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The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America

Timothy Egan

324 pages • hardcover • 2009

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey

A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

James Comey

290 pages • hardcover • 2018

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction memoir politics reflective medium-paced
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

237 pages • paperback • 1998

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction biography history reference informative slow-paced
Sayonara, Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Restored And Repackaged by Waldemar Januszczak

Sayonara, Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Restored And Repackaged

Waldemar Januszczak

207 pages • 1990

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction art mysterious tense medium-paced
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Civilizations Rise and Fall #1

Jared Diamond

498 pages • paperback • 1997

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-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
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
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 Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble

The Dark Flood Rises

Margaret Drabble

325 pages • hardcover • 2016

5.0wahistorian's review
fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective slow-paced
22-11-1963 by Stephen King

22-11-1963

Stephen King

864 pages • digital • 2011

5.0wahistorian's review
fiction historical science fiction thriller adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced