Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary
By: Taylor Pendergrass
4.35
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
This compelling collection of stories told directly by people personally impacted by solitary confi…
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1. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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- nonfiction
"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
By: Matthew Desmond
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of scholarship and… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
3. Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a humanizing account of the true-life s… read more
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- nonfiction
4. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of how Joseph Lister's antiseptic method changed medicine forever In The Butcher… read more
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- nonfiction
5. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
By: Bryan Stevenson
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our bro… read more
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- politics
- social justice
- nonfiction
- memoir
6. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
7. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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8. The Run of His Life : The People versus O.J. Simpson
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
A behind-the-scenes look at the crime of the century and the legal proceedings that followed sheds … read more
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9. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
By: Katherine Boo
3.96
Format: None pages,
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dr… read more
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10. A Short Stay in Hell
By: Steven L. Peck
4.22
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more
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"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
11. Boys in the Valley
By: Philip Fracassi
4.18
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Her… read more
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" there is light all around me. There is light inside me. "-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
"The sky is the color of stone, flat and hard in appearance, but brittle, as if it would crack like an eggshell - revealing black seams of the universe beyond - if struck hard enough. ."-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
"We didn't hit it off like many others in similar situations....Instead, he and I sort of gravitated around each other, either friends nor foes, like the moons of a planet we had no interest in observ…"-Philip Fracassi, Boys in the Valley
12. Romney: A Reckoning
By: McKay Coppins
4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
13. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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- politics
- social justice
- nonfiction
- memoir
14. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
By: Maria Bamford
3.77
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
15. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
16. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
17. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
18. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
19. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
20. We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of … read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
21. Crying in the Bathroom
By: Erika L. Sánchez
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
22. On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care
By: Victor Ray
4.35
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
What exactly is critical race theory? This concise and accessible exploration demystifies a crucial… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
23. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
By: Judith Heumann
4.48
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of f… read more
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- politics
- social justice
- nonfiction
- memoir
"When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight bac…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
"When someone ignores you, it's an intentional display of power. They're essentially acting like you don't exist, and they do it because they can. They believe that nothing will happen to them. Ignori…"-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
24. Spin a Black Yarn
By: Josh Malerman
3.40
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Five harrowing novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the singular mind of the New York Ti… read more
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25. The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
By: Kamala Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us,… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- memoir
"When you break through a glass ceiling, you're going to get cut, and it's going to hurt."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"One of my mother’s favorite sayings was “Don’t let anybody tell you who you are. You tell them who you are."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
"Politics is a realm where the grand pronouncement often takes the place of the painstaking and detail-oriented work of getting meaningful things done."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
". . . Being a good person meant standing for something larger than yourself; that success is measured in part by what you help others achieve and accomplish."-Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
26. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
27. Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
By: Danielle Sered
4.46
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
The award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Wa… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
"When we talk about people who commit violence as monsters (or “superpredators,"-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"Survivors are often extraordinary at metabolizing just about anything into healing."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"If we act on the working definition of forgiveness as relinquishing a desire to see the other suffer, then forgiveness is deeply practical."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
"I believe when we hurt someone, we incur an obligation. Period. Nothing changes that obligation— not our own history of pain, our unhealed trauma, nothing."-Danielle Sered, Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
28. Two Sides to Every Murder
By: Danielle Valentine
3.67
Format: 282 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How to Survive Your Murder comes a propulsive thriller about two teens who retur… read more
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"Even strong people need to fall apart."-Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder
"You have to feel your feelings, even the unpleasant ones."-Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder
29. Pretty: A Memoir
By: KB Brookins
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir ab… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
30. A Jingle Bell Mingle (A Christmas Notch, #3)
By: Julie Murphy
3.99
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
What happens when there’s no room at the inn and you and your potentially demonic cat become roomma… read more
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31. Six by Ten: Stories from Solitary
By: Taylor Pendergrass
4.35
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
This compelling collection of stories told directly by people personally impacted by solitary confi… read more
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- politics
- collections
- nonfiction
- social justice
- essays
