Books like Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
12 books with a reading profile close to Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Also outward-looking · analytical, academic
Richard Dawkins assembles a cumulative case for biological evolution, positioning it as an established fact rather than a tentative hypothesis.
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
analytical, academic
Merlin Sheldrake examines the biological networks of the fungal kingdom, focusing on how mycelium functions as a living infrastructure for terrestrial ecosystems.
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Also outward-looking · analytical, academic
Siddhartha Mukherjee traces the evolution of oncology from ancient surgical records to contemporary genetic research.
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
analytical, academic
Isabel Wilkerson chronicles the movement of six million Black Americans from the Jim Crow South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970.
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Also outward-looking · analytical, academic
Michelle Alexander argues that the American legal system functions as a contemporary mechanism of racial control, effectively relegating millions of Black men to a permanent second-class status.
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Also outward-looking · analytical, academic
Isabel Wilkerson argues that the United States is governed by a rigid, unspoken hierarchy that functions like a caste system rather than just a collection of racial prejudices.
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Also outward-looking · analytical, narrative
Walter Isaacson chronicles the development of CRISPR-Cas9, a tool that allows scientists to edit DNA by cutting and pasting genetic sequences.
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Also outward-looking · analytical, academic
Jared Diamond examines why some civilizations vanish while others endure by applying a five-point framework of environmental collapse.
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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Also outward-looking · analytical, narrative
In this study of federal governance, Michael Lewis details the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations, focusing on the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Commerce.
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And the Band Played on
by Randy Shilts
Also outward-looking · analytical, academic
Randy Shilts documents the initial decade of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, tracking the virus from its first appearance in urban centers to its spread through the blood supply.
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
Also outward-looking · analytical, academic
Steven Pinker argues that physical violence has steadily decreased over centuries, reaching its historical nadir in the modern era.
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