5 Top science books like Raising Lazarus by Beth Macy

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Raising Lazarus

By: Beth Macy

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th…

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Cover of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream by Alissa Quart

1. Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream

By: Alissa Quart

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with … read more

Similar categories in Alissa Quart's Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
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2. 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

Similar categories in Timothy Egan's A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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

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3. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels

By: Paul Pringle

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal … read more

Similar categories in Paul Pringle's Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Kidder's Rough Sleepers book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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5. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Rosen's The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

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6. 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

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"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

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7. 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

Similar categories in Patrick Radden Keefe's Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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9. Raising Lazarus

By: Beth Macy

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more

Similar categories in Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • science
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10. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

Similar categories in Monica Potts's The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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11. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Herold's Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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12. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones

13. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

By: Sam Quinones

4.36

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Long… read more

Similar categories in Sam Quinones's The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • history
  • health
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • science
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14. Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

By: Matthew Dallek

3.97

Format: None pages, Audiobook

How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremism At… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Dallek's Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Sisson's Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction by Maia Szalavitz

16. Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction

By: Maia Szalavitz

4.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times b… read more

Similar categories in Maia Szalavitz's Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • science
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17. What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms

By: Jonathan M. Metzl

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A searing reflection on the broken promise of safety in America. When a naked, mentally ill white m… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan M. Metzl's What We've Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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18. The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town

By: Brian Alexander

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

USA Today 's 5 BOOKS NOT TO MISS "Alexander nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world o… read more

Similar categories in Brian Alexander's The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • politics
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry by Scott Higham

19. American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry

By: Scott Higham

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created an… read more

Similar categories in Scott Higham's American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

20. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss

21. 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

Similar categories in Evan Friss's The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore book and Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

19 Best audiobook books like Raising Lazarus by Beth Macy

Transform Your Habits

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels

Paul Pringle

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Rough Sleepers

Tracy Kidder

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

Jonathan Rosen

4.07

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12 Top audiobook books like The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander

Transform Your Habits

Janesville: An American Story

None , Amy Goldstein

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine

Ricardo Nuila

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Raising Lazarus

Beth Macy

4.02

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