21 Top nonfiction books like The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio by Forrest Maready

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The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

By: Forrest Maready

4.43

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease—polio— told as you have never heard it bef…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio by Forrest Maready , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

1. Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

By: John Taylor Gatto

4.15

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

A highly praised bestseller for over a decade, Dumbing Us Down is a radical treatise on public educ… read more

Similar categories in John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"… nothing important can ever really be boring."

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

"As redes operacionais tornam as pessoas solitárias."

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

"I assign a type of extended schooling called “homework,"

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

"Networks like schools are not communities, just as school training is not education."

-John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Cover of Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History by Suzanne Humphries, Roman Bystrianyk

2. Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History

By: Suzanne Humphries , Roman Bystrianyk

4.65

Format: 530 pages, Paperback

Not too long ago, lethal infections were feared in the Western world. Since that time, many countri… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Humphries's Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines, and the Forgotten History book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • vaccines
  • science
Cover of Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen

3. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

By: Annie Jacobsen

3.69

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

The explosive story of America's secret post-WWII science programs, from the author of the New York… read more

Similar categories in Annie Jacobsen's Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope. by Christopher Yuan, Angela Yuan, Kay Warren

4. Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope.

By: Christopher Yuan , Angela Yuan , Kay Warren

3.76

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Christopher Yuan's Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son's Journey to God. A Broken Mother's Search for Hope. book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • nonfiction
Cover of Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

5. Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age

By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling Author Rosaria Butterfield Confronts 5 Cultural Lies She Once Believed Modern culture i… read more

Similar categories in Rosaria Champagne Butterfield's Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • nonfiction
Cover of Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill

6. 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

Similar categories in Tom O'Neill's Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms by Tim Challies

7. Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms

By: Tim Challies

4.53

Format: 130 pages, Kindle Edition

Women shaped the men who changed the world. History tells of women whose love for the Bible shaped… read more

Similar categories in Tim Challies's Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

8. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

4.52

Format: 934 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 on AMAZON, and a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL B… read more

Similar categories in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Letter to the American Church by Eric Metaxas

9. Letter to the American Church

By: Eric Metaxas

4.28

Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition

In an earnest and searing wake-up call, the author of the bestseller  Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy … read more

Similar categories in Eric Metaxas's Letter to the American Church book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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10. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Shrier's Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Cover of The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation by Victor Davis Hanson

11. The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

By: Victor Davis Hanson

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times –bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the mod… read more

Similar categories in Victor Davis Hanson's The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"...there is no certainty that as scientific progress accelerates and leisure increases, and as the world shrinks on our computer and television screens, there is any corresponding advance in wisdom o…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"The same hubris that posits that complex tools of mass destruction can be created but never used, also fuels the fatal vanity that war itself is an anachronism and no longer an existential concern-at…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

"War is probably the oldest human endeavor, and its face of battle is constantly changing, with new challenges prompting counterresponses. Its novel and unforeseen dangers can never be underestimated.…"

-Victor Davis Hanson, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

Cover of Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth by Anonymous

12. Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth

By: Anonymous

4.63

Format: 556 pages, Kindle Edition

If you are reading this, you are probably aware of the fierce debate surrounding vaccination and lo… read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • vaccines
  • science
Cover of Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness by Thomas Cowan

13. Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness

By: Thomas Cowan

4.39

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

One doctor’s surprising answer to the epidemic of chronic disease and essential reading for everyon… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Cowan's Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • science
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • vaccines
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József  Debreczeni

14. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By: József Debreczeni

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more

Similar categories in József Debreczeni's Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West by Raymond Ibrahim

15. Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West

By: Raymond Ibrahim

4.31

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

A sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing l… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Ibrahim's Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons by Kris Newby

16. Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons

By: Kris Newby

3.97

Format: 6 pages, Audiobook

A riveting thriller reminiscent of The Hot Zone, this true story dives into the mystery surrounding… read more

Similar categories in Kris Newby's Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies: 400 Important Scientific Papers Summarized for Parents and Researchers by Neil Z Miller

17. Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies: 400 Important Scientific Papers Summarized for Parents and Researchers

By: Neil Z Miller

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Many people sincerely believe that all vaccines are safe, adverse reactions are rare, and no peer-r… read more

Similar categories in Neil Z Miller's Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies: 400 Important Scientific Papers Summarized for Parents and Researchers book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • vaccines
  • science
Cover of The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio by Forrest Maready

18. The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

By: Forrest Maready

4.43

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

A fascinating account of the world’s most famous disease—polio— told as you have never heard it bef… read more

Similar categories in Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • historical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • vaccines
  • disease
  • audiobook
Cover of Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023) by Steve Sailer

19. Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023)

By: Steve Sailer

4.37

Format: 458 pages, Paperback

“If the meritocracy were real, Steve Sailer would be one of the most famous writers in the world. S… read more

Similar categories in Steve Sailer's Noticing: An Essential Reader (1973-2023) book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of How to End the Autism Epidemic by J.B. Handley

20. How to End the Autism Epidemic

By: J.B. Handley

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In How to End the Autism Epidemic , Generation Rescue’s co-founder J.B. Handley offers a compelling… read more

Similar categories in J.B. Handley's How to End the Autism Epidemic book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • vaccines
  • science
Cover of Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda by Megan Basham

21. Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda

By: Megan Basham

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bo… read more

Similar categories in Megan Basham's Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda book and Forrest Maready's The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

12 Best audiobook books like The Moth in the Iron Lung: A Biography of Polio by Forrest Maready

Transform Your Habits

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

John Taylor Gatto

4.15

Transform Your Habits

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

Tom O'Neill

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms

Tim Challies

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Letter to the American Church

Eric Metaxas

4.28

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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

Nellie Bowles

4.05

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The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation

Victor Davis Hanson

4.32

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