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Dead Wake by Erik Larson

Dead Wake

Erik Larson

452 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction history informative medium-paced
Traitor's Blade by Sebastien de Castell

Traitor's Blade

Greatcoats #1

Sebastien de Castell

372 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
fiction fantasy adventurous dark funny fast-paced
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War by Charles Bracelen Flood

Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War

Charles Bracelen Flood

460 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Simon Winchester

416 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

Simon Winchester

242 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction biography history reference informative slow-paced
A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

Simon Winchester

462 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

11 hours, 11 minutes • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction memoir race emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Candice Millard

442 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phyllis A. Tickle

The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why

Phyllis A. Tickle

216 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction religion informative reflective slow-paced
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

Candice Millard

640 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0quodfelix's review
nonfiction biography history informative tense medium-paced