15 Top nonfiction books like American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico by Michael Sean Comerford

Cover of American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico by Michael Sean Comerford

American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico

By: Michael Sean Comerford

3.92

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

You'll never see your state fair or neighborhood festival the same again! American Oz is a rollick…

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Cover of The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie

1. The Last Days of the Incas

By: Kim MacQuarrie

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of t… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
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2. The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway

By: Ben Mezrich

4.21

Format: 96 pages, ebook

A real-life mix of The X-Files and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Mezrich "writes vividly and … read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress

By: Candacy A. Taylor

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Offers a window into the lives of career waitresses who have worked in diners and coffee shops for … read more

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4. Kettle Bottom

By: None

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

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5. Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports

By: Guy Lawson

3.96

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

The inside story of disgraced fraudster turned undercover FBI informant Marty Blazer and the greate… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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6. Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more

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Cover of Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1) by Tom J. Bross

7. Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)

By: Tom J. Bross

4.25

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Don’t Call Me Jupiter is a true coming-of-age memoir of psychedelic adventure about growing up in a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"One of my nipples is noticeably larger than the other two."

-Tom J. Bross, Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)

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8. Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #2)

By: Tom J. Bross

4.52

Format: 311 pages, ebook

Don’t Call Me Jupiter is a true coming-of-age memoir of psychedelic adventure about growing up in a… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

9. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
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10. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Cover of Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alua Arthur

11. Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

By: Alua Arthur

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail by Joan M. Griffin

12. Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

By: Joan M. Griffin

4.44

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

"Lace up your hiking boots! Let Griffin guide you over granite mountains, through thunderstorms, an… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
Cover of A Trucker's Tale: Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road by Ed Miller

13. A Trucker's Tale: Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road

By: Ed Miller

3.72

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Wit, wisdom, adventure, and revelations from sixty years on the road. They say that only truck dri… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger

14. Hollywood: The Oral History

By: Jeanine Basinger

4.04

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of A Beginner's Guide to the Stock Market by Matthew R. Kratter

15. A Beginner's Guide to the Stock Market

By: Matthew R. Kratter

4.05

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn to make money in the stock market, even if you've never traded before. The stock market is th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America by Amanda    Jones

16. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

By: Amanda Jones

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Bad Karma: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell by Paul      Wilson

17. Bad Karma: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell

By: Paul Wilson

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1978, twenty-one-year-old Paul Wilson jumps at the chance to join two local icons … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
Cover of American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico by Michael Sean Comerford

18. American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico

By: Michael Sean Comerford

3.92

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

You'll never see your state fair or neighborhood festival the same again! American Oz is a rollick… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age by John Woolf

19. The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age

By: John Woolf

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A radical new history of the Victorian age: meet the forgotten and extraordinary freak performers w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth by Minu Cash

20. The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

By: Minu Cash

4.53

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgiveness From her earl… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living."

-Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

Cover of Selznick’s Girl Friday: A Novel of 1939 Hollywood (The Hollywood's Greatest Year trilogy Book 1) by Martin Turnbull

21. Selznick’s Girl Friday: A Novel of 1939 Hollywood (The Hollywood's Greatest Year trilogy Book 1)

By: Martin Turnbull

4.27

Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition

Polly Maddox lives under the sheltering wing of Santa Catalina Island, her world as small and idyll… read more

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6 Top history books like American OZ: An Astonishing Year Inside Traveling Carnivals at State Fairs & Festivals: Hitchhiking From California to New York, Alaska to Mexico by Michael Sean Comerford

Transform Your Habits

The Last Days of the Incas

Kim MacQuarrie

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Hot Dog Money: Inside the Biggest Scandal in the History of College Sports

Guy Lawson

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

David Zucker

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Hollywood: The Oral History

Jeanine Basinger

4.04

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5 Top outdoors books like Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail by Joan M. Griffin

Transform Your Habits

Tent for Seven: A Camping Adventure Gone South Out West

Marty Ohlhaut

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Trail

Ethan Gallogly

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail

Joan M. Griffin

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Trail Provides: A Boy's Memoir of Thru-Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail

David Smart

4.32

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