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Books like The way we live now

Loved The way we live now by Anthony Trollope? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from politics & society, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    The New Jim Crow

    Michelle Alexander · 2010 · Politics & Society

    How mass incarceration recreates racial caste in America; a powerful, much-cited argument.

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    Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015 · Politics & Society

    A letter to a son about being Black in America; urgent, lyrical and unflinching.

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    The Gilded Age

    Mark Twain · 1873 · Politics & Society

    A biting satire and a revealing portrait of post-Civil War America in which Twain and his neighbor attack the greed, lust, and naivete of their time.

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    A Century Of Dishonor

    Helen Hunt Jackson · 1881 · Politics & Society

    Originally published over 100 years ago, A Century of Dishonor is Helen Jackson’s eye- opening sketch of the U.S. government’s often shameful mishandling of what was called the “Indian problem”. Using

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    Max Havelaar of de koffijveilingen der Nederlansche handelmaatschappij

    Multatuli · 1868 · Politics & Society

    Max Havelaar; or, The Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company (Dutch: Max Havelaar; of, De koffi-veilingen der Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy) is an 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Edu

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    The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft

    Hubert Howe Bancroft · 1882 · Politics & Society

    Hubert Howe Bancroft (May 5, 1832 – March 2, 1918) was an American historian and ethnologist who wrote, published and collected works concerning the western United States, Texas, California, Alaska, M

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    Imaginary portraits

    Walter Pater · 1887 · Politics & Society

    Walter Pater is best known for his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) and for his first novel Marius the Epicurean (1885). His short fiction deserves a much wider audience. This edition

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    Romola

    George Eliot · 1863 · Politics & Society

    Eliot’s only historical novel, set in 15th century Florence under the rule of the Medicis, blends fact with fiction as the reader follows the almost saint-like Romola and the amoral and feckless Tito

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    Bel-Ami

    Guy de Maupassant · 1893 · Politics & Society

    .I Quand la caissiere lui eut rendu la monnaie de sa piece de cent sous, Georges Duroy sortit du restaurant. Comme il portait beau, par nature et par pose d'ancien sous-officier, il cambra sa taille,

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    Memoirs of a Revolutionist

    Peter Kropotkin · 1899 · Politics & Society

    Published in Atlantic monthly Sep. 1898-Sep. 1899 under title The autobiography of a revolutionist. Graphic details of Russian conditions and of an eventful life. — A.L.A. Catalog 1904 “Kropotkin’s st

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