13 best-selling nonfiction books like The World's Worst Conspiracies by Mike Rothschild

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The World's Worst Conspiracies

By: Mike Rothschild

3.04

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

The World's Worst Conspiracies is a compilation of the most fascinating, bizarre and compelling con…

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1. Heart-Shaped Box

By: Joe Hill

3.84

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

An aging death-metal rock god, Judas Coyne, is a collector of the macabre: a cookbook for cannibals… read more

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"The dead pull the living down."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"You're a sympathetic sonofabitch, you know that?". "You want sympathy, go fuck James Taylor."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

"Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst."

-Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

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2. Uzumaki

By: Junji Ito , Yuji Oniki

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the… read more

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3. Conspiracy: History's Greatest Plots, Collusions and Cover-Ups

By: Charlotte Greig

3.91

Format: 241 pages,

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4. The Ocean at the End of the Lane

By: Neil Gaiman

4.02

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in… read more

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"Words save our lives, sometimes."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

"Adults follow paths. Children explore."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

"Books were safer than other people anyway."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."

-Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

5. The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The Moon will soon return. Whether this herald… read more

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6. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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7. 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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  • nonfiction
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8. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

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  • nonfiction
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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10. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

By: Amanda Montell

3.85

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Without language, there are no "cults"."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"Some say people who join cults are “lost."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"With words, we breathe reality into being."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."

-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

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11. Solutions and Other Problems

By: Allie Brosh

4.21

Format: 519 pages, Hardcover

Allie Brosh returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. … read more

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  • nonfiction
"If you can't win, start playing a different game and score just as many points."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"Death can take away your friends and pets, but it can't take away the weird shit they did."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"That's the scary thing about decisions: you don't know what they are when you're making them."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"Woah there, Scooter...looks like you might be starting to veer towards nihilism...anyway, it's sand time now."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

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12. Uncultured: A Memoir

By: Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.08

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Daniella,"

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"The body keeps the score."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

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13. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

By: Will Sommer

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more

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  • conspiracy theories
  • nonfiction
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14. Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

By: Wajahat Ali

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of … read more

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  • nonfiction
"The Whiteness doesn't want us to be American. But since it can't remove all of us, it will always find ways to dominate the rest of us and make our lives uncomfortable."

-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

"Nearly 30 percent of the enslaved were originally Muslim, which means Muslims' stories, labor, tears, pain, and dreams have fertilized this country's soil from the beginning."

-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

"Like many great works of theater, I believe America is simultaneously a riotous comedy and a heartbreaking tragedy. Our hamartia, our fatal flaw, is racism. It haunts us every day."

-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

"Hope can be dangerous because it means exposing yourself to the possibility of success, to allow yourself to imagine a happy ending, only to be confronted by cold, brutal disappointment."

-Wajahat Ali, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

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15. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything

By: Kelly Weill

3.79

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more

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  • conspiracy theories
  • nonfiction
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16. Bitch: On the Female of the Species

By: Lucy Cooke

4.45

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Studying zoology m… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Stuff They Don't Want You to Know

By: Ben Bowlin

3.62

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The co-hosts of the hit podcast Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know, Ben Bowlin, Matthew Frederick, &… read more

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  • conspiracy theories
  • nonfiction
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18. The World's Worst Conspiracies

By: Mike Rothschild

3.04

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

The World's Worst Conspiracies is a compilation of the most fascinating, bizarre and compelling con… read more

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  • conspiracy theories
  • nonfiction

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Mike Rothschild

3.84

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Derek Beres

4.10

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