The New York Times Book Review

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The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite Daniel Markovits Thomas Frank
A Life in the Twentieth Century Arthur M Schlesinger MAX FRANKEL
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality Peter Pomerantsev Rebecca Reich
W. E. B. Du Bois David Levering Lewis Waldo E. Martin Jr.
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas Corey Robin Orlando Patterson
The Metaphysical Club Louis Menand Jean Strouse
Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West John Taliaferro Timothy Egan
Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition Patricia Churchland Olivia Goldhill
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein Joseph E. Stiglitz
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything 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 Daniel Okrent Linda Gordon
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell Jonah Engel Bromwich
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates Nell Irvin Painter
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief Lawrence Wright Michael Kinsley
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee Jonathan Weiner
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Jared Diamond JAMES SHREEVE
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago Alex Kotlowitz Eric Klinenberg
The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts Joan Biskupic Adam Cohen
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind Raghuram Rajan Oren Cass
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells John Lanchester
The Empathy Exams: Essays Leslie Jamison Olivia Laing
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present David Treuer Ned Blackhawk
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Shoshana Zuboff Jacob Silverman
Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires Juan Cole Mustafa Akyol
The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity Alan Wolfe Norman J. Ornstein
The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present Allan J. Lichtman James A. Morone
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them Jason Stanley Peter Beinart
Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World James Miller Justin Vogt
The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents Corey Brettschneider Josh Chafetz
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us about Ourselves Eric R. Kandel Alan Jasanoff
These Truths: A History of the United States Jill Lepore Andrew Sullivan
Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment Francis Fukuyama Anand Giridharadas
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze Fareed Zakaria
The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael V Hayden Matthew Continetti
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America Beth Macy Jessica Bruder
The Dream of Reason Jenny George Daisy Fried
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age Stephen R. Platt Ian Morris
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women Scott W. Stern Cynthia Gorney
Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World Samuel Moyn Mitchell Cohen
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq Dunya Mikhail Deborah Campbell
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind Michael Massing Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington Elie Mystal
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age David N. Schwartz Richard Rhodes
How Democracies Die Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt Jennifer Szalai
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Daniel Ellsberg Graham Allison
The Evolution of Beauty Richard O. Prum David Dobbs
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News Kevin Young Jonathan Lethem
The River of Consciousness Oliver Sacks Nicole Krauss
The Testament of Mary Colm Tóibín Mary Gordon
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve Stephen Greenblatt Marilynne Robinson
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