Brown School
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High Rise Stories: Voices from Chicago Public Housing
by:
Audrey Petty
4.20 avg rating — 668 ratings 3. 
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
by:
Matt Taibbi
4.21 avg rating — 7,582 ratings 4. 
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America
by:
Jonathan Kozol
4.10 avg rating — 1,846 ratings 
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by:
Anne Fadiman
4.20 avg rating — 87,607 ratings 9. 
Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes
by:
Mark Robert Rank
3.68 avg rating — 57 ratings 10. 
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
by:
Ethan Watters
4.09 avg rating — 4,189 ratings 
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma 4.36 avg rating — 255,273 ratings
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx 4.26 avg rating — 13,317 ratings
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American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System
by:
E. Fuller Torrey
3.81 avg rating — 465 ratings 18. 
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
by:
Sudhir Venkatesh
4.07 avg rating — 25,134 ratings 
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Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
by:
Warren St. John
3.84 avg rating — 8,340 ratings 
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For the Next Generation: A Wake-Up Call to Solving Our Nation's Problems 3.07 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
by:
Helen Thorpe
3.86 avg rating — 2,257 ratings 
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Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence
by:
Rick Hanson
3.65 avg rating — 5,288 ratings 32. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,863 ratings 33. 
Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History
by:
Alice O'Connor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 72 ratings 33. 
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence
by:
Geoffrey Canada
4.03 avg rating — 3,007 ratings 
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
by:
Paul Tough
3.89 avg rating — 24,501 ratings 37. 
A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled (Haymarket Series)
by:
Deborah Wallace
4.32 avg rating — 40 ratings 37. 
Don't Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, And The End of Violence in Inner-City America
by:
David M. Kennedy
4.13 avg rating — 636 ratings 39. 
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Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood
by:
Christian Smith
3.70 avg rating — 210 ratings 41. 
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by:
Steven Johnson
3.89 avg rating — 55,259 ratings 
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The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
by:
Allan M. Brandt
4.08 avg rating — 489 ratings 43. 
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder 3.69 avg rating — 18,356 ratings
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
by:
Richard Preston
4.16 avg rating — 119,596 ratings 45. 
Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
by:
Liz Murray
4.22 avg rating — 21,745 ratings 47. 
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
by:
John M. Barry
3.98 avg rating — 42,022 ratings 
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Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.20 avg rating — 87,500 ratings 
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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 52. 
Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era
by:
Tony Wagner
4.17 avg rating — 1,346 ratings 54. 
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price
by:
Jonathan Cohn
3.79 avg rating — 610 ratings 54. 
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Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America--And What We Must Do to Stop It 3.92 avg rating — 92 ratings
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America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
by:
Steven Brill
3.98 avg rating — 3,056 ratings 58. 
Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality
by:
Sara Wakefield
3.81 avg rating — 26 ratings 59. 
Shots on the Bridge: Police Violence and Cover-Up in the Wake of Katrina
by:
Ronnie Greene
3.95 avg rating — 286 ratings 60. 
Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island 4.31 avg rating — 24,358 ratings
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
by:
Jon Krakauer
4.12 avg rating — 57,735 ratings 63. 
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions 4.04 avg rating — 5,137 ratings
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For Goodness Sex: Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Sexuality, Values, and Health 4.44 avg rating — 419 ratings