Books like Them: Adventures with Extremists
12 books with a reading profile close to Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
history, analytical
Patrick Radden Keefe reconstructs the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten taken from her Belfast home by the Irish Republican Army.
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EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS
by John Green
history, analytical
John Green tracks the history and persistence of tuberculosis, a bacterial infection that has killed more humans than any other pathogen.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
history, analytical
During the 1920s, the Osage Nation in Oklahoma became the wealthiest people per capita in the world after oil was discovered beneath their reservation.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
history, analytical
Yuval Noah Harari tracks the biological and social evolution of Homo sapiens from our origins as a minor African primate to our current dominance over the biosphere.
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
history, analytical
Erik Larson weaves together the true accounts of two men who shaped Chicago during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.
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How Music Works
by David Byrne
history, analytical
David Byrne argues that musical composition is driven by external constraints rather than pure internal inspiration.
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by Kate Moore
history, analytical
Kate Moore details the lives of factory workers in the early twentieth century who painted watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
history, analytical
Michael Pollan investigates the origins of the human diet by tracing four distinct food chains: industrial corn, organic agribusiness, local pastoralism, and personal foraging.
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
history, analytical
Jon Krakauer examines the 1984 murders of Brenda Lafferty and her infant daughter, committed by her brothers-in-law, Ron and Dan Lafferty.
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
history, analytical
Peter Frankopan shifts the focus of global history away from the Atlantic and toward the central nervous system of Eurasia.
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
history, narrative
Jessica Bruder documents the lives of older Americans who, after the 2008 financial crisis, abandoned traditional housing for a life on the road.
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