15 must-read nonfiction books like California: An American History by John Mack Faragher

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California: An American History

By: John Mack Faragher

4.12

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation   “A masterf…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in California: An American History by John Mack Faragher , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

By: Annie Dillard

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Innocence is a better world."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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2. At Home in the World

By: Tsh Oxenreider

4.33

Format: None pages,

As Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes From a Blue Bike, chronicles her family's adventure around the w… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
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3. Assembling California

By: John McPhee

4.22

Format: 432 pages,

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the compa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. How to Talk Dirty and Influence People

By: Lenny Bruce , Eric Bogosian

3.70

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction

5. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

By: Tamim Ansary

3.87

Format: 144 pages,

We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civil… read more

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6. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

By: Mike Davis

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

The hidden story of L.A. Mike Davis shows us where the city's money comes from and who controls it … read more

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7. Trees in Paradise: A California History

By: Jared Farmer

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, ho… read more

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8. California: A History

By: Kevin Starr

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

California has always been our Shangri-la-the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the … read more

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9. Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

By: Malcolm Harris

3.90

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, from railroad capitalists to microchip a… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. Aftermarket Afterlife (InCryptid, #13)

By: Seanan McGuire

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Seanan McGuire's New York Times -bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated urban fantasy InCryptid serie… read more

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12. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

By: Dacher Keltner

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more

Similar categories in Dacher Keltner's Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life book and John Mack Faragher's California: An American History

  • nonfiction
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13. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

By: Cade Metz

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"

-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

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14. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

By: Pekka Hämäläinen

4.05

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus “discovers” a stra… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, g… read more

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"To be loved by a man is to be issued a decree as written in advance and as presented to others. To receive a woman's love is to have a very personal letter written on one's body."

-Christopher Buehlman, The Daughters' War (Blacktongue, #0)

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16. The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness

By: Wendy Syfret

3.64

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A positively rebellious take on a traditionally negative philosophy offers an antidote for our anxi… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Syfret's The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness book and John Mack Faragher's California: An American History

  • nonfiction
"Over time, innocuous concepts like meaning and purpose turn corrosive as all the obsessive thought, fixation and study of our own minds and lives fails to return any sense of relief or clarity. In fa…"

-Wendy Syfret, The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness

"The pursuit of meaning shifted from a epic journey to a scavenger hunt. It's not enough to try and locate purpose in love, family, work or religion (although readers beware, those areas hold their ow…"

-Wendy Syfret, The Sunny Nihilist: A Declaration of the Pleasure of Pointlessness

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17. The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California

By: Mark Arax

4.43

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Author Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land wh… read more

Similar categories in Mark Arax's The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California book and John Mack Faragher's California: An American History

  • westerns
  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. California: An American History

By: John Mack Faragher

4.12

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation   “A masterf… read more

Similar categories in John Mack Faragher's California: An American History book and John Mack Faragher's California: An American History

  • american history
  • history
  • americana
  • westerns
  • historical
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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19. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline by Rosanna Xia

20. California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

By: Rosanna Xia

4.66

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

From a celebrated environmental journalist, the riveting exploration of sea level rise along the We… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Resilience includes knowing when an unwanted transformation is inevitable."

-Rosanna Xia, California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

Cover of Texas vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America by Kenneth P. Miller

21. Texas vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America

By: Kenneth P. Miller

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Texas and California are the leaders of Red and Blue America. As the nation has polarized, its most… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth P. Miller's Texas vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America book and John Mack Faragher's California: An American History

  • nonfiction
  • history

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John McPhee

4.22

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3.90

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Mary Beard

4.11

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Cade Metz

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Jenny Odell

3.61

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The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

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3.34

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