24 must-read nonfiction books like The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms by Ian Rosenberg

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The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms

By: Ian Rosenberg

4.26

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A user’s guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States Americans tod…

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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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  • politics
  • history
  • 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. A Passage to India

By: E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, th… read more

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"Adventures do occur, but not punctually."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"There are different ways of evil and I prefer mine to yours."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"A friendliness, as of dwarfs shaking hands, was in the air..."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

"I think everyone fails, but there are so many kinds of failure."

-E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

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3. A Handful of Dust

By: Evelyn Waugh

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life wher… read more

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4. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

4.11

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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6. Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why

By: Jude Ellison S. Doyle , Sady Doyle

0.00

Format: None pages,

She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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7. The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

By: None , Edward E. Ericson Jr. , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

4.32

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prison… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"To taste the sea, all one needs is one gulp."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

"Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty."

-None, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)

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8. In Watermelon Sugar

By: Richard Brautigan

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the … read more

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9. Our Souls at Night

By: Kent Haruf

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, co… read more

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10. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

By: Mark Bramhall , Michael Finkel

3.90

Format: 5 pages, Audio CD

Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable tr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I read. That's my form of travel."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

"The word "noise" is derived from the Latin word nausea."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

"He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

"There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said."

-Mark Bramhall, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

11. Stormy Weather

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.83

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER "Hysterically funny...Hiaasen at his satirical best." - USA Today Two hone… read more

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12. The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot, #2)

By: Peter Brown

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown. S… read more

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13. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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14. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

By: Michael Harriot

4.59

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

By: Nathan Thrall

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

By: Kathleen Belew

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air The white p… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of…"

-Kathleen Belew, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

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19. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

By: Eric Foner

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
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20. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

By: Carol Anderson

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
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22. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

By: Noura Erakat

4.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Justice in the Question of Palestine is often framed as a question of law. Yet none of the Israel-P… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"International law can be accurately and fairly described as a derivative of a colonial order and therefore structurally detrimental to former colonies, peoples still under colonial domination and ind…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

"Israel's establishment in 1948 realized Jewish Zionist settler sovereignty in Palestine. And its acceptance as a UN member state normalized the sovereign exception, justifying the erasure of Palestin…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

"In light of the currently minimal protest at top diplomatic and multilateral levels, Israel, together with the United States, will continue to define its military practices as the new normal in asymm…"

-Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine

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23. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

By: Keith O'Brien

4.40

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's d… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson

24. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

By: Steven Johnson

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

25. Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names

By: Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

3.61

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

From the coauthor of the award-winning Nonstop Metropolis--a short, fascinating journey into the pa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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26. Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital

By: Elise Hu

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South… read more

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

27. 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
  • audiobook
Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

28. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage by Jonathan Turley

29. The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage

By: Jonathan Turley

4.50

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

A timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • law
Cover of The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms by Ian Rosenberg

30. The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms

By: Ian Rosenberg

4.26

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A user’s guide to understanding contemporary free speech issues in the United States Americans tod… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
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  • audiobook
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31. Freedom

By: Nathan Law

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insig… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why

Jude Ellison S. Doyle , Sady Doyle

0.00

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The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

Mark Bramhall , Michael Finkel

3.90

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Connie Willis

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4.51

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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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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

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