8 Top american history books like Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing by Andrew Ross

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Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

By: Andrew Ross

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing…

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1. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

By: Michael Harriot

4.59

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Hollywood Park

By: Mikel Jollett

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

HOLLYWOOD PARK is a remarkable memoir of a tumultuous life. Mikel Jollett was born into one of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Mom starts to cry because she doesn't know how to get mad. It's like the anger rises up in her and then turns to tears the second it gets to her eyes."

-Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

"It seemed like writers have the most important job in the world, to make books, to create a connection, a kind of telepathy between two minds in which one can inhabit the other."

-Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

"If I could open up my chest at that moment, there would be nothing but a blank shield inside, a barrier, rigid and sealed, from which nothing escapes, into which nothing is absorbed. It starts at the…"

-Mikel Jollett, Hollywood Park

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3. The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

By: Sean McFate

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu." -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Al… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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5. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
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6. Fathomfolk (Drowned World, #1)

By: Eliza Chan

3.16

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of r… read more

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7. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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8. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

By: Jeff Goodell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What if Atlantis wasn't a myth but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the gl… read more

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  • politics
  • urban planning
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

By: Helen Rappaport

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her"."

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"(B)ut behind it all-- nothing: just vodka and the void. (Coco Chanel)"

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)"

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"(H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat."

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

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10. The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family

By: John Glatt

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The Doomsday Mother , bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Va… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Excavations

By: Kate Myers

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

On a remote archeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discove… read more

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"Her fearlessness in the face of authority was the trait she was most proud of. It had gotten her nowhere in life, but she liked it about herself too much to let it go despite mounting evidence that s…"

-Kate Myers, Excavations

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12. The Apology

By: Jimin Han

3.47

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This sweeping intergenerational saga tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriar… read more

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13. A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a Memorial

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewind… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

By: Nicholas D. Kristof

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • economics
  • sociology
"One of the most infuriating elements of American myopia about investing in at-risk kids is that politicians often insist that they don't have the funds to pay for social services--but they somehow fi…"

-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

"The public frets about cheating with food stamps (the fraud rate is about 1.5 percent) yet doesn’t understand that zillionaires hide assets abroad and thereby deprive the Treasury of some $36 billion…"

-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

"The first step toward better policy is to amend our understanding of people's struggles so that it is less about individual irresponsibility and more about our collective irresponsibility in tolerati…"

-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

"As a fraction of GDP, the United States spends on job-training and assistance programs barely one-fifth as much as the average among industrialized countries. Moreover, the United States has signific…"

-Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

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15. This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir

By: Cecily Strong

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir from the Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death o… read more

Similar categories in Cecily Strong's This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir book and Andrew Ross's Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

  • nonfiction
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16. Abducted in Appalachia (Sheriff Elven Hallie, #4)

By: Drew Strickland

4.32

Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition

Where is the line drawn between doing what is lawful, and doing what is right? After a body is f… read more

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17. Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

By: Kris Manjapra

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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18. LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

By: Marie Arana

4.29

Format: 352 pages, ebook

A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interv… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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19. Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

By: Andrew Ross

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban housing crisis, told through a searing… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Ross's Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing book and Andrew Ross's Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

  • american history
  • history
  • class
  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • social issues
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
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20. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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21. The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World

By: Edward D. Melillo

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An insightful, entertaining dive into the fruitful, centuries-long relationship between humans and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

14 must-read history books like Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing by Andrew Ross

Transform Your Habits

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

4.59

Transform Your Habits

The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder

Sean McFate

3.96

Transform Your Habits

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

Will Sommer

4.09

Transform Your Habits

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

Eyal Press

4.17

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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

Florence Williams

3.97

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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

Ben Goldfarb

4.29

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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Suzanne Simard

4.22

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