349 books
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.13 — 819,176 ratings — published 2010
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.87 — 60,881 ratings — published 2010
Baltimore Blues (Tess Monaghan, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.55 — 15,892 ratings — published 1997
A Spool of Blue Thread (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.45 — 103,562 ratings — published 2015
Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,110 ratings — published 2010
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.35 — 20,676 ratings — published 1991
Charm City (Tess Monaghan, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.65 — 8,102 ratings — published 1997
Lady in the Lake (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.49 — 35,535 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,828 ratings — published 2015
What the Dead Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.57 — 25,184 ratings — published 2007
The Accidental Tourist (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.89 — 109,702 ratings — published 1985
Mary Jane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.12 — 117,027 ratings — published 2021
I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,659 ratings — published 2020
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,956 ratings — published 1997
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,099 ratings — published 2021
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.80 — 35,350 ratings — published 1982
Butchers Hill (Tess Monaghan, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,379 ratings — published 1998
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,262 ratings — published 2008
French Braid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.63 — 57,040 ratings — published 2022
The Beginner's Goodbye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.63 — 21,072 ratings — published 2012
The Sugar House (Tess Monaghan, #5)
by (shelved 21 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,480 ratings — published 2000
Redhead by the Side of the Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.61 — 51,829 ratings — published 2020
Noah's Compass (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.40 — 14,906 ratings — published 2009
In a Strange City (Tess Monaghan, #6)
by (shelved 20 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.69 — 4,481 ratings — published 2001
Vinegar Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.38 — 41,896 ratings — published 2016
Every Secret Thing (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.47 — 11,734 ratings — published 2003
First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.93 — 286,199 ratings — published 2025
The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.31 — 404 ratings — published 2021
After I'm Gone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.61 — 17,580 ratings — published 2014
Digging to America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.59 — 23,777 ratings — published 2006
Another Thing to Fall (Tess Monaghan, #10)
by (shelved 18 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.50 — 4,536 ratings — published 2008
Three Days in June (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.59 — 120,543 ratings — published 2025
Clock Dance (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.59 — 45,464 ratings — published 2018
The Girl in the Green Raincoat (Tess Monaghan, #11)
by (shelved 17 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.48 — 7,946 ratings — published 2011
In Big Trouble (Tess Monaghan, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.75 — 5,238 ratings — published 1999
Charm City: A Walk Through Baltimore (Crown Journeys)
by (shelved 17 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.22 — 211 ratings — published 2007
To the Power of Three (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.57 — 5,035 ratings — published 2005
The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.97 — 994 ratings — published 2016
Saint Maybe (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.89 — 19,101 ratings — published 1991
No Good Deeds (Tess Monaghan, #9)
by (shelved 15 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.72 — 4,163 ratings — published 2006
The Last Place (Tess Monaghan, #7)
by (shelved 15 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,259 ratings — published 2002
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
by (shelved 14 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,446 ratings — published 2015
Role Models (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.07 — 8,532 ratings — published 2010
Life Sentences (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.14 — 5,141 ratings — published 2009
By a Spider's Thread (Tess Monaghan, #8)
by (shelved 14 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,429 ratings — published 2004
Behind You Is the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,052 ratings — published 2024
Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as baltimore)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,846 ratings — published 2020
The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.70 — 206 ratings — published
The Amateur Marriage (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.69 — 20,086 ratings — published 2004
Baltimore: A Political History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as baltimore)
avg rating 3.82 — 51 ratings — published
“Throw the bums out" and "Drain the swamp" are popular political slogans. But it's not enough to move people around in a bureaucracy if you don't change the underlying values and let those values reshape tactics and procedures.”
― Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
― Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
“I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.”
― Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste
― Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste












