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Coasting: A Private Voyage by Jonathan Raban

Coasting: A Private Voyage

Jonathan Raban

304 pages • paperback • 1987

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction memoir nature travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World by Robert Kagan

The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World

Robert Kagan

192 pages • hardcover • 2018

4.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman

Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

Linda Hirshman

413 pages • hardcover • 2015

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction biography feminism history politics informative slow-paced
The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China by Huan Hsu

The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China

Huan Hsu

400 pages • 2014

nonfiction history memoir adventurous informative slow-paced
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor

My Beloved World

Sonia Sotomayor

315 pages • hardcover • 2013

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction autobiography politics informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief by Lorenzo Garza, Maurice Leblanc

Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

Arsène Lupin #1

Lorenzo Garza, Maurice Leblanc

211 pages • paperback • 1907

3.0wahistorian's review
fiction classics crime mystery short stories adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence by Ronan Farrow

War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence

Ronan Farrow

432 pages • hardcover • 2018

4.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Magpie Murders

Susan Ryeland #1

Anthony Horowitz

496 pages • hardcover • 2016

4.0wahistorian's review
fiction mystery mysterious medium-paced
Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers. The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. by Emlyn Williams

Beyond Belief: The Moors Murderers. The Story of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.

Emlyn Williams

missing page info • paperback • 1967

3.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction crime history true crime dark tense medium-paced
Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson

Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City

Kate Winkler Dawson

352 pages • hardcover • 2017

4.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history true crime dark mysterious slow-paced