Dewey Decimal Nonfiction Challenge - hosted by scripturient

900 - History and Geography
Includes: World History; Geography and Travel; Biography and Genealogy; History of Groups of People, Countries, Cultures, ...; Accounts of Specific Historic Events; Historical Geography; Extraterrestrial Worlds; ...
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Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They Are Today by Travis Elborough

Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They Are Today

Unexpected Atlases

Travis Elborough

224 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction history travel informative slow-paced
Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland by Scott Shane

Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland

Scott Shane

352 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Zach Weinersmith, Kelly Weinersmith

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Zach Weinersmith, Kelly Weinersmith

436 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction politics science funny informative medium-paced
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide by Tony Horwitz

Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide

Tony Horwitz

476 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction biography history travel informative reflective medium-paced
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

Tony Horwitz

432 pages • paperback • 1999

nonfiction essays history travel challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind, Volume 1 by Yuval Noah Harari

Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind, Volume 1

Sapiens: A Graphic History #1

Yuval Noah Harari

248 pages • hardcover • 2020

nonfiction graphic novel history science adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
The Dawn of Everything by David Wengrow, David Graeber

The Dawn of Everything

David Wengrow, David Graeber

692 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction history politics science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

Neil deGrasse Tyson

283 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction science informative lighthearted medium-paced
The Babylonian World by Gwendolyn Leick

The Babylonian World

Routledge Worlds

Gwendolyn Leick

616 pages • 2007

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy

Nathan Thrall

272 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced