Fresh Air 2019 (Jan-June)
1. 
No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us 4.50 avg rating — 8,099 ratings
6. 
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
7. 
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
by:
Stephanie Land
3.86 avg rating — 109,538 ratings 8. 
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers 3.91 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
11. 
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
by:
Will Hunt
3.81 avg rating — 2,621 ratings 12. 
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
by:
Benjamin Dreyer
4.34 avg rating — 9,243 ratings 13. 
The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
by:
Andrew G. McCabe
4.17 avg rating — 7,358 ratings 14. 
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
by:
Mary Pipher
3.68 avg rating — 6,899 ratings 
16. 
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by:
Lori Gottlieb
4.37 avg rating — 385,731 ratings 17. 
Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
by:
David E. McCraw
4.14 avg rating — 601 ratings 
19. 
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
by:
Frans de Waal
4.21 avg rating — 5,466 ratings 
21. 
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
by:
Emily Bazelon
4.31 avg rating — 1,825 ratings 22. 
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by:
Bill McKibben
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,091 ratings 
24. 
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal 4.16 avg rating — 428 ratings
25. 
Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
by:
Tia Powell
3.90 avg rating — 425 ratings 27. 
Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and Other Hacks from the Parenting Trenches
by:
Hillary Frank
3.58 avg rating — 922 ratings 27. 
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
by:
Louise Aronson
3.96 avg rating — 1,921 ratings 
29. 
Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 326 ratings
31. 
A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story
by:
Tom Gjelten
3.97 avg rating — 237 ratings 32. 
Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party
by:
Jon Ward
4.02 avg rating — 839 ratings 33. 
35. 
Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery 3.99 avg rating — 2,873 ratings
36. 
Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
by:
Judith Grisel
4.14 avg rating — 5,162 ratings 37. 
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by:
Daniel Immerwahr
4.46 avg rating — 19,121 ratings 
39. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
by:
Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,729 ratings 
44. 
Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam
by:
J.M. Berger
3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings 
47. 
The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts
by:
Joan Biskupic
3.86 avg rating — 732 ratings 48. 
The Hill to Die On: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America
by:
Jake Sherman
3.95 avg rating — 982 ratings 
51. 
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
by:
Anne Harrington
4.15 avg rating — 998 ratings 
53. 
Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
by:
Oliver Bullough
4.19 avg rating — 6,773 ratings