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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

640 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 science sociology 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
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Jeff Guinn

531 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction biography history religion true crime dark informative sad slow-paced
Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge by Joan Howard Maurer

Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge

Joan Howard Maurer

196 pages • missing pub info (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction art autobiography biography informative medium-paced
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy by Stephen Richard Witt

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy

Stephen Richard Witt

296 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction business history music informative tense fast-paced