Tom Perkins

109 books

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller

Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

Henry Miller

400 pages • first pub 1957 (editions)

nonfiction memoir reflective slow-paced
The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound by Daniel Swift

The Bughouse: The Poetry, Politics and Madness of Ezra Pound

Daniel Swift

320 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history poetry challenging slow-paced
Bush by Jean Edward Smith

Bush

Jean Edward Smith

832 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics reflective slow-paced
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

Bill Schutt

342 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Chandra's Cosmos : Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Other Wonders Revealed by NASA's Premier X-ray Observatory by Wallace H. Tucker

Chandra's Cosmos : Dark Matter, Black Holes, and Other Wonders Revealed by NASA's Premier X-ray Observatory

Wallace H. Tucker

304 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia by Henry Jay Przybylo

Counting Backwards: A Doctor's Notes on Anesthesia

Henry Jay Przybylo

256 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction memoir science emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice by Joseph Hilldorfer, Robert Dugoni

The Cyanide Canary: A True Story of Injustice

Joseph Hilldorfer, Robert Dugoni

352 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime dark informative mysterious medium-paced
Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer by M. William Phelps

Dangerous Ground: My Friendship with a Serial Killer

M. William Phelps

353 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir true crime dark informative slow-paced
Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy by Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts

Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

Ethan J. Kytle, Blain Roberts

448 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Dinner in Camelot: The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House by Joseph A. Esposito

Dinner in Camelot: The Night America's Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House

Joseph A. Esposito

252 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative lighthearted slow-paced