Fresh Air 2017
1. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating β 425,906 ratings 2. 
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #1)
by:
Emil Ferris
4.25 avg rating β 25,886 ratings 3. 
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
by:
Brian Alexander
3.91 avg rating β 1,852 ratings 4. 
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
by:
Peggy Orenstein
4.07 avg rating β 11,168 ratings 
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The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
by:
Stephen Kinzer
3.95 avg rating β 1,361 ratings 
8. 
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
by:
Jeff Guinn
4.16 avg rating β 18,736 ratings 
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An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back 4.30 avg rating β 7,910 ratings
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A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West
by:
Luke Harding
4.25 avg rating β 2,219 ratings 14. 
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
by:
Ari Berman
4.39 avg rating β 1,962 ratings 15. 
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
by:
Stephen Kinzer
4.17 avg rating β 4,515 ratings 16. 
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House 3.92 avg rating β 21,301 ratings
17. 
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
by:
Joshua Green
3.80 avg rating β 5,934 ratings 19. 
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
by:
Adam Cohen
3.77 avg rating β 2,591 ratings 19. 
The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
by:
Jesse Eisinger
3.79 avg rating β 1,876 ratings 21. 
A Great Place To Have A War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA 3.90 avg rating β 757 ratings
21. 
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street 4.20 avg rating β 16,384 ratings
23. 
The Aisles Have Eyes: How Retailers Track Your Shopping, Strip Your Privacy, and Define Your Power
by:
Joseph Turow
3.48 avg rating β 293 ratings 24. 
The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
by:
Lisa Servon
3.97 avg rating β 939 ratings 
24. 
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
by:
Glenn Frankel
4.12 avg rating β 960 ratings 27. 
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
by:
W. Kamau Bell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 6,659 ratings 
31. 
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
by:
Ron Powers
3.87 avg rating β 4,179 ratings 32. 
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Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy 4.26 avg rating β 1,500 ratings
35. 
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
by:
Adam Alter
3.85 avg rating β 12,527 ratings 36. 
The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World 3.69 avg rating β 555 ratings
38. 
Dorothy Day; The World Will Be Saved By Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of Dorothy Day
by:
Kate Hennessy
3.94 avg rating β 1,000 ratings 
41. 
The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
by:
Michael Wallis
4.23 avg rating β 2,602 ratings 42. 
HuαΊΏ 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
by:
Mark Bowden
4.33 avg rating β 7,777 ratings 43. 
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
by:
Robert Wright
4.02 avg rating β 25,749 ratings 44. 
The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
by:
Howard Markel
3.88 avg rating β 910 ratings 45. 
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Governmentβs Secret Plan to Save Itself β While the Rest of Us Die
by:
Garrett M. Graff
3.90 avg rating β 2,642 ratings 46. 
Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
by:
Haider Warraich
3.93 avg rating β 684 ratings 
47. 
Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
by:
Katy Tur
3.96 avg rating β 17,464 ratings 49. 
A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 3.99 avg rating β 1,201 ratings
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Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
by:
Mark Harris
4.12 avg rating β 2,102 ratings 51. 
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
by:
Laura Jane Grace
4.32 avg rating β 10,755 ratings 51. 
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating β 44,176 ratings
55. 
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character 4.13 avg rating β 533 ratings
55. 
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936β1939
by:
Adam Hochschild
4.22 avg rating β 3,619 ratings 
58. 
A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
by:
T.R. Reid
4.24 avg rating β 1,092 ratings 
60. 
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front 4.15 avg rating β 3,058 ratings
60. 
Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
by:
Maryn McKenna
4.20 avg rating β 883 ratings 62. 
I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
by:
Souad Mekhennet
4.42 avg rating β 4,817 ratings 63. 
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
by:
Jeffrey Toobin
3.87 avg rating β 12,108 ratings 64. 
Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry
by:
Richard Barnett
4.19 avg rating β 142 ratings 65. 
Presidents' Secrets: The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power
by:
Mary Graham
3.46 avg rating β 57 ratings 65. 
One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries
by:
James Ledbetter
3.36 avg rating β 77 ratings 
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The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
by:
Henry Fountain
3.92 avg rating β 1,985 ratings 67. 
Cartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
by:
Cullen Murphy
4.26 avg rating β 100 ratings 72. 
Small Victories: Recipes, Advice + Hundreds of Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs
by:
Julia Turshen
4.19 avg rating β 1,144 ratings 73. 
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
by:
James Forman Jr.
4.37 avg rating β 4,459 ratings 74. 
Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward
by:
Elizabeth Ford
3.98 avg rating β 2,050 ratings 
76. 
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
by:
Susan Burton
4.60 avg rating β 1,723 ratings 77. 
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
by:
Sheryll Cashin
4.14 avg rating β 230 ratings 78. 
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Roots, Radicals and Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World
by:
Billy Bragg
4.23 avg rating β 414 ratings 
84. 
Seeds on Ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault
by:
Cary Fowler
4.22 avg rating β 174 ratings 
85. 
Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay, & a Few of My Other Favorite Things 3.78 avg rating β 404 ratings
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A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
by:
Philip Shenon
4.07 avg rating β 1,307 ratings 
89. 
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
by:
Alexis Okeowo
4.05 avg rating β 1,348 ratings 
92. 
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
by:
Stephen Kinzer
4.29 avg rating β 10,839 ratings 93. 
Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV
by:
Joe Buck
4.03 avg rating β 2,123 ratings 
100. 
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
by:
David Owen
3.93 avg rating β 3,215 ratings