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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

323 pages • 1960 • 426 editions

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

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

215 pages • 1996 • 71 editions

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

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

729 pages • 1980 • 44 editions

nonfiction history politics reference challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 • 1995 • 36 editions

nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 • 2010 • 14 editions

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

Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historic Identity

Diane Barthel

198 pages • 1996 • 2 editions

history informative slow-paced
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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 • 1997 • 2 editions

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

Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory

272 pages • 3 editions

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 • 2 editions

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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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 • 1999 • 7 editions

nonfiction essays history travel challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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