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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird #1

Harper Lee

323 pages • paperback • 1960

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fiction classics historical literary young adult emotional reflective medium-paced
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

215 pages • paperback • 1996

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nonfiction biography travel adventurous reflective sad medium-paced
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

729 pages • paperback • 1980

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nonfiction history politics reference challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

James W. Loewen

383 pages • paperback • 1995

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nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

Deborah Blum

336 pages • hardcover • 2010

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nonfiction health history science true crime dark informative medium-paced
Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historic Identity by Diane Barthel

Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historic Identity

Diane Barthel

198 pages • paperback • 1996

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history informative slow-paced
The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg by Eric Gable, Richard Handler

The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg

Eric Gable, Richard Handler

272 pages • paperback • 1997

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nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory by

Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory

272 pages • paperback

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nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970 by Ian Tyrrell

Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970

Ian Tyrrell

312 pages • paperback

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nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Tony Horwitz

432 pages • paperback • 1999

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nonfiction essays history travel challenging informative reflective medium-paced