17 best-selling history books like Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta by Dan Immergluck

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Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta

By: Dan Immergluck

4.05

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality …

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1. I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

By: Martin Short

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this engaging memoir, written with heart, wisdom, and a huge helping of hilarity, Martin Short s… read more

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  • nonfiction
"To my beloved friends, there’s simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I’d look for new friends and get them."

-Martin Short, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

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2. Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport

By: Hannah Palmer

4.06

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • urban planning
  • history
"There is no preparing for parenthood; only research as a form of prayer and manic speculation."

-Hannah Palmer, Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport

"...Miscarriage is death without ceremony. No funeral, no name. No one would ever tell you, for example, that mother-death is actually quite common, hang in there honey, you'll find another mother."

-Hannah Palmer, Flight Path: A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport

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3. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By: Richard Rothstein

2.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction

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. Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

By: Sue Johnson

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

Heralded by the New York Timesand Timeas the couples therapy with the highest rate of success, Emot… read more

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6. Requiem for a Dream

By: Hubert Selby Jr. , Richard Price , Darren Aronofsky

4.14

Format: None pages, Trade Paperback

In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight a… read more

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7. The Bonfire of the Vanities

By: Tom Wolfe

3.90

Format: 690 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780553381344.The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel… read more

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"Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman."

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

"Your self…is other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread."

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

"He had the gaunt and haunted athletic look of those who stare daily down the bony gullet of the great god Aerobics."

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

"The only thing that had truly stuck in Sherman's mind about Christopher Marlowe, after nine years at Buckley, four years at St. Paul's, and four years at Yale, was that you were, in fact, supposed to…"

-Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

8. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

By: Jeff Speck

4.43

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it d… read more

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9. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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12. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

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13. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

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  • nonfiction
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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14. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. Sister Friends Forever

By: Kimberla Lawson Roby

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This emotional novel from a  New York Times  bestselling author follows four lifelong friends as ea… read more

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17. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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18. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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19. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
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20. Heaven, My Home (Highway 59 #2)

By: Attica Locke

3.89

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling follow-up to the award-winning Bluebird, Bluebird: Texas Ranger Darren Matthews is on… read more

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  • race
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21. 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
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
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22. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By: Bill Maher

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

By: Kai Bird

4.35

Format: 772 pages, Hardcover

An essential re-evaluation of the complex triumphs and tragedies of Jimmy Carter's presidential leg… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"...Carter is sometimes perceived as a failure simply because he refused to make us feel good about the country. He insisted on telling us what was wrong and what it would take to make things better. …"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

"Watching the podium dance that night from the convention floor was Paul Corbin, a longtime Kennedy family retainer. Corbin had been working for the Kennedys ever since he first encountered Bobby Kenn…"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

"...Ironically, three decades later President Barack Obama introduced a universal health insurance bill modeled closely after the Carter bill. Mondale´s former aide Richard Moe wrote that Obamacare ¨b…"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

"After it was all over, the Carter people were stunned by Kennedy´s conduct. Why? Why would the Kennedy crowd persist in defeat, knowing that their displays of rancor would only further weaken a Democ…"

-Kai Bird, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

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25. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.

4.26

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Discover insider secrets of how America's transportation system is designed, funded, and built - an… read more

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  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
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26. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

By: Jeff Goodell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What if Atlantis wasn't a myth but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the gl… read more

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  • politics
  • urban planning
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Gentrifier: A Memoir

By: Anne Elizabeth Moore

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Taking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black cit… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There) by Shane Phillips

28. The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)

By: Shane Phillips

4.20

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crise… read more

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  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
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29. Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta

By: Dan Immergluck

4.05

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality … read more

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  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
Cover of Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit by Steven Higashide

30. Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit

By: Steven Higashide

4.27

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Imagine a bus system that is fast, frequent, and reliable—what would that change about your city? B… read more

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  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
Cover of City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future by Mark Pendergrast

31. City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future

By: Mark Pendergrast

3.84

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism

18 best-selling politics books like Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta by Dan Immergluck

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

2.89

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Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

Alissa Quart

3.82

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When McKinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich

3.80

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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Jake Bittle

4.28

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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

4.23

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Oliver Franklin-Wallis

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