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

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

The Rise and Fall

Steve Brusatte

404 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative medium-paced
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned

Y: The Last Man #1

Brian K. Vaughan

130 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction comics science fiction adventurous fast-paced
Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

352 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science funny informative medium-paced
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Annalee Newitz

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective medium-paced
Paul Rand by steven heller.

Paul Rand

steven heller.

255 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction art design challenging informative medium-paced
The End is Nigh by Sarah Langan, Will McIntosh, Tobias S. Buckell, Annie Bellet, Jack McDevitt, Matthew Mather, Paolo Bacigalupi, Tananarive Due, Nancy Kress, Seanan McGuire, Jake Kerr, Jonathan Maberry, Ken Liu, Robin Wasserman, David Wellington, Desirina Boskovich, Jamie Ford, Charlie Jane Anders, Scott Sigler, John Joseph Adams, Ben H. Winters, Megan Arkenberg, Hugh Howey

The End is Nigh

The Apocalypse Triptych #1

Sarah Langan, Will McIntosh, Tobias S. Buckell, Annie Bellet, Jack McDevitt, Matthew Mather, Paolo Bacigalupi, Tananarive Due, Nancy Kress, Seanan McGuire, Jake Kerr, Jonathan Maberry, Ken Liu, Robin Wasserman, David Wellington, Desirina Boskovich, Jamie Ford, Charlie Jane Anders, Scott Sigler, John Joseph Adams, Ben H. Winters, Megan Arkenberg, Hugh Howey

350 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction science fiction short stories adventurous challenging slow-paced
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

656 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history politics science challenging informative tense slow-paced
Made in America by Bill Bryson

Made in America

Bill Bryson

478 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history travel funny informative reflective slow-paced
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley

The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century

Alan Brinkley

576 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography business history informative reflective slow-paced
All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft by Geraldine DeRuiter

All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft

Geraldine DeRuiter

288 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography essays memoir travel funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced
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