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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
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us about Who We Really Are

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

352 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

3.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction business psychology science informative medium-paced
The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing by Damion Searls

The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing

Damion Searls

405 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction biography history psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Černá ruka: válka mezi geniálním detektivem a nejnebezpečnějším tajným spolkem americké historie by Stephan Talty
Černá ruka: válka mezi geniálním detektivem a nejnebezpečnějším tajným spolkem americké historie
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Stephan Talty

Černá ruka: válka mezi geniálním detektivem a nejnebezpečnějším tajným spolkem americké historie

Stephan Talty

298 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction crime history true crime informative mysterious fast-paced
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

790 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

2.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado

Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice

Adam Benforado

missing duration info • first pub 2015 (editions)

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction politics psychology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

Antonio Garcia Martinez

528 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

4.0ryanboyd's review
nonfiction business memoir technology reflective fast-paced