American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
10 best books like American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment (Shane Bauer): The Great Believers, There There, Washington Black, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, Small Fry, The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive, Heavy: An American Memoir, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Asymmetry
FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION
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WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION
WINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
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| Author | Tommy Orange |
| ISBN | 0525520376 |
We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of...
| Author | Esi Edugyan |
| ISBN | 0525521429 |
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born.
When his master's eccentric brother chooses him to be his manservant, Wash is terrified of the cruelties he is certain await him. But Christopher Wilde, or "Titch,"...
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
| Author | Beth Macy |
| ISBN | 0316523178 |
Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it's a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national...
| Author | Lisa Brennan-Jobs |
| ISBN | 0802128238 |
Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa's father was a mythical figure who was rarely present in her life. As she grew older, her father took an interest...
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes...
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
| Author | Stephanie Land |
| ISBN | 0316505110 |
Evicted meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid, a beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in America. Includes a foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.
"My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter."
While the gap between upper middle-class...
Heavy: An American Memoir
| Author | Kiese Laymon |
| ISBN | 1501125656 |
In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.
Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer. In...
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
| Author | Patrick Radden Keefe |
| ISBN | 0385521316 |
From award-winning
New Yorker
staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions
In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast...
A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday.
Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most...
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
| Author | Alex Kotlowitz |
| ISBN | 1984841173 |
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods.
The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000...
| Author | David W. Blight |
| ISBN | 1416590315 |
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity...
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
| Author | Jonathan M. Metzl |
| ISBN | 1541644980 |
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans...
