27 must-read nonfiction books like Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels by Tony Keddie

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Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels

By: Tony Keddie

3.82

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The complete guide to debunking right-wing misinterpretations of the Bible—from economics and immig…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels by Tony Keddie , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

By: Dee Brown

4.25

Format: 509 pages, Paperback

Now a special 30th-anniversary edition in both hardcover and paperback, the classic bestselling his… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It is too often the case,"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"We rarely know the full power of words, in print or spoken."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.' - Tashunka Witko (Crazy Horse)"

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

"To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself."

-Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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2. Citizen: An American Lyric

By: Claudia Rankine

4.27

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking bo… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"You can't drive yourself sane."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"Memory is a tough place. You were there."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

"The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."

-Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

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3. On Palestine

By: Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's most recent assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dea… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It's quite standard for those who hold the clubs to say: "Forget about everything that happened and let's just go on from here." In other words, "I've got what I want, and out forget about what your …"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

"How, then, does one become an activist? The easy answer would be to say that we do not become activists; we simply forget that we are. We are all born with compassion, generosity, and love for others…"

-Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

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4. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

By: Christopher Hitchens

3.96

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Actually, the “leap of faith"

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."

-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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5. The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters

By: Tom Nichols

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The rise of the internet and other technology has made information more easily-accessible than ever… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

By: Matt Ruff

4.02

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and i… read more

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"Then he heard it. Out in the Wood, straight ahead and much closer than before: The beast."

-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

"I’m sick of belonging to an Order that wants to change the world but can’t even change itself. I’m tired of the bullshit."

-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

"Atticus tried not to care, telling himself paperbacks were meant to be abused, but it was hard, like watching friends get knocked around."

-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

"The tea and the cookie were remarkably bland - flavourless, to be honest - but when swallowed, they produced a mild intoxication, a torpor of reason that allowed him to embrace a parley with a dead m…"

-Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

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7. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By: Richard Rothstein

2.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. Mere Christianity

By: C.S. Lewis

4.36

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis, the most important writer of the 20th century, explor… read more

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  • faith
  • religion
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"The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose."

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

9. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

By: Michelle Alexander

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"As the United States celebrates the nation's 'triumph over race' with the election of Barack Obama… read more

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10. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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11. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

By: Anthea Butler

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more

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  • faith
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  • religion
  • nonfiction
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12. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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13. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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14. God: An Anatomy

By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

4.25

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more

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  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"

-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy

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15. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

By: Elie Mystal

4.59

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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17. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

By: David Zucchino

4.43

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize winner, David Zucchino, comes a searing account of the Wilmington riot and coup… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

By: Blythe Roberson

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

For writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read abou… read more

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"It sometimes feels like men feel the need to assert their dominance over nature. Rich white men, who have no problems, climb mountains to see what having problems feels like."

-Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

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20. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism

By: Erwin Chemerinsky

4.42

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Why originalism is a flawed, incoherent, and dangerously ideological method of constitutional inter… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones

22. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity

By: Robert P. Jones

4.43

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on history, public opinion surveys, and personal experience, Robert P. Jones delivers a pro… read more

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  • faith
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23. The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

By: C.L. Clark

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover edition for ISBN 9780316542753 Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and rai… read more

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"What is war if not a complicated web of mathematics and charm? Luca thought."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Who needs a god of oceans when I could drown inside your eyes? Who needs a god of grain when I could feast between your thighs?"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"As it whistles through the mountains, as it tickles blades of grass, as it pulls me from my bed, again, the wind, it cries your name."

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

"Then, still holding the cup, Touraine giggled. This broad-shouldered, muscle-bound ex-soldier, who spent most of her time either glowering or bowing at people, had smirked at her future queen, and no…"

-C.L. Clark, The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

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24. Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

By: Randall Balmer

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Balmer, a Dartmouth University religion professor, delivers a reassessment of "the alliance between… read more

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  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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25. To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Gods Beyond the Skies, #1)

By: Molly X. Chang

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

She has power over death. He has power over her. When two enemies strike a dangerous bargain, will … read more

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"白发送黑发, 不孝之道. Letting the white hair bury the black hair was unfilial to the highest degree."

-Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Gods Beyond the Skies, #1)

"聪明一世,糊涂一时. Intelligent and cautious for a lifetime, it takes a second of stupidity to unravel it all."

-Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Gods Beyond the Skies, #1)

"You shouldn’t ask the girl blessed by Death whom she’ll die for. You should ask her whom she’ll kill for."

-Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Gods Beyond the Skies, #1)

"To love was a privilege not afforded to those of us born in these trying times when survival was never guaranteed. We were products of our surroundings, of our upbringings."

-Molly X. Chang, To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods (Gods Beyond the Skies, #1)

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26. The Case for Open Borders

By: John Washington

4.26

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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27. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

28. 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
  • nonfiction
Cover of Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet by Geo Rutherford

29. Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes that Dot Our Planet

By: Geo Rutherford

4.83

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Dive into the most mysterious waters around the world (if you dare) in this illustrated nonfiction … read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Republican Jesus: How the Right Has Rewritten the Gospels

By: Tony Keddie

3.82

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The complete guide to debunking right-wing misinterpretations of the Bible—from economics and immig… read more

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  • faith
  • politics
  • united states
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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31. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner

4.56

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

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Dee Brown

4.25

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Claudia Rankine

4.27

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Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

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3.96

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Don Piper , Cecil Murphey

4.15

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David Wilkerson , John Sherrill , Elizabeth Sherrill

4.26

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Joyce Meyer

4.31

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