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50 books

Music and the Making of Modern Science by Peter Pesic

Music and the Making of Modern Science

Peter Pesic

347 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction music science informative medium-paced
Shakespeare's Lives by Samuel Schoenbaum
Shakespeare's Lives
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Samuel Schoenbaum

Shakespeare's Lives

Samuel Schoenbaum

612 pages • first pub 1970 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt by H.W. Brands

Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

H.W. Brands

888 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
The Stars Now Unclaimed by Drew Williams

The Stars Now Unclaimed

The Universe After #1

Drew Williams

447 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction science fiction adventurous fast-paced
The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing by Steven Connor

The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing

Steven Connor

384 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald
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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

missing page info • first pub 1940 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics emotional reflective medium-paced
Proust on Art and Literature by Marcel Proust

Proust on Art and Literature

Marcel Proust

420 pages • first pub 1954 (editions)

nonfiction art essays challenging reflective medium-paced
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

Nathalia Holt

352 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Reading Eco: An Anthology by

Reading Eco: An Anthology

512 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson

Termination Shock

Neal Stephenson

708 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction science fiction thriller adventurous challenging slow-paced