Consequential President

10 best books like Consequential President (Michael D'Antonio): Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes, The Secret Horses of Briar Hill, The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House, The Day of the Locust, If I Ever Get Out of Here, Tin Heart, True Stories from the Files of the FBI, My Losing Season: A Memoir, Open Heart, Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America Into the Space Age

Twenty-Eight and a Half Wishes

Author

Denise Grover Swank

For Rose Gardner, working at the DMV on a Friday afternoon is bad even before she sees a vision of herself dead. She’s had plenty of visions, usually boring ones like someone’s toilet’s overflowed, but she’s never seen one of herself before. When her overbearing momma winds up murdered on her...

The Secret Horses of Briar Hill

Author

Megan Shepherd

There are winged horses that live in the mirrors of Briar Hill hospital. In the mirrors that line its grand hallways, which once belonged to a princess. In those that reflect the elegant rooms, now filled with sick children. It is her secret.

One morning, when Emmaline climbs over the wall of...

The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House

Author	Ben Rhodes
ISBN	1847925170

This is a book about two people making the most important decisions in the world. One is Barack Obama. The other is Ben Rhodes.

The World As It Is tells the full story of what it means to work alongside a radical leader; of how idealism can confront reality and survive; of how the White House really...

The Day of the Locust

Author	Nathanael West
ISBN	0451523482

The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by...

If I Ever Get Out of Here

Author	Eric Gansworth
ISBN	0545417309

Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town...

Tin Heart

Author

Shivaun Plozza

When Marlowe gets a heart transplant and a second chance at life, all she wants to do is to thank her donor’s family. Maybe then she can move on. Maybe then she’ll discover who she is if she’s no longer The Dying Girl.

But with a little brother who dresses like every day is Halloween, a vegan...

True Stories from the Files of the FBI

Author	W. Cleon Skousen
ISBN	1489503528

Be the FBI Agent in training under J. Edgar Hoover and run the gauntlet of Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson and the Barker Karpis Gang. Step back into downtown Chicago of the 1930s and retrace the steps of some of America's most notorious mobsters. True Stories from the Files of the FBI was written by...

My Losing Season: A Memoir

Author	Pat Conroy
ISBN	0553381903

PAT CONROY—AMERICA’S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER—IS BACK!

“I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one. . . .There was a time in my life when I walked through the world known to myself and others as an athlete. It was part of my own definition of who I was and certainly the part I...

Open Heart

Author	Elie Wiesel
ISBN	0307961842

Translated by Marion Wiesel

A profoundly and unexpectedly intimate, deeply affecting summing up of his life so far, from one of the most cherished moral voices of our time.

Eighty-two years old, facing emergency heart surgery and his own mortality, Elie Wiesel reflects back on his...

Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America Into the Space Age

Author	Robert Stone
ISBN	0525639578

JFK issued the historic moon landing challenge. These are the stories of the visionaries who helped America complete his vision with the first lunar landing fifty years ago.

A Companion Book to the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE(R) Film on PBS(R)

Going in depth to explore their stories beyond...

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

Author	Paul Collier
ISBN	0062748661

Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.

Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western...