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#101
The Lost Painting
The Lost Painting
  • Jonathan Harr
413 reads
#102
How to Read a Novel
How to Read a Novel
  • John Sutherland
21 read
#103
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction
Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction
  • John Sutherland
31 read
#104
Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
  • Melanie Rehak
3.53 reads
#105
Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader
Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader
  • Ron Soodalter
00 reads
#106
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
  • Ross King
4.258 reads
#107
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History
  • David Aaronovitch
43 reads
#108
Frock Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
Frock Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
  • Tristram Hunt
00 reads
#109
Cold Meat and How to Disguise It: A History of Advice on How to Survive Hard Times: A Hundred Years of Belt Tightening
Cold Meat and How to Disguise It: A History of Advice on How to Survive Hard Times: A Hundred Years of Belt Tightening
  • Hunter Davies
00 reads
#110
Go Down Together
Go Down Together
  • Jeff Guinn
45 reads
#111
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The Ascent of George Washington

The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon
  • John Ferling
00 reads
#112
The secret Holocaust diaries
The secret Holocaust diaries
    3.511 reads
    #113
    Before the Dawn
    Before the Dawn
    • Nicholas Wade
    4.137 reads
    #114
    Eiffel's tower and the World's Fair where Buffalo Bill beguiled Paris, the artists quarreled, and Thomas Edison became a count
    Eiffel's tower and the World's Fair where Buffalo Bill beguiled Paris, the artists quarreled, and Thomas Edison became a count
    • Jill Jonnes
    00 reads
    #115
    Savages and Scoundrels
    Savages and Scoundrels
    • Paul VanDevelder
    00 reads
    #116
    Cover 7

    Finding Oz

    Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
    • Evan I. Schwartz
    00 reads
    #117
    Cover 1

    Rag and Bone

    Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead
    • Peter Manseau
    31 read
    #118
    Soul of the Age
    Soul of the Age
    • Jonathan Bate
    4.51 read
    #119
    The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
    The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
    • David Lebovitz
    3.520 reads
    #120
    The Time Book: A Brief History from Lunar Calendars to Atomic Clocks
    The Time Book: A Brief History from Lunar Calendars to Atomic Clocks
    • Martin Jenkins
    00 reads
    #121
    Cover 8

    The Link

    The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
    • Colin Tudge
    • Josh Young
    00 reads
    #122
    Lost on Planet China
    Lost on Planet China
    • J. Maarten Troost
    01 read
    #123
    The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
    The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican
    • Benjamin Blech
    • Roy Doliner
    31 read
    #124
    A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn
    A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn
    • James Donovan
    00 reads
    #125
    Galileo's Daughter
    Galileo's Daughter
    • Dava Sobel
    3.6126 reads
    #126
    Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
    Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
    • Dava Sobel
    4.04126 reads
    #127
    The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President
    The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President
    • Julie M. Fenster
    00 reads
    #128
    Wild Life
    Wild Life
    • John Lewis-Stempel
    00 reads
    #129
    Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
    Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
    • Leah Hager Cohen
    00 reads
    #130
    Soul  survivor
    Soul survivor
    • Bruce Leininger
    00 reads
    #131
    Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism
    Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism
    • Valentin Tomberg
    • Robert Powell (Translator)
    00 reads
    #132
    Time Was Soft There
    Time Was Soft There
    • Jeremy Mercer
    4.53 reads
    #133
    Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
    Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
    • Amy Stewart
    3.5736 reads
    #134
    Farm City
    Farm City
    • Novella Carpenter
    3.5511 reads
    #135
    Provenance
    Provenance
    • Laney Salisbury
    • Aly Sujo
    44 reads
    #136
    The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal
    The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal
    • Mark Kurlansky
    35 reads
    #137
    Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
    Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska
    • Miranda Weiss
    00 reads
    #138
    Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
    Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
    • Tim Jeal
    00 reads
    #139
    Into Africa: The Dramatic Retelling of the Stanley-Livingstone Story
    Into Africa: The Dramatic Retelling of the Stanley-Livingstone Story
    • Martin Dugard
    00 reads
    #140
    Au revoir to all that : the rise and fall of French cuisine
    Au revoir to all that : the rise and fall of French cuisine
    • Michael Steinberger
    00 reads
    #141
    The Rough Guide To Conspiracy Theories
    The Rough Guide To Conspiracy Theories
    • James McConnachie
    • Robin Tudge
    00 reads
    #142
    Edinburgh: A History of the City
    Edinburgh: A History of the City
    • Michael Fry
    00 reads
    #143
    Cover 3

    God's Philosophers

    God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
    • James Hannam
    00 reads
    #144
    The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
    The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
    • Paul Strathern
    00 reads
    #145
    Occult America
    Occult America
    • Mitch Horowitz
    2.673 reads
    #146
    Cover 1

    London in the Nineteenth Century

    London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God
    • Jerry White
    00 reads
    #147
    Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis
    Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis
    • Harvey Rachlin
    00 reads
    #148
    Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones & Einstein's Brain: The Remarkable Stories Behind the Great Objects and Artifacts of History, from Antiquity to the Modern Era
    Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones & Einstein's Brain: The Remarkable Stories Behind the Great Objects and Artifacts of History, from Antiquity to the Modern Era
    • Harvey Rachlin
    00 reads
    #149
    Loot: Inside the World of Stolen Art
    Loot: Inside the World of Stolen Art
    • Thomas McShane
    • Dary Matera
    00 reads
    #150
    Stolen: The Gallery of Missing Masterpieces
    Stolen: The Gallery of Missing Masterpieces
    • Jonathan Webb
    • Julian Radcliffe
    00 reads
    #151
    The Raphael Trail: The Secret History of One of the World’s Most Precious Works of Art
    The Raphael Trail: The Secret History of One of the World’s Most Precious Works of Art
    • Joanna Pitman
    00 reads
    #152
    Stealing the Scream: The Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
    Stealing the Scream: The Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece
    • Edward Dolnick
    00 reads
    #153
    The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
    The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
    • Edward Dolnick
    41 read
    #154
    Résistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France
    Résistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France
    • Agnès Humbert
    • Barbara Mellor
    00 reads
    #155
    Magic Island: The Fictions of L.M. Montgomery
    Magic Island: The Fictions of L.M. Montgomery
    • Elizabeth Hillman Waterston
    00 reads
    #156
    Cover 6

    Becoming Alice

    Becoming Alice: A Memoir
    • Alice Rene
    00 reads
    #157
    Cold
    Cold
    • Bill Streever
    43 reads
    #158
    The past is never dead
    The past is never dead
    • Harry N. MacLean
    00 reads
    #159
    The Haunting of America: From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini
    The Haunting of America: From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini
    • William J. Birnes
    • Joel Martin
    00 reads
    #160
    Half Broke Horses
    Half Broke Horses
    • Jeannette Walls
    3.7453 reads
    #161
    Cover 0

    Wisdom of the Last Farmer

    Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land
    • David Mas Masumoto
    00 reads
    #162
    Cover 2

    Blood, Iron and Gold

    Blood, Iron and Gold
    • Christian Wolmar
    00 reads
    #163
    Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
    Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
    • William Grimes
    00 reads
    #164
    On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
    On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
    • Stephen T. Asma
    2.25 reads
    #165
    Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society
    Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society
      4.335 reads
      #166
      The bread of angels
      The bread of angels
      • Stephanie Saldana
      51 read
      #167
      Cover 1

      The Butcher and the Vegetarian

      The Butcher and the Vegetarian: One Woman's Romp Through a World of Men, Meat, and Moral Crisis
      • Tara Austen Weaver
      00 reads
      #168
      Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
      Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War
      • Michael Kranish
      00 reads
      #169
      The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives
      The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives
      • Brian Dillon
      00 reads
      #170
      Contested Will
      Contested Will
      • James S. Shapiro
      4.333 reads
      #171
      Oprah
      Oprah
      • Kitty Kelley
      2.673 reads
      #172
      Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
      Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
      • John McWhorter
      3.827 reads
      #173
      Creation
      Creation
      • Randal Keynes
      00 reads
      #174
      The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began
      The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began
      • Joan DeJean
      00 reads
      #175
      In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe
      In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe
      • Diane Wolfthal
      00 reads
      #176
      Fannie's Last Supper: Two Years, Twelve Courses, and One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook
      Fannie's Last Supper: Two Years, Twelve Courses, and One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook
      • Christopher Kimball
      00 reads
      #177
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      The Mental Floss History of the United States

      The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America
      • Mangesh Hattikudur, Will Pearson, Erik Sass
      4.53 reads
      #178
      Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War
      Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War
      • Dennis C. Pope
      00 reads
      #179
      Butterfly Woman
      Butterfly Woman
      • Emily Lutze
      00 reads
      #180
      Fame: What the Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity
      Fame: What the Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity
      • Tom Payne
      00 reads
      #181
      George Eliot in Love
      George Eliot in Love
      • Brenda Maddox
      00 reads
      #182
      Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women
      Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women
      • Harriet Reisen
      00 reads
      #183
      A Householder's Guide to the Universe: A Calendar of Basics for the Home and Beyond
      A Householder's Guide to the Universe: A Calendar of Basics for the Home and Beyond
      • Harriet Fasenfest
      00 reads
      #184
      The Heroine's Bookshelf
      The Heroine's Bookshelf
      • Erin Blakemore
      31 read
      #185
      First Family
      First Family
      • Joseph J. Ellis
      42 reads
      #186
      The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
      The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
      • James Gleick
      4.164 reads
      #187
      Founding Gardeners
      Founding Gardeners
      • Andrea Wulf
      01 read
      #188
      High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
      High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
      • Jessica B. Harris
      01 read
      #189
      The Moral Lives of Animals
      The Moral Lives of Animals
      • Dale Peterson
      44 reads
      #190
      Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
      Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa
      • Órla Ryan
      3.52 reads
      #191
      The Secret Museum
      The Secret Museum
      • Molly Oldfield
      31 read
      #192
      One for Sorrow: A Book of Old-Fashioned Lore
      One for Sorrow: A Book of Old-Fashioned Lore
      • Chloe Rhodes
      00 reads
      #193
      Drop Two Sizes: A Proven Plan to Ditch the Scale, Get the Body You Want & Wear the Clothes You Love!
      Drop Two Sizes: A Proven Plan to Ditch the Scale, Get the Body You Want & Wear the Clothes You Love!
      • Rachel Cosgrove
      00 reads
      #194
      Beyond Belief My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
      Beyond Belief My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
      • Jenna Miscavige Hill
      • Lisa Pulitzer
      3.8537 reads
      #195
      The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science
      The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science
      • Steve Jones
      00 reads
      #196
      Cooked
      Cooked
      • Michael Pollan
      4.0339 reads
      #197
      The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
      The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue
      • Piu Marie Eatwell
      3.255 reads
      #198
      Voracious
      Voracious
      • Cara Nicoletti
      43 reads
      #199
      Holy Sh*t
      Holy Sh*t
      • Melissa Mohr
      45 reads
      #200
      I Hate You Don't Leave Me : Understanding the Borderline Personality
      I Hate You Don't Leave Me : Understanding the Borderline Personality
      • Jerold J. Kreisman
      • Hal Straus
      3.2713 reads