Bending the Arc: My Journey from Prison to Politics
By: Keeda Haynes
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A searing exposé of the profound failures in our justice system, told by a woman who has journeyed …
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1. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
By: Heather Ann Thompson
4.45
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive account of the infamous 1971 Attica prison uprising, the state’s violent respo… read more
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- politics
- race
- nonfiction
2. Orange Is the New Black
By: Piper Kerman
3.72
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious … read more
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- biography
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"We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you."-Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black
"Faggots make the best friends," she said philosophically. "They're very loyal."-Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black
"Do you have to find the evil in yourself in order to truly recognize it in the world?"-Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black
"When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand."-Piper Kerman, Orange Is the New Black
3. Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America
By: David M. Kennedy
2.78
Format: 252 pages,
Gang- and drug-related inner-city violence, with its attendant epidemic of incarceration, is the de… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
4. Prep
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
3.75
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
Curtis Sittenfeld's debut novel, Prep, is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well… read more
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5. Notes from a Small Island
By: Bill Bryson
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
6. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
By: Eric Weiner
3.37
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Weiner spent a decade as a foreign correspondent reporting from such discontented locales as Iraq, … read more
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7. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
By: Jill Leovy
3.50
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minute… read more
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8. Salvage the Bones
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2011 National Book Award for FictionA hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, … read more
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9. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
By: Keri Blakinger
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
10. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.71
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
11. Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
By: Patricia Evangelista
4.18
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
A fearless, powerfully written on-the-ground account of a nation careening into violent autocracy—t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
12. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By: Heather McGhee
4.63
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more
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- politics
- race
- nonfiction
"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
13. All the Living and the Dead
By: Hayley Campbell
4.25
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more
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- nonfiction
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead
14. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
By: Cathy Park Hong
4.21
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
- biography
- memoir
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
15. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
4.46
Format: 513 pages, Hardcover
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
16. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
By: Jessica Grose
3.48
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
17. The Family Outing: A Memoir
By: Jessi Hempel
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family's transformation, with almost all of the… read more
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- biography
- memoir
"As an adult, I'll come to understand that the price of belonging to a church community, or to any community, is accepting beliefs that you don't hold. Sometimes these beliefs are so incongruous with …"-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir
"You'll know, even as I use the word "Evan," that Evan had a name before this. It's a name I won't tell you. To utter it would be to disrespect all the work he has done to find his way to Evan. The mo…"-Jessi Hempel, The Family Outing: A Memoir
18. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
19. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
By: Priya Parker
3.98
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at wor… read more
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- nonfiction
"Chill" is a selfishness disguised as kindness"-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"Good controversy is much more likely to happen when it is invited in but carefully structured."-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating."-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
"Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation. The same is true of gatherings. So here is a corollary to h…"-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
20. Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
By: Jen Psaki
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons s… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"There was also a large crew of people who tried to nickname the previously mentioned Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework "BIF". If you would like your audience to start making fun of a big, serious, …"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
"I've spent time with a lot of very busy people - business leaders, prominent journalists, and multiple presidents. Despite the unusually high demands on their schedules, something they all have in co…"-Jen Psaki, Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
21. Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom
By: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard
3.54
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard discovered that her whole life was a lie. After eight-and-a-half years of inca… read more
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- biography
- memoir
22. Unlikely Animals
By: Annie Hartnett
4.08
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this… read more
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"You're not too messed up at all, you're just as messed up as you should be."-Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals
23. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
By: Jonathan Blitzer
4.49
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more
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- politics
- race
- nonfiction
24. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
By: Shane Bauer
4.23
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private p… read more
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- politics
- race
- nonfiction
- memoir
"When I get home, I draw a bath. I pour a glass of wine, then another, and another. I try to empty my mind. Inside me there is a prison guard and a former prisoner and they are fighting with each othe…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
"How many times have such meetings been held throughout American history? How many times have men. be they private prison executives or convict lessees, gotten together to perform this ritual? They si…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
25. Ted Kennedy: A Life
By: John A. Farrell
4.35
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling and groundbreaking new biography of one of modern America's most fascinating and con… read more
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- politics
- biography
- nonfiction
26. Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber
By: Steven Hale
4.10
Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition
"An eye-opening journey to a place that’s hard to access, rarely seen and shrouded by myths of mons… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
27. Bending the Arc: My Journey from Prison to Politics
By: Keeda Haynes
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A searing exposé of the profound failures in our justice system, told by a woman who has journeyed … read more
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- race
- biography
- memoir
- politics
- nonfiction
28. You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent
By: Justin Brooks
4.66
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it c… read more
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- nonfiction
29. When Truth Is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted
By: Jim McCloskey
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Jim McCloskey and Centurion are pioneers in the struggle to expose the tragedy of innocent people … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
30. How Did We Get Here?: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump
By: Robert Dallek
3.53
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian considers the vast array of triumphs and fa… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
31. The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House
By: Nancy Pelosi
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The most powerful woman in American political history tells the story of her transformation from ho… read more
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- nonfiction
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