11 Top nonfiction books like Hidden History of New Orleans by Josh Foreman

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Hidden History of New Orleans

By: Josh Foreman

3.81

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

The history of New Orleans is one of contrasts--heroes and villains, catastrophe and celebration, s…

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1. The Heart's Invisible Furies

By: John Boyne

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Cyril Avery is not a realAvery -- or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. And he ne… read more

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2. The Sign of Four

By: Arthur Conan Doyle , Peter Ackroyd , Ed Glinert

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sher… read more

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3. The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

By: Denise Kiernan

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

New York TimesBestseller "A soaring and gorgeous American story" (Karen Abbott) from the author of … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. Something Wicked This Way Comes

By: Ray Bradbury

None

Format: None pages, None

One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more

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5. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By: John Berendt

4.27

Format: 67 pages,

A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this eno… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

6. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well

By: Meik Wiking

3.41

Format: None pages,

Denmark is often said to be the happiest country in the world. That's down to one thing: hygge. 'Hy… read more

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7. Gone with the Wind

By: Margaret Mitchell

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gone with the Windis a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is se… read more

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8. As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more

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"vomiting the crying"

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"But peace is my heart: I know it is."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."

-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

9. Deeper Than the Dead (Oak Knoll, #1)

By: Tami Hoag

3.03

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

California, 1985. Four children, running in the woods behind their school, stumble upon a partially… read more

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10. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

By: Daniel James Brown

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more

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11. Empire of the Summer Moon

By: S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the for… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Buffalo Hump had one of those Comanche names - there were a large number of them - that the prudish whites could not quite bring themselves to translate. His Nermernuh name, properly transliterated, …"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

"For years after the American Revolution, the public opposed to the creation of police departments, fearing that they would become forces of repression... Only in the mid 19th century, after the growt…"

-S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon

12. Down In New Orleans: True Stories of a Fabled City

By: None

3.50

Format: 424 pages,

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13. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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14. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

By: Laura Lynne Jackson

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A renowned psychic medium teaches us how to recognize and interpret the… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We are all leaves on different branches of the same tree."

-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

"Sometimes, the sign is the whisper in our heart, the deep and undeniable pull, the inherent knowing that the answer is already there.... If we are open to this, it will truly enrich our lives. Becaus…"

-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

"Souls have deep connections and unique contracts that span centuries, exist back and forth in time, and bind us in ways we can't really understand.... These connections are ancient and everlasting, a…"

-Laura Lynne Jackson, Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe

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16. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

By: Stacy Schiff

3.74

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

By: Candice Millard

3.84

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"

-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

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18. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

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"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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19. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

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"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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20. Cuba: An American History

By: Ada Ferrer

4.45

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History ​“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper

21. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Magic of Marie Laveau: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans by Denise Alvarado

22. The Magic of Marie Laveau: Embracing the Spiritual Legacy of the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans

By: Denise Alvarado

3.64

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

The life and work of the legendary “Pope of Voodoo,” Marie Laveau―a free woman of color who practic… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Hidden History of New Orleans

By: Josh Foreman

3.81

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

The history of New Orleans is one of contrasts--heroes and villains, catastrophe and celebration, s… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

10 Best history books like Hidden History of New Orleans by Josh Foreman

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The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home

Denise Kiernan

2.00

Transform Your Habits

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Berendt

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Empire of the Summer Moon

S.C. Gwynne

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

Tom O'Neill

4.03

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Ray Bradbury

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The Fisherman

John Langan

3.91

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Stephen King

4.10

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William Peter Blatty

4.20

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