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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The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR by Jules Archer

The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR

Jules Archer

256 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency by Andy Greenberg

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

Andy Greenberg

384 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction crime challenging mysterious tense medium-paced
Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto by Artie Vierkant, Beatrice Adler-Bolton

Health Communism: A Surplus Manifesto

Artie Vierkant, Beatrice Adler-Bolton

222 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction economics health challenging informative medium-paced
The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World by James Crawford

The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World

James Crawford

432 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

368 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman

Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Nadine Akkerman

288 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Routledge History of Monarchy by

The Routledge History of Monarchy

Routledge Histories

760 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Jon Ronson

259 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history politics psychology funny informative medium-paced
The Search For Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence

The Search For Modern China

Jonathan D. Spence

912 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott

445 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced