Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity (American Studies Collection)
By: Mitchell Duneier
3.86
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
At the Valois "See Your Food" cafeteria on Chicago's South Side, black and white men gather over cu…
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1. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
By: Suketu Mehta
3.94
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approac… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
"This is the true meaning of exile : some insurmountable force that keeps you from going back."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
"Love exposes you, makes you vulnerable and kills the personas you built on top of your true self."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
"We lived in Bombay and we lived in Mumbai and sometimes, I lived in both of them at the same time."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
2. The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)
By: Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson
3.72
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Second in the Kurt Wallander series. Sweden, winter, 1991. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team… read more
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"one must occasionally stand the world on its head in order to put it on its feet."-Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)
"Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost."-Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)
"He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god."-Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)
"He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life."-Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2)
3. 1776
By: David McCullough
4.09
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more
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- nonfiction
"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"-David McCullough, 1776
"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."-David McCullough, 1776
"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."-David McCullough, 1776
"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"-David McCullough, 1776
4. The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
4.21
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow So… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- sociology
5. Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
By: Doug Saunders
3.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of Canada's leading journalists comes a major book about how the movement of populations f… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
6. How Soccer Explains the World
By: Franklin Foer
3.81
Format: 4 pages,
Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. In fact, it's a perfect window into the cro… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
7. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
By: Jeff Hobbs
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
What does the untimely death of one man mean? Robert Peace was born outside Newark in a ghetto know… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
8. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
By: bell hooks
4.18
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more
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- nonfiction
9. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Secret History Behind the Game That Changed the World
By: Nicholas Griffin
3.88
Format: None pages, ebook
Combining the insight of Franklin Foer's How Soccer Explains the Worldand the intrigue of Ben Affle… read more
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- nonfiction
11. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
By: Jonathan Kozol
3.70
Format: 368 pages,
National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American edu… read more
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12. American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
By: H.W. Brands
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
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13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell
3.83
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more
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"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"He had a dream and it shot him."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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15. South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
By: Imani Perry
3.97
Format: 410 pages, Hardcover
An essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
"So I went deeper into an archive of historical memory, hoping to sort it out"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"Acting like you know everything and acting like you don't know how to be respectful will keep you ignorant. Be humble."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present."-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
"What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?"-Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
16. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
By: Simon Winchester
3.84
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
- anthropology
17. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
18. 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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- nonfiction
19. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
By: Robert Samuels
4.52
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more
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- nonfiction
20. These Truths: A History of the United States
By: Jill Lepore
4.40
Format: 960 pages, Paperback
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more
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- nonfiction
"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States
21. The Baseball 100
By: Joe Posnanski
4.74
Format: 869 pages, Hardcover
A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more
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22. Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
By: Forrest Stuart
4.41
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and th… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- sociology
- ethnography
23. Heat 2
By: Michael Mann
4.26
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more
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24. 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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- sociology
25. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
By: Richard V. Reeves
4.07
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
27. 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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- nonfiction
- sociology
28. Central Park West
By: James Comey
3.94
Format: 330 pages, Hardcover
In the thrilling first crime novel from the former director of the FBI, a murder investigation reve… read more
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"Our job is to lock up bad people, to protect good people. I've never really thought of our job as finding truth. Our job is to live in gray."-James Comey, Central Park West
29. 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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- nonfiction
30. The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
By: Deirdre Mask
4.07
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacit… read more
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- race
- nonfiction
- sociology
31. Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity (American Studies Collection)
By: Mitchell Duneier
3.86
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
At the Valois "See Your Food" cafeteria on Chicago's South Side, black and white men gather over cu… read more
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- nonfiction
- urban
- sociology
- anthropology
