Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
By: Jon Krakauer
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
Missoula, Montana is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose belov…
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1. 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
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
By: Lawrence Wright
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-… read more
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3. Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
By: Bernard Lefkowitz
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
In March 1989 a group of teenage boys lured a retarded girl into a basement in Glen Ridge, New Jers… read more
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- nonfiction
- crime
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- true crime
4. Almost Perfect: The Heartbreaking Pursuit of Pitching's Holy Grail
By: Jim Bunning , None , Joe Cox
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The rich, poignant tales of major league baseball's most hard-luck fraternity--the pitchers of its … read more
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- history
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5. Columbine
By: Dave Cullen
4.29
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . . " So begins a new epilogue, ill… read more
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- history
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"The final portrait is often furthest from the truth."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?"-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"The goal with hostages is to gradually lower expectations; in nonhostage crises, it's to lower emotions."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
"You can't really teach a kid anything: you can only show him the way and motivate him to learn it himself."-Dave Cullen, Columbine
6. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
By: Jon Krakauer
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Hardcover
Missoula, Montana is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose belov… read more
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7. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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8. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
By: Timothy Egan
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more
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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
9. The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
By: Susan Rowland
4.30
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Former Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma ma… read more
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"The fire on the mountain."-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,"-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise."-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
"She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it."-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)
10. I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
By: Michelle McNamara
4.12
Format: 352 pages, ebook
A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer—the elusive serial rapist turned murderer… read more
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"Every obsession needs a room of its own."-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
"He loses his power when we know his face."-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
"Twenty-five years is a long time in cop years."-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
"I need to see his face. He loses his power when we know his face."-Michelle McNamara, I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
11. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
By: Andrea Lankford
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more
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- crime
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- audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
12. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
By: Beth Macy
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more
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- politics
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- audiobook
"The corporation feels no pain."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
13. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By: David Grann
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklaho… read more
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"An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?"-David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
"The Osage elders sang the traditional songs for the dead, only now the songs seemed for the living, for those who had to endure this world of killing."-David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
14. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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15. Even If You're Broken: Bodies, Boundaries and Mental Health
By: Katie Rose Guest Pryal
4.37
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Read the IPPY-Gold-winning book that Washington Post bestselling author Kelly Harms calls “moving, … read more
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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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"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. Parkland: Birth of a Movement
By: Dave Cullen
3.98
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordin… read more
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18. On the Job: The Untold Story of America's Work Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health
By: Celeste Monforton
4.18
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The inspiring story of worker centers that are cropping up across the country and leading the fight… read more
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19. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
By: Max Marshall
3.50
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more
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20. Sandy Hook
By: Elizabeth Williamson
4.29
Format: 482 pages, Hardcover
Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more
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21. Clickbait
By: Holly Baxter
3.35
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
With the dark comedy and sharp observations of Monica Heisey and Dolly Alderton, a whip-smart and l… read more
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22. Lokalsi. Nieoficjalna historia pewnego samorządu
By: Andrzej Andrysiak
3.92
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Nie ma większego mitu w polskiej debacie publicznej niż ten, że samorządność nam się udała. Wyst… read more
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23. Miles to Go Before I Sleep: My Grateful Journey Back from the Hijacking of Egyptair Flight 648
By: Jackie Nink Pflug
3.86
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
For anyone who has survived a trauma, the question has always been how to move beyond the experienc… read more
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24. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
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25. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
By: Roxanna Asgarian
4.32
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
26. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
By: Robert Kolker
4.16
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"One of the consequenses of surviving schizophrenia for fifty years is that sooner or later, the cure becomes as damaging as the disease"-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
"[..] Schizophrenia simply can't be imposed or inflicted on someone who is not genitically predisposed to develope the condition (D. Rosenthal)"-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
"[They] talked a lot about the particular way Mimi hade of silencing Lindsay. She wouldn't say "Shut up." It was more like "You think you've got troubles?" She attacked Lindsay's emotions by undermini…"-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
"[This essential question about schizophrenia - does it run in families or emerge fully formed out of nowhere? - would consume theorists and therapists and biologists and, later, geneticists, for gene…"-Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
27. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.54
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, b… read more
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"The truth was, Librium and Valium were marketed using such a variety of gendered mid-century tropes—the neurotic singleton, the frazzled housewife, the joyless career woman, the menopausal shrew—that…"-Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
28. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
By: Ronan Farrow
4.40
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered abou… read more
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- feminism
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- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"All the women before feel I am their fault," she said. "And if there were women after me, I feel that is my fault."-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
"Trying to get ahold of Davis later on, i asked Jonathan, "Who would have Lanny Davis's number?" He replied, I don't know, Pol Pot?"-Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
29. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
30. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By: Jeffrey Toobin
4.16
Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more
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31. Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America
By: Jonathan Vigliotti
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us , a character-driven and shocking up-close loo… read more
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