20 Top nonfiction books like Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West) by Elliott West

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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West)

By: Elliott West

4.47

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the Ameri…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West) by Elliott West , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Truman

By: David McCullough

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

2. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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3. Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

By: S.C. Gwynne

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the prizewinning New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Mooncomes a thri… read more

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4. Nervous Conditions

By: Tsitsi Dangarembga

4.54

Format: 253 pages,

A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more

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5. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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8. 2054

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller 2034 comes another explosive wo… read more

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9. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"

-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

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10. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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11. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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12. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

Similar categories in Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq book and Elliott West's Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West)

  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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  • historical
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15. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

By: Sam Wasson

4.09

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

4.45

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic an… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • civil war
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17. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

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  • historical
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18. Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West)

By: Elliott West

4.47

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the Ameri… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • westerns
  • historical
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
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19. A New Name: Septology VI-VII

By: Jon Fosse

4.49

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only fr… read more

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"God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that’s why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can’t notice him, because he is the foundati…"

-Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

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20. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Mark Dawidziak

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

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21. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.05

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

By: Joseph J. Ellis

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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23. Small World

By: Laura Zigman

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more

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"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"

-Laura Zigman, Small World

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24. Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

By: Allen C. Guelzo

4.12

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the C… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • civil war
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

25. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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26. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

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"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

Cover of Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. Ryback

27. Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power

By: Timothy W. Ryback

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of Hitler’s Private Library , a dramatic recounting of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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28. The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

By: Andrew Pettegree

3.84

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone fo… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams

29. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

By: Beth Lew-Williams

4.28

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miner… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893 by Frederic L. Paxson

30. History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893

By: Frederic L. Paxson

3.82

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for HistoryFor many years, a single volume covering the "History of th… read more

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  • history
  • american
  • nonfiction
  • american history
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31. From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West

By: John Sedgwick

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“Riveting...A great read, full of colorful characters and outrageous confrontations back when the w… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • westerns
  • nonfiction

19 best-selling history books like Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion (History of the American West) by Elliott West

Transform Your Habits

Truman

David McCullough

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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9 best-selling audiobook books like The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America by Beth Lew-Williams

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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

Claudio Saunt

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

Transform Your Habits

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Daniel Immerwahr

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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