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A Brief History of Time: From The Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time: From The Big Bang to Black Holes

Stephen Hawking

7 hours, 18 minutes • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium by Lucy Jane Santos

Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium

Lucy Jane Santos

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore

485 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science emotional slow-paced
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Caitlin Doughty

272 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir funny informative reflective medium-paced
All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell

All the Living and the Dead

Hayley Campbell

288 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

Riley Black

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science informative medium-paced
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Mary Roach

303 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science dark funny informative medium-paced
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou

11 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction business health true crime informative tense medium-paced
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

369 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative medium-paced
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

Andrew H. Knoll

260 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science informative medium-paced