Nonfiction 486 books by The Sassy Bookworm

#101

The Lost Painting

ByJonathan Harr

2005 • 16 Readers • 253 pages • 4.1

#102

How to Read a Novel

ByJohn Sutherland

2006 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

#103

#170 of 226 in Very Short Introductions

Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction

ByJohn Sutherland

2007 • 1 Reader • 145 pages • 3

#104

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

ByMelanie Rehak

2005 • 11 Readers • 314 pages • 3.5

#105

Hanging Captain Gordon: The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader

ByRon Soodalter

2006 • 1 Reader • 336 pages

#106

Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

ByRoss King

2002 • 20 Readers • 385 pages • 4.2

#107

Voodoo Histories

ByDavid Aaronovitch

5 Readers • 4

#108

Frock Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

ByTristram Hunt

2009 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

#109

Cold Meat and How to Disguise It: A History of Advice on How to Survive Hard Times: A Hundred Years of Belt Tightening

ByHunter Davies

2009 • 1 Reader

#110

Go Down Together

ByJeff Guinn

2009 • 12 Readers • 468 pages • 3.5

#111

The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

ByJohn Ferling

1 Reader

#112

The secret Holocaust diaries

ByNonna Bannister(Original Author),Denise George(primary_contributor)

2009 • 14 Readers • 3.2

#113

Before the Dawn

ByNicholas Wade

2006 • 13 Readers • 314 pages • 4

#114

Eiffel's tower and the World's Fair where Buffalo Bill beguiled Paris, the artists quarreled, and Thomas Edison became a count

ByJill Jonnes

4 Readers

#115

Savages and Scoundrels

ByPaul VanDevelder

2009 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

#116

Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story

ByEvan I. Schwartz

2009 • 2 Readers • 374 pages

#117

Rag and Bone: A Journey Among the World's Holy Dead

ByPeter Manseau

2 Readers • 3

#118

Soul of the Age

ByJonathan Bate

2010 • 1 Reader • 496 pages

#119

The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City

ByDavid Lebovitz

2009 • 15 Readers • 282 pages • 3.7

#120

The Time Book: A Brief History from Lunar Calendars to Atomic Clocks

ByMartin Jenkins

2009 • 1 Reader

#121

The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor

ByColin Tudge,Josh Young

2009 • 1 Reader

#122

Lost on Planet China

ByJ. Maarten Troost

2009 • 1 Reader • 402 pages

#123

The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican

ByBenjamin Blech,Roy Doliner

2008 • 2 Readers • 338 pages • 3

#124

A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn

ByJames Donovan

2008 • 1 Reader • 560 pages

#125

Galileo's Daughter

ByDava Sobel

1999 • 28 Readers • 3.6

#126

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time

ByDava Sobel

1995 • 163 Readers • 208 pages • 4

#127

The Case of Abraham Lincoln: A Story of Adultery, Murder, and the Making of a Great President

ByJulie M. Fenster

2007 • 1 Reader • 256 pages

#128

Wild Life

ByJohn Lewis-Stempel

2009 • 293 pages

#129

Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things

ByLeah Hager Cohen

1997 • 1 Reader • 299 pages

#130

Soul survivor

ByBruce Leininger

#131

Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism

ByValentin Tomberg,Robert Powell(Translator)

1980 • 10 Readers • 670 pages

#132

Time Was Soft There

ByJeremy Mercer

2005 • 6 Readers • 260 pages • 4

#133

Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities

ByAmy Stewart

2009 • 36 Readers • 236 pages • 3.7

#134

Farm City

ByNovella Carpenter

2009 • 13 Readers • 276 pages • 3.5

#135

Provenance

ByLaney Salisbury,Aly Sujo

2009 • 9 Readers • 352 pages • 4

#136

The Food of a Younger Land

ByMark Kurlansky

7 Readers

#137

Tide, Feather, Snow: A Life in Alaska

ByMiranda Weiss

2009 • 1 Reader • 294 pages

#138

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

ByTim Jeal

2007 • 2 Readers • 570 pages

#139

Into Africa: The Dramatic Retelling of the Stanley-Livingstone Story

ByMartin Dugard

2002 • 1 Reader • 418 pages

#140

Au revoir to all that : the rise and fall of French cuisine

ByMichael Steinberger

2009 • 1 Reader • 243 pages

#141

The Rough Guide To Conspiracy Theories

ByJames McConnachie,Robin Tudge

2008 • 443 pages

#142

Edinburgh: A History of the City

ByMichael Fry

2009 • 1 Reader • 419 pages

#143

God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

ByJames Hannam

2009 • 11 Readers

#144

The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped

ByPaul Strathern

2009 • 4 Readers • 412 pages

#145

Occult America

ByMitch Horowitz

2009 • 10 Readers • 291 pages • 2

#146

London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God

ByJerry White

2007 • 2 Readers

#147

Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis

ByHarvey Rachlin

#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

ByHarvey Rachlin

1996 • 1 Reader • 402 pages

#149

Loot: Inside the World of Stolen Art

ByThomas McShane,Dary Matera

2007 • 1 Reader • 344 pages

#150

Stolen: The Gallery of Missing Masterpieces

ByJonathan Webb,Julian Radcliffe

2008 • 1 Reader • 255 pages

#151

The Raphael Trail: The Secret History of One of the World’s Most Precious Works of Art

ByJoanna Pitman

2007 • 1 Reader • 307 pages

#152

Stealing the Scream: The Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

ByEdward Dolnick

2005 • 1 Reader • 270 pages

#153

The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century

ByEdward Dolnick

2008 • 3 Readers • 362 pages • 4

#154

Résistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France

ByAgnès Humbert,Barbara Mellor

1946 • 1 Reader

#155

Magic Island: The Fictions of L.M. Montgomery

ByElizabeth Hillman Waterston

2008 • 1 Reader • 248 pages

#156

Becoming Alice: A Memoir

ByAlice Rene

2007 • 1 Reader • 284 pages

#157

Cold

ByBill Streever

2009 • 7 Readers • 292 pages • 4

#158

The past is never dead

ByHarry N. MacLean

#159

The Haunting of America: From the Salem Witch Trials to Harry Houdini

ByWilliam J. Birnes,Joel Martin

2009 • 1 Reader • 413 pages

#160

Half Broke Horses

ByJeannette Walls

2008 • 39 Readers • 272 pages • 3.5

#161

Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land

ByDavid Mas Masumoto

2009

#162

Blood, Iron and Gold

ByChristian Wolmar

2009 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

#163

Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York

ByWilliam Grimes

2009 • 1 Reader • 385 pages

#164

On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears

ByStephen T. Asma

2009 • 9 Readers • 368 pages • 2

#165

Seeing Further: Ideas, Endeavours, Discoveries and Disputes — The Story of Science Through 350 Years of the Royal Society

ByBill Bryson(Editor)

2010 • 7 Readers • 546 pages • 4

#166

The bread of angels

ByStephanie Saldana

2 Readers • 5

#167

The Butcher and the Vegetarian: One Woman's Romp Through a World of Men, Meat, and Moral Crisis

ByTara Austen Weaver

2010 • 1 Reader

#168

Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War

ByMichael Kranish

2008 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

#169

The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives

ByBrian Dillon

2009 • 2 Readers • 288 pages

#170

Contested Will

ByJames S. Shapiro

4 Readers • 4

#171

Oprah

ByKitty Kelley

2010 • 2 Readers • 544 pages • 3

#172

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

ByJohn McWhorter

2008 • 34 Readers • 264 pages • 3.9

#173

Creation

ByRandal Keynes

#174

The Age of Comfort: When Paris Discovered Casual—and the Modern Home Began

ByJoan DeJean

2009 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#175

In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe

ByDiane Wolfthal

2010 • 1 Reader

#176

Fannie's Last Supper: Two Years, Twelve Courses, and One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook

ByChristopher Kimball

2010 • 1 Reader • 260 pages

#177

The Mental Floss History of the United States: The (Almost) Complete and (Entirely) Entertaining Story of America

ByMangesh Hattikudur, Will Pearson, Erik Sass

8 Readers • 4.5

#178

Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War

ByDennis C. Pope

2010 • 1 Reader • 329 pages

#179

Butterfly Woman

ByEmily Lutze

2010 • 1 Reader • 244 pages

#180

Fame: What the Classics Tell Us About Our Cult of Celebrity

ByTom Payne

2009 • 1 Reader

#181

George Eliot in Love

ByBrenda Maddox

2010 • 1 Reader • 257 pages

#182

Louisa May Alcott The Woman Behind Little Women

ByHarriet Reisen

2010 • 463 pages

#183

A Householder's Guide to the Universe: A Calendar of Basics for the Home and Beyond

ByHarriet Fasenfest

2010 • 1 Reader • 410 pages

#184

The Heroine's Bookshelf

ByErin Blakemore

2010 • 4 Readers • 224 pages

#185

First Family

ByJoseph J. Ellis

2010 • 3 Readers • 299 pages

#186

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

ByJames Gleick

2011 • 125 Readers • 527 pages • 4.2

#187

Founding Gardeners

ByAndrea Wulf

2011 • 3 Readers • 385 pages

#188

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

ByJessica B. Harris

2010 • 9 Readers • 304 pages

#189

The Moral Lives of Animals

ByDale Peterson

2011 • 2 Readers • 342 pages • 4

#190

Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa

ByÓrla Ryan

2011 • 3 Readers • 182 pages • 3.5

#191

The Secret Museum

ByMolly Oldfield

2013 • 2 Readers • 352 pages • 3

#192

One for Sorrow: A Book of Old-Fashioned Lore

ByChloe Rhodes

2011 • 1 Reader • 192 pages

#193

Drop Two Sizes: A Proven Plan to Ditch the Scale, Get the Body You Want & Wear the Clothes You Love!

ByRachel Cosgrove

2013 • 1 Reader • 274 pages

#194

Beyond Belief My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

ByJenna Miscavige Hill,Lisa Pulitzer

2013 • 43 Readers • 416 pages • 3.9

#195

The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science

BySteve Jones

2013 • 2 Readers • 397 pages

#196

Cooked

ByMichael Pollan

2013 • 67 Readers • 468 pages • 4

#197

The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue

ByPiu Marie Eatwell

2014 • 19 Readers • 352 pages • 3.3

#198

Voracious

ByCara Nicoletti

2015 • 7 Readers • 267 pages • 4

#199

Holy Sh*t

ByMelissa Mohr

2013 • 17 Readers • 322 pages • 3.8

#200

I Hate You Don't Leave Me : Understanding the Borderline Personality

ByJerold J. Kreisman,Hal Straus

1989 • 20 Readers • 288 pages • 3.3

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