19 Best audiobook books like Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough by Dina Nayeri

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Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough

By: Dina Nayeri

3.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

“Dina Nayeri’s powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.”—Viet Than…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough by Dina Nayeri , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin G. Boyle

1. Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

By: Kevin G. Boyle

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in … read more

Similar categories in Kevin G. Boyle's Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age book and Dina Nayeri's Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough

  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

By: Emily Monosson

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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3. A Living Remedy: A Memoir

By: Nicole Chung

4.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"

-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir

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4. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

By: Joanna Schwartz

4.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police mis… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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5. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

Cover of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

6. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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7. The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial

By: David Lipsky

3.86

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parr… read more

Similar categories in David Lipsky's The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial book and Dina Nayeri's Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

8. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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9. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Mark Dawidziak

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

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10. Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

By: Alejandra Oliva

4.25

Format: 320 pages, None

The Undocumented Americans meets Tell Me How It Ends in this chronicle about translation, storytell… read more

Similar categories in Alejandra Oliva's Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration book and Dina Nayeri's Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough

  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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

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  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love

12. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

By: Bettina L. Love

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bett… read more

Similar categories in Bettina L. Love's Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal book and Dina Nayeri's Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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13. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of  How to Be an Ant… read more

Similar categories in Wesley Lowery's American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress book and Dina Nayeri's Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough

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

14. 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

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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15. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

By: Julia Lee

4.34

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

16. If It Sounds Like a Quack...: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine

By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize finalist's bizarre journalistic journey through the world of fringe medicine, fill… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough

By: Dina Nayeri

3.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

“Dina Nayeri’s powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience.”—Viet Than… read more

Similar categories in Dina Nayeri's Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough book and Dina Nayeri's Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough

  • history
  • memoir
  • historical
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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18. Sorry not sorry

By: Anika Landsteiner

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Was hat Scham mit Weiblichkeit zu tun? Scham zu empfinden ist vollkommen normal, ganz unabhängig… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices by Kristin Ann Hass

19. Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices

By: Kristin Ann Hass

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the Unit… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson

20. We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

By: Kellie Carter Jackson

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to whit… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps by Treena Orchard

21. Sticky, Sexy, Sad: Swipe Culture and the Darker Side of Dating Apps

By: Treena Orchard

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Lifelong luddite Treena Orchard was a newly sober woman coming off a much-needed break from relatio… read more

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  • nonfiction

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3.89

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Emily Monosson

3.87

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Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

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4.47

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4.27

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3.79

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Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

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3.89

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4.35

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