A Non-Exhaustive List of Just Some of the Books We Recommend
Best Supplemented with Books on World History
Kleptocracy & Institutional Failure
Kill Switch by Adam Jentleson
American Kleptocracy by Casey Michel
Family of Secrets by Russ Baker
Shadow Network by Anne Nelson
American Rule by Jared Yates Sexton
Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior
They Knew by Sarah Kendzior
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean
Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count by David Daley
House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia by Craig Unger
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld by Misha Glenny
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland
The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston
Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention by Wayne Barrett
Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
The View From Flyover Country by Sarah Kendzior
Authoritarianism
The Middle East Crisis Factory by Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash
Putin’s People by Catherine Belton
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution by Marci Shore
Stalin’s Genocides by Norman M. Naimark
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy by David Daley
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics by Greg Sargent
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped by Garry Kasparov
Orwell and the Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm by Andrea Chalupa
Asymmetrical Warfare
Lansky by Hank Messick
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill
The Mueller Report: The Findings of the Special Counsel Investigation (free audio-book from Audible)
War in 140 Characters: How Social Media Is Reshaping Conflict in the Twenty-First Century by David Patrikarakos
Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President - What We Don't, Can't, and Do Know by Kathleen Hall Jamieson
The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election by Malcolm Nance
The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West by Malcolm Nance
Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump by David Corn and Michael Isikoff
Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America by Robert I. Friedman
White Supremacy Terrorism
Separated: Inside An American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
How to Be Less Stupid About Race by Crystal Marie Fleming
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising by Joshua Green
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear by Khaled A. Beydoun
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Fiction
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Stand by Stephen King
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Documentaries
Winter on Fire
Exterminate All the Brutes
Grant
Get Me Roger Stone
The Great Hack
I Am Not Your Negro
Icarus
Cold Case Hammarskjold
Wormwood
Fyre Fraud
Wild, Wild Country
OJ: Made in America
Dancer
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
The Family
13th
Weiner
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