Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
By: Kyle Swenson
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of …
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1. 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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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
2. Balm
By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
The Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp have each come to Chicago in search of a new li… read more
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3. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
By: Dashka Slater
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives f… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- social justice
- crime
- audiobook
4. Under the Harrow
By: Flynn Berry
3.80
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find h… read more
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- crime
- audiobook
5. 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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- race
- history
- politics
- law
- nonfiction
- social justice
6. The Pact
By: Jodi Picoult
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything … read more
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7. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
By: James Forman Jr.
3.00
Format: None pages,
In recent years, America's criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent… read more
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8. Monster
By: Walter Dean Myers
3.73
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The … read more
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- crime
- audiobook
9. 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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11. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
By: Keri Blakinger
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more
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- crime
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
12. The Princess of Las Vegas
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more
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- crime
- audiobook
13. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Don't Cry for Me
By: Daniel Black
4.35
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise a… read more
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- audiobook
"I want readers to reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much."-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
"Hurt is worse than anger, you know. Anger dwells in the head, then fades. Hurt lingers in the soul. It rearranges your feelings without your permission. It blinds you."-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
"Reconsider the capacity of our fathers’ hearts. Many of them were handed so little, yet we expected so much. They gave more than they had, but less than what we needed."-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
"Pride can really kill a man. Actually, it makes him kill himself. He justifies his errors and creates his own righteousness in his mind. Grandma used to say, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a…"-Daniel Black, Don't Cry for Me
15. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
16. A Burning
By: Megha Majumdar
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three … read more
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- audiobook
"I am opening a card as if it is a flap of my heart. Opening and closing the card, opening and closing the card – I am ready for my heart to be tearing at the fold."-Megha Majumdar, A Burning
17. Solito
By: Javier Zamora
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."-Javier Zamora, Solito
"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."-Javier Zamora, Solito
18. The Women's March: A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
3.59
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with The Women’s March , an enthrall… read more
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- politics
- audiobook
19. Before and After
By: Judy Christie
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
7 hours, 57 minutes The incredible, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption sca… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
20. The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
By: Anthony Ray Hinton
4.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thi… read more
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- true crime
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- crime
- audiobook
"Life was a crazy, strange mix of tragedy and sorrow and triumph and joy."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Oh, the sanitized way of saying it is "sentenced to death." But let's call it what it is. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"Life is brutal, tragic, unbearable, and inhumane at times. The pain one man can cause another is limitless, but I didn't see, I couldn't see, how creating more pain made anything better."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
"I had just turned twenty-nine, and honestly, I still didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. Sometimes it felt like life was more a process of elimination than a series of choices."-Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
21. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
By: Jonathan M. Metzl
4.10
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences—even for the white vo… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- sociology
- audiobook
"It's a narrative about how "whiteness" becomes a formation worth living and dying for, and how, in myriad ways and on multiple levels, white Americans bet their lives on particular sets of meanings a…"-Jonathan M. Metzl, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
22. Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
3.91
Format: 285 pages, Paperback
How do the living come back to life? Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Re… read more
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- audiobook
"There is that terrible memory, surely, but so too are there sweet ones, the tiny memories with the tiny details that are milder in climax, no doubt, but equally powerful..."-Morgan Talty, Night of the Living Rez
23. There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
By: Fiona Hill
4.13
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity ha… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity
By: Axton Betz-Hamilton
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An identity theft expert tells the story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and… read more
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- true crime
- audiobook
25. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
By: Wesley Lowery
4.18
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Ant… read more
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- sociology
- audiobook
26. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
4.30
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigra… read more
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"Home is not something I should have to earn."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Humanity is not some box I should have to check."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte."-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
"Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?"-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
27. The Banker’s Wife
By: Cristina Alger
3.90
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a st… read more
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28. American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
By: Shane Bauer
4.23
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private p… read more
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- crime
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"When I get home, I draw a bath. I pour a glass of wine, then another, and another. I try to empty my mind. Inside me there is a prison guard and a former prisoner and they are fighting with each othe…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
"How many times have such meetings been held throughout American history? How many times have men. be they private prison executives or convict lessees, gotten together to perform this ritual? They si…"-Shane Bauer, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
29. Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
By: Eliese Colette Goldbach
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
One woman's story of working in the backbreaking steel industry to rebuild her life—but what she un… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
By: Mona Hanna-Attisha
4.34
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Here is the inspiring story of how Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, alongside a team of researchers, parents… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- audiobook
31. Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
By: Kyle Swenson
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true story of … read more
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