5 must-read biography books like Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America by Mark Jacobson

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Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America

By: Mark Jacobson

3.95

Format: None pages, ebook

"We are living in a time of unprecedented distrust in America: Faith in the government is at an all…

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1. It Can't Happen Here

By: Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrow… read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
"NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

"It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class."

-Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

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2. Big Sur

By: Aram Saroyan , Jack Kerouac

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

"Each book by Jack Kerouac is unique, a telepathic diamond. With prose set in the middle of his min… read more

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3. The Grin of the Dark

By: Ramsey Campbell

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tubby Thackeray was once the biggest comedian in the world -- people literally laughed themselves t… read more

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4. The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton

By: Jefferson Morley

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"The best book ever written about the strangest CIA chief who ever lived." - Tim Weiner, National B… read more

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5. Behold a Pale Horse

By: Milton William Cooper

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Former U.S. Naval Intelligence Briefing Team Member reveals information kept secret by our governme… read more

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6. Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs

By: Mark Pilkington

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

This title is based on interviews with intelligence agents, scientists, psychics and UFO hunters wh… read more

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7. Pale Horse, Pale Rider

By: Katherine Anne Porter

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author's reputation as a master of sh… read more

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8. Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories

By: Mike Rothschild

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family —the Roth… read more

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  • conspiracy theories
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. No Room at the Morgue

By: Jean-Patrick Manchette

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammett, No Room at the Morgue is Jean-Patrick Manchette's unpara… read more

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10. How To Catch A Mole

By: Marc Hamer

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'It is rare to encounter such respect and understanding of nature for herself.' Rosamund Young, aut… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"A feeling of belonging brings with it a desire to build something to mark one's connection, and then, having built - a garden, a house, a career, a tunnel system - one has to protect those things fro…"

-Marc Hamer, How To Catch A Mole

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11. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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12. 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

By: Rob Harvilla

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of ge… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"There is no true, clean, definitive way to separate the art from the artist. Art fully separated from the artist ceases, in a fundamental way, to be art at all. The artist gives the art meaning."

-Rob Harvilla, 60 Songs That Explain the '90s

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13. Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

By: Kevin Kelly

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“I love aphorisms, proverbs, and Secrets of Adulthood . . . Excellent Advice for Living includes wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The end is almost always the beginning of something better."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"When you keep people waiting they begin to think of all your flaws."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"The very best thing you can do for your kids is to love your spouse."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

"Don’t treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are."

-Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

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14. Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

By: Gad Saad

3.94

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

The West’s commitment to freedom, reason, and true liberalism has never been more seriously threate… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"We envy people whose traits compete with our desirability as a mate."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"Any human endeavor rooted in the pursuit of truth must rely on fact and not feelings."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"To be a truly wise person requires that we recognize those domains best served by our intellect versus those best guided by our emotions."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

"There is no "black mind" or "white mind", no "white male of knowing", there is only one truth, and we find it through the scientific method."

-Gad Saad, Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

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15. Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

By: Sarah Smarsh

3.76

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

During Sarah Smarsh’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, the forces of cyclical … read more

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  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"When I found your name, in my early adulthood, I don't think I'd ever heard the term "white working class". The experience it describes contains both racial privilege and economic disadvantage, which…"

-Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

Cover of The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation by Robert        Rand

16. The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation

By: Robert Rand

4.13

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the primary source material for NBC's Law and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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17. Bluebeard

By: Jim Clemente

3.76

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

A NEW THRILLER BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF LA’S FIRST KNOWN SERIAL KILLER In 1919, Kathryn Wombache… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.23

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

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19. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

By: Matthew Dallek

3.97

Format: None pages, Audiobook

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more

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  • conspiracy theories
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal by Richard   Gallagher

20. Demonic Foes: My Twenty-Five Years as a Psychiatrist Investigating Possessions, Diabolic Attacks, and the Paranormal

By: Richard Gallagher

3.78

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

The world’s leading psychiatric authority on demonic possession delves into the hidden world of exo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music

By: Tom Breihan

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beloved music critic Tom Breihan's fascinating narrative of the history of popular music through th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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22. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

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  • history
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism by Andy     Campbell

23. We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism

By: Andy Campbell

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gripping investigation into the nation’s most notorious far-right group, revealing how they creat… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s by Sean Howe

24. Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s

By: Sean Howe

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The life and times of  High Times ’ enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me by Wilfred Reilly

25. Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me

By: Wilfred Reilly

4.00

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A college professor debunks the false liberal narratives which define much of America's school curr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

26. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick J. Deneen

27. Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future

By: Patrick J. Deneen

3.68

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature by Dan Sinykin

28. Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

By: Dan Sinykin

3.96

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat wit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America by Mark Jacobson

29. Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America

By: Mark Jacobson

3.95

Format: None pages, ebook

"We are living in a time of unprecedented distrust in America: Faith in the government is at an all… read more

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  • conspiracy theories
  • biography
  • history
  • americana
  • politics
  • esoterica
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 by Chris Nashawaty

30. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982

By: Chris Nashawaty

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo

31. Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs

By: Luis Elizondo

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The former head of the Pentagon program responsible for the investigation of UFOs—now known as unid… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

18 must-read audiobook books like Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America by Mark Jacobson

Transform Your Habits

It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis , Christopher Hurt , Michael R. Meyer

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories

Mike Rothschild

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Transform Your Habits

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Rob Harvilla

3.92

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6 must-read russia books like Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy

Transform Your Habits

Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster

Andrew Leatherbarrow , Elizabeth Petrey

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Katja Hoyer

4.23

Transform Your Habits

1983: The World at the Brink

Taylor Downing

4.27

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