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HILLBILLY ELEGY by JD Vance is #14 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780062300546&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
WHAT UNITES US by Dan Rather and Elliot Kirschner is #11 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A collection of essays that define the historical changes and essential institutions of America to suggest ways to overcome divisions within the country. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781616207823&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
RUTH BADER GINSBURG: A LIFE by Jane Sherron De Hart is #12 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A biography of the late Supreme Court justice, based on 15 years of interviews and research. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781984897831&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
MY OWN WORDS by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W Williams is #15 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A collection of articles and speeches by the Supreme Court justice. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781501145247&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
FEAR by Bob Woodward is #12 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with sources, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes debates and decision-making within the Trump White House. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781501175510&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
KNOW MY NAME by Chanel Miller is #15 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A sexual assault victim reclaims her identity and challenges our culture and criminal justice system as they relate to this issue. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780735223707&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
OUR MALADY by Timothy Snyder is #10 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A brush with death causes the historian to reflect on the fragility of health and examine weaknesses within our commercial medicine system. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780593238899&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
THE TRUTHS WE HOLD by Kamala Harris is #7 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A memoir by the daughter of immigrants who is now a California senator and the 2020 Democratic candidate for vice president. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780525560715&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
ACROSS THAT BRIDGE by John Lewis is #14 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction Recollections and wisdom on challenging injustices by the recently deceased leader in the American civil rights movement and representative for Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780316510936&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
INTIMATIONS by Zadie Smith is #6 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction Six essays exploring topics, such as isolation, compassion and the relationship between time and work, which were considered during an unprecedented situation. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780593297612&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
WALKING WITH THE WIND by John Lewis and Michael D'Orso is #4 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A memoir by the recently deceased leader in the American civil rights movement and representative for Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781476797717&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
THE YELLOW HOUSE by Sarah M Broom is #12 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction Identity and inequality are explored in the history of a family and home in New Orleans both before and after Hurricane Katrina. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780802125088&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
ALEXANDER HAMILTON by Ron Chernow is #5 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A biography of the first Treasury secretary and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The basis of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781594200090&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK by Michelle McNamara is #11 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction The late true-crime journalist's search for "the Golden State Killer." Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780062319784&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS by Isabel Wilkerson is #15 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction An account of the Great Migration of 1915-70, in which six million African-Americans abandoned the South. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780679444329&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
WHY I'M NO LONGER TALKING TO WHITE PEOPLE ABOUT RACE by Reni Eddo-Lodge is #14 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A journalist explains structural racism and explores what it is to be a person of color in Britain. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781635572957&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
THE COLOR OF COMPROMISE by Jemar Tis is #13 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A history of race from America's early colonial days through to the Black Lives Matter movement and a call for a more racially unified church. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780310113607&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
MY GRANDMOTHER'S HANDS by Resmaa Menakem is #15 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A therapist who specializes in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy and violence prevention explains racism's effect on the body. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781942094470&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
ELOQUENT RAGE by Brittney Cooper is #13 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction The professor and columnist shares how a confrontation with her grandmother helped illuminate facets of emotions experienced by black women. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781250112880&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
WAKING UP WHITE by Deb Irving is #12 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction An educator’s journey away from what she describes as racial ignorance. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780991331307&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
WHITE RAGE by Carol Anderson is #10 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A historian documents a long timeline and pattern in which social, legal and economic advances for African-Americans have been countered with systemic and deliberate opposition. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781632864123&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
RAISING WHITE KIDS by Jennifer Harvey is #9 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction The Drake University professor of religion suggests ways to help white children understand their identity and implement antiracist practices. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781501878077&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS SITTING TOGETHER IN THE CAFETERIA? by Beverly Tatum is #7 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction The president emerita of Spelman College examines whether self-segregation is a problem or a coping strategy. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING by Ibram X Kendi is #6 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction Winner of the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction. A look at anti-black racist ideas and their effect on the course of American history. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781568584638&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
THE COLOR OF LAW by Richard Rothstein is #14 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A case for how the American government abetted racial segregation in metropolitan areas across the country. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781631494536&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE by Ijeoma Oluo is #5 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A look at the contemporary racial landscape of the United States. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781580056786&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
THE NEW JIM CROW by Michelle Alexander is #3 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A law professor on the “war on drugs” and its role in the disproportionate incarceration of black men. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781595586438&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY by Yuval Noah Harari is #15 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction Technological, political and social issues in the modern era, and the choices individuals might consider in facing them. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780525512172&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
THE PIONEERS by David McCullough is #10 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian tells the story of the settling of the Northwest Territory through five main characters. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781501168680&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
SHOE DOG by Phil Knight is #7 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A memoir by the co-founder of Nike, Inc. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781501135910&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON by David Grann is #14 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling F.B.I. intervened, ineffectively. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780385534246&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR by Ben Macintyre is #14 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction The story of Oleg Gordievsky, a K.G.B. spy who secretly worked for the British intelligence service, and Aldrich Ames, a C.I.A. officer who was a K.G.B. double agent. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781101904190&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
LEADERSHIP by Doris Kearns Goodwin is #15 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction The challenges that shaped the leadership abilities of four presidents. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781476795928&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
UNORTHODOX by Deborah Feldman is #13 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction A woman breaks free of the Satmar Hasidic community in Brooklyn in which she was raised. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9781439187005&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia Purnell is #9 on the NYT Best Sellers List for Paperback Nonfiction The true story of a Baltimore socialite who joined a spy organization during World War II and became essential to the French Resistance. Buy here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?keywords=9780735225299&index=books&linkCode=qs&tag=bookreco07-20
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