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Books Like Zeitoun

by Dave Eggers · about this book

Loved Zeitoun by Dave Eggers? If its nonfiction, natural disaster survival and racism hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster and Poverty, by America. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Zeitoun: Nonfiction · Natural Disaster Survival · Racism · Current Affairs · Emotional

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   Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition

   Silky Shah

   Current Affairs · Prison · Nonfiction · Racism · Investigative Journalism

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   Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

   Adam Higginbotham

   Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Tragic · Intense · Natural Disaster Survival

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   Poverty, by America

   Matthew Desmond

   Current Affairs · Nonfiction · Investigative Journalism · Racism · Intense

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   By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

   Rebecca Nagle

   Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Current Affairs · Racism · Politics

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   Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

   Maureen Ryan

   Current Affairs · Nonfiction · Investigative Journalism · Racism · Intense

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   Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

   Jonathan Blitzer

   Current Affairs · Nonfiction · Investigative Journalism · Racism · Political Corruption

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   The Warmth of Other Suns

   Isabel Wilkerson

   Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Racism · Emotional · Biography

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   The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

   Tim Schwab

   Current Affairs · Nonfiction · Investigative Journalism · Biography · Political Corruption

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   The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

   Tom Reiss

   Nonfiction · Racism · Prison · Investigative Journalism · Biography

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    Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

    Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig

    Current Affairs · Nonfiction · Investigative Journalism · Biography · Politics

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    Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

    Madhumita Murgia

    Current Affairs · Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Racism

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    The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

    Nikole Hannah-Jones

    Nonfiction · Racism · Investigative Journalism · Emotional · Politics

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    The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

    Melinda Gates

    Current Affairs · Nonfiction · Emotional · Politics · Religious Identity

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    Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class

    Noam Scheiber

    Current Affairs · Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Politics

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    The Complete Maus

    Art Spiegelman

    Nonfiction · Racism · Tragic · Emotional · Biography

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    Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

    Peter Strzok

    Current Affairs · Nonfiction · Investigative Journalism · Memoir & Biography · Political Corruption

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17. 

    The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

    Michael Lewis

    Current Affairs · Investigative Journalism · Nonfiction · Political Corruption

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    A Promised Land

    Barack Obama

    Current Affairs · Nonfiction · Racism · Cultural Identity · Politics

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    One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein

    Whitney Alyse Webb

    Nonfiction · Current Affairs · Investigative Journalism · Politics · Political Corruption

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    Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine

    Eugene Finkel

    Current Affairs · Nonfiction · Intense · Politics · Cultural Identity

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