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The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Sam Kean

391 pages • paperback • 2010

5.0oatila's review
nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin

A Dance with Dragons

A Song of Ice and Fire #5

George R.R. Martin

1016 pages • hardcover • 2011

5.0oatila's review
fiction fantasy adventurous dark tense slow-paced
Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution by Nick Lane

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

Nick Lane

352 pages • hardcover • 2009

5.0oatila's review
nonfiction science informative reflective slow-paced
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

802 pages • hardcover • 2010

5.0oatila's review
nonfiction history psychology challenging informative slow-paced
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

380 pages • hardcover • 2008

5.0oatila's review
nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced
The Origins of AIDS by Jacques Pepin

The Origins of AIDS

Jacques Pepin

293 pages • paperback

5.0oatila's review
nonfiction health history challenging emotional informative slow-paced
Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order by Steven Strogatz

Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order

Steven Strogatz

352 pages • hardcover • 2003

5.0oatila's review
nonfiction mathematics science informative slow-paced
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

303 pages • paperback • 2003

5.0oatila's review
nonfiction history science dark funny informative medium-paced
Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis

Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas

Preacher #1

Garth Ennis

336 pages • paperback • 1996

5.0oatila's review
fiction comics fantasy horror adventurous fast-paced
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4

Frank Miller

197 pages • hardcover • 1986

5.0oatila's review
fiction comics adventurous dark tense medium-paced