Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland
By: Kristy Nabhan-Warren
3.63
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly noto…
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1. Tale of a Boon's Wife
By: Fartumo Kusow
3.69
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
A young Somali woman defies convention and clan to marry the man she loves, but must face the conse… read more
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2. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable t… read more
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- food
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3. Pakistan: A Hard Country
By: Anatol Lieven
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United St… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
4. 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
- nonfiction
- social justice
5. Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
By: Kent Haruf
4.30
Format: None pages,
A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of… read more
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6. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
By: Ira Katznelson
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recast… read more
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7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more
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8. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
By: Amity Shlaes
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Challenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a reinterpretation of the Great Depression. S… read more
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9. The Romanovs: 1613-1918
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
3.17
Format: None pages,
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surfac… read more
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10. 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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- social justice
"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
11. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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- food
- nonfiction
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
12. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
By: Philip S. Gorski
4.19
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more
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- politics
- religion
- nonfiction
"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
13. Olga Dies Dreaming
By: Xóchitl González
3.98
Format: 369 pages, Hardcover
It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown… read more
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"It's a myth about motherhood, Olga felt, that the time in utero imbues mothers with a lifelong understanding of their children. Yes, they know their essences, this she didn't doubt, but mothers are s…"-Xóchitl González, Olga Dies Dreaming
14. 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
- social justice
15. The Seed Keeper
By: Diane Wilson
4.30
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more
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"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper
16. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
By: Heather McGhee
4.63
Format: 415 pages, Hardcover
Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the Am… read more
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"They have to make Americans afraid of one another. They're exploiting fear in America to sell guns."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Ultimately, an economy, the rules we abide by and set for what's fair and who merits what, is an expression of our moral understanding."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"Instead of being blind to race, color blindness makes people blind to racism, unwilling to acknowledge where its effects have shaped opportunity or to use race-conscious solutions to address it."-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
"It's often unconscious, but their perception of The Other as undeserving is so important to their perception of themselves as deserving that they'll tear apart the web that supports everyone, includi…"-Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
17. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
By: Jon Ward
4.08
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two dec… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
18. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- politics
- religion
- nonfiction
- social justice
19. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
By: Rosemary Sullivan
3.83
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more
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- nonfiction
"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
20. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
By: Blaine Harden
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award “Terrific.” –Timothy Egan, The New York Times … read more
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- nonfiction
22. The Fields (Riley Fisher, #1)
By: Erin Young
3.54
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields… read more
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23. Last Tang Standing
By: Lauren Ho
3.52
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the … read more
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"That's what I like about Linda: she might look like Harrods on the outside but on the inside Linda's straight-up TJ MAXX-hobo without the chic."-Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing
24. How to Resist Amazon and Why
By: Danny Caine
4.30
Format: 15 pages, zine
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preyin… read more
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- labor
25. Light from Other Stars
By: Erika Swyler
3.81
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
From the author of national bestseller The Book of Speculation, a poignant, fantastical novel about… read more
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"She'd been taught that fear was worry that something bad would happen to you. It wasn't. Fear was something horrible happening to someone you love, someone you need, and you being left alone."-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
"Judy Resnik was Jewish, and Nedda didn't believe in Heaven or Hell. If her dad was right, people who died were just thoughts traveling like light, continuing. It was sad, but not. Being sure about th…"-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
"Inventions were not like your children. Your children were all your flaws shown to you in a way that made you love them: your worst made good. Inventions were your best attempt at beautiful thought. …"-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
"When customers asked why Betheen's baking was better than anyone else's, she forced herself to blush and say her kitchen was downwind from Prater Grove; everything had a little orange blossom in it. …"-Erika Swyler, Light from Other Stars
26. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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27. Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland
By: Kristy Nabhan-Warren
3.63
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly noto… read more
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- social justice
- food
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28. Moonshot: Inside Pfizer's Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible
By: Albert Bourla
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Wall Street Journal Bestseller 2022 Genesis Prize Laureate Axiom Award Bronze Medalist for Business… read more
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29. Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America
By: Beth Hoffman
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Eloquent and detailed…precise and well-thought-out...Read her book — and listen.” — Jane Smiley, T… read more
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- food
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30. Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys
By: John O'Brien
3.98
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A compelling portrait of a group of boys as they navigate the complexities of being both American t… read more
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31. Prairie Fever
By: Michael Parker
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Michael Parker has captured a time, place, and sisterhood so perfectly it hurts to turn the last p… read more
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