We Need New Stories
By: Nesrine Malik
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for…
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1. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
By: Michael Wells , Jason De León
4.55
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León s… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
2. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
By: Colin Woodard
4.56
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating history of North America's eleven rival cultural regions that explodes the red stat… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- sociology
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4. How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
By: P.E. Moskowitz
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The term gentrificationhas become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across … read more
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5. Maktub
By: Paulo Coelho
4.60
Format: None pages,
Maktub nao e um livro de conselhos, mas uma troca de experiencias. A maior parte dos textos se refe… read more
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6. A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir
By: Daisy Hernández
4.15
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer… read more
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7. Elmet
By: Fiona Mozley
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Fresh and distinctive writing from an exciting new voice in fiction - Sally Rooney meets Sarah Perr… read more
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8. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
By: Grant Snider
3.74
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator … read more
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- nonfiction
"A book closed is just a block of paper."-Grant Snider, I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
9. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- sociology
- audiobook
10. Honeycomb
By: Joanne M. Harris
4.10
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lushly illustrated set of dark, captivating fairy tales from the bestselling author of The Gospel… read more
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11. Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
By: Amy Stanley
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
12. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
By: Emmanuel Acho
4.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. The Amur River: Between Russia And China
By: Colin Thubron
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dramatic and ambitious new journey from our greatest travel writer. The Amur River is almost unk… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation
By: John Lewis
4.45
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
*National Bestseller* A brilliant and empowering collection of final reflections and words of wisd… read more
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- race
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- audiobook
"When you see something that is not the way it should be, don’t be afraid. Speak up, speak out, be courageous."-John Lewis, Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation
"Destruction doesn’t work. Rioting isn’t a movement. We must be constructive and not destructive. Chaos is sowing more division and discord."-John Lewis, Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation
"During the 1960s, we protested with non-violent methods. There is something peaceful, cleansing, and wholesome about being orderly and not threatening."-John Lewis, Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation
"Because I had long ago decided that I wasn’t going to be bound by the mental shackles of hate, anger, and discontent. Forgiveness is medicine for the mind, balm for the body, and healing for the hear…"-John Lewis, Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation
15. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- society
- audiobook
16. The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
By: Angela Saini
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to und… read more
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- history
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
- audiobook
17. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
By: Kim Foster
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
James Beard Award–winning author Kim Foster reveals a new portrait of hunger and humanity in Americ… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- nonfiction
- essays
- society
- sociology
19. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
By: Gretchen McCulloch
4.05
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- sociology
- audiobook
"Irony is a linguistic trust fall."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
"Language is humanity's most spectacular open source project."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
"The appeal of having friends in your pocket is unlikely to go away."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
"We've had the right to adapt longer than we've had the right to prevent copying."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
20. Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
By: Gregory D. Smithers
4.12
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, … read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- history
- social justice
21. Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
By: Carl Safina
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition
Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into cultures among non-human animals through looks at the lives of … read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The more humans fill the world, the more we empty it."-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
"Shrinking forests, melting ice, plowed grasslands, raging fires, drying rivers, and dying corals — diminished of all the major habitats, proxy for all who live therein, means that the numbers of free…"-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
"We might pity hunter-gatherers for their stuck simplicity, but we would err. They held extensive knowledge, knew deep secrets of their lands and creatures. And they experienced rich and rewarding liv…"-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
22. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
By: Douglas Rushkoff
3.86
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys… read more
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- audiobook
- politics
- nonfiction
- society
- sociology
"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pand…"-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
23. Dont Touch My Hair
By: Emma Dabiri
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Guardian contributor BBC race correspondent Emma Dabiri comes an essay collection exploring th… read more
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- race
- history
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
- audiobook
"The words we use to describe Afro hair do not relate to its texture and, judged by another's metric, it will always come up lacking. But we do not possess a list of words that reflect the qualities o…"-Emma Dabiri, Dont Touch My Hair
24. Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah (Jewish Lives)
By: Ian Buruma
4.10
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
25. Red Island House
By: Andrea Lee
3.60
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Shay is surprised when her husband Senna declares his intention to build her a spectacular dream ho… read more
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- race
- audiobook
26. We Need New Stories
By: Nesrine Malik
4.02
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
It is becoming clear that the old frames of reference are not working, that the narratives used for… read more
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- feminism
- politics
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- social justice
- essays
- society
- sociology
- audiobook
27. The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America
By: Elizabeth Dias
4.53
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
From two top New York Times journalists, the breathtaking untold story of the plan to overturn Roe … read more
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- history
- feminism
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
28. The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
By: Martha C. Nussbaum
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From one of the world’s most celebrated moral philosophers comes a thorough examination of the curr… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- essays
- society
- sociology
- audiobook
29. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
30. Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun
By: Charles J. Shields
3.73
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The moving story of the life of the woman behind A Raisin in the Sun, the most widely anthologized,… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
31. Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion
By: Agnes Arnold-Forster
3.61
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
In Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion, Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psycho… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
