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The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer by Thierry Cruvellier

The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer

Thierry Cruvellier

326 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction biography history politics dark sad slow-paced
Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling by Michael Cannell

Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling

Michael Cannell

289 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction crime history true crime dark medium-paced
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett

How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett

448 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Life of P.T. Barnum by P. T. Barnum

The Life of P.T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum

404 pages • missing pub info (editions)

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction art autobiography biography history slow-paced
Pimp: The Story of My Life by Iceberg Slim

Pimp: The Story of My Life

Iceberg Slim

311 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction autobiography memoir dark reflective slow-paced
Studies in Hysteria by Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer

Studies in Hysteria

Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer

315 pages • missing pub info (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction psychology
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time by Simon Garfield

Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time

Simon Garfield

368 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty by Robert K. Massie

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

The Romanovs #3

Robert K. Massie

634 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction biography history challenging emotional informative slow-paced
Words on the Move: Why English Won't - And Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally) by John McWhorter

Words on the Move: Why English Won't - And Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)

John McWhorter

272 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs by Jim Rasenberger

The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs

Jim Rasenberger

460 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction history politics informative fast-paced