18 Top nonfiction books like The Age of Fentanyl: Ending the Opioid Epidemic by Brodie Ramin

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The Age of Fentanyl: Ending the Opioid Epidemic

By: Brodie Ramin

4.03

Format: 232 pages, ebook

Is there a way to end North America’s opioid epidemic? In The Age of Fentanyl, Brodie Ramin tells…

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1. My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean

By: Amy Dresner

3.93

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight , a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

2. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

By: Sam Quinones

3.78

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane… read more

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3. Darkness at Noon

By: Arthur Koestler , Pınar Kür , Daphne Hardy

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an agi… read more

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"Truth is what is useful to humanity, falsehood what is harmful."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

"The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it."

-Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon

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4. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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5. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

By: Amanda Montell

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The word "bitch" conjures many images for many people but is most often meant to describe an unplea… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"One of the burdens of being a woman is the imperative to be nice."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence."

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

"Anytime language reform happens, it has to happen in the context of social change,"

-Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

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6. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

By: Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

By: Robert Samuels

4.52

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Y/N

By: Esther Yi

2.95

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more

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  • audiobook
"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

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9. Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)

By: Catherine Mack

3.53

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. All … read more

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  • audiobook
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10. How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

By: Souvankham Thammavongsa

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780316422130. In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's d… read more

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  • audiobook
"Whether or not you understood the oath you made, you had to move your lips."

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"The only love Red knew was that simple, uncomplicated, lonely love one feels for oneself in the quiet moments of the day. It was there, steady and solid in the laughter and talk of the television and…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

"At church, she told us they ate one cracker and took one swallow of red wine and the rest of the time there was a man talking. She did not know exactly what he said, but he said it for a long time. S…"

-Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

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11. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America

By: Eyal Press

4.17

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of dirty work--the work that society considers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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13. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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  • audiobook
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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14. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen

15. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

By: David Quammen

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to deciphe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer …"

-David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

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16. Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

By: Jesse Wente

4.39

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

A prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and In… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World

By: Danielle Friedman

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A captivating blend of reportage and personal narrative that explores the untold history of women's… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. Dear Future Mama: A TMI Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood from Your Bestie

By: Meghan Trainor

3.97

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The real talk you want about pregnancy, birth, body image, and the newborn days from Meghan Trainor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

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  • audiobook
"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

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22. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction

By: Maia Szalavitz

4.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. The Bright Side Running Club

By: Josie Lloyd

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When Keira first receives her breast cancer diagnosis, she never expects to end up joining a runnin… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel

24. Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

By: Judith Grisel

4.12

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

From a renowned behavioral neuroscientist and recovered drug addict, an authoritative and accessibl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun..."

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

"...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite."

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

"I'd sought wellness and became sick; fun, but lived in a constant state of anxious dread; freedom, and was enslaved."

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

"A victim of virtually any disease usually elicits pity, addicts mostly evoke revulsion. What is it about the irrational behavior of an addict that makes everyone want to turn away?"

-Judith Grisel, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

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25. Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing

By: Clayton Thomas-Muller

3.65

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller's very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Library of Legends

By: Janie Chang

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the author of Three Souls and Dragon Springs Road comes a captivating historical novel in whic… read more

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27. The Female Persuasion

By: Meg Wolitzer

3.56

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of bei… read more

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  • audiobook
"She read with “abandon,"

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"If you want more to do,"

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"Women in powerful positions are never safe from criticism."

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"The human face had too possibilities, and they just kept coming in a fast-moving slide show, one after another."

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

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28. Prescription for Pain: How a Once-Promising Doctor Became the "Pill Mill Killer"

By: Philip Eil

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An obsessive true crime investigation of a bizarre and unlikely perpetrator, who’s serving the opio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Age of Fentanyl: Ending the Opioid Epidemic

By: Brodie Ramin

4.03

Format: 232 pages, ebook

Is there a way to end North America’s opioid epidemic? In The Age of Fentanyl, Brodie Ramin tells… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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31. real ones

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more

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  • audiobook

27 Top audiobook books like The Age of Fentanyl: Ending the Opioid Epidemic by Brodie Ramin

Transform Your Habits

My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean

Amy Dresner

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

Steven W. Thrasher

4.22

Transform Your Habits

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels

4.52

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7 Top womens books like Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

Transform Your Habits

Men Who Hate Women

Laura Bates

4.34

Transform Your Habits

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

Amanda Montell

4.29

Transform Your Habits

On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good

Elise Loehnen

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

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