13 Top historical books like Hidden Figures - Screenplay by Taylor Sheridan, Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi

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Hidden Figures - Screenplay

By: Taylor Sheridan , Allison Schroeder , Theodore Melfi

3.99

Format: 272 pages, ebook

If you liked the historical plot in Hidden Figures - Screenplay by Taylor Sheridan, Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Karolina's Twins (Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart, #3) by Ronald H. Balson

1. Karolina's Twins (Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart, #3)

By: Ronald H. Balson

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Once We Were Brothers comes a saga inspired by true events of a Holocaust surviv… read more

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  • historical
Cover of Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston

2. Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston , James D. Houston

3.70

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
"Now she wanted for me the same thing I thought I wanted. Acceptance, in her eyes, was simply another means for survival."

-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

"I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear…"

-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

"You cannot deport 110,000 people unless you have stopped seeing individuals. Of course, for such a thing to happen, there has to be a kind of acquiescence on the part of the victims, some submerged b…"

-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

"From that day on, pay of me yearned to be invisible. In a way, nothing would have been nicer than for no one to see me. Although I could not have defined it at the Tom me, I felt if attention were dr…"

-Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

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3. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

By: Neil Shubin

4.03

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."

-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

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4. Hidden Figures

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestseller This edition of Margot Lee Shetter… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
"Their goal wasn't to stand out because of their differences; it was to fit in because of their talents. Like the men they worked for, and the men they sent hurtling off into the atmosphere, they were…"

-Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures

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5. Love, Lucy

By: Lucille Ball

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The one and only autobiography by the iconic Lucille Ball, hailed … read more

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  • nonfiction
"I believe that we're as happy in life as we make up our minds to be."

-Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy

"I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others."

-Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy

Cover of Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know by Alexandra Horowitz

6. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

By: Alexandra Horowitz

3.62

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling book that asks what dogs know and how they think. The answers will surprise and del… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Few celebrate a dog who jumps at people as they approach--but start with the premise that it is we who keep ourselves (and our faces) unbearably far away, and we can come to a mutual understanding."

-Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

"By standard intelligence texts, the dogs have failed at the puzzle. I believe, by contrast that they have succeeded magnificently. They have applied a novel tool to the task. We are that tool. Dogs h…"

-Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

"Pump changed my own umwelt. Walking through the world with her, watching her reactions, I began to imagine her experience. My enjoyment of a narrow winding path in a shady forest, lined with low bush…"

-Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

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7. The Astronaut Wives Club

By: Lily Koppel

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, television cameras f… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
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8. You're Never Weird on the Internet

By: Joss Whedon , Felicia Day

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Hardcover

From online entertainment mogul, actress, and "queen of the geeks" Felicia Day, a funny, quirky, an… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Murder on Astor Place (Gaslight Mystery, #1) by Victoria Thompson

9. Murder on Astor Place (Gaslight Mystery, #1)

By: Victoria Thompson

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

After a routine delivery, midwife Sarah Brandt visits her patient in a rooming house and discovers … read more

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  • historical
Cover of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

10. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hidden Figures - Screenplay by Taylor Sheridan, Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi

11. Hidden Figures - Screenplay

By: Taylor Sheridan , Allison Schroeder , Theodore Melfi

3.99

Format: 272 pages, ebook

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  • historical
  • nonfiction

12. Saving My Assassin

By: Virginia Prodan

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

"I should be dead. Buried in an unmarked grave in Romania. Obviously, I am not. God had other plans… read more

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13. The Other Half of My Heart

By: Sundee T. Frazier

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in … read more

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14. Testimony

By: Anita Shreve

4.16

Format: 293 pages,

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexu… read more

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15. Saving Sophie

By: Ronald H. Balson

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Once We Were Brothers, Liam and Catherine team up again to investigate an embezz… read more

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16. Here We Go Again: My Life In Television

By: Betty White

3.80

Format: 281 pages,

A MEMOIR OF BETTY WHITE'S FIRST FIVE DECADES ON TELEVISION--AS IRREVERENT AND IRRESISTIBLE AS THE B… read more

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17. Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero

By: Susy Flory , Michael Hingson

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Faith. Trust. Triumph. I trust Roselle with my life, every day. She trusts me to direct her. And to… read more

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18. The Italian Ballerina

By: Kristy Cambron

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

At the height of the Nazi occupation of Rome, an unlikely band of heroes comes together to save inn… read more

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  • historical
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19. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

By: Lucy Adlington

4.09

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A powerful chronicle of the women who used their sewing skills to survive the Holocaust, stitching … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que era pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que c…"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

"En Auschwitz-Birkenau, los internos aprendieron enseguida que eran pocas las pertenencias personales realmente esenciales para vivir: ropa, calzado y un plato para la comida. Más allá de eso, lo que …"

-Lucy Adlington, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive

Cover of Really Very Crunchy: A Beginner's Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life without Adding Them to Your Personality by Emily Morrow

20. Really Very Crunchy: A Beginner's Guide to Removing Toxins from Your Life without Adding Them to Your Personality

By: Emily Morrow

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Find your Inner Crunchy without becoming that person with this helpful guide from social media star… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Når hjertet er en elpisker

By: Mette Vedsø

3.60

Format: None pages, ebook

Når hjertet er en elpisker er en hjertevarm og filmisk roman om fire forskellige mennesker i en tra… read more

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22. The Book Spy

By: Alan Hlad

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of Kate Quinn, Marie Benedict, and Pam Jenoff and inspired by true stories of the … read more

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  • historical
Cover of Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker by A'Lelia Perry Bundles

23. Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker

By: A'Lelia Perry Bundles

3.98

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Now a Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, Self Made (formerly titled On Her Own Ground) is the… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
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24. Murder, Interrupted

By: James Patterson

3.79

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series - premiering January 20… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

25. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

By: Rebekah Taussig

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"

-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

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26. The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

By: Maxwell King

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Fred Rogers (1928–2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Good people aren't always good. They just try to be."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

"You don't set out to be rich and famous; you set out to be helpful."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

"Human kindness was probably the single most important thing to Fred Rogers."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

"Everyone...came to deeply appreciate Fred-Time, that slow-paced world of quiet with Rogers at its center."

-Maxwell King, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers

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27. The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat

By: Matt Siegel

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love. Is Italia… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Three Women Disappear: With bonus novel Come and Get Us by James  Patterson

28. Three Women Disappear: With bonus novel Come and Get Us

By: James Patterson

3.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Three women fled the scene -- but did one commit the crime?When mob accountant Anthony Costello, ne… read more

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"Zero."

-James Patterson, Three Women Disappear: With bonus novel Come and Get Us

Cover of D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose

29. D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

By: Sarah Rose

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency … read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
"They were not hired for their looks or their sophistication; the most competent ones specialized in puzzles, music, and foreign languages."

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

"Where regular forces provide martial muscle, the special forces are surgical and skilled, trained to be “the most potent weapons one can use"

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

"She was very much ahead of her fellow students and, had she been with others as mentally mature as herself, she would have shown herself even more capable."

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

"Buck regarded his two agents, Andrée and Lise, certain he was dropping his two most competent, most capable. Each was a girl who kept her head when all about were losing theirs, as Kipling might have…"

-Sarah Rose, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

Cover of The Messengers (Greystone Secrets, #3) by Margaret Peterson Haddix

30. The Messengers (Greystone Secrets, #3)

By: Margaret Peterson Haddix

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the conclusion to the Greystone Secrets series, the Greystones and their doubles, the Gustanos, … read more

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31. American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

By: Douglas Brinkley

4.17

Format: 576 pages, ebook

Instant New York Times Bestseller As the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing approache… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction

18 Top nonfiction books like Hidden Figures - Screenplay by Taylor Sheridan, Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi

Transform Your Habits

Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston , James D. Houston

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Neil Shubin

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Figures

Margot Lee Shetterly

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Love, Lucy

Lucille Ball

4.26

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Transform Your Habits

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

Alice Wong

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally

Emily Ladau

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

Judith Heumann

4.48

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