By Paul Rose:

Empire of Pain is a book that will make you shake your head so much, you will be in danger of injuring your neck. You are also likely to gasp, gape and rage at Patrick Radden Keefe’s secret history of the Sackler family dynasty. Despite the difficult subject matter, the book is so well written and so thoroughly researched, that you won’t put it down for long. I breezed through the volume’s 400 plus pages in less than a week. And it was that very week that the Sacklers reached a settlement with about 120,000 U.S. state and local governments, families and individuals that have sued Purdue Pharma for opioid related damages.

Nine people ahead of me on the list.