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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew Desmond201654 pts7 wins9 listsCrownSociety & CultureClass, Poverty & Inequality+2
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityKatherine Boo201244 pts4 wins9 listsRandom HouseSociety & CultureClass, Poverty & Inequality+2
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its LegacyHeather Ann Thompson201732 pts3 wins6 listsPantheonHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+2
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in AmericaBrian Goldstone202626 pts2 wins4 listsCrownSociety & CultureLabor, Work & Organizing+2
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American CityAndrea Elliott202226 pts3 wins6 listsRandom HouseMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great WestWilliam Cronon199222 pts3 wins4 listsW. W. NortonHistoryBlack History & Culture+2
A Civil ActionJonathan Harr199522 pts2 wins4 listsRandom HouseTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Non-FictionMelissa Fay Greene199120 pts3 wins5 listsSecker & WarburgRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American CityBench Ansfield202518 pts3 wins5 listsW. W. NortonHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary AmericaJohn Wood Sweet202314 pts2 wins2 listsHenry Holt and CompanyHistoryCourts & Trials+3
City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century LondonVic Gatrell200614 pts2 wins2 listsAtlantic BooksHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
A Great Wall: Six Presidents and China: An Investigative HistoryPatrick Tyler199914 pts2 wins2 listsPublicAffairsPolitics & GovernmentDemocracy & Elections+3
The Great Arizona Orphan AbductionLinda Gordon199914 pts2 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCourts & Trials+3
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the TsarsDaniel Beer201714 pts1 wins2 listsBasic BooksHistoryEurope & Russia+2
The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880–1970Stephan Thernstrom197314 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+2
The Yellow HouseSarah M. Broom202114 pts1 wins3 listsGrove PressMemoir & AutobiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America and the Making of a CrisisJonathan Blitzer202514 pts2 wins4 listsPenguin PressPolitics & GovernmentScience & Discovery+3
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New YorkRoss Perlin202412 pts1 wins2 listsGrove AtlanticRace & EthnicityHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino.”Héctor Tobar202312 pts1 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxRace & EthnicitySettler Colonialism+3
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban TragedyAnna Clark201812 pts2 wins4 listsMetropolitan BooksHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New YorkRobert A. Caro197412 pts1 wins3 listsRandom House CanadaMemoir & AutobiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Fordlândia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle CityGreg Grandin200912 pts0 wins3 listsMetropolitan BooksHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms RaceNicole Perlroth202210 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyTechnologyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Katrina: A History, 1915-2015Andy Horowitz202110 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
A Place Within: Rediscovering IndiaM. G. Vassanji200810 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600Evelyn Welch200510 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Bad Land: An American RomanceJonathan Raban199610 pts1 wins1 listsPantheonHistoryImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+2
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar DetroitThomas J. Sugrue199610 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressRace & EthnicityDemocracy & Elections+3
Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim CrowNeil R. McMillen199010 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Illinois PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900Roger Lane198610 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Cities and the Wealth of NationsJane Jacobs198410 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseBusiness & EconomicsClass, Poverty & Inequality+2
A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790Edward Countryman198110 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressHistoryRegional & Local History+1
Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865Mary P. Ryan198110 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860Thomas Dublin197910 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressHistoryGender & Feminism+3
The United States and the Origins of the Cold WarJohn Lewis Gaddis196810 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Death at an Early AgeJonathan Kozol196710 pts1 wins1 listsPlumeRace & EthnicityFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its ProspectsLewis Mumford196110 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality, 1914-1915Arthur S. Link196010 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Wilson: the New FreedomArthur S. Link195610 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyPresidency & Executive Power+2
CoronadoHerbert E. Bolton194910 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of New Mexico PressHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Halifax, Warden of the NorthThomas H. Raddall194810 pts1 wins1 listsMcClelland & StewartHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+1
Bee Time: Lessons from the HiveMark L. Winston201510 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine HansberryImani Perry201810 pts2 wins3 listsBeacon PressBiographyBlack History & Culture+3
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants And the Making of an American LifeLauren Markham201810 pts1 wins3 listsCrownRace & EthnicityMigration & Diaspora+2
The Undocumented AmericansKarla Cornejo Villavicencio202010 pts0 wins3 listsOne WorldMemoir & AutobiographyLabor, Work & Organizing+2
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at WarDeborah Cohen20238 pts2 wins2 listsRandom HouseJournalism & ReportageClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear WarSusan Southard20158 pts2 wins2 listsVikingHistoryGrief, Trauma & Recovery+3
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium DisastersKate Brown20138 pts2 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Keeping MumBrian Thompson20068 pts2 wins2 listsAtlantic BooksMemoir & AutobiographyWar & Military Strategy+3
Alexander The GreatRobin Lane Fox19738 pts2 wins2 listsPenguin BooksBiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Bad Blood–A MemoirLorna Sage20008 pts2 wins2 listsHarperCollinsMemoir & AutobiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell YouDina Nayeri20198 pts0 wins2 listsCatapultMemoir & AutobiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and FoundSuketu Mehta20048 pts0 wins2 listsKnopfSociety & CultureMigration & Diaspora+2
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of IndependenceJohn Hockenberry19968 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee CampBen Rawlence20168 pts0 wins3 listsPicadorRace & EthnicityMigration & Diaspora+2
The Cigarette: A Political HistorySarah Milov20196 pts1 wins2 listsHarvard University PressHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in AmericaKathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer20156 pts1 wins2 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtSociety & CultureHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
Once in a Great City: A Detroit StoryDavid Maraniss20156 pts1 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950Mark Mazower20046 pts1 wins2 listsVintage BooksHistoryReligion & Religious Movements+2
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern DetectiveSteven Johnson20256 pts1 wins2 listsRandom HouseTrue Crime & JusticeScience & Discovery+3
An American Summer: Love and Death in ChicagoAlex Kotlowitz20196 pts1 wins2 listsNan A. TaleseSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under SiegeSimon Parkin20256 pts0 wins2 listsHodder & StoughtonScienceEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee CrisisJeanne Carstensen20246 pts0 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterJournalism & ReportageHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
The Baton and The Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to PutinLucy Ash20246 pts0 wins2 listsIcon BooksReligionHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human EvolutionCat Bohannon20236 pts0 wins2 listsKnopfScienceScience & Discovery+3
These Precious Days: EssaysAnn Patchett20226 pts0 wins2 listsHarperMemoir & AutobiographyGender & Feminism+3
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American RightArlie Russell Hochschild20166 pts0 wins2 listsThe New PressPolitics & GovernmentHousing, Cities & Urban Life+2
Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet through the People of One TownBarbara Demick20206 pts0 wins3 listsGranta BooksPolitics & GovernmentLiterature & Writers+3
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie ColvinLindsey Hilsum20186 pts0 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in AmericaNancy Isenberg20166 pts0 wins3 listsVikingHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+1
Raising HareChloe Dalton20254 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseMemoir & AutobiographyHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of BaseballKeith O'Brien20244 pts1 wins1 listsPantheonBiographyClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's MessiahCharles King20244 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayHistoryArt, Music & Performance+3
Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the CityKatie J. Wells, Kafui Attoh,, Declan Cullen20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBusiness & EconomicsClass, Poverty & Inequality+1
On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-AndalusEric Calderwood20234 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
A Left-Handed WomanJudith Thurman20224 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxArts & CriticismGender & Feminism+3
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save ThemDan Saladino20224 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxSociety & CultureFood, Agriculture & Land+3
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American SouthMargaret Renkl20214 pts1 wins1 listsMilkweed EditionsMemoir & AutobiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell HappenPeter Apps20214 pts1 wins1 listsOneworldPolitics & GovernmentEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in AmericaJessica Goudeau20204 pts1 wins1 listsVikingRace & EthnicityGender & Feminism+3
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin's RussiaJoshua Yaffa20204 pts1 wins1 listsCrownPolitics & GovernmentEmpire & Colonialism+3
Had I Known: Collected EssaysBarbara Ehrenreich20204 pts1 wins1 listsTwelveSociety & CultureDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Mesopotamia: Civilization BeginsAriane Thomas, Timothy Potts20204 pts1 wins1 listsGetty PublicationsHistoryArt, Music & Performance+3
The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern AmericaSarah E. Igo20204 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Whitelash: Unmasking White Grievance at the Ballot BoxTerry Smith20204 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressPolitics & GovernmentHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Archaeology From Space: How the Future Shapes Our PastSarah Parcak20194 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanScienceHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
Pindar, Song and Space: Towards a Lyric ArchaeologyRichard Neer, Leslie Kurke20194 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressArts & CriticismEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Londinium: A Biography: Roman London from Its Origins to the Fifth CenturyRichard Hingley20184 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300Suzanne Preston Blier20174 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New YorkTyler Anbinder20174 pts1 wins1 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtHistoryConstitutional History+3
Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in ChicagoBrian McCammack20174 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton CopleyJane Kamensky20164 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonBiographyConstitutional History+3
Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern SouthwestAndrew Needham20164 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryEnergy, Extraction & Resources+3
The Curse of CashKenneth S. Rogoff20164 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBusiness & EconomicsBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
The Rise of a Prairie Statesman: The Life and Times of George McGovernThomas J. Knock20164 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a ControversyJennifer Grayson20164 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsSociety & CultureEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
European Products: Making and Unmaking Heritage in CyprusGisela Welz20154 pts1 wins1 listsBerghahn BooksSociety & CultureGender & Feminism+3
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All awards · Topic: Housing, Cities & Urban Life · Sorted by score · 343 books · filtered