Beat the Backlist 2024 - hosted by austinedecker

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Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb by Roseanne Montillo

Atomic Women: The Untold Stories of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb

Roseanne Montillo

272 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history science informative medium-paced
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

729 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians. by Cynthia C. Kelly

Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses and Historians.

Cynthia C. Kelly

400 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
The Manhattan Project: The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Al Cimino

The Manhattan Project: The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Al Cimino

157 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising

Shadow and Bone #3

Leigh Bardugo

406 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

Kyle Buchanan

384 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister

Desert Creatures

Kay Chronister

285 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction dystopian horror dark emotional tense medium-paced
The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murad

The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

Nadia Murad

12 hours, 16 minutes • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction memoir politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
Solito by Javier Zamora

Solito

Javier Zamora

17 hours, 9 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional sad tense medium-paced
They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles

They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers

Sarah Scoles

missing duration info • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced