Some books I've read that fall close to Freakonomics, rely on big data, or that otherwise surprise with information you are unlikely to run into elsewhere.
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Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
4 stars
Outliers: The Story of Success is the non-fiction book written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Little, Brown and Company …
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Billions and billions by Carl Sagan
5 stars
Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium is a 1997 book by the …
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The war against the Jews, 1933-1945 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz (A Bantam book)
The systematic annihilation of six million Jews during World War II is the single most horrifying event of the twentieth …
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Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara Ehrenreich
3 stars
The author's experience holding low-wage jobs in three parts of the U.S. in the late 1990s.
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Random Acts of Medicine by Anupam B. Jena M.D. PhD, Christopher Worsham M.D.
5 stars
Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hidden side of medicine and how …
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
2 stars
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why …
