Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
By: Maurice Chammah
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us abo…
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1. Men We Reaped: A Memoir
By: Jesmyn Ward
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'...And then we heard the rain falling, and that was the drops of blood falling; and when we came t… read more
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"But this grief, for all its awful weight, insists that he matters."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"But my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty of fighting, the way it turned his body and those he fought into meticulously constructed machines."-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Men’s bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear as ghosts. In death, they transcend he circumstances of this place that I l…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
"Some of them were my friends, and they never took up for me, for Black people, when I was in the room. And according to what some of them told me in private conversation, they didn't when I wasn't in…"-Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped: A Memoir
2. Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
By: None
4.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers … read more
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- politics
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- social justice
3. A Naked Singularity
By: Sergio de la Pava
4.25
Format: 179 pages,
Casi is a hotshot public defender working on the front line of America's War on Drugs. So far he's … read more
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4. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
5. 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
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6. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case
By: Lou Raguse
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more
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7. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
By: Antonia Hylton
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more
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- audiobook
8. Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts
By: Sarah Thornton
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women’s chests After years o… read more
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- audiobook
9. Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story
By: Julie K. Brown
4.13
Format: 463 pages, ebook
Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey … read more
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10. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America
By: Harry N. MacLean
3.71
Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more
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- audiobook
11. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South
By: Radley Balko
4.03
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more
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12. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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13. It’s Hard for Me to Live with Me
By: Rex Chapman
4.12
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful memoir from the University of Kentucky basketball legend, NBA veteran, and social media … read more
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14. 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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- social justice
- audiobook
15. Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
By: Alisa Roth
4.07
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made … read more
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16. In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth
By: Jack Goldsmith
4.14
Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition
"In Hoffa’s Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and truly groundbreaking in its re-e… read more
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17. All The Blood We Share
By: Camilla Bruce
3.52
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound… read more
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18. Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life
By: Justin J. Lehmiller
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A leading expert on human sexuality and author of the blog Sex and Psychology offers an unprecedent… read more
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19. Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
By: Tony Messenger
4.27
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Messenger offers the first humane, journalistic expose of an American tr… read more
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- audiobook
20. Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty
By: Maurice Chammah
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us abo… read more
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21. 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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