For Fans of "You're Wrong About" (Unofficial)
1. 
Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to Caring for Everything in Your Home
by:
Martha Stewart
4.25 avg rating — 1,876 ratings 
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Mind Game: An Inside Look at the Mental Health Playbook of Elite Athletes
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Julie Kliegman
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings 6. 
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Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like "Journey" in the Title 4.29 avg rating — 1,119 ratings
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The War on Kids: How American Juvenile Justice Lost Its Way
by:
Cara H. Drinan
3.97 avg rating — 107 ratings 13. 
Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
by:
Jeff Hobbs
4.04 avg rating — 386 ratings 
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The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
by:
Zac Bissonnette
3.91 avg rating — 2,750 ratings 
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Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why
by:
Sady Doyle
4.07 avg rating — 4,368 ratings 24. 
The Memory Illusion: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory
by:
Julia Shaw
3.93 avg rating — 2,223 ratings 25. 
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present 4.43 avg rating — 9,664 ratings
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
by:
Alice Echols
3.91 avg rating — 319 ratings 27. 
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating — 197,283 ratings 28. 
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
by:
Adam M. Grant
4.13 avg rating — 136,002 ratings 29. 
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia 3.12 avg rating — 6,341 ratings
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Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower
by:
Shana Alexander
3.75 avg rating — 112 ratings 
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The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
by:
Michael Wallis
4.23 avg rating — 2,602 ratings 34. 
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,181 ratings
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
by:
Judith Flanders
3.41 avg rating — 4,257 ratings 36. 
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,219 ratings 
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I Had to Survive: How a Plane Crash in the Andes Inspired My Calling to Save Lives
by:
Roberto Canessa
4.24 avg rating — 2,048 ratings 41. 
Room 1219: The Life of Fatty Arbuckle, the Mysterious Death of Virginia Rappe, and the Scandal That Changed Hollywood
by:
Greg Merritt
3.88 avg rating — 564 ratings 42. 
The Big Lie: How One Doctor’s Medical Fraud Launched Today’s Deadly Anti-Vax Movement
by:
Kurt Eichenwald
3.92 avg rating — 260 ratings 43. 
In Glory's Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, The Citadel, and a Changing America 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
by:
Randy Shilts
4.14 avg rating — 4,469 ratings 46. 
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Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist's Guide to Investigative Reporting
by:
Ruby Shamir
4.15 avg rating — 237 ratings 49. 
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
by:
Bryan Burrough
4.26 avg rating — 5,655 ratings 50. 
Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol
by:
Mallory O'Meara
4.16 avg rating — 3,432 ratings 51. 
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (ReVisioning American History, #3) 4.37 avg rating — 19,433 ratings
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
by:
James W. Loewen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,111 ratings 53. 
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
by:
Heather McGhee
4.62 avg rating — 20,496 ratings 54. 
The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
by:
John Mitchinson
3.85 avg rating — 1,687 ratings 
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Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion 4.34 avg rating — 1,004 ratings
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Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
by:
Angela Saini
4.05 avg rating — 9,412 ratings 58. 
The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time
by:
Brooke Gladstone
3.81 avg rating — 1,423 ratings 59. 
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
by:
Jason Porath
4.39 avg rating — 3,444 ratings 
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Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results
by:
Josh Gondelman
3.80 avg rating — 1,455 ratings 65. 
You Blew It!: An Awkward Look at the Many Ways in Which You've Already Ruined Your Life
by:
Josh Gondelman
3.35 avg rating — 132 ratings 
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow 4.16 avg rating — 4,105 ratings
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The Demonologist: The Extraordinary Career of Ed & Lorraine Warren
by:
Gerald Brittle
3.88 avg rating — 9,086 ratings 
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You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss
by:
Vanessa Williams
3.93 avg rating — 503 ratings 80. 
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The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
by:
Judy Shepard
4.35 avg rating — 2,492 ratings 
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The Midcentury Kitchen: America's Favorite Room, from Workspace to Dreamscape, 1940s-1970s
by:
Sarah Archer
3.95 avg rating — 165 ratings 
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Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
by:
Blair Braverman
3.79 avg rating — 7,477 ratings 
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,043 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
by:
Ian Mortimer
4.01 avg rating — 25,924 ratings 96. 
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman 3.75 avg rating — 10,159 ratings
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Myth of the Welfare Queen: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist's Portrait of Women on the Line
by:
David Zucchino
4.30 avg rating — 273 ratings 
