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Earthquake Storms: An Unauthorized Biography of the San Andreas Fault by John Dvorak

Earthquake Storms: An Unauthorized Biography of the San Andreas Fault

John Dvorak

352 pages • 2014 • 5 editions

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

Tori Telfer

9h 34m • 2017 • 26 editions

nonfiction crime history true crime dark informative sad fast-paced
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

Rose George

368 pages • 2018 • 12 editions

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

7h 45m • 2014 • 45 editions

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris

304 pages • 2017 • 31 editions

nonfiction biography health history science dark informative reflective medium-paced
The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery by D.T. Max

The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery

D.T. Max

299 pages • 2006 • 14 editions

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
The Library Book by Susan Orlean

The Library Book

Susan Orlean

319 pages • 2018 • 31 editions

nonfiction history true crime informative medium-paced
5.0 ashedryden's review
The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette by Deborah Cadbury

The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Deborah Cadbury

336 pages • 2002 • 12 editions

nonfiction biography history challenging informative fast-paced
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea by Philip Hoare

The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea

Philip Hoare

464 pages • 2008 • 6 editions

nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Justin Akers Chacón
No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Justin Akers Chacón

No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Justin Akers Chacón

240 pages • 2006 • 3 editions

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves

Glory Edim

252 pages • 2018 • 10 editions

nonfiction essays feminism race informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

Francisco Cantú

256 pages • 2018 • 14 editions

nonfiction biography memoir politics reflective slow-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

592 pages • 2016 • 19 editions

nonfiction history race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
5.0 ashedryden's review
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

Edward E. Baptist

498 pages • 2013 • 11 editions

nonfiction economics history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society by Manning Marable

How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society

Manning Marable

372 pages • 1983 • 7 editions

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X by Johnny Smith, Randy W. Roberts

Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

Johnny Smith, Randy W. Roberts

392 pages • 2016 • 8 editions

nonfiction biography history sports challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America by Tanner Colby

Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America

Tanner Colby

316 pages • 2012 • 3 editions

nonfiction history race sociology reflective slow-paced
3.0 ashedryden's review
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan

The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

Denise Kiernan

373 pages • 2013 • 15 editions

nonfiction biography history science informative inspiring slow-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat by Giles Milton

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

Giles Milton

368 pages • 2017 • 9 editions

nonfiction history dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced
4.0 ashedryden's review
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory by Ben Macintyre

Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory

Ben Macintyre

424 pages • 2010 • 33 editions

user-added

nonfiction history informative medium-paced