Worldbuilder's Book Club 2023 - hosted by quartzen

Politics, Crime, and Law
Choose a book about contemporary or historical political systems, political organizing and activism, crime and punishment generally or specifically, law and the legal system, and related topics.
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All the President's Men by Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

All the President's Men

Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

480 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative medium-paced
A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution by Orlando Figes

A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution

Orlando Figes

1024 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

18 hours, 6 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction biography business history true crime dark informative medium-paced
Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels by Paul Pringle

Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels

Paul Pringle

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction thriller true crime dark informative tense medium-paced
The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

Edward Humes

384 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction science true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

320 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim

Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong

Louisa Lim

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional medium-paced
Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire by Anne F. Broadbridge

Women and the Making of the Mongol Empire

Anne F. Broadbridge

362 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
Fundamentos del derecho constitucional contemporáneo by Iván Vila Casado

Fundamentos del derecho constitucional contemporáneo

Iván Vila Casado

550 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

316 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark informative sad medium-paced