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#2
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
  • Reza Aslan
3.994 reads
#3
Columbine
Columbine
  • Dave Cullen
4.35127 reads
#4
Che
Che
  • Spain Rodriguez
31 read
#5
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood
  • Truman Capote
4.11510 reads
#6
Saladin: Life, Legend, Legacy
Saladin: Life, Legend, Legacy
  • John Man
3.54 reads
#7
Rasputin
Rasputin
  • Douglas Smith
41 read
#8
Cannibal Killers: Monsters with an Appetite for Murder and a Taste for Human Flesh
Cannibal Killers: Monsters with an Appetite for Murder and a Taste for Human Flesh
  • Chloe Castleden
31 read
#9
Culture and Imperialism
Culture and Imperialism
  • Edward W. Said
410 reads
#10
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
  • Kate Moore
4.18182 reads
#11
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics
  • Jason Porath
3.8314 reads
#12
Parkland
Parkland
  • Dave Cullen
3.8314 reads
#13
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
  • Cara Robertson
3.4514 reads
#14
Cover 8

Gentleman Jack

Gentleman Jack
  • Angela Steidele
  • Katy Derbyshire (Translator)
3.52 reads
#15
Mortal Remains: Death in Early America
Mortal Remains: Death in Early America
    00 reads
    #16
    Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
    Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry
    • Jeffrey A. Lieberman
    • Ogi Ogas
    4.334 reads
    #17
    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
    • Sam Kean
    4.0527 reads
    #18
    Gracefully Insane : The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
    Gracefully Insane : The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental Hospital
    • Alex Beam
    4.25 reads
    #19
    Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
    Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital
    • David M. Oshinsky
    4.1712 reads
    #20
    Voices from Chernobyl
    Voices from Chernobyl
    • Svetlana Alexievich
    • Keith Gessen (translator)
    4.3749 reads
    #21
    The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
    The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic
    • Darby Penney
    • Peter Stastny
    3.53 reads
    #22
    Five Days at Memorial
    Five Days at Memorial
    • Sheri Fink
    4.1734 reads
    #23
    Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
    Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity
    • Sarah B. Pomeroy
    52 reads
    #24
    Sybil
    Sybil
    • Flora Rheta Schreiber
    3.4741 reads
    #25
    The Great Pretender
    The Great Pretender
    • Susannah Cahalan
    3.7222 reads
    #26
    The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women
    The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Dangerous Women
    • Lisa Perrin
    3.754 reads
    #27
    Merchants of Doubt
    Merchants of Doubt
    • Naomi Oreskes
    • Erik M. Conway
    4.0626 reads
    #28
    Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
    Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
    • Tamim Ansary
    4.3326 reads
    #29
    Spare Parts
    Spare Parts
    • Paul Craddock
    00 reads
    #30
    Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases
    Plague-Busters!: Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases
    • Lindsey Fitzharris
    41 read
    #31
    The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
    • Lindsey Fitzharris
    4.2144 reads
    #32
    The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
    The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
    • Lindsey Fitzharris
    4.1910 reads
    #33
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
    • David Grann
    4.11336 reads
    #34
    The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements
    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
    3.9683 reads
    #35
    Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
    Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
    • Jasmine Brown
    41 read
    #36
    River of the Gods
    River of the Gods
    • Candice Millard
    3.5525 reads
    #37
    Soldiers First
    Soldiers First
    • Dave Cullen
    00 reads
    #38
    Beneath a Ruthless Sun
    Beneath a Ruthless Sun
    • Gilbert King
    00 reads
    #39
    Femina
    Femina
    • Janina Ramírez
    3.8310 reads
    #40
    The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry
    The Selling of DSM: The Rhetoric of Science in Psychiatry
    • Stuart A. Kirk
    00 reads
    #41
    American Warlord: A True Story
    American Warlord: A True Story
    • Johnny Dwyer
    41 read
    #42
    The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell
    The Rebellion of Miss Lucy Ann Lobdell
    • William Klaber
    00 reads
    #43
    Fasting Girls
    Fasting Girls
    • Joan Jacobs Brumberg
    43 reads
    #44
    The Devil in the White City
    The Devil in the White City
    • Erik Larson
    3.99602 reads
    #45
    The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
    The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
    • Simon Winchester
    3.85126 reads
    #46
    A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau
    A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau
    • Carolyn Morrow Long
    00 reads
    #47
    The Inkblots
    The Inkblots
    • Damion Searls
    51 read
    #48
    The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
    The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
    • Deborah Blum
    4.0751 reads
    #49
    The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
    The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
    • Joshua Hammer
    3.3222 reads
    #50
    Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    • Adam Higginbotham
    4.45123 reads
    #51
    The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England
    The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England
    • Emily Brand
    00 reads
    #52
    The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
    The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
    • David Treuer
    4.4415 reads
    #53
    The Great Mortality
    The Great Mortality
    • John Kelly
    3.4412 reads
    #54
    Rebel Yell
    Rebel Yell
    • S.C. Gwynne
    54 reads
    #55
    The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
    The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend
    • Bob Drury
    • Tom Clavin
    53 reads
    #56
    Assata: An Autobiography
    Assata: An Autobiography
    • Assata Shakur
    4.6829 reads
    #57
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    • Malcolm X
    • Alex Haley
    4.44183 reads
    #58
    Medical Apartheid
    Medical Apartheid
    • Harriet A. Washington
    4.4215 reads
    #59
    How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
    How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
    • Daniel Immerwahr
    4.4163 reads
    #60
    The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
    The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
    • Lori Arviso Alvord
    • Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt
    00 reads
    #61
    For Her Own Good
    For Her Own Good
    • Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Deirdre English
    01 read
    #62
    Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
    Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
    • Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
    3.4717 reads
    #63
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
    • Yuval Noah Harari
    4.231,275 reads
    #64
    The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
    The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
    • Erik Larson
    4.21129 reads
    #65
    1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
    • Charles C. Mann
    4.19119 reads
    #66
    A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
    A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
    • Bartolomé de las Casas
    • Nigel Griffin (Translator)
    4.673 reads
    #67
    Empire of the Summer Moon
    Empire of the Summer Moon
    • S. C. Gwynne
    4.0250 reads
    #68
    Trail of Tears
    Trail of Tears
    • John Ehle
    32 reads
    #69
    A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
    A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
    • Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)
    • Yvon Thébert
    • Michel Rouche
    • Évelyne Patlagean
    • Peter Brown
    41 read
    #70
    Before and After
    Before and After
    • Lisa Wingate
    • Judy Christie
    4.674 reads
    #71
    The Devil's Highway
    The Devil's Highway
    • Luis Alberto Urrea
    4.639 reads
    #72
    The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
    The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
    • Mary Beard
    3.755 reads
    #73
    The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
    The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
    • Hallie Rubenhold
    4.1586 reads
    #74
    Cover 1

    Hysterical

    Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story
    • Rebecca Coffey
    00 reads
    #75
    Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
    Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
    • Kate Lister
    01 read
    #76
    The Story of Jane
    The Story of Jane
    • Laura Kaplan
    4.335 reads
    #77
    Memoirs of Hadrian
    Memoirs of Hadrian
    • Marguerite Yourcenar
    3.9634 reads
    #78
    Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    • Rebecca Skloot
    4.18396 reads
    #79
    Salt to the Sea
    Salt to the Sea
    • Ruta Sepetys
    4.17128 reads
    #80
    Romantic Outlaws
    Romantic Outlaws
    • Charlotte Gordon
    4.46 reads
    #81
    Cover 3

    Deviant

    Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"
    • Harold Schechter
    3.6923 reads
    #82
    Deranged
    Deranged
    • Harold Schechter
    44 reads
    #83
    Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer
    Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer
    • Harold Schechter
    3.52 reads
    #84
    The devil's gentleman
    The devil's gentleman
    • Harold Schechter
    42 reads
    #85
    The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation
    The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation
    • Harold Schechter
    51 read
    #86
    Fiend : The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Serial Killer
    Fiend : The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Serial Killer
    • Harold Schechter
    52 reads
    #87
    Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
    Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
    • Harold Schechter
    3.333 reads
    #88
    Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer
    Fatal: The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer
    • Harold Schechter
    52 reads
    #89
    Bolshoi Confidential
    Bolshoi Confidential
    • Simon Morrison
    00 reads
    #90
    Cover 2

    Apollo's Angels

    Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
    • Jennifer Homans
    41 read
    #91
    The Stranger in the Woods
    The Stranger in the Woods
    • Michael Finkel
    3.9676 reads
    #92
    In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick
    In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story That Inspired Moby-Dick
    • Nathaniel Philbrick
    4.11102 reads
    #93
    Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
    Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist
    • Jennifer Wright
    4.333 reads
    #94
    SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
    SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
    • Mary Beard
    3.98150 reads
    #95
    Doctors from hell
    Doctors from hell
    • Vivien Spitz
    00 reads
    #96
    The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
    The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
    • Tore Skeie
    • Alison McCullough (Translator)
    3.85 reads
    #97
    Brazen
    Brazen
    • Pénélope Bagieu
    • Montana Kane (Translator)
    4.4519 reads
    #98
    Birth Strike
    Birth Strike
    • Jenny Brown
    00 reads
    #99
    The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
    The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
    • Jeff Jarvis
    4.52 reads
    #100
    Death Comes for the Cathedrals
    Death Comes for the Cathedrals
    • Marcel Proust
    00 reads
    #101
    A Factotum in the Book Trade
    A Factotum in the Book Trade
    • Marius Kociejowski
    00 reads