in California history 1 cbabe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 3 1104
Literature that crosses the line: Cocaine in books 5 cbabe Jan 2026 Jan 2026 1 1508
Positive Obsession: the life and times of Octavia Butler 3 cbabe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 6 1493
Arundhati Roy/Mother Mary Comes to Me 0 cbabe Dec 2025 Dec 2025 1 1050
Reading "The Gales of November." 3 kairos12 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 9 1661
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson 1 bucolic_frolic Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 1359
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug trafficking and murder in the special forces 3 cbabe Oct 2025 Nov 2025 6 1656
Murderland: crime and bloodlust in the 5 cbabe Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 1933
Amazon has the Kindle version of 0 rzemanfl Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 1210
Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai review - growing up in public 0 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 1221
Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing 0 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 1216
"Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance" by Laura Delano 1 bucolic_frolic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 1879
10 fall biographies you won't want to miss 2 marmar Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 2901

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"Rise and fall of the Third Reich: a history of Nazi Germany," by Wm. L. Shirer, 1960. 3 Timeflyer Aug 2025 Aug 2025 12 2013
"The Greening of America" 1970, Charles Reich 3 dwayneb Aug 2025 Aug 2025 6 2075
The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, 3 cbabe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 10 2072
There's a petition to get Robert A. Caro's "The Power Broker" published in its uncut, 1,050,000 word glory. Sign here. 4 eppur_se_muova Aug 2025 Aug 2025 8 2372
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 jfz9580m Aug 2025 Aug 2025 1 1580
Careless People/Sarah Wynn-Williams 9 cbabe May 2025 Aug 2025 2 3491
Bad Company: private equity and the 0 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 4 1579
A Good Book On Medieval Spain 0 DanBaron Jul 2025 Jul 2025 7 1706
Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now 4 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 2658
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s 0 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1877
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice 1 bucolic_frolic May 2025 May 2025 3 2319
Clint Smith, writer: 'It is impossible to understand the US economy without slavery' 5 cbabe May 2025 May 2025 9 3181
"Survive and Resist: the Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics," 2019, by Atchison and Shames. 1 Timeflyer May 2025 May 2025 3 2198
What are some of Sy Montgomery's best books? 0 bif Apr 2025 Apr 2025 0 2193
"Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich," by Norman Ohler, US 2017. 3 Timeflyer Apr 2025 Apr 2025 4 2925
Josephine Baker: the superstar turned spy who fought the Nazis and for civil rights 0 cbabe Apr 2025 Apr 2025 9 2329
Question for all 2 AdamThePhantump Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 2453
the war diary of late Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina, introduced by Margaret Atwood 2 cbabe Feb 2025 Mar 2025 8 2926
Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of world war II 5 cbabe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 3238
Omar El Akkad on Gaza, Power, and the Stories Empires Steal 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 2323
Stoicism 5 Baron2024 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 3202
Disposable: what Covid-19 did to those who couldn't afford to fight the virus 1 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 13 2839
'The Poisoner's Handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in jazz age New York," by D. Blum, 2010. 2 Timeflyer Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 2623
They Knew: how a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent/Sarah Kendzior 0 cbabe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 2314
Looking for a book about the Jan 6 insurrection that appeared in Reader's Digest as a condensed 2 raccoon Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 2710
Reading When McKinsey Comes to Town. Great book, as I had never heard about the subject. 3 multigraincracker Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 3232
That Librarian by Amanda Jones 5 cbabe Sep 2024 Dec 2024 3 3822
"The Year of Living Constitutionally" by A.J. Jacobs 0 Timeflyer Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 2338
Is It Really Your Money? 5 in2herbs Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 4036
"War" by Bob Woodward 0 Mike 03 Nov 2024 Nov 2024 7 2512

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If you're a fan of Thom Hartmann 1 Shipwack Nov 2024 Nov 2024 11 3287
Invisible Doctrine: The secret history of neoliberalism, George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. 2 raccoon Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 2905
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 jfz9580m Oct 2024 Oct 2024 0 2509
"Emperor of Rome," by Mary Beard. 2 Timeflyer Oct 2024 Oct 2024 4 3043
Deep dark MSM: All the Worst Humans: how I made news for dictators, tycoons, and politicians 4 cbabe Sep 2024 Oct 2024 6 3884
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford 0 cbabe Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 2401
Stories Are Weapons - Annalee Newitz 0 bucolic_frolic Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 2534
Reading Micheal Lewis"The Fifth Element" of Chump's takeover of 5 kairos12 Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 3608
"Losing Reality: on Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry," by R. J. Lifton. 0 Timeflyer Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 2537
Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed 7 cbabe Aug 2024 Sep 2024 6 4257
John Vaillant/Fire Weather: on the front lines of a burning world 4 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 3191
White robes and broken badges (fbi informant, Jamie Raskin forward, and the klan threat today) 0 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 7 2795
Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned in the book banning wars 2 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 10 3314
"When Religion Hurts You: Healing from religious trauma and the impact of High-Control Religion," by Laura E. Anderson, 4 Timeflyer Jun 2024 Aug 2024 10 3669
The race to the future: 1907's 8,000-mile odyssey from China to France 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 2520
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan 1 Raven123 Jul 2024 Aug 2024 7 2935
Before It's Gone 1 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 2886
All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way - by Fred C. Trump III 4 raccoon Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 3639
Hidden figures: giving history's most overlooked mathematicians their due 4 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 3838
Five of the best books about conspiracy theories 1 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 2984
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