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The Palm-Wine Drinkard

ByAmos Tutuola

1952 • 27 Readers • 128 pages • 4.5

When Africa Ruled the World

ByRufus O. Jimerson

1 Reader

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

ByThomas King

2012 • 47 Readers • 232 pages • 4.3

#2 of 3 in The Autobiographies

My Bondage and My Freedom

ByFrederick Douglass

2019 • 36 Readers • 109 pages • 4.6

A People's History of Christianity: The Other Side of the Story

ByDiana Butler Bass

2009 • 3 Readers • 374 pages

Why Do Catholics Do That?

Why Do Catholics Do That?: A Guide to the Teachings and Practices of the Catholic Church

ByKevin Orlin Johnson

1994 • 2 Readers • 287 pages

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

ByIssa Rae

2015 • 38 Readers • 224 pages • 3.6

Girls Burn Brighter

ByShobha Rao

2018 • 71 Readers • 320 pages • 3.5

My Dear Hamilton

ByStephanie Dray,Laura Kamoie

2018 • 21 Readers • 652 pages • 3.8

A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013

ByPete J Blair

1 Reader

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

ByAdam Alter

2017 • 58 Readers • 354 pages • 4

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

ByF. Scott Fitzgerald

1921 • 138 Readers • 132 pages • 3.4

#1 of 3 in Dr. Laszlo Kreizler

The Alienist

ByCaleb Carr

1994 • 265 Readers • 685 pages • 3.9

The Best Mental Math Tricks

ByPresh Talwalkar

2015 • 1 Reader • 172 pages

Math puzzles

Math puzzles: classic riddles in counting, geometry, probability, and game theory

ByPresh Talwalkar

2012 • 1 Reader

The Joy of Game Theory

ByPresh Talwalkar

2013 • 2 Readers

Michael Faraday: Father of Electronics

ByCharles Ludwig

1978 • 2 Readers

#1 of 3 in Takeshi Kovacs

Altered Carbon

ByRichard K. Morgan

2002 • 603 Readers • 544 pages • 3.9

#3 of 3 in Takeshi Kovacs

Woken Furies

ByRichard K. Morgan

2005 • 131 Readers • 565 pages • 3.7

#2 of 3 in Takeshi Kovacs

Broken Angels

ByRichard K. Morgan

2003 • 161 Readers • 560 pages • 3.6

The Germ Code: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Microbes

ByJason Tetro

2013 • 1 Reader

Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life

ByJ. Craig Venter

2013 • 3 Readers

A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life

ByJ. Craig Venter

2007 • 3 Readers • 416 pages • 3

Stories of Your Life and Others

ByTed Chiang

2002 • 723 Readers • 281 pages • 4.3

#1 of 2 in Sh*t My Dad Says

Sh*t My Dad Says

ByJustin Halpern

2010 • 103 Readers • 224 pages • 3.7

Loving v. Virginia

ByKaren Alonso

1 Reader

#2 of 4 in Gormenghast

Gormenghast

ByMervyn Peake

1950 • 71 Readers • 505 pages • 3.6

#3 of 4 in Gormenghast

Titus Alone

ByMervyn Peake

1959 • 38 Readers • 284 pages • 3.4

The Witch of Portobello

ByPaulo Coelho,Rita Wolf

2006 • 50 Readers • 260 pages • 3.3

#1 of 2 in Six of Crows

Six of Crows

ByLeigh Bardugo

2001 • 1,711 Readers • 479 pages • 4.3

#1 of 4 in Gormenghast

Titus Groan

ByMervyn Peake

1946 • 217 Readers • 382 pages • 3.3

Eleven Minutes

ByMargaret Jull Costa(Translator),Paulo Coelho

2003 • 69 Readers • 273 pages • 3.1

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

ByNadia Murad

2017 • 27 Readers • 13 pages • 4.3

#2 of 3 in On the Seventh Day

Veronika Decides to Die

ByMargaret Jull Costa(Translator),Paulo Coelho

1998 • 160 Readers • 208 pages • 3.4

American War

ByOmar El Akkad

2017 • 184 Readers • 352 pages • 3.9

#1 of 3 in The Tattooist of Auschwitz

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

ByHeather Morris

2018 • 337 Readers • 293 pages • 4

Sin and Syntax

ByConstance Hale

2013 • 11 Readers • 320 pages • 3.7

Get Out of Debt Hell: I did it, and so can you

ByJen Pattison

1 Reader • 96 pages

Mexican American: A Novel Inspired by Real-life Events

ByBrenda Guadalupe Casten,Jennifer Y. Johnson-Garcia

2014 • 2 Readers

Mexican American Baseball in the Inland Empire

ByRichard A. Santillan,Mark A. Ocegueda,+2 more

2012 • 1 Reader

Mexican American Baseball in the Central Coast

ByRichard A. Santillan,Christopher Docter,+3 more

2013 • 1 Reader

Mexican American Baseball in Orange County

ByRichard A. Santillan,Susan C. Luevano,+2 more

2013 • 1 Reader

Mexican American Baseball in Los Angeles

ByFrancisco E. Balderrama,Richard A. Santillan,+1 more

2011 • 1 Reader

Mexican American Baseball in Ventura County

ByRichard A. Santillan,Jose M. Alamillo,+3 more

1 Reader

Chernobyl

ByFrederik Pohl

1987 • 3 Readers • 357 pages • 5

Armada

ByErnest Cline

2000 • 422 Readers • 370 pages • 3.3

Command and Control

ByEric Schlosser

2013 • 55 Readers • 656 pages • 4

Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War

BySusan Southard

2015 • 11 Readers • 389 pages

After Fukushima

After Fukushima: What We Now Know: History of Nuclear Power and Radiation

ByAndrew Daniels

2016 • 1 Reader

The Rise of Nuclear Fear

BySpencer R. Weart

2012 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

Introduction to Nuclear Science

ByJeff C. Bryan

2008 • 1 Reader

The Three Mile Island Crisis

The Three Mile Island Crisis: Psychological, Social, and Economic Impacts on the Surrounding Population

ByPeter S. Houts,Teh-wei Hu,+1 more

1984 • 1 Reader

The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War

ByH.W. Brands

2016 • 5 Readers • 3.5

#4 of 5 in Voices of Utopia

Voices from Chernobyl

BySvetlana Alexievich,Keith Gessen(translator)

1989 • 118 Readers • 236 pages • 4.4

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

ByKate Moore

2016 • 335 Readers • 404 pages • 4.2

Zahrah the Windseeker

ByNnedi Okorafor

2005 • 22 Readers • 320 pages • 4

The Shadow Speaker

ByNnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

2007 • 9 Readers • 352 pages

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

Reclaiming San Francisco

ByJames Brook,Chris Carlsson,+2 more

1998 • 1 Reader • 384 pages

Season of the Witch

ByDavid Talbot

2012 • 10 Readers • 480 pages • 5

American Babylon

ByRobert O. Self

2005 • 4 Readers • 405 pages • 5

What the Dormouse Said

ByJohn Markoff

2005 • 22 Readers • 352 pages • 4

City Atlases

Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas

ByRebecca Solnit,Ben Pease,+1 more

2010 • 5 Readers • 157 pages • 5

The Second Gold Rush

The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II

ByMarilynn S. Johnson

1994 • 1 Reader

General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans

ByAlan Rosenus

1995 • 1 Reader

Berkeley

Berkeley: A City in History

ByCharles Wollenberg

2007 • 1 Reader

Dealers of Lightning

ByMichael A. Hiltzik

1999 • 30 Readers • 448 pages • 4

Geeks Bearing Gifts

ByTed Nelson

2008 • 2 Readers • 199 pages • 3

Imperial San Francisco

ByGray Brechin

1999 • 3 Readers • 437 pages • 2

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist

ByKathleen Barry

1990 • 1 Reader

Empire of the Summer Moon

ByS. C. Gwynne

2010 • 99 Readers • 371 pages • 4

Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

ByLynn Sherr

1995 • 2 Readers

#2 of 2 in The Nsibidi Scripts

Akata Warrior

ByNnedi Okorafor

2017 • 60 Readers • 477 pages • 4.4

#1 of 2 in The Nsibidi Scripts

Akata Witch

ByNnedi Okorafor

2011 • 226 Readers • 349 pages • 4

From slavery to freedom

ByJohn Hope Franklin

1947 • 4 Readers • 554 pages

#0 of 1 in Who Fears Death

The Book of Phoenix

ByNnedi Okorafor

2015 • 37 Readers • 240 pages • 3.9

#1 of 3 in Legacy of Orïsha

Children of Blood and Bone

ByTomi Adeyemi

2018 • 657 Readers • 352 pages • 3.9

Little Fires Everywhere

ByCeleste Ng

2014 • 916 Readers • 338 pages • 4.1

My Life

ByBill Clinton

16 Readers • 3.6

#1 of 9 in The Century Cycle

Gem of the Ocean

ByAugust Wilson

2003 • 7 Readers • 89 pages • 4.7

An Autobiography

ByAngela Y. Davis

1974 • 32 Readers • 410 pages • 4

A Beautiful Mind

BySylvia Nasar

1998 • 94 Readers • 461 pages • 3.6

A History of Pi

ByPetr Beckmann

1970 • 6 Readers • 202 pages • 1.5

The Demon-haunted World

ByCarl Sagan

1996 • 313 Readers • 457 pages • 4.2

W.E.B. Du Bois

ByW.E.B. Du Bois

1970 • 3 Readers • 801 pages

#6 of 9 in The Century Cycle

Fences

ByAugust Wilson

1986 • 36 Readers • 101 pages • 4.3

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

ByRobert Kanigel

1991 • 28 Readers • 438 pages • 3.5

The New American Nation Series

The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861

ByDavid Morris Potter

1976 • 10 Readers • 667 pages • 4

Conquest

ByHugh Thomas

1993 • 5 Readers • 812 pages • 3

#2 of 3 in Civilizations Rise and Fall

Collapse

ByJared Diamond

2005 • 188 Readers • 608 pages • 3.9

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

ByAugust Wilson

2020 • 4 Readers • 114 pages • 4.5

Moneyball

ByMichael Lewis

2003 • 198 Readers • 316 pages • 4.2

Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880

ByW.E.B. Du Bois

1935 • 37 Readers • 746 pages • 4

Becoming Mexican American

ByGeorge J. Sánchez,George J. Sanchez

1995 • 2 Readers • 367 pages • 4

#2 of 9 in The Century Cycle

Joe Turner's Come and Gone

ByAugust Wilson

1988 • 11 Readers • 94 pages • 3.3

Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

ByJohn Lewis,Michael D'Orso

1998 • 14 Readers • 496 pages • 4

Race, Class, & Gender: An Anthology

ByPatricia Hill Collins(Editor/Contributor),Margaret L. Andersen(Editor/Contributor)

1992 • 5 Readers • 578 pages

#13 of 3 in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes

The Big Sea

ByLangston Hughes

1940 • 5 Readers • 335 pages • 2

Innumeracy

ByJohn Allen Paulos

1988 • 33 Readers • 135 pages • 3.8

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

ByRandy Shilts

1987 • 73 Readers • 666 pages • 4.1

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