The New York Times Book Review

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The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? 11 reviews Michael J. Sandel Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous 11 reviews Joseph Henrich Daniel C. Dennett
In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration 4 reviews Shane O'Mara David L. Ulin
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life 7 reviews Hervé Guibert Parul Sehgal
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life 8 reviews John Kaag John Williams
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism 13 reviews Anne Case Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Death of Jesus 24 reviews J. M Coetzee Judith Shulevitz
Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear 4 reviews Patrick Boucheron Jennifer Szalai
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success 13 reviews Ross Douthat Mark Lilla
Capital and Ideology 23 reviews Thomas Piketty Paul Krugman
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America 7 reviews Candacy Taylor Bridgett M. Davis
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption 7 reviews Bryan Stevenson Ted Conover
Thinking, Fast and Slow 14 reviews Daniel Kahneman Jim Holt
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond 11 reviews Daniel Susskind Alana Semuels
Great Society: A New History 8 reviews Amity Shlaes Binyamin Appelbaum
Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century 7 reviews Sarah Abrevaya Stein Matti Friedman
Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir 13 reviews Deirdre Bair Parul Sehgal
The Meursault Investigation 16 reviews Kamel Daoud Laila Lalami
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work 5 reviews Edwidge Danticat Amy Wilentz
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America 4 reviews Nicholas Buccola Thomas Meaney
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine 8 reviews Michael Lewis Michiko Kakutani
On Immunity: An Inoculation 18 reviews Eula Biss Parul Sehgal
Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation 10 reviews Andrew Marantz Kara Swisher
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society 14 reviews Binyamin Appelbaum Justin Fox
The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution 12 reviews Eric Foner Lincoln Caplan
On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal 13 reviews Naomi Klein Jeff Goodell
The Accusation: Blood Libel in an American Town 8 reviews Edward Berenson Judith Shulevitz
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite 10 reviews Daniel Markovits Thomas Frank
A Life in the Twentieth Century 4 reviews Arthur M Schlesinger MAX FRANKEL
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality 10 reviews Peter Pomerantsev Rebecca Reich
W. E. B. Du Bois 4 reviews David Levering Lewis Waldo E. Martin Jr.
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas 11 reviews Corey Robin Orlando Patterson
The Metaphysical Club 16 reviews Louis Menand Jean Strouse
Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West 9 reviews John Taliaferro Timothy Egan
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition 5 reviews Patricia Churchland Olivia Goldhill
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism 9 reviews Naomi Klein Joseph E. Stiglitz
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything 15 reviews Christopher Hitchens Michael Kinsley
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of Americ 11 reviews Daniel Okrent Linda Gordon
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy 9 reviews Jenny Odell Jonah Engel Bromwich
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 13 reviews Henry Louis Gates Nell Irvin Painter
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief 16 reviews Lawrence Wright Michael Kinsley
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 14 reviews Siddhartha Mukherjee Jonathan Weiner
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 8 reviews Jared Diamond JAMES SHREEVE
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago 12 reviews Alex Kotlowitz Eric Klinenberg
The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts 11 reviews Joan Biskupic Adam Cohen
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind 6 reviews Raghuram Rajan Oren Cass
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming 24 reviews David Wallace-Wells John Lanchester
The Empathy Exams: Essays 14 reviews Leslie Jamison Olivia Laing
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present 14 reviews David Treuer Ned Blackhawk
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power 15 reviews Shoshana Zuboff Jacob Silverman
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