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Sam Walker

Nonfiction

Position
Details
Rating
#1
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
  • Stephen Brusatte
4.23
#2
Dead Mountain
Dead Mountain
  • Donnie Eichar
3.64
#3
An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering
An Anatomy of Pain: How the Body and the Mind Experience and Endure Physical Suffering
  • Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen
0
#4
Bad Gays
Bad Gays
  • Huw Lemmey
  • Ben Miller
3.93
#5
The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire: True Tales from the ER
The Lady Whose Mouth I Set on Fire: True Tales from the ER
  • Dr. McAnonymous
0
#6
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
  • Paul A. Offit
3.79
#7
Ozark Folk Magic: Plants, Prayers & Healing
Ozark Folk Magic: Plants, Prayers & Healing
  • Brandon Weston
0
#8
Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables
Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables
  • Jo Wimpenny
3
#9
Cover 8

The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One

The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919
  • Virginia Woolf
0
#10
Mushroom Magick: Ritual, Celebration, and Lore
Mushroom Magick: Ritual, Celebration, and Lore
  • Shawn Engel
0
#11
Gory Details
Gory Details
  • Erika Engelhaupt
4.36
#12
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
  • Peter Godfrey-Smith
3.57
#13
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
  • Sam Kean
3.91
#14
The Abolition of Man
The Abolition of Man
  • C. S. Lewis
3.96
#15
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
  • Amanda Montell
3.9
#16
Cannibalism
Cannibalism
  • Bill Schutt
3.67
#17
Pump
Pump
  • Bill Schutt
3
#18
The letters of Vincent van Gogh
The letters of Vincent van Gogh
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • Arnold J. Pomerans (Translator)
0
#19
Mermaids
Mermaids
  • Skye Alexander
5
#20
Fairies
Fairies
  • Skye Alexander
5
#21
Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls
  • Kathleen Hale
2.67
#22
Do the Work!
Do the Work!
  • W. Kamau Bell
  • Kate Schatz
0
#23
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
  • Sy Montgomery
3
#24
Music Is History
Music Is History
  • Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
4.33
#25
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  • Siddhartha Mukherjee
4.27
#26
The Women's House of Detention
The Women's House of Detention
  • Hugh Ryan
0
#27
Storm in a Teacup
Storm in a Teacup
  • Helen Czerski
4.08
#28
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
  • Meghan O'Rourke
4.5
#29
All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work
  • Hayley Campbell
4.18
#30
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
  • Gabor Maté
  • Daniel Maté
3.95
#31
Prisoners of the Castle
Prisoners of the Castle
  • Ben Macintyre
4.1
#32
His Name Is George Floyd
His Name Is George Floyd
  • Robert Samuels
  • Toluse Olorunnipa
4.33
#33
Bad Mexicans
Bad Mexicans
  • Kelly Lytle Hernández
0
#34
An Immense World
An Immense World
  • Ed Yong
4.39
#35
Visual Thinking
Visual Thinking
  • Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
4
#36
Chasing Me to My Grave
Chasing Me to My Grave
  • Bryan Stevenson
  • Winfred Rembert
  • Erin I. Kelly
4
#37
Everything Is OK
Everything Is OK
  • Debbie Tung
4.15
#38
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
  • Johann Hari
3.91
#39
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
  • Sabrina Imbler
3.89
#40
The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures
The Modern Bestiary: A Curated Collection of Wondrous Creatures
  • Joanna Bagniewska
4
#41
Cover 7

X Troop

X Troop: The Secret Jewish Commandos of World War II
  • Leah Garrett
0
#42
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Mark Dawidziak
3.5
#43
The Black Guy Dies First
The Black Guy Dies First
  • Robin R. Means Coleman
  • Mark H. Harris
5
#44
Black AF History
Black AF History
  • Michael Harriot
3.9
#45
Undoing Drugs
Undoing Drugs
  • Maia Szalavitz
3
#46
It's OK to be Angry About Capitalism
It's OK to be Angry About Capitalism
  • Bernie Sanders
3.72
#47
The Dark Side of Japan: Ancient Black Magic, Folklore, Ritual
The Dark Side of Japan: Ancient Black Magic, Folklore, Ritual
  • Antony Cummins
0
#48
Women in White Coats
Women in White Coats
  • Olivia Campbell
3.5
#49
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
  • Gwen Strauss
5
#50
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
  • Kate Moore
4.22
#51
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
4.2
#52
When Women Ruled the World
When Women Ruled the World
  • Kara Cooney
2.83
#53
Women of Myth
Women of Myth
  • Jenny Williamson
  • Genn McMenemy
0
#54
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
  • Jonathan Kennedy
3.93
#55
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
4.49
#56
Tasting History
Tasting History
  • Max Miller
  • Ann Volkwein
3.5
#57
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
  • Stephen Brusatte
4.29
#58
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
  • Aimee Nezhukumatathil
4.2
#59
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
  • Merlin Sheldrake
4.38
#60
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
  • Thomas Halliday
0
#61
The Brilliant Abyss
The Brilliant Abyss
  • Helen Scales
4
#62
Beloved Beasts
Beloved Beasts
  • Michelle Nijhuis
0
#63
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
  • Dan Saladino
4
#64
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces
  • Radley Balko
4.56
#65
All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy
All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy
  • T. C. Oakes-Monger
4
#66
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
  • Gabor Maté
3.9
#67
Strong Female Character
Strong Female Character
  • Fern Brady
4.51
#68
Cover 5

Our History Has Always Been Contraband

Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
  • Robin D.G. Kelley, Colin Kaepernick, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
0
#69
Timelines of Nature: From Mountains and Glaciers to Mayflies and Marsupials
Timelines of Nature: From Mountains and Glaciers to Mayflies and Marsupials
  • D.K. Publishing
0
#70
The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War
The Red Hotel: Moscow 1941, the Metropol Hotel, and the Untold Story of Stalin's Propaganda War
  • Alan Philps
0
#71
Rage Baking
Rage Baking
  • Kathy Gunst
  • Katherine Alford
0
#72
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
  • Fredrik deBoer
4.25
#73
Punished for Dreaming
Punished for Dreaming
  • Bettina L. Love
0
#74
Seeing through the Smoke: A Cannabis Specialist Untangles the Truth about Marijuana
Seeing through the Smoke: A Cannabis Specialist Untangles the Truth about Marijuana
  • Peter Grinspoon
0
#75
Gender Euphoria
Gender Euphoria
  • Laura Kate Dale
3.5
#76
The Complete Human Body: The Definitive Visual Guide
The Complete Human Body: The Definitive Visual Guide
  • Alice Roberts
0
#77
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
  • Nick Lane
4.22
#78
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
The Wine-Dark Sea Within: A Turbulent History of Blood
  • Dhun Sethna
0
#79
Princesses Behaving Badly
Princesses Behaving Badly
  • Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
3.44
#80
¡Hola Papi!
¡Hola Papi!
  • John Paul Brammer
4.3
#81
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
  • Philip Freeman
0
#82
The Monster's Bones
The Monster's Bones
  • David K. Randall
3.67
#83
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
  • Simon Schama
0
#84
Cover 7

Planet Insect

Planet Insect: How insects conquered the Earth
  • Steve Nicholls
5
#85
Opium: An Intimate History of the Flower that Changed the World
Opium: An Intimate History of the Flower that Changed the World
  • John H. Halpern
  • David Blistein
0
#86
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
  • Serhii Plokhy
0
#87
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
  • Tori Telfer
3.61
#88
Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo
  • Dayton Duncan
  • Ken Burns
0
#89
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
  • Cat Bohannon
4.28
#90
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
  • Dan Millman
3.88
#91
Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue
Sick and Tired: An Intimate History of Fatigue
  • Emily K. Abel
0
#92
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
  • Ned Blackhawk
4.17
#93
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
  • Sy Montgomery
3.88
#94
Thinning Blood
Thinning Blood
  • Leah Myers
3.33
#95
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
  • Joy Harjo
4
#96
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
  • Lauren Elkin
0
#97
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
  • Angela Y. Davis
4.23
#98
White Malice
White Malice
  • Susan Williams
4.5
#99
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry
  • Christie Wilcox
0
#100
Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
  • Benjamin Franklin
0