19 Top nonfiction books like Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government by Sam Daley-Harris

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Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government

By: Sam Daley-Harris

4.00

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Most people see working to end global poverty and ensure a stable climate as a fool s errand. Add t…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government by Sam Daley-Harris , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Half Broke Horses

By: Jeannette Walls

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly)… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Cutting for Stone

By: Abraham Verghese

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimac… read more

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3. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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4. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

By: James McBride

3.69

Format: 176 pages,

Touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and … read more

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5. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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6. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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7. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

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"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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8. Romney: A Reckoning

By: McKay Coppins

4.36

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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9. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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10. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

4.51

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in p… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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12. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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13. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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14. Both Things Are True

By: Kate Holbrook

4.47

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

Joseph Smith’s observation that “by proving contraries, truth is made manifest” has become a belove… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. The Sentence

By: Louise Erdrich

3.95

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more

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"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."

-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"

-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

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16. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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17. The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

By: Elaine F. Weiss

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them," is how [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton described their [hers and Susan B. Anthony's] work together."

-Elaine F. Weiss, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

"[Upon the ratification of the 19th Amendment, Carrie Chapman] Catt wrote ... to the women voters of the nation: The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guaranty of your liberty…"

-Elaine F. Weiss, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

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18. Apeirogon

By: Colum McCann

4.25

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

From the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an ep… read more

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  • politics
"We are running from our pain to our pain."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"We have words but sometimes they're not enough."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"When you divide death by life you find a circle."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

"He had learned that the cure for fate was patience."

-Colum McCann, Apeirogon

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19. Deacon King Kong

By: James McBride

4.17

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The funny, sharp, and surprising story of the shooting of a Brooklyn drug dealer and the people who… read more

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"You’ve got to be strong to get old."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"Friendship was trouble in business."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"A man ain’t got to stand in church every Sunday to do God’s work."

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

"Is your cheese this good? This wasn’t plain old housing projects “cheese food"

-James McBride, Deacon King Kong

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20. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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21. The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens

By: Richard N. Haass

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A New York Times Bestseller A provocative guide to how we must reenvision citizenship if Americ… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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22. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

By: Cheryl Strayed

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. An anniversary edition of the best… read more

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"This is how you get unstuck. You reach."

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

"You get to define the terms of your life."

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

"Be fearless enough to let love transform you."

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

"Don’t listen to those people who suggest you should be “over"

-Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

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23. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

24. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance by Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

25. Sacred Struggle: Seeking Christ on the Path of Most Resistance

By: Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye

4.60

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

We are part of a complex Church community―full of people who think differently than we do, behave i… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts by Mary Claire Haver

26. The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her horm… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley

27. High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out

By: Amanda Ripley

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When we are baffled by the insanity of the “other side”—in our politics, at work, or at home—it’s b… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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28. We Solve Murders (We Solve Murders, #1)

By: Richard Osman

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A brand new series. An iconic new detective duo. And a puzzling new murder to solve... Steve Whe… read more

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29. Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government

By: Sam Daley-Harris

4.00

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Most people see working to end global poverty and ensure a stable climate as a fool s errand. Add t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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30. The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

By: Sharon McMahon

4.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

America’s favorite government teacher offers thrilling, heartfelt stories of ordinary American hero… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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31. Between Everything and Nothing

By: Joe Meno

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Joe Meno brings a novelist's eye to the true story of two young men from Ghana and their journey fr… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"If a member of the military can be killed and left in the road, in front of his own house, then who will be safe in this country?"

-Joe Meno, Between Everything and Nothing

"The sky was as dark as it had ever been. Frozen, exhausted, and out of breath, they fumbled forward together once more. In the end, all they had done was cross from one kind of desolation to another."

-Joe Meno, Between Everything and Nothing

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4.36

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