Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA

7 best books like Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA (Frances Goldin): Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place), The Fire Next Time, Shadowshaper, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Middlegame, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Author	Gregory Maguire
ISBN	0060987103

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?

Gregory Maguire creates...

To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)

Author

Martin Dugard

Now with a new introduction and additional stories accumulated in the eight years since its original publication, To Be a Runner is a fresh and exciting update on a running classic. With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, instruction, and humor, bestselling author and lifelong runner Martin Dugard...

The Fire Next Time

Author

James Baldwin

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin’s early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice,...

Shadowshaper

Author	Daniel José Older
ISBN	0545591619

Sierra Santiago was looking forward to a fun summer of making art, hanging out with her friends, and skating around Brooklyn. But then a weird zombie guy crashes the first party of the season. Sierra's near-comatose abuelo begins to say "Lo siento" over and over. And when the graffiti murals in Bed-Stuy...

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Author	Richard Rothstein
ISBN	1631492853

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the...

Middlegame

Author

Seanan McGuire

Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.

Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.

Roger...

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

Author	Flora Rheta Schreiber
ISBN	0446359408

Another old book review from my blog:

This was one seriously fucked up book. I have never seen the movie but, of course, knew what I was in for when I got the book. The name "Sybil" is very well known, and carries some stigma, in pop culture.
However, I had no concept of the extent or the perversity...