21 must-read audiobook books like School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education by Laura Pappano

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School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

By: Laura Pappano

3.91

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

An on-the-ground look at the rise of parent activism in response to the far-right attacks on public…

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Cover of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

1. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Laura Pappano's School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
  • audiobook
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5. 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

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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6. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

By: Lauren Markham

4.08

Format: 263 pages, ebook

A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging book and Laura Pappano's School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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8. 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 Laura Pappano's School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
  • audiobook
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9. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Sisson's Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood book and Laura Pappano's School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

  • parenting
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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10. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

By: Amanda Jones

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Jones's That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America book and Laura Pappano's School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • education
  • audiobook
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11. The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out)

By: Tina Nguyen

3.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An explosive, first-person account of the alt-right from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

By: Laura Pappano

3.91

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

An on-the-ground look at the rise of parent activism in response to the far-right attacks on public… read more

Similar categories in Laura Pappano's School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education book and Laura Pappano's School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

  • parenting
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy by Isaac Arnsdorf

13. Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy

By: Isaac Arnsdorf

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An explosive, behind-the-scenes look at how a radical group of activists — supported by former Pres… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women by Ellen Atlanta

14. Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

By: Ellen Atlanta

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An up-close and striking look at modern beauty culture―from Botox and Instagram filters to lip flip… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Atlanta's Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women book and Laura Pappano's School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We invited each other into our spaces when parents would allow – girls only in these altars of beauty. We were christened into girlhood, not by holy water or the consumption of Christ’s body and bloo…"

-Ellen Atlanta, Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women

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15. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

By: Shefali Luthra

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

16. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps by Jon  Favreau

17. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps

By: Jon Favreau

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From your friends at Pod Save America  and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Laura Pappano's School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

  • audiobook
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

19. 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

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

20. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

21. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • social justice
  • audiobook

16 must-read politics books like School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education by Laura Pappano

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

Sarah McCammon

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

Benjamin Herold

3.89

Transform Your Habits

White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

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9 Top adult books like That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda Jones

Transform Your Habits

That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

Kirsten Miller

4.19

Transform Your Habits

A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

Tia Levings

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp

Michelle Moran

4.30

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