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DNA USA

DNA USA: A Genetic Biography of America

ByBryan Sykes

Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey

Chimpanzee and Red Colobus: The Ecology of Predator and Prey

ByCraig B. Stanford

1998 • 1 Reader • 296 pages

Genie: A Scientific Tragedy

Genie: A Scientific Tragedy

ByRuss Rymer

1993 • 2 Readers • 3

From cage to freedom

From cage to freedom

ByLinda Koebner

What a Plant Knows : A Field Guide to the Sense

What a Plant Knows : A Field Guide to the Sense

ByDaniel Chamovitz

2012 • 4 Readers • 177 pages

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

ByJonathan Gottschall

2012 • 32 Readers • 248 pages • 3.5

The Song of the Ape: Understanding the Languages of Chimpanzees

The Song of the Ape: Understanding the Languages of Chimpanzees

ByAndrew R. Halloran

The violinist's thumb

The Violinist's Thumb

BySam Kean

2012 • 64 Readers • 416 pages • 3.8

A gay and melancholy sound

A gay and melancholy sound

ByMerle Miller

2 Readers

Drop dead healthy one man's humble quest for bodily perfection

Drop dead healthy one man's humble quest for bodily perfection

ByA.J. Jacobs

2012 • 20 Readers • 418 pages • 3.8

The Homemade Pantry

The Homemade Pantry

ByAlana Chernila

2012 • 6 Readers • 288 pages • 4

A Surrey state of affairs

A Surrey state of affairs

ByCeri Radford

Ripe

ByCheryl Sternman Rule

My Father's Daughter

My Father's Daughter

ByGwyneth Paltrow

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Medical Muses

Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

ByAsti Hustvedt

2011 • 3 Readers • 372 pages

Ten Thousand Saints

Ten Thousand Saints

ByEleanor Henderson

2011 • 12 Readers • 388 pages • 5

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

ByPatton Oswalt

2011 • 26 Readers • 191 pages • 3.1

Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records

Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records

ByNadine Cohodas

The Gods of Gotham

#1 of 3 in Timothy Wilde

The Gods of Gotham

ByLyndsay Faye

2012 • 35 Readers • 414 pages • 3.4

Bossypants

ByTina Fey(Author/Narrator)

When Will There Be Good News?

#3 of 6 in Jackson Brodie

When Will There Be Good News?

ByKate Atkinson

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

ByKate Atkinson

1995 • 57 Readers • 336 pages • 3.8

Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

ByKate Summerscale

2012 • 10 Readers • 320 pages • 3.7

How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks

How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks

ByDave Tompkins

2010 • 2 Readers • 354 pages

Flashforward

ByRobert J. Sawyer

The Areas of My Expertise

#1 of 3 in Complete World Knowledge

The Areas of My Expertise

ByJohn Hodgman

2005 • 44 Readers • 4

And the Sea Will Tell

And the Sea Will Tell

ByVincent Bugliosi,Bruce Henderson

1991 • 12 Readers • 692 pages • 3.2

The Works and Days / Theogony / The Shield of Herakles

The Works and Days / Theogony / The Shield of Herakles

ByHesiod,Richmond Lattimore(Translator)

1928 • 4 Readers • 241 pages • 4

At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka: A Cookbook

At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka: A Cookbook

ByMadhur Jaffrey

2010 • 1 Reader • 322 pages

India Calling

ByAnand Giridharadas

2010 • 3 Readers • 288 pages

Mockingjay

#3 of 3 in The Hunger Games

BySuzanne Collins

A Discovery of Witches

#1 of 6 in All Souls

A Discovery of Witches

ByDeborah Harkness

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

ByJenny Lawson

Catching Fire

#2 of 3 in The Hunger Games

BySuzanne Collins

I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation

I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation

ByBruce Chadwick

Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening That Changed America

Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening That Changed America

ByCharles A. Cerami

The intimate lives of the founding fathers

The intimate lives of the founding fathers

ByFleming, Thomas J.

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition

ByRandy Shilts

1987 • 121 Readers • 666 pages • 4.3

Zone One

ByColson Whitehead

Prince of Thorns

#1 of 3 in The Broken Empire

Prince of Thorns

ByMark Lawrence

2011 • 734 Readers • 389 pages • 3.6

The Family that Couldn't Sleep

The Family that Couldn't Sleep

ByDaniel T. Max

2006 • 14 Readers • 299 pages • 3.8

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

ByPaul Torday

2007 • 21 Readers • 331 pages • 3.9

Person or Persons Unknown

#4 of 9 in Sir John Fielding

Person or Persons Unknown

ByBruce Alexander

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Watery Grave

#3 of 9 in Sir John Fielding

ByBruce Alexander

Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages

Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages

ByElizabeth Little

2012 • 1 Reader • 321 pages • 4

Blind justice

#1 of 9 in Sir John Fielding

ByBruce Alexander

Murder in Grub Street (Sir John Fielding #2)

Murder in Grub Street (Sir John Fielding)

ByBruce Alexander

Coral Glynn

ByPeter Cameron

2012 • 1 Reader • 210 pages

In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite: 150 Recipes and Stories About the Food You Love

In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite: 150 Recipes and Stories About the Food You Love

ByMelissa Clark

The American Way of Eating

The American Way of Eating

ByTracie McMillan

2012 • 11 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Fat Land

ByGreg Critser

2003 • 6 Readers • 232 pages • 3.5

An Everlasting Meal

An Everlasting Meal

ByTamar Adler,Alice Waters

2011 • 15 Readers • 272 pages • 5

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

BySteven Johnson

SoulPancake

ByRainn Wilson,Devon Gundry,+2 more

Blackout

#3 of 4 in Oxford Time Travel

ByConnie Willis

2010 • 139 Readers • 505 pages • 3.6

The Mirror

ByMarlys Millhiser

1978 • 12 Readers • 284 pages • 5

Time and Again

#1 of 3 in Time

ByJack Finney

1970 • 151 Readers • 399 pages • 3.6

Yellow Jack

ByJohn R. Pierce

Death Comes As Epiphany

#1 of 10 in Catherine LeVendeur

Death Comes As Epiphany

BySharan Newman

1993 • 10 Readers • 336 pages • 3

And Only to Deceive

#1 of 15 in Lady Emily Ashton Mysteries

And Only to Deceive

ByTasha Alexander

A Long and Happy Life

A Long and Happy Life

ByReynolds Price

1962 • 1 Reader • 225 pages

Justine

#1 of 4 in Alexandria Quartet

ByLawrence Durrell

2011 • 19 Readers • 266 pages • 4

A Time of Gifts

#1 of 3 in Trilogy

A Time of Gifts

ByPatrick Leigh Fermor

1977 • 58 Readers • 321 pages • 4.4

The Uprooted

ByOscar Handlin

1951 • 1 Reader • 344 pages

Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu

Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corfu

ByLawrence Durrell

1945 • 2 Readers

The Great Animal Orchestra : Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

The Great Animal Orchestra : Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places

ByBernie Krause

2012 • 6 Readers • 288 pages • 4

Island of vice

ByRichard Zacks

2012 • 7 Readers • 431 pages • 3.5

White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf

ByAaron Bobrow-Strain

2012 • 9 Readers • 257 pages • 3.5

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

ByE. Lockhart

Below Stairs

ByMargaret Powell

Tinderbox

ByCraig Timberg

2013 • 1 Reader

A Secret Society History of the Civil War

A Secret Society History of the Civil War

ByMark A. Lause

2011 • 1 Reader • 209 pages

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

ByDrew Gilpin Faust

2008 • 23 Readers • 346 pages • 3.6

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

ByMary Wollstonecraft

The wheel on the school

The Wheel on the School

ByMeindert DeJong

10 Readers • 3.5

Sara Foster's Casual Cooking: More Fresh Simple Recipes from Foster's Market: A Cookbook

Sara Foster's Casual Cooking: More Fresh Simple Recipes from Foster's Market: A Cookbook

BySara Foster,Carolynn Carreño,+1 more

Mr. and Mrs. Madison's war

Mr. and Mrs. Madison's war

ByHugh Howard

Clarissa, or, The history of a young lady

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady

BySamuel Richardson

32 Readers • 3.6

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings

ByThomas Paine

1776 • 21 Readers • 416 pages • 4.5

Fatherland

ByRobert Harris,Roberta Rambelli(Translator)

1991 • 151 Readers • 402 pages • 3.9

The Mysteries of Udolpho

The Mysteries of Udolpho

ByAnn Radcliffe

1794 • 81 Readers • 773 pages • 3.4

A Vindication of the Rights of Men

A Vindication of the Rights of Men

ByMary Wollstonecraft

1790 • 1 Reader

The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto

ByHorace Walpole

1764 • 117 Readers • 125 pages • 3

The Pleasures of Cooking for One: A Cookbook

The Pleasures of Cooking for One: A Cookbook

ByJudith Jones

Blueprints Of The Afterlife

Blueprints of the Afterlife

ByRyan Boudinot

2012 • 19 Readers • 350 pages • 3.5

Taft 2012

ByJason Heller

The Tempest

ByWilliam Shakespeare

City of Scoundrels

City of scoundrels

ByGary Krist

2012 • 5 Readers • 347 pages

The Science of Yoga

The Science of Yoga

ByWilliam J. Broad

The Woman Who Died a Lot

#7 of 8 in Thursday Next

The Woman Who Died a Lot

ByJasper Fforde

The Tenacity of the Cockroach

The Tenacity of the Cockroach

ByNathan Rabin,A.V. Club

2002 • 6 Readers • 407 pages

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Gordini Protocols

#3 of 3 in Shades of Grey

Gordini Protocols

ByJasper Fforde

15 Readers

How to Be Black

How to Be Black

ByBaratunde R. Thurston

2012 • 39 Readers • 299 pages • 3.8

Three Junes

ByJulia Glass

Honk Honk, My Darling

#1 of 1 in Rex Koko, Private Clown

Honk Honk, My Darling

ByJames Finn Garner

2011 • 1 Reader

Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry: Stories

Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry: Stories

ByChristine Sneed

2010 • 1 Reader

The Little House Treasury

#1 of 10 in Little House

The Little House Collection

ByLaura Ingalls Wilder

Lunatics

ByAlan Zweibel,Dave Barry

2012 • 7 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

Austenland

#1 of 2 in Austenland

ByShannon Hale

Mary Chesnut's Civil War

Mary Chesnut's Civil War

ByMary Boykin Chesnut

1981 • 2 Readers • 892 pages