Books like A Promised Land
If you liked A Promised Land by Barack Obama, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Between the World and Me
Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir, history.
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
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A People's History of the United States
Because shares tags: history, politics, nonfiction.
A bottom-up history of the United States from Columbus to Clinton, told through workers, women, Native nations and Black voices against…
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The Prince
Because shares tags: politics, history, nonfiction.
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
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Night
Because shares tags: memoir, history, nonfiction.
Elie Wiesel's account of Sighet, the cattle cars, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, told in short flat sections by a boy about fifteen. Why the…
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Because shares tags: memoir, history, nonfiction.
Anne Frank's diary explained: two years in the Secret Annex, the entries on fear and boredom, what Otto Frank cut, and why the book still…
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.
Father and son ride west while lectures on Quality and past madness intrude.
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Just Mercy
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.
A young lawyer defends Walter McMillian on Alabama death row and children in adult prisons.
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1776
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
Washington's amateur army from Boston siege to Trenton through mud and doubt.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.
After sudden loss at dinner, Didion records the year mind keeps expecting return.
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Naked
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.
Growing up odd in Carolina, working bad jobs, and learning to watch people closely and kindly.
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Homo Deus
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
After ruling the world, humans chase upgrades and delegate feeling to systems that know patterns.
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We Should All Be Feminists
Because shares tags: politics, nonfiction.
Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.
