30 must-read nonfiction books like The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America by Philip Bump

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The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America

By: Philip Bump

3.61

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A widely-read Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means …

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1. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

By: Jake Bittle

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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2. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"

-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

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4. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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5. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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6. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By: Malcolm Harris

3.90

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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9. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

By: Jefferson R. Cowie

4.50

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppres… read more

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  • social science
  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"His body "was the corporeal archive of his pugnacious soul. The bullet [from a duel] caused him 'violent pain' on a regular basis, with bouts of blood gurgling into his mouth as well as probable pois…"

-Jefferson R. Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

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11. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

By: Steven Levitsky

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future by Franklin Foer

12. The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future

By: Franklin Foer

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Franklin Foer tells the definitive insider story of the first two years of the Biden presidency, wi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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  • cultural
  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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14. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka

15. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

By: Jennifer Pahlka

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more

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  • history
  • politics
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  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences by Joan Biskupic

16. Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

By: Joan Biskupic

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Editor's Choice "Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the co… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen

17. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.05

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War by Jeff Sharlet

18. The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

By: Jeff Sharlet

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into cor… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery

19. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of  How to Be an Ant… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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20. The Fourth Turning Is Here:

By: Neil Howe

3.96

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative … read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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21. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America by Barbara McQuade

22. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

By: Barbara McQuade

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more

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  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST by Martin Baron

23. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and THE WASHINGTON POST

By: Martin Baron

4.20

Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition

“A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil.” — T… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Kevin M. Kruse

24. Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

By: Kevin M. Kruse

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this instant New York Times  bestseller, America’s top historians set the record straight on the… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Violence meant to seize and shore up power—a claim to sovereignty through the violence of the mob—is fundamentally American."

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"Although in this case it is an understandable, emotional reaction meant to decry antidemocratic violence, the notion that January 6 is 'not who we are' is one manifestation of what has become a regul…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

"People may hear ‘white nationalism’ and assume it to be adjacent with patriotism, or at the very least consider it as pro-American. But after 1983 the nation at the heart of white nationalism was not…"

-Kevin M. Kruse, Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

Cover of Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter

25. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  HOAX,  “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House by Chris Whipple

26. The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House

By: Chris Whipple

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes a revelatory, insider’s look at… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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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  • cultural
  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
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28. The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America

By: Philip Bump

3.61

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A widely-read Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means … read more

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  • cultural
  • american history
  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • economics
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

29. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP by Patrick Ruffini

30. Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP

By: Patrick Ruffini

4.10

Format: 336 pages, ebook

An eye-opening, revelatory account of the future of the Republican party as they unite working-clas… read more

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  • politics
Cover of The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future by Robert P. Jones

31. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future

By: Robert P. Jones

4.55

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Jake Bittle

4.28

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4.42

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The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

Stephen Vladeck

4.21

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Keith O'Brien

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3.99

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Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

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Charles Duhigg

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