21 must-read nonfiction books like How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman

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How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

By: Peter S. Goodman

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspond…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War by Jim Sciutto

1. The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

By: Jim Sciutto

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The essential new book by CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, reporting from the… read more

Similar categories in Jim Sciutto's The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War book and Peter S. Goodman's How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

2. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Peter S. Goodman's How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George  Stephanopoulos

3. The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis

By: George Stephanopoulos

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger

4. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

By: Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West by David E. Sanger

5. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh

6. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson

7. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

By: Steven Johnson

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff

8. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.59

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more

Similar categories in Garrett M. Graff's When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day book and Peter S. Goodman's How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

9. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Cover of The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning by A.J. Jacobs

10. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning

By: A.J. Jacobs

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy by Craig Whitlock

11. Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

By: Craig Whitlock

4.39

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest publi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"After a decade of U.S. wars and surging defense budgets, an expectation of special treatment had taken root in the Navy. Many officers felt they were owed something extra for enduring long deployment…"

-Craig Whitlock, Fat Leonard: How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy

Cover of The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi by Boyce Upholt

12. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

By: Boyce Upholt

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transform… read more

Similar categories in Boyce Upholt's The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi book and Peter S. Goodman's How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

13. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

Similar categories in Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI book and Peter S. Goodman's How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman

14. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

By: Peter S. Goodman

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspond… read more

Similar categories in Peter S. Goodman's How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain book and Peter S. Goodman's How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

15. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire by Andrew  Wilkinson

16. Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire

By: Andrew Wilkinson

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Andrew Wilkinson, touted as the Warren Buffett of tech, pulls back the curtain on the lives of the … read more

Similar categories in Andrew Wilkinson's Never Enough: From Barista to Billionaire book and Peter S. Goodman's How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley

17. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

18. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

19. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism by Joe Conason

20. The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism

By: Joe Conason

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sardonic chronicle of how conservatism turned into a racketeering enterprise – and why Donald Tru… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

21. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

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Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

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When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day

Garrett M. Graff

4.59

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A.J. Jacobs

4.08

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Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

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Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Salman Khan

3.74

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Bill Maher

4.27

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