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Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Cleopatra: A Life

Stacy Schiff

368 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

Simon Winchester

416 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

George Johnson

208 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald Kagan

Thucydides: The Reinvention of History

Donald Kagan

272 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative slow-paced
Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist by Thomas Levenson

Newton and the Counterfeiter: The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist

Thomas Levenson

336 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative fast-paced
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

Allison Hoover Bartlett

288 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction true crime informative medium-paced
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison

337 pages • first pub 1977 (editions)

fiction classics literary magical realism challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep

Philip Marlowe #1

Raymond Chandler

230 pages • first pub 1939 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Desperate Sons: The Secret Band of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War by Les Standiford

Desperate Sons: The Secret Band of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War

Les Standiford

336 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative fast-paced
Waiting for Robert Capa by Susana Fortes, Adriana V. López

Waiting for Robert Capa

Susana Fortes, Adriana V. López

201 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction historical emotional slow-paced