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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Geoffrey Girard, Thomas Lockley

African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan

Geoffrey Girard, Thomas Lockley

480 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

S.C. Gwynne

371 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging dark informative medium-paced
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

312 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Nicky Winmar: My Story by Nicky Winmar

Nicky Winmar: My Story

Nicky Winmar

7 hours, 30 minutes • missing pub info (editions) user-added

nonfiction sports
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie

No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith

Fawn M. Brodie

576 pages • first pub 1945 (editions)

nonfiction biography history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Jonathan Freedland

356 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective sad medium-paced
A World Elsewhere: An American Woman in Wartime Germany by Sigrid MacRae

A World Elsewhere: An American Woman in Wartime Germany

Sigrid MacRae

336 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional slow-paced
Bolívar: American Liberator by Marie Arana

Bolívar: American Liberator

Marie Arana

624 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Don't!: Misadventures of a Sword Guy by Michael Craughwell
Don't!: Misadventures of a Sword Guy
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Michael Craughwell

Don't!: Misadventures of a Sword Guy

Michael Craughwell

160 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction essays
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