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Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier by Stephen E. Ambrose

Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

Stephen E. Ambrose

592 pages • paperback • 1996

5.0dobak23's review
nonfiction biography history adventurous medium-paced
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris

Theodore Rex

Theodore Roosevelt #2

Edmund Morris

792 pages • paperback • 2001

5.0dobak23's review
nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

The Years of Lyndon Johnson #4

Robert A. Caro

736 pages • hardcover • 2012

5.0dobak23's review
nonfiction biography history politics informative slow-paced
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick

320 pages • paperback • 2000

5.0dobak23's review
nonfiction history adventurous informative sad slow-paced
One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson

One Summer: America, 1927

Bill Bryson

509 pages • hardcover • 2013

5.0dobak23's review
nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

The Rape of Nanking

Iris Chang

290 pages • paperback • 1997

5.0dobak23's review
nonfiction history dark informative sad slow-paced
Barack Obama: The Story by David Maraniss

Barack Obama: The Story

David Maraniss

672 pages • hardcover • 2012

5.0dobak23's review
nonfiction biography politics informative reflective slow-paced
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

277 pages • paperback • 1951

5.0dobak23's review
fiction classics literary emotional reflective medium-paced
Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

256 pages • paperback • 1954

5.0dobak23's review
fiction classics literary adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

103 pages • paperback • 1937

5.0dobak23's review
fiction classics dark emotional medium-paced