Online Resources for Academy of American Studies: Non-fiction Recs

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Strange Contagion by Lee Daniel Kravetz

The Rules of Contagion by Adam Kucharski

How You Say It by Katherine D. Kinzler

Sway by Pragya Agarwal

The Data Detective by Tim Harford

Think Again by Adam Grant

Humankind by Rutger Bregman; Erica Moore (Translator); Elizabeth Manton (Translator)

The Socrates Express by Eric Weiner

The Search for Why by Bob Raleigh

Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

You're Not Listening by Kate Murphy

Range by David Epstein

Farsighted by Steven Johnson

When: the Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Be Fearless by Jean Case

Selfie by Will Storr

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Influential Mind by Tali Sharot

Face to Face by Brian Grazer

Sway by Pragya Agarwal

Shame Nation by Sue Scheff; Melissa Schorr; Monica Lewinksy (Foreword by)

Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon; Laurie Calkhoven (Adapted by)

Grasp by Sanjay Sarma; Luke Yoquinto

The Secret Life of the Mind by Mariano Sigman

Can't Just Stop by Sharon Begley

Hoax by Brian Stelter

War and Religion by Arnaud Blin

The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

Us vs. Them by Ian Bremmer

Cry Havoc by Michael Signer

Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein

How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson

Republic of Wrath by James A. Morone

You Call This Democracy? by Elizabeth Rusch

Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Fascism: a Warning by Madeleine Albright

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

American Democracy: 21 Historic Answers to 5 Urgent Questions by Nicholas Lemann (Editor)

Democracy in One Book or Less by David Litt

Can Democracy Work? by James Miller

Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum

One Person, No Vote (YA Edition) by Carol Anderson; Tonya Bolden

Our Time Is Now by Stacey Abrams

Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff; David Corn

Thank You for Voting by Erin Geiger Smith

The Spymasters by Chris Whipple

Impeachment by Jeffrey A. Engel; Jon Meacham; Timothy Naftali; Peter Baker

The Bill of Rights by Carol Berkin

Whose Right Is It? the Second Amendment and the Fight over Guns by Hana Bajramovic

We the Corporations by Adam Winkler

Hatchet Man by Elie Honig

From Russia with Blood by Heidi Blake

Pacific by Simon Winchester

Seriously Curious by Tom Standage (Editor)

Dollars and Sense by Dan Ariely; Jeff Kriesler

Freakonomics Rev Ed by Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

SuperFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

When to Rob a Bank by Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner

The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier

Samuelson Friedman by Nicholas Wapshott

Money for Nothing by Thomas Levenson

Evil Geniuses by Kurt Andersen

Capitalism in America by Alan Greenspan; Adrian Wooldridge

Arguing with Zombies by Paul Krugman

The Big Short by Michael Lewis

People, Power, and Profits by Joseph E. Stiglitz

Shop Class As Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford

On the Clock by Emily Guendelsberger

Made in China by Amelia Pang

Dirty Work by Eyal Press

Homewreckers by Aaron Glantz

Rockonomics by Alan B. Krueger

Demystifying Economic Markets and Prices by Gregory R. Woirol

The Case for Climate Capitalism by Tom Rand

The Inequality Paradox by Douglas McWilliams

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

The Day the World Stops Shopping by J. B. MacKinnon

Toxic Inequality by Thomas M. Shapiro

University of Nike by Joshua Hunt

The Invisible Brand: Marketing in the Age of Automation, Big Data, and Machine Learning by William Ammerman

Billion Dollar Brand Club by Ingrassia Lawrence

Brothers on Three by Abe Streep

Play On by Jeff Bercovici

Peak by Marc Bubbs

80/20 Running by Matt Fitzgerald; Robert Johnson (Foreword by)

Billion Dollar Fantasy by Albert Chen

A Franchise on the Rise by Dom Amore; John Sterling (Foreword by)

Intangibles by Joan Ryan

Sidecountry by John Branch

We Will Rise by Steve Beaven

Hard Labor by Sam Smith

Lost Champions by Gretchen Atwood

NFL Century by Joe Horrigan

The Fall of the House of FIFA by David Conn

National Team by Caitlin Murray

Seeing Serena by Gerald Marzorati

The Arm by Jeff Passan

Astroball by Ben Reiter

Amazing Racers by Marc Bloom

The Rise of the Ultra Runners by Adharanand Finn

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Swing Kings by Jared Diamond

The Bolt Supremacy by Richard Moore

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Into the Planet by Jill Heinerth

The Impossible Climb by Mark Synnott

Faster by Neal Bascomb

Creating the Mania by Jon Robinson

The Rumble in the Jungle by Lewis A. Erenberg

The Original Six by Lew Freedman

Seven at Sea by Erik Orton; Emily Orton

Unbreakable by Richard Askwith

A Human Algorithm by Flynn Coleman

How Technology Is Changing Human Behavior by C. G. Prado (Editor)

Physics of the Future by Michio Kaku

Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky

Terms of Service by Jacob Silverman

Technically Wrong by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman

Silicon States by Lucie Greene

War in 140 Characters by David Patrikarakos

Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks

Aiq by Nick Polson; James Scott

Talking to Robots by David Ewing Duncan

Sam by Jonathan Waldman

The Age of Living Machines by Susan Hockfield

Saved by Science by Mark J. Poznansky

The Mutant Project by Eben Kirksey

Google It by Anna Crowley Redding

Genius Makers by Cade Metz

A Fool's Errand by Lonnie G. Bunch III

Citizen Reporters by Stephanie Gorton

You Don't Belong Here by Elizabeth Becker

Special! by Brayton Harris

Susan, Linda, Nina and Cokie by Lisa Napoli

Up All Night by Lisa Napoli

The Race Beat by Gene Roberts; Hank Klibanoff

The Upswing by Robert D. Putnam; Shaylyn Romney Garrett (As told to)

Millennium by Ian Mortimer

Upheaval by Jared Diamond

The Age of Edison by Ernest Freeberg

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

They Didn't See Us Coming by Lisa Levenstein

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 by Götz Aly

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry by Paula Yoo

American Intolerance by Robert E. Bartholomew; Anja E. Reumschuessel

An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

Slave Stealers by Timothy Ballard; Mike Tomlin (Foreword by)

Help Me to Find My People by Heather Andrea Williams

The Stonewall Riots by Gayle E. Pitman

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History (Young Adult Edition) by Jeff Chang; Dave Cook

Burning down the Haus by Tim Mohr

Chasing King's Killer by James L. Swanson

A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis

The Indian World of George Washington by Colin G. Calloway

Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss

The NRA by Frank Smyth

An Impossible Dream by Guillaume Serina; Mikhail Gorbachev (Foreword by); David A. Andelman (Afterword by)

Spies by Marc Favreau

The Edge of Anarchy by Jack Kelly

Land by Simon Winchester

Energy by Richard Rhodes

A Thirsty Land by Seamus McGraw

The Guarded Gate by Daniel Okrent

John Adams under Fire by David Fisher; Dan Abrams

The Golden Thirteen by Dan Goldberg

The Nazi Hunters by Neal Bascomb

The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition by Kate Moore

Armed in America by Patrick J. Charles

Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics by Donald Jeffries; Ron Paul (Foreword by)

A Girl Stands at the Door by Rachel Devlin

Dress Codes by Richard Thompson Ford

The Columbian Exchange by Alfred W. Crosby; Valerie N. Chang

Patient Zero by Lydia Kang; Nate Pedersen

Pandemic 1918 by Catharine Arnold

Miracle Cure by William Rosen

Black Death at the Golden Gate by David K. Randall

109 East Palace by Jennet Conant

Rocket Men by Robert Kurson

The Downtown Pop Underground by Kembrew McLeod

Symphony for the City of the Dead by Matthew Anderson

The History of Rock and Roll, Volume 2 by Ed Ward

When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Sunny Days by David Kamp

Footnotes by Caseen Gaines

Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert

Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe

Unique by David Linden

Talk to Me by James Vlahos

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane

Experience on Demand by Jeremy Bailenson

Cryptography by Keith Martin

Pandora's Lab by Paul A. Offit,

A Series of Fortunate Events by Sean B. Carroll

Superminds by Thomas W. Malone

The Accidental Homo Sapiens by Ian Tattersall; Robert DeSalle

Guns Germs and Steel by Jared M. Diamond

The Nature of Nature by Enric Sala

The Next Great Migration by Sonia Shah

An Outsider's Guide to Humans by Camilla Pang

Rescuing the Planet by Tony Hiss; E. O. Wilson (Introduction by)

Vaquita by Brooke Bessesen

Resetting the Table by Robert Paarlberg

Exposure by Robert Bilott

All Hell Breaking Loose by Michael Klare; Michael T. Klare

Death in Mud Lick by Eric Eyre

Dreamland (YA Edition) by Sam Quinones

Fentanyl, Inc by Ben Westhoff

The Poisoned City by Anna Clark

Inconspicuous Consumption by Tatiana Schlossberg

Throwaway Nation by Jeff Dondero

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking

New Scientist: the Origin of Almost Everything by New New Scientist

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Steven Novella; Bob Novella (As told to); Cara Santa Maria (As told to); Jay Novella (As told to); Evan Bernstein (As told to)

Gory Details by Erika Engelhaupt; Briony Morrow-Cribbs (Illustrator)

The Science of Can and Can't by Chiara Marletto

The Secret Wisdom of Nature by Peter Wohlleben; Jane Billinghurst (Translator)

Know This by John Brockman

The Light Ages by Seb Falk

Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson; Gregory Mone

We Have No Idea by Jorge Cham; Daniel Whiteson

The Physics of Everyday Things by James Kakalios

Liquid Rules by Mark Miodownik

The Spinning Magnet by Alanna Mitchell

Chemistry for Breakfast by Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim; Claire Lenkova (Illustrator)

Chemistry on Fire by Kate Biberdorf

Supernavigators by David Barrie

Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

The Body by Bill Bryson

Human Errors by Nathan H. Lents

Endure by Alex Hutchinson; Malcolm Gladwell (Foreword by)

The Joy of Sweat by Sarah Everts

Spark by John J. Ratey; Eric Hagerman (As told to)

Your Brain Is a Time Machine by Dean Buonomano

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

Touching a Nerve by Patricia Churchland

Livewired by David Eagleman

The Deep History of Ourselves by Joseph LeDoux

Brain Wash by David Perlmutter; Austin Perlmutter; Kristin Loberg (As told to)

Unthinkable by Helen Thomson

Diet Cults by Matt Fitzgerald

Hooked by Michael Moss

Eat Like the Animals by David Raubenheimer; Stephen Simpson

Troubled Water by Seth M. Siegel

Technically Food by Larissa Zimberoff

Deadliest Enemy by Michael T. Osterholm; Mark Olshaker

Covid-19 by Debora MacKenzie

Our Wild Calling by Richard Louv

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Beyond Earth by Charles Wohlforth; Amanda R. Hendrix

Big Chicken by Maryn McKenna

A Dog in the Cave by Kay Frydenborg

Unsavory Truth by Marion Nestle

Ingredients by George Zaidan

Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy by Emmanuel Acho

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults) by Michael Bennett; Dave Zirin

Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson

Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude

America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton

America for Americans by Erika Lee

So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds; Ibram X. Kendi

Wilmington's Lie by David Zucchino

What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson

The Second Coming of the KKK by Linda Gordon

When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition) by Patrisse Cullors; asha bandele; Benee Knauer (Adapted by)

In the Name of Emmett Till by Robert H. Mayer; Leslie-Burl McLemore (Foreword by)

Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) by Bryan Stevenson

Let the People See by Elliott J. Gorn

How Charts Lie by Alberto Cairo

This Is the Voice by John Colapinto

Bunk by Kevin Young

Girl Code by Andrea Gonzales; Sophie Houser

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

Screening Reality by Jon Wilkman

True or False by Cindy L. Otis

Breaking News by Alan Rusbridger

Floating off the Page by Ken Wells (Editor); Michael Lewis (Foreword by)

How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog by Anthony McGowan

Debunk It! Fake News Edition by John Grant

Mama's Last Hug by Frans de Waal

A History of Religion in 5½ Objects by S. Brent Plate

Cult Leaders by The New York Times Editorial Staff (Editor)

Merit by Joseph Kett

Outnumbered by David Sumpter

Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Acting with Power by Deborah Gruenfeld

Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker

We Are Data by John Cheney-Lippold

Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman

How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley

We Are Power by Todd Hasak-Lowy

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

Caste (Oprah's Book Club) by Isabel Wilkerson

The Anthropocene Reviewed (Signed Edition) by John Green

Pure Invention by Matt Alt

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions...about Death by Caitlin Doughty

Slugfest by Reed Tucker

The Dream Architects by David Polfeldt

Beauty Sick by Renee Engeln

From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty

Furious Hours by Casey Cep

The Newcomers by Helen Thorpe

Putting on the Dog by Melissa Kwasny

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

All Made Up by Rae Nudson

No Filter by Sarah Frier

The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr

Outspoken by Veronica Rueckert

Trailblazer by Dorothy Butler Gilliam

Truth Worth Telling by Scott Pelley

Futureface (Adapted for Young Readers) by Alex Wagner

How Life Imitates Sports by Ira Berkow

Missed Translations by Sopan Deb; Hasan Minhaj (Foreword by)

Persist by Elizabeth Warren

All the Dreams We've Dreamed by Rus Bradburd

Cuz by Danielle Allen

Rebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild

Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

Defiant by Wade Hudson

Aoc by Lynda Lopez

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

Flamin' Hot by Richard Montanez

A Knock at Midnight by Brittany K. Barnett

Warhead by Jeff Henigson

The Heart and Other Monsters by Rose Andersen

Free Lunch by Rex Ogle

Punching Bag by Rex Ogle

I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout; Jenn Abelson

Jane Against the World by Karen Blumenthal

When Truth Is All You Have by Jim McCloskey; Philip Lerman; John Grisham (Foreword by)

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai; Patricia McCormick (As told to)

Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition by Margot Lee Shetterly

The Perfect Predator by Steffanie Strathdee; Thomas Patterson; Teresa Barker (As told to)

Endurance, Young Readers Edition by Scott Kelly

To the Moon! by Jeffrey Kluger; Ruby Shamir

Eat a Peach by David Chang; Gabe Ulla

The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty

The Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt

Dylan on Dylan by Jeff Burger (Editor)

3 Kings by Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Original Gangstas by Ben Westhoff

Cobain on Cobain by Nick Soulsby

Lennon on Lennon by Jeff Burger (Editor)

Singular Sensation by Michael Riedel

The Butterfly Effect by Marcus J. Moore

Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman

The Suspect by Kent Alexander; Kevin Salwen

The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson

Chase Darkness with Me by Billy Jensen; Karen Kilgariff (Foreword by)

Whitey Bulger by Kevin Cullen; Shelley Murphy

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara; Gillian Flynn (Introduction by); Patton Oswalt (Afterword by)

White Hot Hate by Dick Lehr

Citizen 865 by Debbie Cenziper

Norco '80 by Peter Houlahan

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

The Girls by Abigail Pesta

The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater

The Kidnap Years by David Stout

The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Grace Will Lead Us Home by Jennifer Berry Hawes

Burned by Edward Humes

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream by Dean Jobb

Race Against Time by Jerry Mitchell

Saving Sin City by Mary Cummings

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist by Radley Balko; Tucker Carrington; John Grisham (Foreword by)

Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers by David Grann

Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres; Tom Rivett-Carnac

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates

A Bright Future by Joshua S. Goldstein; Staffan A. Qvist; Steven Pinker (Foreword by)

The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults) by Hope Jahren

How to Change Everything by Naomi Klein; Rebecca Stefoff (Adapted by)

As the World Burns by Lee van der Voo

Superman's Not Coming by Erin Brockovich

Never Out of Season by Rob Dunn

Hacking Planet Earth by Thomas M. Kostigen

Trees in Trouble by Daniel Mathews

The Future by Al Gore

Enough Is Enough by Michelle Roehm McCann; Shannon Watts (Foreword by)

We Say #NeverAgain: Reporting by the Parkland Student Journalists by Melissa Falkowski (Editor); Eric Garner (Editor)

Parkland by Dave Cullen

Math Without Numbers by Milo Beckman

Weird Math by David Darling; Agnijo Banerjee

The Number Mysteries by Marcus du Sautoy

How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg

Innumeracy by John Allen Paulos

The Mathematics of Everyday Life by Alfred S. Posamentier; Christian Spreitzer

The Math of Life and Death by Kit Yates

The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men by Paolo Zellini

The Calculus Story by David Acheson

The Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter

Built by Roma Agrawal

No Refuge by Serena Parekh

Connectography by Parag Khanna

How Population Change Will Transform Our World by Sarah Harper

We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai

Separated by Jacob Soboroff

The Shadow System by Sylvia A. Harvey

Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof; Sheryl WuDunn

In a Day's Work by Bernice Yeung

Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid

On Fire by Naomi Klein

An American Summer by Alex Kotlowitz

The Second Chance Club by Jason Hardy

Show Them You're Good by Jeff Hobbs

The Animals among Us by John Bradshaw