6 must-read history books like Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border by Ieva Jusionyte

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Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border

By: Ieva Jusionyte

4.64

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearm…

If you liked the history plot in Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border by Ieva Jusionyte , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

By: Michael Wells , Jason De León

4.55

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León s… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Unaccompanied

By: Javier Zamora

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

This gorgeous debut speaks with heart-wrenching intimacy and first-hand experience to the hot-butto… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Arctic Dreams

By: Barry Lopez

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more

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4. Desert

By: Anonymous

4.23

Format: 166 pages,

A text that plays significantly on the invisible committee's concept of desert and also desertion, … read more

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5. Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

By: Werner Herzog , Krishna Winston

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man) is one of the most revered and enigmatic filmmakers of our time, and Fi… read more

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6. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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7. When We Cease to Understand the World

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.14

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."

-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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8. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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9. The Maniac

By: Benjamín Labatut

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more

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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"

-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac

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10. The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.41

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings … read more

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11. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

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12. The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor—until Nelso… read more

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"It's a locked room mystery,' says Tony. 'Like in the books.' 'Nothing,' says Nelson, 'is like it is in the books."

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

"The churches are all closed. She was surprised how shocked she'd been to hear this news. Judy might be a lapsed Catholic, but she'd always assumed that, all her life, mass would be carrying on somewh…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

"The air is so sweet and pure that it almost takes her breath away. It's as if nature is conspiring to make lockdown a less terrifying experience. Ruth has already noticed herself becoming interested …"

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

"There are no commuters, no children jostling for school buses, no taxis, no old men in hats driving in the centre of the road. It should feel like heaven but, as Nelson drives through the old city ga…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

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13. The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic wr… read more

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"Why are Georgette Heyer's covers so naff? When you think of all the exciting things that happen - abductions, false identities, wild horseback chases - the front of the book nearly always shows a wom…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

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14. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

By: Alexa Hagerty

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. The Marlow Murder Club (Marlow Murder Club, #1)

By: Robert Thorogood

3.79

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero… Judith Potts is seventy-seven years … read more

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16. Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

By: Kelly Lytle Hernández

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Me… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border

By: Ieva Jusionyte

4.64

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearm… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. Cien años de espías y drogas: La historia de los agentes antinarcóticos de Estados Unidos en México (Spanish Edition)

By: Carlos A. Pérez Ricart

4.39

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

¿Cómo llegamos hasta acá? ¿Desde cuándo operan agentes antinarcóticos de Estados Unidos en Méxic… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

7 must-read nonfiction books like Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border by Ieva Jusionyte

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Michael Wells , Jason De León

4.55

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Javier Zamora

3.89

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When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut

4.14

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Alexa Hagerty

4.47

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Trust

Hernan Diaz

3.83

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Cormac McCarthy

3.58

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Claire Keegan

4.18

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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