21 Best nonfiction books like Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response by Jeremy Norton

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Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response

By: Jeremy Norton

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beyond an adrenaline ride or a chronicle of bravura heroics, this unflinching view of a Minneapolis…

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1. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

By: Laurence Gonzales

4.00

Format: None pages,

In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

By: Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and … read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

By: Norman Doidge

4.22

Format: 129 pages,

An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the… read more

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4. Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

By: Anderson Cooper

3.81

Format: None pages,

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5. The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

By: Buzz Bissinger

3.81

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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8. The Seed Keeper

By: Diane Wilson

4.30

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle t… read more

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"My father traveled now with the stars, returned to the vast mystery that had so fascinated him all his life."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"What the white settlers called progress was a storm of fury thundering its way across the land, and none of us were strong enough to withstand it."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I decided to give Rosie all the facts I could—because that's how the corporations work against us, twisting the truth till we're at war with each other."

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

"I thought about the aftermath of the 1862 war, when thirty-eight hastily condemned warriors had been hung in Mankato, in the country's largest-ever mass execution. Their bodies were buried in shallow…"

-Diane Wilson, The Seed Keeper

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9. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. 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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  • nonfiction
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11. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Forsaken Country (Detective Max Rupert, #5)

By: Allen Eskens

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

11 hours, 9 minutes Three fathers collide far beyond the reach or safety of the law in this bre… read more

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14. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. The Titanic Survivors Book Club

By: Timothy Schaffert

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books, following the Titanic librarian whose sur… read more

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"I would happily spend every minute of my future hearing about every minute of his past."

-Timothy Schaffert, The Titanic Survivors Book Club

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17. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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18. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass

By: Ramin Setoodeh

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. The Book Haters' Book Club

By: Gretchen Anthony

3.47

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover… That was Elliott’s belief an… read more

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20. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M. Graff

21. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.59

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour

By: Sunita Puri

4.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf be… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
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23. The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story of the Country's First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad

By: Mari K. Eder

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

”For fans of Margot Lee Shetterley and Liza Mundy comes an inspiring feminist tale of a woman who d… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Last Circle of Love

By: Lorna Landvik

3.74

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

A funny, heartwarming story about a feisty group of women who shake, spice, and heat things up with… read more

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25. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
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26. The Call to Serve: The Life of an American President, George Herbert Walker Bush: A Visual Biography

By: Jon Meacham

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In honor of the 100th anniversary of George H. W. Bush’s birth, this visually stunning chronicle fe… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Big in Sweden

By: Sally Franson

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A charming, wise, and laugh-out-loud funny novel following an American woman competing on a Swedish… read more

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28. To Banish Forever: A Secret Society, the Ho-Chunk, and Ethnic Cleansing in Minnesota

By: Cathy Coats

3.75

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

The largely untold story of the Ho-Chunk exile from Minnesota, in which local white residents sough… read more

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29. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response

By: Jeremy Norton

3.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beyond an adrenaline ride or a chronicle of bravura heroics, this unflinching view of a Minneapolis… read more

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