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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

ByBenjamin Thorpe

2022 • 2 Readers • 442 pages

The Blueline Anthology

The Blueline Anthology

ByRick Henry(editor)

2004 • 1 Reader • 290 pages

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

ByDaniel J. Levitin

2006 • 128 Readers • 314 pages • 3.5

Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith

Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith

ByJohn Szwed

7 Readers • 2

Bone of the Bone

Bone of the Bone

BySarah Smarsh

2024 • 5 Readers • 328 pages • 5

Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir

Failure Is an Option: An Attempted Memoir

ByH. Jon Benjamin(Narrator)

2018 • 38 Readers • 4h 58m • 3.8

Morning and Evening

Morning and Evening

ByJon Fosse

2015 • 8 Readers • 112 pages

Alien Clay

ByAdrian Tchaikovsky

2024 • 102 Readers • 400 pages • 3.9

Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music

Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music

ByFranz Nicolay

2024 • 3 Readers • 308 pages

The Vanity Fair diaries : 1983-1992

The Vanity Fair diaries : 1983-1992

ByTina Brown

2017 • 2 Readers • 436 pages • 3

Lonesome Dove

#1 of 4 in Lonesome Dove

ByLarry McMurtry

1985 • 622 Readers • 858 pages • 4.6

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

ByHiromi Kawakami,Asa Yoneda(Translator)

2016 • 10 Readers • 288 pages

The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World--And What We Can Do

The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World--And What We Can Do

BySteven Brill

2024 • 3 Readers • 345 pages • 2.5

Build

ByTony Fadell

151 Readers • 4.3

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

ByNatasha Dow Schüll

2012 • 35 Readers • 457 pages • 3.4

The Bookshop

ByEvan Friss

2024 • 24 Readers • 417 pages

The Master and Margarita

The Master and Margarita

ByMikhail Bulgakov,Katherine Tiernan O'Connor(Translator),+1 more

1966 • 1,001 Readers • 424 pages • 4.1

The History of Sound: Stories

The History of Sound: Stories

ByBen Shattuck

2024 • 10 Readers • 321 pages • 3.5

The Known World

The Known World

ByEdward P. Jones

2003 • 110 Readers • 388 pages • 3.4

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Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men

We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay

We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay

ByGary Janetti

2024 • 1 Reader

Goodnight Tokyo

Goodnight Tokyo

ByAtsuhiro Yoshida,Haydn Trowell(Translator)

2018 • 7 Readers • 176 pages

The Material

ByCamille Bordas

2024 • 4 Readers

The Best American Food Writing 2021

The Best American Food Writing 2021

ByGabrielle Hamilton

2021 • 1 Reader • 217 pages • 4

The Best American Travel Writing 2021

The Best American Travel Writing 2021

ByPadma Lakshmi,Jason Wilson

2021 • 3 Readers • 305 pages

Martyr! A Novel

ByKaveh Akbar

2024 • 289 Readers • 353 pages • 4.1

The Best American Food Writing 2020

The Best American Food Writing 2020

ByJ. Kenji López-Alt

2020 • 1 Reader • 4

The Best American Essays 2020

The Best American Essays 2020

ByRobert Atwan

2020 • 2 Readers • 3

White Cat, Black Dog

White Cat, Black Dog

ByKelly Link

63 Readers • 4

The Best American Essays 2023

The Best American Essays 2023

ByRobert Atwan,Ciara Alfaro,+20 more

2023 • 1 Reader

The Best American Essays 2021

The Best American Essays 2021

ByRobert Atwan(Editor),Kathryn Schulz(Editor)

2021 • 1 Reader • 256 pages • 4

The Best American Food Writing 2019

The Best American Food Writing 2019

BySamin Nosrat,Silvia Killingsworth

2019 • 1 Reader • 287 pages • 4

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020

ByMichio Kaku(Editor),Jaime Green(Editor)

2020 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

Continuum: French Science Fiction Short Stories

Continuum: French Science Fiction Short Stories

ByAnnabelle Dolidon(editor)

2024 • 1 Reader

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999

ByTom Maxwell

2024 • 1 Reader

The Adulterants

The Adulterants

ByJoe Dunthorne

2018 • 5 Readers • 175 pages • 3

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Lessons for Survival

Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"

ByEmily Raboteau

1 Reader

Blue Ruin

ByHari Kunzru

2024 • 12 Readers • 273 pages • 3

The Ministry of Time

The Ministry of Time

ByKaliane Bradley

2024 • 655 Readers • 352 pages • 3.8

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

ByAdam Higginbotham

2024 • 51 Readers • 4.8

Real Americans

ByRachel Khong

2024 • 143 Readers • 416 pages • 4.1

The Prophet and The Idiot

The Prophet and The Idiot

Byunknown author

2023 • 1 Reader

When the English Fall

When the English Fall

ByDavid Williams

2017 • 23 Readers • 273 pages • 4

Analogue: A Field Guide

Analogue: A Field Guide

ByDeyan Sudjic

2024 • 1 Reader • 306 pages

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

ByAmanda Montell

2024 • 203 Readers • 272 pages • 3.3

Sula

ByToni Morrison

1973 • 308 Readers • 174 pages • 3.9

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The Exhausted of the Earth

The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World

ByAjay Singh Chaudhary

1 Reader • 4

The End of the End of the Earth

The End of the End of the Earth

ByJonathan Franzen

2018 • 7 Readers • 240 pages

The Factory

ByHiroko Oyamada

2010 • 98 Readers • 128 pages • 3

American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home

American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home

BySteven Kurutz

2024 • 1 Reader • 241 pages

The Premonition

The Premonition

ByBanana Yoshimoto

1988 • 50 Readers • 145 pages • 3.1

The Good Shepherd

The Good Shepherd

ByC.S. Forester

1955 • 17 Readers • 261 pages • 3.8

Floating Hotel

ByGrace Curtis

2024 • 107 Readers • 306 pages • 3.2

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IN ASCENSION.

ByMARTIN. MACINNES

2023 • 26 Readers • 3.3

Your Utopia

ByBora Chung,Anton Hur(Translator)

2021 • 51 Readers • 256 pages • 3.7

Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

ByMarty Cagan,Chris Jones

2020 • 46 Readers • 432 pages • 3.9

Inspired

Building Products

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

ByMarty Cagan

2008 • 175 Readers • 368 pages • 4

Sublunar

ByHarald Voetmann

2014 • 1 Reader • 109 pages

Private Equity

ByCarrie Sun

2024 • 13 Readers • 353 pages • 3.5

On the Beach

ByNevil Shute

202 Readers • 3.8

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Midnights, a Year with the Wellfleet Police

Midnights, a Year with the Wellfleet Police

The Orchard: A Memoir

The Orchard: A Memoir

ByAdele Crockett Robertson

1995 • 3 Readers • 234 pages • 5

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

ByRobert M. Sapolsky

2023 • 71 Readers • 424 pages • 4.6

Make Time

ByJake Knapp,John Zeratsky

2018 • 224 Readers • 287 pages • 4.1

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

ByRebecca Boyle

2024 • 23 Readers • 353 pages • 4

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

ByJanice Hallett

2023 • 174 Readers • 417 pages • 4

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

ByHannah Ritchie

2024 • 76 Readers • 340 pages • 4.3

Beautyland

ByMarie-Helene Bertino

2024 • 127 Readers • 336 pages • 4.3

Never Too Small:, Vol. 2

#2 of 1 in Never Too Small:

Never Too Small:, Vol. 2

ByJoel Beath,Camilla Janse van Vuuren

2024 • 1 Reader

The Iliad

ByHomer

-800 • 218 Readers • 404 pages • 3.9

The Book of Delights

The Book of Delights

ByRoss Gay

2019 • 78 Readers • 288 pages • 4.4

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

ByFarah Karim-Cooper

2023 • 3 Readers • 328 pages

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

ByDeb Chachra

2023 • 50 Readers • 321 pages • 3.3

Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

ByOliver Darkshire

2022 • 44 Readers • 244 pages • 3.8

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

ByAndrew Leland

2023 • 32 Readers • 369 pages • 4.3

So Late in the Day: Stories of Men and Women

So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

ByClaire Keegan

2022 • 17 Readers • 64 pages • 3.7

You Dreamed of Empires

You Dreamed of Empires

ByÁlvaro Enrigue,Natasha Wimmer(Translator)

2022 • 66 Readers • 240 pages • 3.9

Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives

Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives

ByDavid M. Levy

2016 • 4 Readers • 3

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

ByNed Blackhawk

2023 • 51 Readers • 611 pages • 4.2

Evil Flowers: Stories

Evil Flowers: Stories

ByGunnhild Øyehaug,Kari Dickson(Translator)

2020 • 7 Readers • 4

The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things

The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things

ByJohn Tinnell

1 Reader

Orbital

BySamantha Harvey

2023 • 249 Readers • 207 pages • 3.7

The Earth Transformed

The Earth Transformed

ByPROFESSOR PETER. FRANKOPAN

2023 • 5 Readers • 737 pages

The World: A Family History of Humanity

The World: A Family History of Humanity

BySimon Sebag Montefiore

2022 • 18 Readers • 3.5

The Silent Traveller in Boston

The Silent Traveller in Boston

ByChiang Yee

1959 • 1 Reader • 275 pages

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The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle:, Vol. 1

ByGisèle Gordon, Kent Monkman

1 Reader

The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict

ByAndrew Pettegree

2023 • 2 Readers • 480 pages

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media

ByWalter Benjamin

2008 • 40 Readers • 448 pages • 4.5

Nightfall and Other Stories

Nightfall and Other Stories

ByIsaac Asimov

1969 • 38 Readers • 350 pages • 3.8

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

#1 of 5 in Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

ByToshikazu Kawaguchi,Geoffrey Trousselot(Translator)

2015 • 1,406 Readers • 213 pages • 3.7

The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World

The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World

ByDavid Sax

4 Readers

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

ByDavid Sax

2017 • 5 Readers • 3.5

Manhunt

ByJames L. Swanson

2006 • 32 Readers • 388 pages • 4.1

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Uncontained

Uncontained: Digital Disconnection and the Experience of Time

ByRobert Hassan

Whalefall

ByDaniel Kraus

2023 • 176 Readers • 336 pages • 3.8

Unsheltered

ByBarbara Kingsolver(Author, Narrator)

2018 • 91 Readers • 3.9

The Snow Leopard

The Snow Leopard

ByPeter Matthiessen

1978 • 76 Readers • 368 pages • 4.1

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

ByCharles C. Mann

2005 • 327 Readers • 578 pages • 4.2

Life After Life

#1 of 2 in Todd Family

Life After Life

ByKate Atkinson

2013 • 377 Readers • 544 pages • 3.6

The Invention of News

Invention of News

ByAndrew Pettegree

2014 • 2 Readers • 453 pages