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Be curious - Non-Fiction Challenge 2025 - hosted by brynawel

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When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World by Caseen Gaines

When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World
Caseen Gaines

512 pages • paperback • 2023 (editions)

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When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World

Caseen Gaines

512 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction art history race informative medium-paced

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen with Dr. James Loewen (Narrator)

17 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 1995 (editions) user-added

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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

James W. Loewen with Dr. James Loewen (Narrator)

17 hours, 36 minutes • audio • 1995 user-added

nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
Richard Beck

592 pages • hardcover • 2024 (editions)

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Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

Richard Beck

592 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced

The World After Gaza
Pankaj Mishra

6 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2025 (editions) user-added

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The World After Gaza

Pankaj Mishra

6 hours, 55 minutes • audio • 2025 user-added

nonfiction essays history philosophy politics informative reflective sad medium-paced

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
Eve L. Ewing with Robin Miles (Narrator)

12 hours, 14 minutes • audio • 2025 (editions)

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Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Eve L. Ewing with Robin Miles (Narrator)

12 hours, 14 minutes • audio • 2025

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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Kate Clifford Larson

320 pages • hardcover • 2015 (editions)

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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

Kate Clifford Larson

320 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction biography history challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe

560 pages • paperback • 2018 (editions)

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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

560 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction history politics true crime dark informative reflective medium-paced

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports
Michael Waters

362 pages • hardcover • 2024 (editions)

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ sports emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

Michael Waters

362 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ sports emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Simon Baatz

The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Simon Baatz

10 hours, 30 minutes • audio • 2018 (editions)

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The Girl on the Velvet Swing: Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

Simon Baatz

10 hours, 30 minutes • audio • 2018

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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain with Robin Eller (Narrator), Ryan Vincent Anderson (Narrator), Jamal Henderson (Narrator), Karen Chilton (Narrator), Brianna Collette (Narrator), Nicole Lewis (Narrator), Terrence Kidd (Narrator), Peter Francis James (Narrator), Dennis Logan (Narrator), Sherrilyn Ifill (Narrator), Alicia Garza (Narrator), Kevin R. Free (Narrator), Andre Blake (Narrator), Danai Gurira (Narrator), Sean Crisden (Narrator), Adam Lazarre-White (Narrator), Amir Abdullah (Narrator), Dion Graham (Narrator), Kellie Carter Jackson (Narrator), James Monroe Iglehart (Narrator), Leonard Dozier (Narrator), Cary Hite (Narrator), Keylor Leigh (Narrator), Mahogany L. Browne (Narrator), Jerome Harmann-Hardeman (Narrator), Joniece Abbott-Pratt (Narrator), Susan Heyward (Narrator), Donte Bonner (Narrator), James Fouhey (Narrator), Keith David (Narrator), Ethan Herisse (Narrator), Sullivan Jones (Narrator), Torian Brackett (Narrator), Zainab Jah (Narrator), Kristen Ariza (Narrator), Ron Butler (Narrator), Quincy Tyler Bernstine (Narrator), JD Jackson (Narrator), Nikole Hannah-Jones (Narrator), January LaVoy (Narrator), Joshua Bennett (Narrator), Dashawn Barnes (Narrator), William DeMeritt (Narrator), Dominic Hoffman (Narrator), Desmond Manny (Narrator), Chanté McCormick (Narrator)

14 hours, 1 minutes • audio • 2021 (editions)

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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain with Robin Eller (Narrator), Ryan Vincent Anderson (Narrator), Jamal Henderson (Narrator), Karen Chilton (Narrator), Brianna Collette (Narrator), Nicole Lewis (Narrator), Terrence Kidd (Narrator), Peter Francis James (Narrator), Dennis Logan (Narrator), Sherrilyn Ifill (Narrator), Alicia Garza (Narrator), Kevin R. Free (Narrator), Andre Blake (Narrator), Danai Gurira (Narrator), Sean Crisden (Narrator), Adam Lazarre-White (Narrator), Amir Abdullah (Narrator), Dion Graham (Narrator), Kellie Carter Jackson (Narrator), James Monroe Iglehart (Narrator), Leonard Dozier (Narrator), Cary Hite (Narrator), Keylor Leigh (Narrator), Mahogany L. Browne (Narrator), Jerome Harmann-Hardeman (Narrator), Joniece Abbott-Pratt (Narrator), Susan Heyward (Narrator), Donte Bonner (Narrator), James Fouhey (Narrator), Keith David (Narrator), Ethan Herisse (Narrator), Sullivan Jones (Narrator), Torian Brackett (Narrator), Zainab Jah (Narrator), Kristen Ariza (Narrator), Ron Butler (Narrator), Quincy Tyler Bernstine (Narrator), JD Jackson (Narrator), Nikole Hannah-Jones (Narrator), January LaVoy (Narrator), Joshua Bennett (Narrator), Dashawn Barnes (Narrator), William DeMeritt (Narrator), Dominic Hoffman (Narrator), Desmond Manny (Narrator), Chanté McCormick (Narrator)

14 hours, 1 minutes • audio • 2021

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