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Talking Points Memo (TPM) is an independent media company that publishes a mix of reporting and analysis about politics and public policy. Our primary objective is to cover abuses of power, corruption, and official wrongdoing, bringing a sense of the sardonic and absurd to the scandal engaged in by elected officials and political figures.

Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
The Fixers: The Bottom-Feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President
The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle Over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost
Data Versus Democracy: How Big Data Algorithms Shape Opinions and Alter the Course of History
Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight
Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count
The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World The Book in the Renaissance The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know about Itself
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Josh's Epic List of Books

The Gathering: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) A Gentleman in Moscow Little Fires Everywhere
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TPM's Social Distancing Reading List

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: The Illustrated Edition (Harry Potter, Book 1): The Illustrated Edition Volume 1
The Story of Ferdinand
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Anne of Green Gables
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings: Deluxe Pocket Boxed Set
A Series of Unfortunate Events Box: The Complete Wreck (Books 1-13)
Ella Enchanted: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
His Dark Materials 3-Book Paperback Boxed Set: The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass
Nancy Drew 01: The Secret of the Old Clock
The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles (Anniversary)
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
The Thief Lord
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Board Book
The Phantom Tollbooth (Anniversary)
A Wrinkle in Time
Gone Girl
Fight Club
Pride and Prejudice (Revised)
The Godfather: 50th Anniversary Edition
A Room with a View
Doctor Zhivago
Alexander Hamilton
Jurassic Park
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
The Circle
Little Women
The Golden Compass
Harry Potter Paperback Boxed Set: Books 1-7
The Outsider
Inherent Vice
And Then There Were None
Burn the Place: A Memoir
A Man Called Ove
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Your Fathers, Where Are They? and the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
House of Sand and Fog
The Beach
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
Anna Karenina
1984 The Windup Girl Blindness
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I'd Like To Wake Up Now, Please? TPM's Dystopian Reading Recs

Neither Snow Nor Rain: A History of the United States Postal Service
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
A People's History of the United States
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Mao: The Unknown Story
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
All Governments Lie: The Life and Times of Rebel Journalist I. F. Stone
House of Leaves
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Mexican Gothic
The Shining
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Deluxe)
The Phantom of the Opera
The Lovely Bones
Vegetables Unleashed: A Cookbook
How to Feed Yourself: 100 Fast, Cheap, and Reliable Recipes for Cooking When You Don't Know What You're Doing: A Cookbook
Delish: Eat Like Every Day's the Weekend
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner... Life: Recipes and Adventures from My Home Kitchen
Twelve Recipes
Joy of Cooking: 2019 Edition Fully Revised and Updated
The Art of Fermentation: New York Times Bestseller