My Black Friday Recommendations

The perfect books for the people you love

Many retailers are having fantastic book sales right now: both Amazon and Target are running buy two, get one free deals (or, as Amazon puts it: get three for the price of two).

Here are some book recommendations that will hopefully help make your shopping quick and easy this year!

For someone who loves history… but not the history of tanks

1. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by by Tiya Miles

   

2. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson

3. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan

4. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, by Ilyon Woo

For the woman who has too much on her plate…

1. The Plan, by Kendra Adachi

Someone who wants to understand how the world works….

1. The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic, by by Jillian Peterson and James Densley

2. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic, by Stephen Vladeck

3. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, by by Colin Woodard

4. Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal, by Bettina L. Love

5. On Freedom, by Timothy Snyder

6. The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America, by Jeffrey Rosen

That person who thrives on a good thriller…

1. 11/22/63: A Novel, by Stephen King

The person who loves a memoir…

1. The Distance Between Us: A Memoir, by Reyna Grande

2. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, by Michelle Zauner

3. Know My Name: A Memoir, by Chanel Miller

4. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson

Your middle schooler who has just gotten into reading…

1. Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann

2. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, by Steve Sheinkin

The nature lover in your life

1. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong

2. Life on Svalbard: Finding Home on a Remote Island Near the North Pole by Cecilia Blomdahl

3. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds, by Jennifer Ackerman

   

For the biography lover…

1. John Lewis: A Life, by David Greenberg

2. King: A Life, by Jonathan Eig

3. Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, by David W. Blight

For the person who loves presidents…

1. Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House, by Jared Cohen

2. Grant, by Ron Chernow

3. Man of Iron, by Troy Senik

4. The Confidante, by Christopher Gorham

5. The Accidental President, by A.J. Baime

6. Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, by Clint Hill

And maybe for all of the people above…

The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History by me, Sharon McMahon. I hope you and your loved ones will enjoy it.

Happy reading!

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