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All The Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

All The Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Patrick Bringley

240 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction art memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness by Kathryn Schulz

Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness

Kathryn Schulz

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

357 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction biography history adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Adam Higginbotham

538 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative tense 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)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction history politics science challenging informative tense slow-paced
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren

What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World

Sara Hendren

240 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction nature challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT Up New York, 1987-1993

Sarah Schulman

736 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

535 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction biography business history true crime dark informative medium-paced
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

Vesper Flights

Helen Macdonald

336 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction essays nature informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Katherine Eban

512 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0littoral's review
nonfiction business health true crime informative medium-paced