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The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki

The Wisdom of Crowds

James Surowiecki

336 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction business economics psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective by Thomas Sowell

Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective

Thomas Sowell

336 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

Nancy Isenberg

460 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study by Thomas Sowell

Affirmative Action Around the World: An Empirical Study

Thomas Sowell

256 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
At Day's Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

A. Roger Ekirch

480 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction historical history science informative reflective slow-paced
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My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams

My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress

Rachel DeLoache Williams

288 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction memoir true crime informative reflective medium-paced
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari

Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

Johann Hari

348 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction psychology self help challenging informative reflective medium-paced
A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain by Sara Manning Peskin

A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

Sara Manning Peskin

224 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science emotional informative medium-paced
Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever by Geoff Williams

Washed Away: How the Great Flood of 1913, America's Most Widespread Natural Disaster, Terrorized a Nation and Changed It Forever

Geoff Williams

336 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics by O. Carter Snead

What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics

O. Carter Snead

336 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health reference science sociology
The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit by John V. Petrocelli

The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit

John V. Petrocelli

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative medium-paced
Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism by Larry Siedentop

Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism

Larry Siedentop

416 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging slow-paced
A Good Place to Hide: How One French Village Saved Thousands of Lives During World War II by Peter Grose

A Good Place to Hide: How One French Village Saved Thousands of Lives During World War II

Peter Grose

352 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative slow-paced
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

36 hours, 39 minutes • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology challenging informative slow-paced
Mr Beethoven by Paul Griffiths

Mr Beethoven

Paul Griffiths

302 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

informative medium-paced