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7 popular books from 2017

Is reading more one of your New Year鈥檚 resolutions? Catch up on last year鈥檚 most popular reads 鈥 from fiction to the political 鈥 before diving into 2018 selections.

5. 'On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century' by Timothy Snyder

"On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century" by Timothy Snyder, Tim Duggan Books, 128 pp.

Timothy Snyder, a professor at Yale University, explores how democracy in the 20th century yielded to fascism, Nazism, and communism. Mr. Snyder's book, which deserves multiple readings, suggests daily actions that readers can take to "foster civil society," Jingnang Peng writes in a Monitor review. The slim, less-than-130 page book began as a popular on democracy Snyder wrote after the 2016 election. 

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