27 must-read nonfiction books like This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America by Jack Shuler

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This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America

By: Jack Shuler

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Every overdose is a policy failure. Such is the guiding element of journalist Jack Shuler’s new bo…

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1. The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

By: Paul Theroux

3.89

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

Following the success of the acclaimed Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar… read more

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"There's always a way if you're not in a hurry."

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

"To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss."

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

"Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to se…"

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

"I have a hatred of the taming of animals, especially large ones that are so contented in the wild. I abominate circus acts that involve big befooled beasts--cowed tigers or helplessly roaring lions p…"

-Paul Theroux, The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari

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2. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

By: Nancy Isenberg

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In her groundbreaking history of the class system in America, extending from colonial times to the … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook

3. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

By: Sam Quinones

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane… read more

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4. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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5. Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

By: Kurt Andersen

3.91

Format: None pages,

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6. Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

By: None

4.34

Format: 168 pages,

In 1947, Forbes magazine declared Lancaster, Ohio the epitome of the all-American town. Today it is… read more

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7. Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

By: Alissa Quart

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America by Alissa Quart

8. Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

By: Alissa Quart

3.37

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Families today are squeezed on every side—from high childcare costs and harsh employment policies t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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9. The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

By: Greg Grandin

4.29

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Having been born into a large litter and raised, as one republican put it, in a shared New World household, Spanish American nations were socialized at an early age. The United States, in contrast, w…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"Taking Texas, Adams feared, would lock in the worldview that Jackson represented. The country was already fighting what Adams considered a perpetual war on Native Americans, a crusade that Jacksonian…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"In other words, the United States won independence from Great Britain in a revolutionary war that was, among other reasons, fought to deny Great Britain the right to establish a western border; then,…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"The Confederate flag stopped flying as the pennant of reconciliation, the joining of the southern military tradition to northern establishment might to spread Americanism abroad. It now was the banne…"

-Greg Grandin, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

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10. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

11. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl

12. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

By: Jonathan M. Metzl

4.10

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"

-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

Cover of Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul by Michael Fanone

13. Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

By: Michael Fanone

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"That’s why “reforming"

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

"Mom, they tried to kill me."

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

"I wasn't a "good" cop or a "bad" cop. I was an "every" cop."

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

"To say that members of Congress have egos is like saying that I like cold beer."

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

Cover of How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson

14. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of f… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators by Jeffrey L. Rinek

15. In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators

By: Jeffrey L. Rinek

4.16

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

"The voice that narrates In the Name of the An F.B.I. Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's W… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir by Tova Friedman

16. The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir

By: Tova Friedman

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A powerful memoir by one of the youngest ever survivors of Auschwitz, Tova Friedman, following her … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

17. The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

By: Steve Ryan

4.22

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 77 днів лютого. Україна між двома символічними датами російської ідеології війни by Марічка Паплаускайте

18. 77 днів лютого. Україна між двома символічними датами російської ідеології війни

By: Марічка Паплаускайте

4.71

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

У дитинстві вона не могла зрозуміти, чому люди у фільмах про блокаду Ленінграда постійно лежать. А … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag by Monika Zgustová

19. Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag

By: Monika Zgustová

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's f… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"tenía diecinueve años y me sentía como una anciana cuya vida ya había pasado. Entonces me di cuenta de que uno es joven mientras hace planes para el futuro y ese futuro es un misterio que le atrae, p…"

-Monika Zgustová, Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag

"Experimenté algo todavía más cruel, más refinadamente cruel. En pleno invierno, cuando no hay luz nunca y el sol no aparece ni por asomo, me enviaron junto con otros presos a construir un muro con pi…"

-Monika Zgustová, Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women's Voices from the Gulag

Cover of The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian  Alexander

20. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town

By: Brian Alexander

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

USA Today 's 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS "Alexander nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War by Mark Bulik

21. The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

By: Mark Bulik

3.82

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

An “incisive and original” history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"If history belongs to the winners, legend belongs to the losers."

-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

"Gowen finally gave up on December 13, 1889. He secluded himself in a Washington hotel room, pulled out a gun and, in morbid imitation of his old enemies, killed a mine official—himself."

-Mark Bulik, The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War

Cover of This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America by Jack Shuler

22. This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America

By: Jack Shuler

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Every overdose is a policy failure. Such is the guiding element of journalist Jack Shuler’s new bo… read more

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  • sociology
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Cover of We Are Not Refugees: True Stories of the Displaced by Agus Morales

23. We Are Not Refugees: True Stories of the Displaced

By: Agus Morales

4.17

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Never in history have so many people been displaced by political and military conflicts at home—mor… read more

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  • nonfiction
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Cover of On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear by Lynn Casteel Harper

24. On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear

By: Lynn Casteel Harper

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, Eula Biss’s On Immunity, and Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s by Dale Maharidge

25. Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s

By: Dale Maharidge

3.52

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Dale Maharidge has spent his career documenting the downward spir… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Daughter of Spies: Wartime Secrets, Family Lies by Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop

26. Daughter of Spies: Wartime Secrets, Family Lies

By: Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop

4.14

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

As a child, Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop, along with her five brothers, was raised to revere the tribal… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change

By: Ben Austen

4.36

Format: None pages, None

Author of HIGH-RISERS Ben Austen's CORRECTION: PAROLE AND AMERICAN JUSTICE, an exploration of the U… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune by Scott Simon

28. Swingtime for Hitler: Goebbels’s Jazzmen, Tokyo Rose, and Propaganda That Carries a Tune

By: Scott Simon

3.74

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In this audio treasure trove, Simon explores the fascinating and unsettling history of how a Nazi s… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Madison's Sorrow: Today's War on the Founders and America's Liberal Ideal by Kevin  O'Leary

29. Madison's Sorrow: Today's War on the Founders and America's Liberal Ideal

By: Kevin O'Leary

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The story of America is the struggle between our liberal ideal and illiberal resistance. Donald Tru… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth by Linda McQuaig

30. The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth

By: Linda McQuaig

4.41

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

The story of how we as a nation collectively built promising national projects and are now selling … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood by Donna Rifkind

31. The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood

By: Donna Rifkind

3.86

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood creat… read more

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18 Top audiobook books like This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a New America by Jack Shuler

Transform Your Habits

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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5.00

Transform Your Habits

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

Alissa Quart

3.37

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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Greg Grandin

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

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3.64

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Laurah Norton

3.87

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4.22

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