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The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change by Iain McCalman

The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change

Iain McCalman

352 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris by Eric Jager

Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris

Eric Jager

336 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime challenging medium-paced
Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused by Mike Dash

Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused

Mike Dash

288 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction economics history informative slow-paced
The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese by Katherine L. French

The People of the Parish: Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese

Katherine L. French

320 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg

208 pages • first pub 1976 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

416 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870 by Alain Corbin

The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870

Alain Corbin

172 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime dark reflective slow-paced
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy Dauber

Jewish Comedy: A Serious History

Jeremy Dauber

384 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history funny reflective medium-paced
Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers by Marissa A. Harrison

Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers

Marissa A. Harrison

280 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology sociology true crime dark informative medium-paced
Historically Black Phrases: From "I Ain't One of Your Lil' Friends" to "Who All Gon' Be There?" by jarrett hill, Tre'vell Anderson

Historically Black Phrases: From "I Ain't One of Your Lil' Friends" to "Who All Gon' Be There?"

jarrett hill, Tre'vell Anderson

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ race reference sociology funny informative lighthearted fast-paced