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Updated about 1 year ago
46 Books

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#2	On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks Simon Garfield	3.25	15 reads
#3	The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Steven Pinker	3.91	55 reads
#4	The Mating Mind The Mating Mind Geoffrey Miller	4.2	7 reads
#5	Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman	4.08	114 reads
#6	Free culture Lawrence Lessig	4.2	9 reads
#7	Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age Steven Johnson	3.83	6 reads
#8	Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces Radley Balko	4.67	16 reads
#9	No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan Ben Anderson	0	0 reads
#10	The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America James Bamford	3.2	5 reads
#11	The Great Escape Paul Brickhill	3.8	15 reads
#12	What It Is Like to Go to War Karl Marlantes	3.86	7 reads
#13	The Tailor-King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Muenster Anthony Arthur	0	0 reads
#14	Generations William Strauss Neil Howe	3	3 reads
#15	Propaganda The Art of Persuasion Propaganda The Art of Persuasion: World War II Anthony Rhodes	0	0 reads
#16	Octopus Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street's Wildest Con Guy Lawson	0	0 reads
#17	Smoke and Mirrors Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure Dan Baum	0	0 reads
#18	Stealing Lincoln's Body Thomas J. Craughwell	0	0 reads
#19	Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Jon Krakauer	4.27	406 reads
#20	On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Dave Grossman	3.36	16 reads
#21	To Destroy A City To Destroy A City: Strategic Bombing And Its Human Consequences In World War 2 Herman Knell	0	0 reads
#22	A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson	4.22	535 reads
#23	The Civil War: A Narrative Shelby Foote	3	4 reads
#24	The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else Hernando de Soto	3.5	8 reads
#25	Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships Christopher Ryan Cacilda Jethá	3.81	64 reads
#26	Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth Reza Aslan	3.91	91 reads
#27	Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture Mark Feldstein	0	0 reads
#28	Under the Banner of Heaven Jon Krakauer	3.94	235 reads
#29	The Long War The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy Since World War II	0	0 reads
#30	A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918 G.J. Meyer	4.43	11 reads
#31	Six Seconds in Dallas Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assassination Josiah Thompson	0	0 reads
#32	With the Old Breed With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa Eugene B. Sledge	4.5	2 reads
#33	All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)	4.11	554 reads
#34	1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Charles C. Mann	4.19	119 reads
#35	1493 Charles C. Mann	4.21	40 reads
#36	Paris, 1919 Margaret MacMillan	4.11	11 reads
#37	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer	4.28	110 reads
#38	Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand	4.38	270 reads
#39	The Operators Michael Hastings	3.75	4 reads
#40	Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years Jared Diamond	3.88	401 reads
#41	Detroit Charlie LeDuff	3.63	9 reads
#42	The Somme Peter Hart	0	2 reads
#43	Rubble Jeff Byles	0	0 reads
#44	The Nuns of Sant'ambrogio Hubert Wolf Ruth Martin (Translator)	5	1 read
#45	Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War Tony Horwitz	4.17	25 reads
#46	The wages of destruction Adam Tooze	4.33	3 reads
#47	Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany Norman Ohler Shaun Whiteside (Translator)	3.86	67 reads