18 best-selling nonfiction books like American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness by Tea Krulos

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American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness

By: Tea Krulos

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The mainstream news media struggles to understand the power of social media while conspiracy advoca…

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1. Men Explain Things to Me

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.83

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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2. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

By: David Wojnarowicz

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

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3. Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

By: John Steinbeck

4.06

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and p… read more

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"He's got a can up there,' Richard said."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Men all do about the same thing when they wake up."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

"Then the sun came up and shook the night chill out of the air the way you'd shake a rug."

-John Steinbeck, Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)

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4. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

By: Lawrence Wright

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. Ultramarine: Poems

By: Raymond Carver

4.09

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

One of Raymond Carver's final collections of poetry, moving from the beauty of the natural world to… read more

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6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

By: Jonathan D. Culler

3.91

Format: 20 pages,

What is Literary Theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is L… read more

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  • nonfiction
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8. A People's History of the United States

By: Howard Zinn

3.00

Format: None pages,

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the Unit… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction

By: Eric H. Cline

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Public interest in biblical archaeology is at an all-time high, as television documentaries pull in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

11. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary tra… read more

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12. The Historian

By: Elizabeth Kostova

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition for  To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, e… read more

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13. Jason Molina: Riding with the Ghost

By: Erin Osmon

4.31

Format: 66 pages, ebook

Erin Osmon presents a detailed, human account of the Rust Belt-born musician Jason Molina--a vision… read more

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14. Song of Kali

By: Dan Simmons

1.33

Format: 397 pages,

"O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother." It… read more

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15. The Souls of Black Folk

By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more

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16. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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17. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
"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

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18. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Hardcover

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belf… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Like the revolution's going to wait until I finish my education."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"Who should be held accountable for a shared history of violence? It was a question that was dogging Northern Ireland as a whole."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"There was a discomfiting sense in Belfast that there was no place where you were truly secure: you would run inside to get away from a gun battle, only to run outside again for fear of a bomb."

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

"His job, he felt, was to speak for the victims - to represent the next person who might be killed in the conflict. He had no particular party; his only allegiance was to those who had been (and would…"

-Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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19. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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20. The Librarian of Burned Books

By: Brianna Labuskes

3.93

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWI… read more

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"Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

"p. 364 Do you want to be the ones handing out the gasoline cans? Or the ones trying to put out the fire?"

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

"The men who sough violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation."

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

"The men who sought violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation."

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

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21. No Longer Human

By: Junji Ito

4.28

Format: 616 pages, Hardcover

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a… read more

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"The more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"I drew with extremely excessively depressed emotions, deliberately penning each line, only to earn money for drink."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"Los cobardes temen hasta la felicidad. Pueden herirse incluso con el algodón. A veces, hasta la felicidad les hiere."

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

"Los débiles temen la felicidad misma. Pueden hacerse daño en el algodón. A veces son heridos incluso por la felicidad"

-Junji Ito, No Longer Human

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22. 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
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

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"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

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24. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson

3.96

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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25. The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World

By: Jessica Nabongo

3.86

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo—the first Black … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"It's now nearly impossible for me to name a favorite thing. I have nether a favorite country, nor a favorite food. Life is too full of amazingly beautiful things, people, and places to pick just one."

-Jessica Nabongo, The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World

Cover of Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Adelle Stripe

26. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure

By: Adelle Stripe

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOO… read more

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  • biography
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27. American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness

By: Tea Krulos

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The mainstream news media struggles to understand the power of social media while conspiracy advoca… read more

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  • conspiracy theories
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
Cover of Cream City Chronicles: Stories of Milwaukee’s Past by John Gurda

28. Cream City Chronicles: Stories of Milwaukee’s Past

By: John Gurda

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Cream City Chronicles is a collection of lively stories about the people, the events, the landmarks… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood (American Music Series)

By: Kristin Hersh

4.32

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh’s sons are the only ones included in her new… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Anthropology of Security: Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control (Anthropology, Culture and Society) by Mark   Maguire

30. The Anthropology of Security: Perspectives from the Frontline of Policing, Counter-terrorism and Border Control (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

By: Mark Maguire

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In a post-Cold War world of political unease and economic crisis, processes of securitisation are t… read more

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12 must-read history books like American Madness: The Story of the Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness by Tea Krulos

Transform Your Habits

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Lawrence Wright

3.31

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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None

3.35

Transform Your Habits

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

3.00

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Biblical Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction

Eric H. Cline

3.87

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3.84

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John Scalzi

4.16

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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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Heather Radke

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