niche nonfiction deep dives
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last updated April, 2026
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
What Happened To You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Bruce D. Perry
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
Elizabeth Catte
The Nineties
Chuck Klosterman
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
Marc Lamont Hill
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Steven W. Thrasher
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Tim Alberta
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom
Derecka Purnell
To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice (Working Class in American History)
Jessica Wilkerson
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker
The Secret History of Wonder Woman
Jill Lepore
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Ruby Hamad
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Kristin Kobes Du Mez
It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)
Karen Tang
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
Randy Shilts
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
Svetlana Alexievich
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
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