28 Best audiobook books like The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy by Chris Murphy

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The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy

By: Chris Murphy

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“An engrossing, moving, and utterly motivating account of the human stakes of gun violence in Ameri…

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1. Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of Manhattan … read more

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2. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

By: John Heilemann , Mark Halperin

3.31

Format: None pages,

"This shit would be really interesting if we weren't in the middle of it." --Barack Obama, Septembe… read more

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3. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swisher's Burn Book: A Tech Love Story book and Chris Murphy's The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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4. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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5. You Only Call When You're in Trouble

By: Stephen McCauley

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more

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  • audiobook
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6. Great Expectations

By: Vinson Cunningham

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • audiobook
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

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7. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. 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
  • race
  • history
  • audiobook
"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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9. Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point

By: Steven Levitsky

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it’s too late—from the New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Steven Levitsky's Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point book and Chris Murphy's The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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10. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ours is the age of authoritarian rulers: self-proclaimed saviors of the nation who evade accountabi… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present book and Chris Murphy's The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy

  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman."

-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

"Many strongmen, past and present, have used populist rhetoric that defines their nations as bound by faith, race, and ethnicity rather than by legal rights. For authoritarians, only some people are "…"

-Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

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11. Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir

By: Tammy Duckworth

4.56

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this  New York Times  bestselling book, learn the incredible story of Illinois senator and Iraq … read more

Similar categories in Tammy Duckworth's Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir book and Chris Murphy's The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

By: Dahlia Lithwick

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Senior Editor and one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Being told you are believed without consequences being levied is neither justice nor power. And that is the real problem when women's pain is substituted for actual justice. Pain seems to have a sell…"

-Dahlia Lithwick, Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

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13. 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

Similar categories in Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis book and Chris Murphy's The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • social issues
  • audiobook
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14. Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America

By: Barbara McQuade

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, comprehensive explanation of the ways disinformation is impacting democracy, and practic… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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15. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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16. Hip-Hop Is History

By: Questlove

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, un… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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17. The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America by Sherrod Brown

18. Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America

By: Sherrod Brown

4.20

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio’s Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Last Negroes At Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever

By: Kent Garrett

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The untold story of the Harvard class of ’63, whose Black students fought to create their own ident… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • race
  • history
  • social issues
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20. This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

By: Ilhan Omar

4.26

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Ilhan Omar was eight years old when war broke out in Somalia. The youngest of seven children, her … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"I grew up knowing that hard things only get harder when you don’t have real conversations about them."

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"The more we listen to and learn from those with different backgrounds and present circumstances from our own, the more we can find connections to our own lived experience."

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"As a refugee who fled civil war as a child, I am still trying to figure out where I fit in - which is perhaps why the most important note I found sticking to the wall outside my office had only three…"

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

"As we continue to perfect our union, citizens, neighbors, coworkers, and family must keep expanding our circles of self-interest to learn and relearn the fundamental truth that we are all connected. …"

-Ilhan Omar, This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman

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21. Fight like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World

By: Shannon Watts

4.20

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Praised by media and political figures including Michael Bloomberg, Hillary Clinton, and Katie Cour… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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22. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

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  • audiobook
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23. Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It

By: Ari Berman

4.37

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the decades-long effort by reactionary white conservatives to undermine democ… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

24. 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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  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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25. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

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  • audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

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26. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy

By: Chris Murphy

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“An engrossing, moving, and utterly motivating account of the human stakes of gun violence in Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Chris Murphy's The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy book and Chris Murphy's The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • social issues
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton

28. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinto… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. On Freedom

By: Timothy Snyder

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only c… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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30. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

By: Wright Thompson

4.51

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from aroun… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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31. War

By: Bob Woodward

4.43

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."

-Bob Woodward, War

"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"

-Bob Woodward, War

"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"

-Bob Woodward, War

"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"

-Bob Woodward, War

22 best-selling history books like The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy by Chris Murphy

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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One Way Back: A Memoir

Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

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Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

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White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

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

Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

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Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy

Isaac Arnsdorf

3.92

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John Ganz

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