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262 reviews

The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell

3.0

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser

4.0

Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures by Robert K. Wittman

3.0

Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre

5.0

Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia

5.0

Absolutely fantastic. Finished it in a long afternoon. Reminded me in many ways of a more melancholy Dave Barry.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

4.0

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia by Michael Korda

5.0

A 700-page doorstopper of a book, but very much worth a read. I found the ordering of some early chapters to be a bit jarring, but it wasn't anything I couldn't work through. A book as much about the man as about the events surrounding him.

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond

3.0

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

3.0

Made by Hand by Mark Frauenfelder

3.0