19 must-read nonfiction books like Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King by Dennis McDougal

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Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King

By: Dennis McDougal

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A search for the truth behind the DEA’s life imprisonment of acid's most famous martyr. Operatio…

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1. Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead

By: Bill Kreutzmann , Benjy Eisen

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Grateful Dead are perhaps the most legendary American rock band of all time. For thirty years, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. Owsley and Me: My LSD Family

By: Tom Davis , Rhoney Gissen Stanley

3.84

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Owsley and Me is a love story set against the background of the Psychedelic Revolution of the '60s.… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Jerry [Garcia] held his guitar and picked some random licks. I spoke from an LSD haze. 'LSD changes perception. Music transcends the musician. You are the vehicle for communication.' Garcia stopped a…"

-Tom Davis, Owsley and Me: My LSD Family

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3. Running the Amazon

By: Joe Kane

3.96

Format: 281 pages, Paperback

The voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy aga… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"There is an inherent, humbling cruelty to learning how to run white water. In most other so-called "adrenaline" sports—skiing, surfing and rock climbing come to mind—one attains mastery, or the illus…"

-Joe Kane, Running the Amazon

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4. The Kitchen God's Wife

By: Amy Tan

3.73

Format: 238 pages,

Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she b… read more

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5. Man and His Symbols

By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

6. LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science

By: Albert Hofmann

3.72

Format: 374 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)

By: James Lee Burke

4.00

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Detective Dave Robicheaux has fought too many battles: in Vietnam, with killers and hustlers, with … read more

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8. Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and the Sixties Rebellion

By: Bruce Shlain , Martin A. Lee

3.40

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Acid Dreams is the complete social history of LSD & the counterculture it helped to define in the s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

9. Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

By: None , Alexander Shulgin

3.98

Format: 212 pages,

phen-ethyl-amine \fen-'eth-al-a-,men\ n. [phenyl fr. F. phene, fr. Gk. phainein, to show (from its … read more

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10. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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11. Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead

By: Phil Lesh

4.48

Format: None pages,

Right in time for the Grateful Dead's 40th anniversary, eccentric bass player extraordinaire Phil L… read more

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12. The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America

By: Don Lattin

4.30

Format: 503 pages, Hardcover

"[Don Lattin] has created a stimulating and thoroughly engrossing read." --Dennis McNally, author o… read more

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13. Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World

By: Nicholas Schou

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Few stories in the annals of American counterculture are as intriguing or dramatic as that of the B… read more

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14. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

By: Aldous Huxley

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

As only he can, Aldous Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human … read more

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15. Grant

By: Ron Chernow

4.40

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more

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16. The United States of Beer: A Freewheeling History of the All-American Drink

By: Dane Huckelbridge

3.33

Format: 75 pages, ebook

From the author of Bourbon, "the definitive history" (Sacramento Bee), comes the rollicking and rev… read more

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17. The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

By: Elizabeth Letts

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The incredible true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"As she passed through Maine, Annie would interpret a certain expression on someone's face as possibly a family trait. She saw the Stuart in a stranger's clear blue eyes, the Libby in someone's advent…"

-Elizabeth Letts, The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

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18. Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

By: Mike Jay

3.94

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. Be Here Now

By: Ram Dass

4.33

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Be here now."

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"Be here, now!"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

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20. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

By: Michael Pollan

4.27

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The opposite of spiritual is not material but egotistical."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination."

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing…"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

"The philosophical implications of "predictive coding" are deep and strange. The model suggests that our perceptions of the world offer us not a literal transcription of reality but rather a seamless …"

-Michael Pollan, How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

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22. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

By: Greg Melville

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."

-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

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23. Acid for the Children

By: Flea

4.08

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Bein famous don't mean shit"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

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24. The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue

By: John Glatt

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling true crime author John Glatt comes the devastating story of the Tur… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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25. The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

By: Benjamin Gilmer

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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26. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic

By: Anthony Almojera

3.84

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Lost Angels (Nikki Hunt, #3)

By: Stacy Green

4.50

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

When Special Agent Nikki Hunt is called to the Boundary Waters near Stillwater, Minnesota, it’s not… read more

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  • audiobook
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28. Tripped: Nazi Germany, the CIA, and the Dawn of the Psychedelic Age

By: Norman Ohler

3.90

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Blitzed returns with a provocative new history of drugs… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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29. Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King

By: Dennis McDougal

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A search for the truth behind the DEA’s life imprisonment of acid's most famous martyr. Operatio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT by Graham St. John

30. Mystery School in Hyperspace: A Cultural History of DMT

By: Graham St. John

4.25

Format: 725 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the mid-1950s, the psychoactive compound DMT has attracted the attention of experimentalists … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

11 Best audiobook books like Operation White Rabbit: LSD, the DEA, and the Fate of the Acid King by Dennis McDougal

Transform Your Habits

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Mike Jay

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Susan Casey

4.24

Transform Your Habits

How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Michael Pollan

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

Greg Melville

4.00

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Transform Your Habits

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Mike Jay

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Abigail Shrier

4.06

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