16 must-read nonfiction books like 13 Ways to Kill Your Community by Doug Griffiths

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13 Ways to Kill Your Community

By: Doug Griffiths

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

13 Ways to Kill Your Community is lively, full of personality, conversational, breezy, succinct, an…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in 13 Ways to Kill Your Community by Doug Griffiths , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)

By: Kent Haruf

4.30

Format: None pages,

A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of… read more

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2. Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography

By: David Javerbaum , Neil Patrick Harris , None

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Tired of memoirs that only tell you what reallyhappened? Sick of deeply personal accounts written i… read more

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3. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.00

Format: None pages,

In The Nine, acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin takes us into the chambers of the most important--… read more

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4. The Genius of Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more

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5. The Polygamist's Daughter

By: Leslie Wilson , Anna LeBaron

4.24

Format: None pages, Paperback

"My father had more than fifty children." So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter o… read more

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6. The Haunting of Blackwood House

By: Darcy Coates

4.40

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Could you survive a week in a haunted house? Mara is the daughter of spiritualists. Her childhood w… read more

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7. The First Four Years (Little House, #9)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. La… read more

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8. Famous in a Small Town

By: Viola Shipman

3.91

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers… read more

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"He throws his arms open, and I hug him. In a world - and school system - where hugs are not often allowed anymore, I still hug. I know sometimes that can make a huge difference in the life of a child…"

-Viola Shipman, Famous in a Small Town

"I finally understand that there is no age limit on growth and self-discovery. We see our lives and ourselves in different chapters, different versions, through different perspectives as we age. We ar…"

-Viola Shipman, Famous in a Small Town

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9. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

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10. Butts: A Backstory

By: Heather Radke

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"

-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory

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11. Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

By: Hunter Clarke-Fields

3.95

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

“A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance A k… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The only way out of our difficult feelings is through."

-Hunter Clarke-Fields, Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

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12. Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

By: Jessica Bruder

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780393356311 can be found here. From the beet fields of Nort… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"a vast majority of us vandwellers are white. The reasons range from obvious to duh, but then there’s this."

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

"Some call them "homeless." The new nomads reject that label. Equipped with both shelter and transportation, they've adopted a new word. They refer to themselves, quite simply, as "houseless"

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

"The most widely accepted measure for calculating income inequality is a century-old formula called the Gini coefficient. It's a gold standard for economists around the globe, along with the World ban…"

-Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

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13. The Gospel Comes with a House Key

By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.31

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

What did God use to draw a radical, committed unbeliever to himself? Did God take her to an evangel… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. And Then She Vanished (Joseph Bridgeman, #1)

By: Nick Jones

4.00

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

He only looked away for a second. Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister Amy ov… read more

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15. Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

By: Patrick Bet-David

4.12

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"You're going to use experiences to become either bitter or better. To get better you must reflect on your mistakes."

-Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

"A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur."

-Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

"You want to choose a path that puts the odds of winning in your favor; in poker, it’s called game selection. What determines if you win in any game (or business) isn’t how good you are; it’s how good…"

-Patrick Bet-David, Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

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16. All It Takes Is a Goal: The 3-Step Plan to Ditch Regret and Tap Into Your Massive Potential

By: Jon Acuff

4.62

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"This is my new favorite book about goals!" -- Mel Robbins , podcaster and New York Times bestselli… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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17. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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18. Hello Single Dad

By: Kelsie Hoss

4.03

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

“My life is falling apart, and the guy I meet at the bar might be the one to help me put it back to… read more

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19. 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste

By: Kathryn Kellogg

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

We all know how important it is to reduce our environmental footprint, but it can be daunting to kn… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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21. Two Women Walk into a Bar

By: Cheryl Strayed

4.06

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things , finds humor and connecti… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well by Gabrielle Lyon

22. Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well

By: Gabrielle Lyon

3.75

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Learn how to reboot your metabolism, build strength, and extend your life with this accessible new … read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

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24. White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better

By: Regina Jackson

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A no-holds-barred guidebook aimed at white women who want to stop being nice and start dismantling … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others by Zachary Levi

25. Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others

By: Zachary Levi

4.29

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

I'm not an expert, therapist, pastor, teacher, or monk. I am merely a person going through my own m… read more

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  • nonfiction
"That hole can only ever be filled by sharing your gifts with the world, fulfilling your purpose, and becoming your higher self - a person who is in communion with your community, your creator, and al…"

-Zachary Levi, Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others

"Silence is one of the major contributing factors to people feeling inescapably stuck in their depression, their anxiety, their stress, their fear, their shame. If you’re suffering in silence, you’re …"

-Zachary Levi, Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others

"The road to better mental health is a long and difficult one. You will stumble and fall. You will slip up in a thousand little ways, daily. You will fall backward into old, destructive patterns, agai…"

-Zachary Levi, Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others

"Healing is an ongoing process, and it’s never done. From a motivational or an attitudinal standpoint, you come at yourself a lot differently if you’re trying to heal than if you’re wanting to fix. To…"

-Zachary Levi, Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others

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26. The Shadows of London (Joseph Bridgeman, #2)

By: Nick Jones

4.08

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

A time traveler's work is never done. Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the pr… read more

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27. The Other Side of Disappearing

By: Kate Clayborn

3.76

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of Georgie, All Along and Love Lettering, a pitch-perfect, radiantly tran… read more

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28. The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets

By: Sarah Miller

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When they were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expecte… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by Richard White

29. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

By: Richard White

3.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella

30. What Does It Feel Like?

By: Sophie Kinsella

4.66

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story—by turns heartbreaking and life-… read more

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31. 13 Ways to Kill Your Community

By: Doug Griffiths

4.16

Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition

13 Ways to Kill Your Community is lively, full of personality, conversational, breezy, succinct, an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • business

12 must-read sustainability books like 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste by Kathryn Kellogg

Transform Your Habits

The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet

Kristin Ohlson

3.52

Transform Your Habits

Zero Waste: Weniger Müll ist das neue Grün

Shia Su

2.74

Transform Your Habits

How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time

Will McCallum

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste

Eve O. Schaub

4.07

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