20 best-selling history books like Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O'Brien

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Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

By: Keith O'Brien

4.40

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's d…

If you liked the history plot in Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O'Brien , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route

By: Sally Hayden

4.48

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devast… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hayden's My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route book and Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Egan's A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them book and Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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3. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

By: Dan Saladino

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more

Similar categories in Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them book and Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"

-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

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4. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

By: Robert Samuels

4.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

Similar categories in Keith O'Brien's Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball book and Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner

6. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

By: Rebecca Renner

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Renner's Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades book and Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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7. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Guinn's Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage book and Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Facemaker

By: Lindsey Fitzharris

4.29

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin

9. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Toobin's Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism book and Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

10. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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11. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

By: Matthew F. Delmont

4.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more

Similar categories in Matthew F. Delmont's Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad book and Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

By: Keith O'Brien

4.40

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's d… read more

Similar categories in Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe book and Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • health
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial by Corban Addison

13. Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

By: Corban Addison

4.46

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can … read more

Similar categories in Corban Addison's Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial book and Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco by Stephan Talty

14. Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

By: Stephan Talty

3.95

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of governmen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery by Paul Craddock

15. Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery

By: Paul Craddock

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why did eighteenth-century dentists buy the live teeth of poor children?And what role did a sausage… read more

Similar categories in Paul Craddock's Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery book and Keith O'Brien's Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways by Megan Kimble

16. City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

By: Megan Kimble

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time by Robert Downey Jr.

17. Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time

By: Robert Downey Jr.

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times-bestselling … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast by Kirk Wallace Johnson

18. The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disa… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers by Jim             Morris

19. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

By: Jim Morris

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • health
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt

20. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

By: Boyce Upholt

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transform… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick

21. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry

By: Austin Frerick

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more

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  • history
  • health
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

20 must-read audiobook books like Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O'Brien

Transform Your Habits

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

Dan Saladino

4.29

Transform Your Habits

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

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27 best-selling audiobook books like The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt

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

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

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