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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

460 pages • 2016 • 16 editions

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
3.0 ashedryden's review
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us about Crime by Val McDermid

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us about Crime

Val McDermid

320 pages • 2014 • 26 editions

nonfiction science true crime dark informative slow-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley

If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home

Lucy Worsley

9h 43m • 2011 • 14 editions

user-added

nonfiction history sociology informative medium-paced
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

391 pages • 2010 • 58 editions

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
3.0 ashedryden's review
Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It by Gina Kolata

Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It

Gina Kolata

352 pages • 1999 • 7 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku

The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny Beyond Earth

Michio Kaku

368 pages • 2018 • 22 editions

nonfiction science adventurous informative slow-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

Steven Johnson

232 pages • 2006 • 25 editions

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong by Paul A. Offit

Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

Paul A. Offit

287 pages • 2017 • 9 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America by Jerry Thompson
Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America
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Jerry Thompson

Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America

Jerry Thompson

410 pages • 2011 • 7 editions

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution by Samuel H. Sternberg, Jennifer A. Doudna, Jennifer A. Doudna

A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

Samuel H. Sternberg, Jennifer A. Doudna, Jennifer A. Doudna

304 pages • 2017 • 1 edition

nonfiction science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
3.0 ashedryden's review
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

Peter Brannen

322 pages • 2017 • 15 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum

The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Deborah Blum

352 pages • 2018 • 6 editions

nonfiction biography history politics science informative medium-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
Rats: Observations on the History and Habits of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan, Robert Sullivan
Rats: Observations on the History and Habits of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
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Robert Sullivan, Robert Sullivan

Rats: Observations on the History and Habits of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

Robert Sullivan, Robert Sullivan

256 pages • 2004 • 1 edition

nonfiction history science challenging dark informative slow-paced
2.0 ashedryden's review
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

Annalee Newitz

305 pages • 2013 • 9 editions

nonfiction history science adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwald

Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone

Juli Berwald

336 pages • 2017 • 6 editions

nonfiction nature science adventurous slow-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park by Greg Breining

Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park

Greg Breining

256 pages • 2007 • 3 editions

nonfiction nature science informative slow-paced
3.0 ashedryden's review
What's It Like in Space?: Stories from Astronauts Who've Been There by Ariel Waldman

What's It Like in Space?: Stories from Astronauts Who've Been There

Ariel Waldman

128 pages • 2016 • 2 editions

nonfiction science adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
3.0 ashedryden's review
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

Rebecca Solnit

188 pages • 2018 • 12 editions

nonfiction essays feminism politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Naomi Klein

273 pages • 2017 • 38 editions

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein

Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

Peggy Orenstein

288 pages • 2016 • 18 editions

nonfiction feminism psychology sociology informative reflective medium-paced