Ranked #1
Opening Keynote with Tayari Jones: An American Marriage
Opening Keynote with Tayari Jones: An American Marriage
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FI... Read more
12 Oct 2018
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Ranked #2
Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump by John Fea
Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump by John Fea
A historian’s discerning, critical take on current American politics“Believe me” may be the most commonly used phrase in... Read more
10 Jul 2018
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Ranked #3
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the Fall"Deftly unmasks quantum weirdness to reveal a strange but u... Read more
17 Sep 2019
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #4
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell Moore
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America by Darnell Moore
From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three ... Read more
14 Aug 2018
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #5
The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent
A hard-hitting expose that shines a light on the powerful conservative forces that have waged a multi-decade battle to h... Read more
27 Aug 2019
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #6
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and Americas Journey From Slavery to Segregation
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and Americas Journey From Slavery to Segregation
A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences.Plessy v. Ferguson, th... Read more
1 May 2019
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #7
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives
A celebrated social psychologist offers a radical new perspective on cultural differences that reveals why some countrie... Read more
3 Sep 2019
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #8
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact... Read more
24 Jul 2018
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #9
From the Corner of the Oval: An Evening with Beck Dorsey-Stein
From the Corner of the Oval: An Evening with Beck Dorsey-Stein
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New Yo... Read more
25 Jul 2018
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #10
Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert
Shame Is an Ocean I Swim Across: Poems by Mary Lambert
In 2012, Mary Lambert was working three restaurant jobs when her life changed. An aspiring singer-songwriter, cellist, s... Read more
13 Oct 2018
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #11
Coming of Age in the White House: An Afternoon with David Litt and Beck Dorey-Stein
Coming of Age in the White House: An Afternoon with David Litt and Beck Dorey-Stein
He was President Obama's Comedy Writer. She was the White House Stenographer. More than any other presidency, Barack Oba... Read more
15 Oct 2018
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #12
The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation
The Last Stone: A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation
On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washingt... Read more
7 May 2019
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #13
The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best and Worst Chief Executives
The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best and Worst Chief Executives
The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Preside... Read more
30 Apr 2019
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #14
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss
Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vo... Read more
11 Sep 2018
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #15
Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger
Super Mad at Everything All the Time: Political Media and Our National Anger
Super Mad at Everything All the Time explores the polarization of American politics through the collapse of the space be... Read more
16 Apr 2019
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #16
Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words
Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words
In this evocative and gorgeously wrought memoir reminiscent of Rob Sheffield’s Love Is a Mixtape and George Hodgman’s Be... Read more
2 Oct 2018
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #17
THE HIDDEN ARMY OF FEMALE CODEBREAKERS An Evening with Liza Mundy
THE HIDDEN ARMY OF FEMALE CODEBREAKERS An Evening with Liza Mundy
Who were the American women that secretly served as codebreakers during World War II? How did this hidden chapter of the... Read more
15 Oct 2018
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #18
Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
Examines immigration enforcement and discretion during the first eighteen months of the Trump administrationWithin days ... Read more
10 Sep 2019
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #19
PORTRAITS OF HOME: An Afternoon with Crystal Hana Kim and Lucy Tan
PORTRAITS OF HOME: An Afternoon with Crystal Hana Kim and Lucy Tan
What is the meaning of home? Is it a physical place, a sense of being — is it connected to our familial past? And what h... Read more
15 Oct 2018
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #20
Flunk. Start. Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology with Sands Hall
Flunk. Start. Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology with Sands Hall
In Flunk. Start., Sands Hall chronicles her slow yet willing absorption into the Church of Scientology. Her time in the ... Read more
17 Jul 2018
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1hr 18mins