23 must-read history books like Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning by Alan Maimon

Cover of Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning by Alan Maimon

Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

By: Alan Maimon

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfec…

If you liked the history plot in Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning by Alan Maimon , here is a list of 23 books like this:

Cover of Appalachian Daughter by Mary Jane Salyers

1. Appalachian Daughter

By: Mary Jane Salyers

4.03

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

“Appalachian Daughter grabbed me Friday afternoon, and except for the time for sleeping and necessa… read more

Similar categories in Mary Jane Salyers's Appalachian Daughter book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • southern
Cover of The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson

2. The Birds of Opulence

By: Crystal Wilkinson

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberriesand Water Streetco… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Wilkinson's The Birds of Opulence book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • southern
Cover of No Name in the Street by James Baldwin

3. No Name in the Street

By: James Baldwin

4.00

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seve… read more

Similar categories in James Baldwin's No Name in the Street book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir

4. Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind

By: Gavin Edwards

3.50

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the… read more

Similar categories in Gavin Edwards's Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

Cover of American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park

5. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.21

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin E. Park's American Zion: A New History of Mormonism book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen

6. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

By: Jared Cohen

4.27

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most pow… read more

Similar categories in Jared Cohen's Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen

7. Parkland: Birth of a Movement

By: Dave Cullen

3.98

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordin… read more

Similar categories in Dave Cullen's Parkland: Birth of a Movement book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

8. Uncultured: A Memoir

By: Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.08

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more

Similar categories in Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Daniella,"

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"The body keeps the score."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

Cover of We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle

9. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

By: Erin Kimmerle

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Lydia Kang

10. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

By: Lydia Kang

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Kang's Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers

11. Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

By: Cassie Chambers

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Chambers's Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • history
  • memoir
  • southern
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"This holler feels like home, and this house feels like family. There are women’s stories here, stories of resilience, love, and strength. This community knows them well, but their echo hasn’t reached…"

-Cassie Chambers, Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains

Cover of Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show by Tommy Tomlinson

12. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

By: Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Tomlinson's Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World by Jen Psaki

13. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

By: Jen Psaki

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more

Similar categories in Jen Psaki's Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"

-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

Cover of White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Thomas F. Schaller

14. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

Similar categories in Thomas F. Schaller's White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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15. Southernmost

By: Silas House

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles… read more

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  • southern
  • audiobook
"Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having"

-Silas House, Southernmost

"Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them …"

-Silas House, Southernmost

Cover of Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha  Allen

16. Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States

By: Samantha Allen

4.09

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative to… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg

17. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outside… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer's Home by Richard Estep

18. The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer's Home

By: Richard Estep

3.42

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Fox Hollow Farm, the infamous Indiana property where Herb Baumeister allegedly murdered at least el… read more

Similar categories in Richard Estep's The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm: Unraveling the History & Hauntings of a Serial Killer's Home book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class (Politics and Society in Modern America) by Max Fraser

19. Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class (Politics and Society in Modern America)

By: Max Fraser

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The largely untold story of the great migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest and … read more

Similar categories in Max Fraser's Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class (Politics and Society in Modern America) book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Lark Ascending by Silas House

20. Lark Ascending

By: Silas House

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A timely, powerful story of survival set in the not-too-distant future, reminding us to always hold… read more

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  • audiobook
"The world became smaller, yet louder."

-Silas House, Lark Ascending

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

-Silas House, Lark Ascending

"There was some comfort in knowing that, although the world was being torn in two, there were still remarkable things that went on being, that refused to lose their shine. Some days it was only the wo…"

-Silas House, Lark Ascending

Cover of The Secret History of Bigfoot by John O’Connor

21. The Secret History of Bigfoot

By: John O’Connor

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, on… read more

Similar categories in John O’Connor's The Secret History of Bigfoot book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte

22. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

By: Elizabeth Catte

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Catte's What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • history
  • politics
  • southern
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City: Murder, Secrets, and Scandal in Old Louisville by David Domine

23. A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City: Murder, Secrets, and Scandal in Old Louisville

By: David Domine

3.38

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

This true crime saga—with an eccentric Southern backdrop—introduces the reader to the story of a mu… read more

Similar categories in David Domine's A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City: Murder, Secrets, and Scandal in Old Louisville book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • southern
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia by Matthew Algeo

24. All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia

By: Matthew Algeo

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In early 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy ventured deep into the heart of eastern Kentucky to gauge … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Algeo's All This Marvelous Potential: Robert Kennedy's 1968 Tour of Appalachia book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning by Alan Maimon

25. Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

By: Alan Maimon

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfec… read more

Similar categories in Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • southern
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal

26. American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

By: Chris McGreal

4.15

Format: 336 pages, ebook

The opioid epidemic has been described as "one of the greatest mistakes of modern medicine." But ca… read more

Similar categories in Chris McGreal's American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation by Peter     Stark

27. Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation

By: Peter Stark

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A vivid account of the rivalry between William Henry Harrison and Tecumseh, and the Native American… read more

Similar categories in Peter Stark's Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean

28. The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb

By: Sam Kean

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hit… read more

Similar categories in Sam Kean's The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy A. Taylor

29. Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America

By: Candacy A. Taylor

4.23

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide… read more

Similar categories in Candacy A. Taylor's Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia by Chris Hamby

30. Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia

By: Chris Hamby

4.31

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Chris Hamby, u… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hamby's Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Feh: A Memoir by Shalom Auslander

31. Feh: A Memoir

By: Shalom Auslander

4.12

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament , a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the bib… read more

Similar categories in Shalom Auslander's Feh: A Memoir book and Alan Maimon's Twilight in Hazard: An Appalachian Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

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4.21

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4.27

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3.98

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

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4.24

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The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

James L. Swanson

3.44

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Douglas Preston

3.81

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Laurah Norton

3.87

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