Phyllis
Phyllis

Non Fiction

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Readers Count
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#1
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
  • Drew Gilpin Faust
3.818 reads
#1
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
  • Oliver Sacks
3.7265 reads
#1
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
  • Kate Summerscale
37 reads
#1
Yes, Chef
Yes, Chef
  • Marcus Samuelsson
3.6715 reads
#1
Tales of the South Pacific
Tales of the South Pacific
  • James A. Michener
3.758 reads
#1
The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin
The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin
  • Bob Harper
  • Greg Critser
51 read
#1
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DNA USA

DNA USA: A Genetic Biography of America
  • Bryan Sykes
00 reads
#1
What a Plant Knows : A Field Guide to the Sense
What a Plant Knows : A Field Guide to the Sense
  • Daniel Chamovitz
4.52 reads
#1
Twenty years at Hull-House
Twenty years at Hull-House
  • Jane Addams
01 read
#1
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried
  • Tim O'Brien
4.09307 reads
#1
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
  • Chester Nez
  • Judith Schiess Avila
4.2510 reads
#1
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
  • Gilbert King
4.712 reads
#1
The Art of Silliness: A Creativity Book for Everyone
The Art of Silliness: A Creativity Book for Everyone
  • Carla Sonheim
00 reads
#1
The first 20 minutes
The first 20 minutes
  • Gretchen Reynolds
3.839 reads
#1
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
  • Paul Tough
3.9947 reads
#1
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
  • Sam Kean
3.9421 reads
#1
Too High to Fail
Too High to Fail
  • Doug Fine
31 read
#1
Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga
  • Benjamin Lorr
48 reads
#1
Consider the fork
Consider the fork
  • Bee Wilson
3.8525 reads
#1
Jerusalem A Cookbook
Jerusalem A Cookbook
  • Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sami Tamimi
4.411 reads
#1
The American Way of Eating
The American Way of Eating
  • Tracie McMillan
3.758 reads
#1
My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story
My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story
  • Luisa Weiss
2.56 reads
#1
Stories from Jonestown
Stories from Jonestown
  • Leigh Fondakowski
52 reads
#1
The Histories
The Histories
  • Herodotus
  • Aubrey de Sélincourt (Translator)
4.0240 reads
#1
Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H. M.
Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H. M.
  • Suzanne Corkin
01 read
#1
Kon-Tiki
Kon-Tiki
  • Thor Heyerdahl
4.0433 reads
#1
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The Cancer Factory

The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
  • Jim Morris
00 reads
#1
The Botany of Desire
The Botany of Desire
  • Michael Pollan
4.0364 reads
#1
Yoga from the Inside Out: Making Peace With Your Body Through Yoga
Yoga from the Inside Out: Making Peace With Your Body Through Yoga
  • Christina Sell
  • John Friend
00 reads
#1
Heat
Heat
  • Bill Buford
3.7726 reads
#1
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
  • Daniel J. Levitin
3.542 reads
#1
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
  • Audrey Niffenegger
3.95782 reads
#1
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
  • Lawrence Weschler
3.755 reads
#1
Awakenings
Awakenings
  • Oliver Sacks
4.2423 reads
#1
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
  • James L. Swanson
4.131 reads
#1
The first American: the life and time of Benjamin Franklin
The first American: the life and time of Benjamin Franklin
  • H.W. Brands
41 read
#1
The blood sugar solution
The blood sugar solution
  • Mark Hyman
41 read
#1
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
  • Michael J. Sandel
4.3841 reads
#1
The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster
  • John O’Connor
32 reads
#1
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Great War and Modern Memory
  • Paul Fussell
3.65 reads
#1
A Storm of Witchcraft
A Storm of Witchcraft
  • Emerson W. Baker
4.252 reads
#1
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
  • Sudhir Venkatesh
3.9136 reads
#1
Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
  • Louis Armstrong
00 reads
#1
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow
  • James Mauro
00 reads
#1
Cover 2

Ghost Dogs

Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin
  • Andre Dubus III
00 reads
#1
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes
  • Anthony Bale
3.333 reads
#1
Hot stuff
Hot stuff
  • Alice Echols
01 read
#1
The Wide Wide Sea
The Wide Wide Sea
  • Hampton Sides
4.59 reads
#1
Common Sense
Common Sense
  • Thomas Paine
3.954 reads
#1
Prairyerth: A Deep Map
Prairyerth: A Deep Map
  • William Least Heat-Moon
00 reads
#1
Cat Sense
Cat Sense
  • John Bradshaw
3.5610 reads
#1
Just Babies
Just Babies
  • Paul Bloom
34 reads
#1
Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries For Today's Complex World
Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries For Today's Complex World
  • R. David Lankes
3.52 reads
#1
Home cooking
Home cooking
  • Laurie Colwin
46 reads
#1
The Republic
The Republic
  • Plato
3.83256 reads
#1
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood
  • Truman Capote
4.11510 reads
#1
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
  • Wendy McClure
3.5716 reads
#1
Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom
Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom
  • Deborah Yaffe
42 reads
#1
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.410 reads
#1
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
  • Diane Ravitch
3.55 reads
#1
The Dead Beat
The Dead Beat
  • Marilyn Johnson
3.45 reads
#1
Banvard's Folly : Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
Banvard's Folly : Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
  • Paul Collins
4.25 reads
#1
Falling Upwards
Falling Upwards
  • Richard Holmes
42 reads
#1
In the Wake of the Plague
In the Wake of the Plague
  • Norman F. Cantor
3.367 reads
#1
Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918
Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918
  • Emily R. Mayhew
00 reads
#1
All About Love
All About Love
  • bell hooks
3.76147 reads
#1
You Can't Win
You Can't Win
  • Jack Black
  • Jeanne Toulouse (Translator)
3.53 reads
#1
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
  • Kate Summerscale
3.3239 reads
#1
Dust of the Earth
Dust of the Earth
  • Vera Cleaver
  • Bill Cleaver
31 read
#1
Cover 8

Traveling

Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
  • Ann Powers
00 reads
#1
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
  • Alex Kotlowitz
41 read
#1
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
  • Ariel Levy
3.2516 reads
#1
Just Mercy
Just Mercy
  • Bryan Stevenson
4.75188 reads
#1
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
  • Dan Jurafsky
3.1812 reads
#1
Team of Rivals
Team of Rivals
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.686 reads
#1
The Children's Blizzard
The Children's Blizzard
  • David Laskin
3.510 reads
#1
Five Days at Memorial
Five Days at Memorial
  • Sheri Fink
4.1734 reads
#1
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
  • Daniel E. Lieberman
4.2212 reads
#1
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  • Elizabeth Kolbert
4.03134 reads
#1
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric
  • Claudia Rankine
4.0973 reads
#1
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
  • Sy Montgomery
3.781 reads
#1
Running With Scissors
Running With Scissors
  • Augusten Burroughs
3.54179 reads
#1
The Princess Bride and Philosophy: Inconceivable!
The Princess Bride and Philosophy: Inconceivable!
    00 reads
    #1
    The Birth of the Pill
    The Birth of the Pill
    • Jonathan Eig
    48 reads
    #1
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
    • Bill Bryson
    3.5496 reads
    #1
    The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison
    The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison
    • Mikita Brottman
    31 read
    #1
    Double Fold
    Double Fold
    • Nicholson Baker
    41 read
    #1
    The Fishermen and the Dragon
    The Fishermen and the Dragon
    • Kirk Wallace Johnson
    3.673 reads
    #1
    Empire of Cotton: A Global History
    Empire of Cotton: A Global History
    • Sven Beckert
    3.58 reads
    #1
    Give Us the Ballot
    Give Us the Ballot
    • Ari Berman
    4.52 reads
    #1
    In A Sunburned Country
    In A Sunburned Country
    • Bill Bryson
    4147 reads
    #1
    American Sphinx
    American Sphinx
    • Joseph J. Ellis
    413 reads
    #1
    The Johnstown Flood
    The Johnstown Flood
    • David McCullough
    420 reads
    #1
    The 5 Love Languages
    The 5 Love Languages
    • Gary D. Chapman
    4.05108 reads
    #1
    The South Side
    The South Side
    • Natalie Y. Moore
    01 read
    #1
    Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
    Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • Matthew Desmond
    4.59181 reads
    #1
    Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
    • J.D. Vance
    3.45343 reads
    #1
    A People's History of the United States
    A People's History of the United States
    • Howard Zinn
    • Kathy Emery
    • Ellen Gordon Reeves
    4.23223 reads
    #1
    The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe
    The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe
    • Anuschka Rees
    3.7517 reads
    #1
    Influence
    Influence
    • Robert B. Cialdini
    4.13163 reads