Winners Take All

Winners Take All

By
Anand Giridharadas
Anand Giridharadas
2018 • 288 pages

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289 books

Biz

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Adam
Burn Rate
Weird Ideas That Work: How to Build a Creative Company
The Monk and the Riddle
The Mousedriver Chronicles
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

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654 books

Nonfiction

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Sylvia Chi
On Human Nature
Breaking Open the Head
Pathologies of Power
Supercapitalism
The Nine
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press
The Climate War : True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth

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182 books

Nonfiction

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Andy
Salt: A World History
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Black Like Me
Reading Like a Writer
The Art of X-Ray Reading
Mentor: A Memoir
The baseball codes

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61 books

Politics Society

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Emma Brillhart
Citizen: An American Lyric
Technically Wrong
Unseen City
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Half the Sky
Political Order and Political Decay

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15 books

Journalism

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Emma Brillhart
Missoula
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity
Into Thin Air
Columbine
One Perfect Day
Into the Wild

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27 books

Science Tech

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Emma Brillhart
Technically Wrong
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Behave
Fatal Invention

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23 books

Non Fiction Society

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Tristan
A Walk in the Woods
Between the World and Me
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Missoula

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247 books

Grounded Book Club

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Keiko C
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Losing Earth
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval
Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth
We are the Weather
On Fire

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149 books

Owned Tbr

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Sahi
Mistborn: The Final Empire
Senlin Ascends
Kings of the Wyld
Bloody Rose
The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Shadow of What Was Lost
Skyward

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49 books

Economics

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zach
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Economic Science Fictions
Who Owns the Future?
Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

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99 books

Politics

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The secretary
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department
On Revolution
Dark Money
Pathologies of Power

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42 books

Nonfiction

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Jamie BrynesSupporter
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Misbehaving
Les mots
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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59 books

Non Fiction

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Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality
How To Talk To Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
Sniper One
SR-71: The Complete Illustrated History of the Blackbird, The World's Highest, Fastest Plane
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

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23 books

Personal Queue

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Khoi Vinh
An Editor’s Burial
This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History
The Philosophy of Modern Song
The World We Make
The Cinema House and the World: The Cahiers du Cinema Years, 1962-1981
The Art of the Batman

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358 books

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Silas Marner
Iacocca
Open
Decoded
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Titan
Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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65 books

Non Fiction

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Se questo è un uomo
Currency wars the making of the next global crisis
Guns, Germs and Steel
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Life Inc.

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174 books

Tbr On Overdrive

Kfedarvada
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The Lives of Saints
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Gone Girl
The City We Became
El prisionero del cielo
Olive
Fortunately, the Milk

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116 books

Nonfiction

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Katie edwards
Catch Me If You Can
Tête-à-Tête
You: The Owner's Manual: An Insider's Guide To The Body that Will Make You Healthier and Younger
Half the Sky
Ghosts Among Us
Becoming
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

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My Library

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Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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554 books

Owned

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The Opportunity
Crazy Rich Asians
Batman Incorporated, Vol. 1
Lean Six Sigma for Service
Flash Boys
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Village Healer’s Book of Cures

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6 books

Favorites

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Matthew
Winners Take All
The Book of M
Interpreter of Maladies
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Bibblings
Prince Of Berlin

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25 books

Politics

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lincoln
What It Takes: The Way to the White House
Dark Money
The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America
The Dictator's Handbook
The Battle For Paradise
Prisoners of Geography

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326 books

Nonfiction

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Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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27 books

Cultural Critique

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Guyland
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Sexing the Body
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
The Lifespan of a Fact
The Other Side of the River
Griftopia

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20 books

Inequality

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Winners Take All
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy
The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
The Privileged Poor
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy