6 Best social justice books like The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren

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The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

By: Rebecca Clarren

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Sharply insightful . . . A monumental piece of work." — The Boston Globe An award-winning author …

If you liked the social justice plot in The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • audiobook
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2. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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3. The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

By: Sharon Brous

4.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of our country’s most prominent rabbis, an inspiring book about the power of community bas… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Brous's The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson

4. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

Similar categories in Heather Cox Richardson's Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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5. City of Laughter

By: Temim Fruchter

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more

Similar categories in Temim Fruchter's City of Laughter book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • audiobook
  • jewish
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6. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • audiobook
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7. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • audiobook
  • native american
  • indigenous
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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8. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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9. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Thrall's A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • history
  • memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

4.18

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more

Similar categories in Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • history
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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11. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

By: Lawrence Ingrassia

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Weaving his own moving family story with a sweeping history of cancer research, Lawrence Ingrassia … read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Ingrassia's A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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12. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez's My Side of the River book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

Similar categories in Frank Bruni's The Age of Grievance book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.14

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more

Similar categories in Amitav Ghosh's Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. The Hebrew Teacher

By: Maya Arad

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more

Similar categories in Maya Arad's The Hebrew Teacher book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • jewish
"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"

-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher

"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"

-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher

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16. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Jackson Taffa's Whiskey Tender: A Memoir book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • history
  • memoir
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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17. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

Similar categories in Ilyon Woo's Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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18. Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media

By: Darrell Hartman

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"Absolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read—I highly, highly recommend it” -- Douglas Preston, … read more

Similar categories in Darrell Hartman's Battle of Ink and Ice: A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life

By: Kao Kalia Yang

4.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing and hauntingly beautiful memoir about a Hmong family’s epic journey to safety told fr… read more

Similar categories in Kao Kalia Yang's Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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20. Fervor

By: Toby Lloyd

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when… read more

Similar categories in Toby Lloyd's Fervor book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • religion
  • jewish
Cover of They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh

21. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

Similar categories in Mike Hixenbaugh's They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • history
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

22. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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23. The Golem of Brooklyn

By: Adam Mansbach

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Ashkenazi Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated t… read more

Similar categories in Adam Mansbach's The Golem of Brooklyn book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • audiobook
  • judaism
  • religion
  • jewish
Cover of Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah  Carlson

24. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

By: Hannah Carlson

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Carlson's Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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25. The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

By: Rebecca Clarren

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Sharply insightful . . . A monumental piece of work." — The Boston Globe An award-winning author … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • history
  • memoir
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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26. American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15

By: Cameron McWhirter

4.29

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The epic history of America’s most controversial weaponIn the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer… read more

Similar categories in Cameron McWhirter's American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul by Scott W. Berg

27. The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul

By: Scott W. Berg

3.76

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • The "illuminating" ( New Yorker ) story o… read more

Similar categories in Scott W. Berg's The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance by Shaul Magid

28. The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance

By: Shaul Magid

4.21

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely, progressive collection of essays on the Jewish relationship to Zionism and exile.What is … read more

Similar categories in Shaul Magid's The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • history
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I by Steven Ujifusa

29. The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I

By: Steven Ujifusa

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive human drama that chronicles the mass exodus of Jews from Eastern Europe to America in … read more

Similar categories in Steven Ujifusa's The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • jewish
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

30. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

Similar categories in Elle Reeve's Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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31. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

By: Michael Waters

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today’s culture… read more

Similar categories in Michael Waters's The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports book and Rebecca Clarren's The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

28 Best audiobook books like The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren

Transform Your Habits

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Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

Sharon Brous

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

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Percival Everett

4.54

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City of Laughter

Temim Fruchter

3.78

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Kantika

Elizabeth Graver

4.08

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Maya Arad

4.04

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