12 must-read nonfiction books like Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold

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Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church

By: Eliza Griswold

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting cris…

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1. Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

By: Jason De León

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, b… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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4. We Burn Daylight

By: Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo… read more

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5. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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6. Ghostroots: Stories

By: 'Pemi Aguda

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more

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7. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

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"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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8. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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9. BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity

By: Ruth Whippman

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heart… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
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11. Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

By: Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning poet Vanessa Angélica Villarreal comes a brilliant, singular collection of essay… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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12. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

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13. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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16. Small Rain

By: Garth Greenwell

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a profound and lumin… read more

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17. Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church

By: Eliza Griswold

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting cris… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Griswold's Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church book and Eliza Griswold's Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church

  • christian
  • history
  • memoir
  • theology
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
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18. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

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19. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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20. Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: A Celebration of Taylor Swift's Musical Journey, Cultural Impact, and Reinvention of Pop Music for Swifties by a Swiftie

By: Rob Sheffield

3.93

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from le… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me

By: Glory Edim

4.26

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

7 must-read history books like Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold

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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

Jason De León

4.37

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Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

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Mikita Brottman

3.54

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Elle Reeve

4.27

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Miranda July

3.81

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3.63

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4.34

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Yael van der Wouden

4.08

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