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…
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1. Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
By: Gail A. Eisnitz
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Paperback
With a New Afterword by the Author Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impa… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
2. Weed the People: The Future of Legal Marijuana in America
By: Bruce Barcott
4.17
Format: None pages,
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- science
3. The Michigan Murders
By: Edward Keyes
4.50
Format: 168 pages,
Between July 1967 and July 1969, seven sexual murders were committed in Michigan with horrifying fu… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
4. Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
By: Arlie Russell Hochschild
3.77
Format: 300 pages,
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-prov… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
5. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more
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6. Give a Girl a Knife
By: Amy Thielen
4.08
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one cook's journey from her rural Midwestern hometown… read more
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7. Danger in Zion National Park (National Park Mystery Series Book 4)
By: Aaron Johnson
4.73
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
From the dizzying heights of Angels Landing to the mysterious depths of The Narrows, this fourth bo… read more
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8. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
By: Ruth Kassinger
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Say "algae" and most people think of pond scum. What they don't know is that without algae, none of… read more
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- science
- history
- nonfiction
- environment
- audiobook
9. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
By: Christian Cooper
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
10. Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
By: Geena Rocero
4.22
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and In… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Geena, you speak about transgender rights and FIlipino food with equal expertise."-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"That's the thing about trans joy: It can never be fully extinguished. People can try to narrow the possibilities for our lives, even end them, but our spirits will always expand to fill whatever spac…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"I didn't need to come out ot her. I never said those declarative words - and I didn't even know them at the time. Vocabulary like trans would come much later in my life. All I needed was to hear the …"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
"Despite the ubiquity of government-organized trans pageants in the Philippines, trans people themselves are not politically recognized. We are culturally visible but legally erased. To this day, tran…"-Geena Rocero, Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
11. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
By: Will Cockrell
4.00
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
12. The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
By: Finn Murphy
3.96
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“There’s nothing semi about Finn Murphy’s trucking tales of The Long Haul .”―Sloane Crosley, Vanity… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Books are completely disappearing. Remember in Fahrenheit 451 where the fireman's wife was addicted to interactive television and they sent fireman crews out to burn books? That mission has been larg…"-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
"It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America! We did the deal. Now we’ve got an unlimited supply o…"-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
"It’s too late now. The game’s been won by companies who don’t give two shits about community character or decent jobs. Congratufuckinglations, America! We did the deal. Now we’ve got an unlimited sup…"-Finn Murphy, The Long Haul: A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road
13. 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round
By: Jami Attenberg
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by Jami Attenberg’s wildly popular literary movement #1000WordsofSummer, this writer’s gui… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
By: John McWhorter
3.95
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered sho… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
- audiobook
15. 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
- politics
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
16. Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States
By: Samantha Allen
4.09
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A transgender reporter's "powerful, profoundly moving" narrative to… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. 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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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- environment
- science
18. The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
By: Eric Blehm
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless , comes an extraordinary n… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"You go up into the mountains empty, even with no lunch, you come home full."-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
"It's braver and more honorable to turn back than to forge forward into uncertain terrain. Snowboarding is about living, not about dying."-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
"I'm honestly not that concerned with what's modern, or what's up-to-date, or what's cool, stylish... The smile after a good run, to me, is all I need to know about snowboarding. -Craig Kelly"-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him
19. Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
By: Rebecca Solnit
4.19
Format: 188 pages, Paperback
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller Men E… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
"Cynicism is, first of all, a style of presenting oneself, and more than anything, cynics take pride in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is fr…"-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
"The current President's verbal abuse of language itself - with his slurred, sloshing semi-coherent word salad and his insistence that truth and fact are whatever he wants them to be, even if he wants…"-Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
20. It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)
By: Karen Tang
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health—including period problems, pelvic pain, men… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- science
21. A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
By: Taylor Kay Phillips
3.77
Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition
Learn (and love) the language of the landlocked in this bitingly funny illustrated guide to the com… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
22. White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
By: Gail Lukasik
3.70
Format: 316 pages, Hardcover
White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- audiobook
23. Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States (Studies in Postwar American Political Development)
By: Leah Cardamore Stokes
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that pro… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
24. Seven Games: A Human History
By: Oliver Roeder
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why―and how―we play them. C… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
25. 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
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- audiobook
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- science
26. I See You, Survivor: Life Inside (and Outside) the Totally F*cked-Up Troubled Teen Industry
By: Liz Ianelli
4.06
Format: None pages, Audiobook
A survivor of the Troubled Teen Industry exposes the truth about the dark side of a billion-dollar … read more
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- nonfiction
27. Water is for Fighting Over: and Other Myths about Water in the West
By: John Fleck
4.06
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recent years, newspaper hea… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- environment
- science
28. 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
- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- social issues
- sociology
- environment
- science
29. The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration
By: Sarah Everts
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Sweating may be one of our weirdest biological functions, but it’s also one of our most vital and l… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- history
- science
30. The Commons in History: Culture, Conflict, and Ecology (History for a Sustainable Future)
By: Derek Wall
3.94
Format: 183 pages, Hardcover
An argument that the commons is neither tragedy nor paradise but can be a way to understand environ… read more
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- environment
31. Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
By: Michelle Dean
3.41
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
A “deeply researched and uncommonly engrossing” book profiling ten trailblazing literary women, inc… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Journalism by women is the price the man's world pays for having disappointed them. Here at their best are the unforgiving eye, the unforgetting ear, the concealed hatpin style."-Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
"We're all stuck with each other, stuck with the history of those who've preceded us. You may make your own way, but you always do it in the streams and eddies forded by others, no matter how much you…"-Michelle Dean, Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion
