18 best-selling nonfiction books like The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach by Sarah Stodola

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The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

By: Sarah Stodola

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A captivating exploration of beach resort culture—from its roots in fashionable society to its unde…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach by Sarah Stodola , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Captive Paradise: The Story of the United States and Hawaii

By: James L. Haley

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. … read more

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2. Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

By: Bronwen Dickey

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

The hugely illuminating story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedl… read more

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3. Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That is a Problem, and What to Do About it

By: Richard V. Reeves

4.15

Format: None pages,

America is becoming a class-based society. It is now conventional wisdom to focus on the wealth of … read more

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4. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • environment
  • audiobook
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5. Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

By: Shahnaz Habib

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A playful personal and cultural history of travel from a postcolonial, person-of-color perspective,… read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I don't know if this should be considered a hobby or a disorder, but going for a walk is my idea of a marvelous time."

-Shahnaz Habib, Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

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6. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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7. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond

By: Robin George Andrews

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma mor… read more

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  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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8. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

By: Alexandra Lange

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"

-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

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9. Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door-Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

By: Christopher Mims

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Arriving Today, Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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10. Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

By: Andrés Reséndez

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discover… read more

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  • travel
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

By: Adam Minter

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

When you drop a box of unwanted items off at the local thrift store, where do they go? Probably acr… read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
  • business
  • audiobook
"Encouraging consumers to think more seriously about the financial, environmental, and personal costs of their consumption would be a major step in addressing the crisis of quality and the environment…"

-Adam Minter, Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale

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12. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

By: Kerry Howley

3.81

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

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13. The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth

By: Adam Goodheart

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated h… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture

By: Ken Jennings

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year From the brilliantly witty and exuberant New York Times bes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors by Spencer Jakab

15. The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors

By: Spencer Jakab

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The saga of GameStop and other meme stocks is revealed with the skill of a thrilling whodunit. Jaka… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

16. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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17. The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

By: Sarah Stodola

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A captivating exploration of beach resort culture—from its roots in fashionable society to its unde… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Stodola's The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach book and Sarah Stodola's The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach

  • nature
  • history
  • travel
  • historical
  • environment
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China by Frank Langfitt

18. The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China

By: Frank Langfitt

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

As any traveler knows, some of the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer by Margalit Fox

19. Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

By: Margalit Fox

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detec… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"At bottom, Conan Doyle for the Defense is a story about class identification: those snap judgments, themselves dark diagnostic instruments, that in every age are wielded to separate 'us' from 'them."

-Margalit Fox, Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

"In the. Middle Ages and afterwards, Jews, like members of other marginalized groups, were denied the legal protections that England afforded the archetypal citizen: the free white native-born law-abi…"

-Margalit Fox, Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

"By the late nineteenth century, as British cities teemed with new inhabitants, crime rates rose and more established residents came to be afflicted with a new, urban, and distinctly modern anxiety. F…"

-Margalit Fox, Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

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20. To the River: Losing My Brother

By: Don Gillmor

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An eloquent and haunting exploration of suicide in which one of Canada's most gifted writers attemp… read more

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

21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sociology
  • audiobook

16 Best audiobook books like The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach by Sarah Stodola

Transform Your Habits

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel

Shahnaz Habib

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

John Vaillant

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond

Robin George Andrews

4.04

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11 best-selling adult books like Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture by Ken Jennings

Transform Your Habits

I Judge You When You Use Poor Grammar: A Collection of Egregious Errors, Disconcerting Bloopers, and Other Linguistic Slip-Ups

Sharon Eliza Nichols

4.50

Transform Your Habits

Rabbits for Food

Binnie Kirshenbaum

3.59

Transform Your Habits

In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

Amy Schneider

3.51

Transform Your Habits

Answers in the Form of Questions: A Definitive History and Insider's Guide to Jeopardy!

Claire McNear

4.09

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