12 must-read nonfiction books like What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha

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What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

By: Mona Hanna-Attisha

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

By: Paul A. Offit

4.23

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies… read more

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  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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2. The End of the Point

By: Elizabeth Graver

3.21

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A precisely observed, superbly crafted novel, The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver charts the d… read more

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"I love him too and believe he loves me, but does he like me, which is not the same as love?"

-Elizabeth Graver, The End of the Point

"Now it's dusk, bats swooping and rising along the lawn, against the sea. Would that she could join them-flap wings, fly blind, beat back her foul mood."

-Elizabeth Graver, The End of the Point

"To have hummingbirds visit. Charlie set up a feeder outside her bedroom window. Never a poet like Dossy, Helen feels a new urge toward veerse. Flit and perch, hovercraft, I follow you."

-Elizabeth Graver, The End of the Point

"Helen was happy for them, and disdainful, and jealous of them for getting more of each other while she got less of them, and, mostly, astonished-that life could actually move forward like this into a…"

-Elizabeth Graver, The End of the Point

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3. What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

By: Danielle Ofri

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A look at the emotional side of medicine--the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love t… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science

4. $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

By: Kathryn J. Edin , H. Luke Shaefer

4.44

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don't think it exists Jes… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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5. Lost In The City

By: Edward P. Jones

3.77

Format: None pages,

A magnificent collection of short fiction focusing on the lives of African-American men and women i… read more

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6. All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

By: Edward P. Jones

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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7. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

By: Anne Fadiman

3.91

Format: 2 pages,

Lia Lee was born in 1981 to a family of recent Hmong immigrants, and soon developed symptoms of epi… read more

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8. The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science is Still A Boys' Club

By: Eileen Pollack

5.00

Format: 36 pages,

A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematic… read more

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9. The Zero-Waste Lifestyle: Live Well by Throwing Away Less

By: None

3.21

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

A practical guide to generating less waste, featuring meaningful and achievable strategies from the… read more

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10. In Shock: My Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope

By: None

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A riveting first-hand account of a physician who's suddenly a dying patient and her revelation of t… read more

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11. No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine

By: Rachel Pearson

4.02

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In medical charts, the term “N.A.D.” (No Apparent Distress) is used for patients who appear stable.… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
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12. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont by Robert Bilott

13. Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont

By: Robert Bilott

4.50

Format: 400 pages, ebook

“For Erin Brockovich fans, a David vs. Goliath tale with a twist.” —The New York Times Book Review … read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • science
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14. Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret

By: Catherine Coleman Flowers

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The MacArthur grant–winning “Erin Brockovich of Sewage” tells the riveting story of the environment… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • science
Cover of Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins

15. Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

By: Morgan Jerkins

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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16. What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

By: Mona Hanna-Attisha

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents… read more

Similar categories in Mona Hanna-Attisha's What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City book and Mona Hanna-Attisha's What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

  • audiobook
  • history
  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • science
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17. The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

By: Anna Clark

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Flint, Michigan, water scandal, an American tragedy, with new details… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • science
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18. Can You Sign My Tentacle?: Poems

By: Brandon O'Brien

3.69

Format: 93 pages, Kindle Edition

Cthulhu meets hip-hop in this book of horror poems that flips the eldritch genre upside down. Lovec… read more

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19. Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net

By: Jessica Calarco

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the cau… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ailing in Place: Environmental Inequities and Health Disparities in Appalachia by Michele Morrone

20. Ailing in Place: Environmental Inequities and Health Disparities in Appalachia

By: Michele Morrone

3.60

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

In Ailing in Place , Michele Morrone explores the relationship between environmental conditions in … read more

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21. The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library

By: Trevor Noah

3.93

Format: 130 pages, Hardcover

As seen on The Daily Show, an illustrated portrait of the Donald J. Trump Twitter account, with ana… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

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Kathryn J. Edin , H. Luke Shaefer

4.44

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Rachel Pearson

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

Uché Blackstock

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots

Morgan Jerkins

4.00

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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

4.57

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Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Myriam Gurba

4.37

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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Annalee Newitz

3.79

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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

Raja Shehadeh

4.19

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