5 Top nonfiction books like The Tenderloin by Randy Shaw

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The Tenderloin

By: Randy Shaw

3.82

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

America once had many Tenderloin neighborhoods. Today, San Francisco s Tenderloin is the last. Surr…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Tenderloin by Randy Shaw , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Little Friend

By: Donna Tartt

3.47

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author Donna Tartt returns with a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of child… read more

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"But how can you stand to stay asleep so much?"

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

"Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this."

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

"For the truth of the situation was that he would do whatever she asked of him, whatever it was, and they both knew it."

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

"He was talking in a voice which didn't sound at all like James Bond, but which Harriet recognized as his James Bond voice."

-Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

Cover of Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

2. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

Cover of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

3. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

By: Matthew Desmond

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

4. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

By: Bryan Stevenson

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Bless Me, Ultima

By: Rudolfo Anaya

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with … read more

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6. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • nonfiction

7. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.00

Format: 592 pages,

All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more

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8. The Tenderloin

By: Randy Shaw

3.82

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

America once had many Tenderloin neighborhoods. Today, San Francisco s Tenderloin is the last. Surr… read more

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  • nonfiction

8 must-read history books like The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley , Malcolm X

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Assata: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Transform Your Habits

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

3.54

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