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53 books

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Daniel J. Levitin

314 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction music psychology science informative slow-paced
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

320 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories challenging reflective medium-paced
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan

War: How Conflict Shaped Us

Margaret MacMillan

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli

Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli

288 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science adventurous slow-paced
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Red Mars

Mars Trilogy #1

Kim Stanley Robinson

572 pages • first pub 1992 (editions)

fiction science fiction speculative fiction adventurous challenging slow-paced
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Charles C. Mann

541 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

Terry Tempest Williams

416 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction memoir nature travel reflective slow-paced
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

Andrés Reséndez

448 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know about Raising Confident, Capable Kids by Iben Sandahl, Jessica Joelle Alexander

The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know about Raising Confident, Capable Kids

Iben Sandahl, Jessica Joelle Alexander

208 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction self help informative inspiring slow-paced
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

The Rise and Fall

Stephen Brusatte

404 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced