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Fresh Air 2019 (Jan-June)
Books discussed with authors interviewed on Fresh Air in 2019, or that (re-)aired in 2019. I prefer to exclude the Maureen Corrigan reviews and stick to the interviewees if you don't mind. Please vote for your favorites!
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No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
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Rachel Louise Snyder (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 8,171 ratings
score: 594,
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Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
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4.17 avg rating — 62,961 ratings
score: 369,
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Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
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4.45 avg rating — 7,104 ratings
score: 344,
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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4.34 avg rating — 159,554 ratings
score: 299,
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Educated
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Tara Westover (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 1,792,370 ratings
score: 294,
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3 people voted
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
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4.16 avg rating — 4,133 ratings
score: 284,
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Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
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Stephanie Land (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 110,305 ratings
score: 281,
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3 people voted
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The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
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Bridgett M. Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 2,240 ratings
score: 280,
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An American Summer
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4.32 avg rating — 4,913 ratings
score: 272,
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
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4.17 avg rating — 12,430 ratings
score: 237,
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Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet
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Will Hunt (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 2,636 ratings
score: 190,
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2 people voted
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Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
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4.34 avg rating — 9,281 ratings
score: 187,
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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
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4.17 avg rating — 7,367 ratings
score: 180,
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Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
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3.68 avg rating — 6,941 ratings
score: 175,
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Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
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4.39 avg rating — 5,330 ratings
score: 168,
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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Lori Gottlieb (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 390,491 ratings
score: 167,
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Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts
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4.14 avg rating — 602 ratings
score: 166,
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Losing Earth: A Recent History
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Nathaniel Rich (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 3,184 ratings
score: 163,
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Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
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4.21 avg rating — 5,524 ratings
score: 161,
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The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin
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4.70 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 158,
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Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
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Emily Bazelon (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,826 ratings
score: 149,
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Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,096 ratings
score: 145,
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All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir
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3.76 avg rating — 4,404 ratings
score: 137,
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Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
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4.16 avg rating — 430 ratings
score: 100,
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
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4.23 avg rating — 12,624 ratings
score: 99,
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Dementia Reimagined: Building a Life of Joy and Dignity from Beginning to End
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3.90 avg rating — 427 ratings
score: 99,
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Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and Other Hacks from the Parenting Trenches
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3.58 avg rating — 927 ratings
score: 98,
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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
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Louise Aronson (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,972 ratings
score: 98,
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When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon
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4.23 avg rating — 4,040 ratings
score: 97,
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Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper
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3.99 avg rating — 330 ratings
score: 97,
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A Nation of Nations: A Great American Immigration Story
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3.97 avg rating — 238 ratings
score: 96,
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Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party
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4.02 avg rating — 844 ratings
score: 95,
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Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison―Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out
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3.90 avg rating — 1,660 ratings
score: 92,
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The Friend
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3.73 avg rating — 56,565 ratings
score: 91,
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Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery
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3.99 avg rating — 2,898 ratings
score: 86,
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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction
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4.14 avg rating — 5,212 ratings
score: 85,
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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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4.46 avg rating — 19,623 ratings
score: 84,
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The Orchid and the Dandelion
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3.77 avg rating — 1,322 ratings
score: 81,
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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4.31 avg rating — 26,846 ratings
score: 79,
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 455,558 ratings
score: 78,
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My American Dream
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4.12 avg rating — 815 ratings
score: 74,
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Life and Death in Rikers Island
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Homer Venters (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 115 ratings
score: 73,
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1 person voted
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What the Constitution Means to Me
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4.32 avg rating — 481 ratings
score: 71,
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Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam
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3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings
score: 69,
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Extremism
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3.83 avg rating — 418 ratings
score: 68,
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The House of Broken Angels
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Luis Alberto Urrea (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 18,897 ratings
score: 66,
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The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts
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3.86 avg rating — 737 ratings
score: 65,
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The Hill to Die On: The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America
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3.95 avg rating — 987 ratings
score: 63,
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Tiger Woods
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4.36 avg rating — 10,181 ratings
score: 59,
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K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
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4.11 avg rating — 2,563 ratings
score: 58,
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Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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4.15 avg rating — 1,007 ratings
score: 56,
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The Mueller Report
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4.04 avg rating — 3,098 ratings
score: 55,
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Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
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4.19 avg rating — 6,831 ratings
score: 53,
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