7 best-selling nonfiction books like Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan

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Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers

By: Geoffrey Cowan

3.45

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time = 1h 43m A timely docudrama about The Washington Posts decision to publish the Pent…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

By: Susan Kuklin

3.80

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking work of LGBT literature takes an honest look at the life, love, and struggles of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But when you hear the same stories over and over again, from people from all over the world, you start realizing that transgender is not an anomaly. It’s a part of the spectrum of people’s realities.…"

-Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

"SK: What causes a person to be transgender? MS: I think the question should be flipped around: What’s the cause for assuming that one’s gender identity has to be the one that you are born with? When …"

-Susan Kuklin, Beyond Magenta: Transgender and Nonbinary Teens Speak Out

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2. Hurricane Song

By: Paul Volponi

3.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Hurricane Katrina is raging and you are inside the Superdome! Miles has only lived in New Orleans w… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. Tevye the Milkman

By: Sholom Aleichem

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Audio CD

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  • audiobook

4. The Magic Barrel

By: Bernard Malamud , Jhumpa Lahiri

4.67

Format: 360 pages,

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Bernard Malamud's first book of short stories, The Ma… read more

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5. Not Without Laughter

By: Langston Hughes , Maya Angelou

4.19

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Although best known as a poet and pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Langston Hughes prove… read more

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6. The White Rose

By: Dorothee Sölle , Inge Aicher-Scholl

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small undergroun… read more

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7. Alive (The Generations Trilogy, #1)

By: Scott Sigler

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

I open my eyes to darkness. Total darkness. I hear my own breathing, but nothing else. I lift my he… read more

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8. Tommy: The Gun That Changed America

By: Karen Blumenthal

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

John Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would hel… read more

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9. Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (Arsène Lupin, #2)

By: Maurice Leblanc

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

LeBlanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aris… read more

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10. The Ruinous Sweep

By: Tim Wynne-Jones

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A rainy night. An empty highway. And no memory. From award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones comes a r… read more

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11. The Family Chao

By: Lan Samantha Chang

3.35

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized … read more

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  • audiobook
"Our inner selves exist. They're unique, and they're meaningful and mysterious, even if they are secret sometimes even from ourselves."

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"After emotions are felt, expressed, where do they go? Is there a place where spent passion collects? Surely it can't simply vaporize, disappear like smoke. There must be a secret hiding place. For ev…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"In Alf's close-up, he's less than a year old, almost unrecognizably puppyish. He gazes directly at James, head slightly cocked, bat ears unfolded in typical, unceasing alertness. His small black nose…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"The half-dozen temple dogs circle him and Alf in a delirium of barking, clicking paws, and waving tails. They're mixed breeds, smooth-haired, ears neither floppy nor exactly pointed, and a few with t…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

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12. You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

By: Leonard S. Marcus

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What happens when freedom of expression comes under threat? In frank and wide-ranging interviews, h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Intellectually I know free speech will prevail--it almost always does--and I know that some good conversations come out of it. But it's still harrowing to have to face such intolerance on your home g…"

-Leonard S. Marcus, You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

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13. As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success

By: Kendall Coyne

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring book, US Olympian and hockey star Kendall Coyne shares the grit and determination… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Yesterday Is History

By: Kosoko Jackson

3.74

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

A novel about letting go of the past, figuring out what you want in your future, and staying in the… read more

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"The only way out is through. And the best way through something is the truth."

-Kosoko Jackson, Yesterday Is History

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15. Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers

By: Geoffrey Cowan

3.45

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time = 1h 43m A timely docudrama about The Washington Posts decision to publish the Pent… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • plays
  • audiobook
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16. Faraway: Fairy Tales for the Here and Now (Faraway 5 Book Collection)

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.36

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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  • audiobook
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17. Out of the Blue

By: Jason June

3.62

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Crest is not excited to be on their Journey: the monthlong sojourn on land all teen merfolk must un… read more

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  • audiobook
"The blue knows what it's doing, if you just trust where it's taking you."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

"Maybe humans aren't as magicless as I thought. There's definitely some kind of power in movies."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

"Under the sea, we're all mer. We're all they/them. And we don't have this strange obsession with sex organs, since we don't have any."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

"He? Elder Crab warned us about this. About humans' obsession with gender, and how labels and rules mean so much to them when it comes to the body."

-Jason June, Out of the Blue

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18. The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

By: Kylie Lee Baker

3.62

Format: 393 pages, Hardcover

Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami, Ren Scarborough has been collecting souls in the Lond… read more

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  • audiobook
"Everything I saw was a story that had been stolen from me"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

"We don't need to fear children's tales. They should fear us."

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

"When you have enough souls in one place, suffering is inevitable"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

"I wouldn't give her my story to add to her collection, because it wasn't over yet"

-Kylie Lee Baker, The Keeper of Night (The Keeper of Night, #1)

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19. This Is My America

By: Kim Johnson

4.46

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA novel that explores the racist in… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. Extinction (a play)

By: Hannie Rayson

2.94

Format: None pages, ebook

One wild winter night, Harry Jewell is driving along the Great Ocean Road, when he hits an animal. … read more

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  • plays
  • audiobook
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21. Fractured Tide

By: Leslie Lutz

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Lost meets Stranger Things in this eerie, immersive YA thriller, thrusting seventeen-year-old Sia i… read more

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  • audiobook
"You told me once the mind is an ocean, and most of us live on the surface. But the currents beneath, that’s what moves everything around. The currents make the boats shift position in the night, push…"

-Leslie Lutz, Fractured Tide

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22. Bump

By: Chiara Atik

3.45

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

2 men, 10 women A car mechanic on the verge of becoming a grandfather, a community of expectant … read more

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  • plays
  • audiobook
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23. The Boy in the Red Dress

By: Kristin Lambert

3.81

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp o… read more

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  • audiobook
"I'd never known freedom could feel so hollow"

-Kristin Lambert, The Boy in the Red Dress

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24. The School that Escaped the Nazis: The True Story of the Schoolteacher Who Defied Hitler

By: Deborah Cadbury

4.38

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Named one of Book Riot's BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF 2022 The extraordinary true story of a courageous sch… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. The Getaway

By: Lamar Giles

3.74

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more

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  • audiobook
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26. The Lantern's Ember

By: Colleen Houck

3.49

Format: 408 pages, ebook

Welcome to a world where nightmarish creatures reign supreme. Five hundred years ago, Jack made … read more

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"Yegor,"

-Colleen Houck, The Lantern's Ember

"Ember,"

-Colleen Houck, The Lantern's Ember

"All I ask,"

-Colleen Houck, The Lantern's Ember

"In my experience,"

-Colleen Houck, The Lantern's Ember

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27. The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner

By: Marissa Moss

4.13

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission As a female Jew… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty." (Lise Meitner)"

-Marissa Moss, The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner

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28. Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party

By: Jetta Grace Martin

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Booklist Editors’ Choice WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Truth About White Lies

By: Olivia A. Cole

3.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For fans of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, this gripping YA novel digs into the historical and pre… read more

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  • audiobook
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30. Rebuttal

By: Jyotsna Hariharan

3.39

Format: 2 pages, Audio CD

The Grand Prize winner of HarperCollins's audio drama contest. By turns amusing and angst-filled, t… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Body Snatchers and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

31. The Body Snatchers and Other Stories

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

3.42

Format: 3 pages, Audio CD

A dark night, a graveyard and the suspicion of murder... The Body Snatchers is one of Robert Louis … read more

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  • audiobook

21 best-selling audiobook books like Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers by Geoffrey Cowan

Transform Your Habits

Hurricane Song

Paul Volponi

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Tevye the Milkman

Sholom Aleichem

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The Family Chao

Lan Samantha Chang

3.35

Transform Your Habits

You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell

Leonard S. Marcus

4.10

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22 best-selling audiobook books like You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk About Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell by Leonard S. Marcus

Transform Your Habits

Hurricane Song

Paul Volponi

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Tevye the Milkman

Sholom Aleichem

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Attack of the Black Rectangles

Amy Sarig King

4.21

Transform Your Habits

28 Days

David Safier

4.29

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