Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music

9 best books like Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music (Gerri Hirshey): Money, The Fire Next Time, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee, Berlin Alexanderplatz, The Argonauts, The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making, My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding, Deadly Class, Volume 8: Never Go Back

Money

Author	Martin Amis
ISBN	0099461889

Here to Stay

The enduring legacy of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher isn’t conservatism as a political programme but narcissism as a mode of living. As the aptly named John Self says in Money, “You just gave us some money... but you hate me, don’t you. Yes you do. Because I’m the new...

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,...

Frankissstein: A Love Story

Author	Jeanette Winterson
ISBN	1473563259

From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Author	Casey Cep
ISBN	1101947861

The stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird.

Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help...

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Author	Alfred Döblin
ISBN	3423002956

Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der,...

The Argonauts

Author	Maggie Nelson
ISBN	1555977073

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family.

Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of...

The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making

Author

Jared Yates Sexton

The author of The People Are Going to Rise Upon Your Shore turns his keen eye to our current crisis of masculinity using his upbringing in a rural, patriarchal home as an entry point to consider the personal and societal dangers of performative gender

Based on his provocative and popular New...

My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding

Author	Wendy Wax
ISBN	0440001439

A wedding dress passed down through generations unravels the tangled threads of three women's lives in a novel of friendship, family, and forgiveness from the USA Today bestselling author of Ten Beach Road.

Prized and stored away for safekeeping, the timeless ivory wedding dress, with its...

Deadly Class, Volume 8: Never Go Back

Author	Rick Remender
ISBN	1534310630

The crew returns to Kings Dominion to discover things have changed in their absence. The program has changed. Master Lin's schemes revealed. Betrayal. Mystery. The secret of the catacombs beneath the school. A reckoning for the corrupt. Our friends try to hold everything together as Freshman finals...