7 must-read american books like The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert A. Gross

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The Transcendentalists and Their World

By: Robert A. Gross

3.94

Format: 836 pages, Hardcover

The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on …

If you liked the american plot in The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert A. Gross , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo

1. Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

By: Stephen Puleo

4.01

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

This edition is no longer in print. Please check  9780807078006 for the most recent edition. Aro… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein

2. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

By: Rick Perlstein

4.33

Format: 308 pages,

Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixo… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction

3. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By: Serhii Plokhy

3.87

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

Ukraine is currently embroiled in a tense battle with Russia to preserve its economic and political… read more

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4. Two Treatises of Government

By: John Locke , Peter Laslett , Raymond Geuss

2.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

This presentation discusses the life of John Locke, the evolution of his ideas, and the political c… read more

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5. The Greenlanders

By: Jane Smiley

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Jane Smiley's The Greenlandersis an enthralling novel … read more

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6. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By: Neil Price

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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7. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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8. Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

By: Dennis Duncan

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Most of us give little thought to the back of the book—it’s just where you go to look things up. Bu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"[Citing "Alice in Wonderland"] the White Knight insists on singing Alice a song which he introduces as follows: 'The name of the song is called "Haddocks' Eyes".' 'Oh, that's the name of the song, is…"

-Dennis Duncan, Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

Cover of Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh

9. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

By: Kelefa Sanneh

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty yea… read more

Similar categories in Kelefa Sanneh's Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres book and Robert A. Gross's The Transcendentalists and Their World

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope by Sarah Bakewell

10. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

By: Sarah Bakewell

4.03

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

11. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams

12. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir

By: Lucinda Williams

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • american
  • biography
Cover of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

13. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

By: Nick Hornby

3.66

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."

-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius

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15. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.19

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

By: Caroline Elkins

4.26

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York by Barbara Weisberg

17. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

By: Barbara Weisberg

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad by Matthew F. Delmont

18. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

By: Matthew F. Delmont

4.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren

19. The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

By: Paulina Bren

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous resid… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"[Negli anni '30] Molti ritenevano anche, sebbene il Women's Bureau del governo avesse ripetutamente contraddetto tale convinzione, che le donne lavoravano per comprarsi il superfluo, rubando i posti …"

-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

"Nel 1932, ventisei Stati avevano decretato che fosse illegale per le donne sposate avere un lavoro, e negli Stati in cui non era obbligatorio lasciare il lavoro al momento delle nozze era comunque ne…"

-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

"[Negli anni ‘50] Le regole erano chiare, e le attese elevatissime: le donne dovevano essere vergini ma non bacchettone; dovevano fare l'università, dedicarsi a un certo tipo di carriera e poi rinunci…"

-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

Cover of The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature by Peter Wohlleben

20. The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature

By: Peter Wohlleben

3.74

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES A powerful return to the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The ancient tie that binds us to nature is not and never has been severed. We have just ignored it for a while."

-Peter Wohlleben, The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature

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21. Signal to Noise

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A beautiful new edition of Moreno-Garcia's stunning debut, featuring an illustrated cover by legend… read more

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"In Mexico City everything returns. The rains and the past and everything in between."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise

"You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise

"When you looked at Meche the first impression was that she was going to punch you in the face; she was made of such strong angles. However, if you looked long enough there was a delicate softness ben…"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise

"He sat back, his head against the door of the building. Meche, in turn, rested her head against his shoulder. For others, it might have been an intimate gesture. Maybe it was, but not in the way most…"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise

Cover of Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters” by Kim Todd

22. Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”

By: Kim Todd

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A vivid social history that brings to light the “girl stunt reporters” of the Gilded Age who went u… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"I never loved anyone so much that I thought it would last. In fact, I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. (Susan B. Anthony being interviewed by Nellie Bly)"

-Kim Todd, Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”

Cover of Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse by Kim Wickens

23. Lexington: The Extraordinary Life and Turbulent Times of America's Legendary Racehorse

By: Kim Wickens

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“A vivid portrait of America’s greatest stallion, the larger-than-life men who raced and bred him, … read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science by Benjamin Breen

24. Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

By: Benjamin Breen

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A bold and brilliant revisionist  take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, ill… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened by Bill McKibben

25. The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

By: Bill McKibben

4.19

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben―award-winning author, activist, educat… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Natalie Dykstra

26. Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

By: Natalie Dykstra

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The vivid and masterful story of an American original—a formidable art collector and builder of one… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

27. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. The Transcendentalists and Their World

By: Robert A. Gross

3.94

Format: 836 pages, Hardcover

The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on … read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • americana
  • literature
  • 19th century
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • criticism
Cover of What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill

29. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation by Tom McGrath

30. Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation

By: Tom McGrath

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In Triumph of the Yuppies, Tom McGrath presents the first-ever book-length history of the Yuppie ph… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Musical Revolutions: How the Sounds of the Western World Changed by Stuart Isacoff

31. Musical Revolutions: How the Sounds of the Western World Changed

By: Stuart Isacoff

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Temperament, a narrative account of the most defining momen… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

22 best-selling history books like The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert A. Gross

Transform Your Habits

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

Stephen Puleo

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Rick Perlstein

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Neil Price

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

Dennis Duncan

3.68

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17 Best fiction books like Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Vampires of El Norte

Isabel Cañas

3.90

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.75

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The Night Guest

Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

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Devils Kill Devils

Johnny Compton

3.46

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