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Anyone read/reading People's History of the United States of America? 5 geardaddy Dec 2015 Dec 2017 1 2533

Trying to decide on a NF book to read 10 Genki Hikari Sep 2022 Oct 2022 0 2819

"Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control" 3 GeoWilliam750 Feb 2017 Feb 2017 6 1751

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth 4 gollygee Aug 2013 Nov 2013 0 2104

Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff Audiobook #1 3 Goonch Jan 2018 Jan 2018 1 1481

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. 2 Goonch May 2021 May 2021 9 4537

A Lightning Rod in the Storm Over America’s Class Divide - Charles Murray's "Coming Apart" 3 groovedaddy Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 2304

9 Justices Who Sit in the Eye of Storms - "The Oath" 2 groovedaddy Oct 2012 Dec 2014 0 1914

A Nerdy-Dirty Primer on Primal Urges 1 groovedaddy Jan 2013 Jan 2013 0 1822

Fighting Words Against Big Data‘Who Owns the Future?’ by Jaron Lanier 0 groovedaddy May 2013 May 2013 0 1668

Hi, I'm looking for non-fiction recs of a specific type 17 happybird Apr 2019 May 2019 0 3938

I need a stealth selection for my book club - 9 hedgehog Jun 2012 Nov 2012 0 2947

I need help finding a book - 9 hedgehog Oct 2013 Nov 2013 0 2653

Fans of Thomas Cahill's "Hinges of History" - 1 hedgehog Oct 2013 Jan 2014 1 1851

15 NF standouts for reading this year 2 hermetic Jan 2021 Jan 2021 5 2080

5 Excellent Science Books You Should Read 5 hermetic Jun 2022 Jun 2022 16 1761

A note from Douglas Preston 0 hermetic Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 988

David Cross - Making America Great Again 0 hibbing Jan 2019 Jan 2019 0 1326

Death Be Not Proud by, John Gunther. Just finished it. 18 Hiraeth Mar 2016 Apr 2016 2 2123

The Lone Assassin: The Epic True Story of the Man Who Almost Killed Hitler 0 Hiraeth Mar 2016 Mar 2016 0 1406

Just Finished "Can't We Be Friends" by Eliza Knight about Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald's Friendship 1 hotellanai1986 Feb 28 Feb 28 5 788

Just Completed "Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party" by Edward Dolnick 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 6 Mar 9 4 711

Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen's "Hollywood Behind the Lens" - A Romp Through Hollywood's Controlled Pandemonium 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 6 Mar 6 2 572

Just Put Down C.O. Moed's "It Was Her New York" 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 20 Mar 20 6 879

Forget Bonnie and Clyde, Meet the Original Gangster Grandma, "The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum" by Margalit Fox 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 20 Mar 20 6 2273

Galileo's Middle Finger: Persecuting Scientists Whose Findings Are Seen As Politically Incorrect 4 HuckleB Feb 2016 Feb 2016 0 2347

Hidden Valley Road. American family with 12 children, 6 had schizophrenia 4 IcyPeas Mar 2021 Jul 2021 5 4313

Jamie Raskin's "Unthinkable" 2 ificandream Feb 2022 Feb 2022 1 1387

Just started reading Michael Wolff's "The Fall" about Fox News. 0 ificandream Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 1090

The Fall by Michael Wolff 0 ificandream Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 913

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Just finished the audio version of Ruth Ben-Ghiat's "Strongmen" 0 ificandream Feb 24 Feb 24 2 579

Pete Souza's Obama 1 Ineeda Nov 2017 Nov 2017 1 1106

I am reading 'Underground in Berlin' , Marie Jalowicz Simon 5 irisblue Aug 2018 Aug 2018 5 1473

First World War 9 Jack Sprat Apr 2013 Apr 2013 2 2370

Project Terminated 0 jakeXT Jul 2013 Jul 2013 2 1382

Woman finds long-lost sister after reading her memoir ‘Wild’ 2 jakeXT Sep 2013 Mar 2014 3 1838

Chris Hadfield: 'I'm blind, in space, holding a drill. Houston, I have a problem' 1 jakeXT Oct 2013 Oct 2013 1 2138

They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars -- The Untold Story, 1 jakeXT Oct 2013 Oct 2013 0 1687

James Risen’s ‘Pay Any Price’ 2 jakeXT Nov 2014 Nov 2014 3 1544

Princeton Receives $300M Rare Book Collection, University’s Largest Gift Ever 0 jakeXT Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1492

Michael Lewis Reflects on His Book Flash Boys, a Year After It Shook Wall Street to Its Core 0 jakeXT Mar 2015 Mar 2015 0 1397

The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America 1 Javaman Nov 2022 Dec 2022 4 2285

Susan Cain: The power of introverts in a world just that just can't stop talking 3 jeffrey_pdx Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1788

Aldrich Ames 1 jeffrey_pdx Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1687

Forget the Alamo review: dark truths of the US south and its 'secular Mecca' 2 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2021 Aug 2021 6 3552

A look at the tumultuous life of 'Persepolis' as it turns 20 0 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 1494

I just got my cool new autographed Thom Hartmann book 1 JitterbugPerfume Dec 2011 Dec 2011 0 1879

Sarah Vowell! 12 JitterbugPerfume Dec 2011 Sep 2012 1 3219

I recommend Netflixed 1 JonLP24 Jan 2013 Jan 2013 1 1551

Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy 0 JonLP24 Oct 2017 Oct 2017 0 1101

Collusion: How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win, by the Guardian journalist 1 JonLP24 Nov 2017 Nov 2017 8 1625

The Red Web: The Struggle between Russia's digital dictators and the online revolutionaries 0 JonLP24 Dec 2017 Dec 2017 0 1035

Collusion books 0 JonLP24 Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1108

I'm looking for a good book on women's sufferage. 3 Just Saying May 2013 May 2013 0 1852

Anybody know about BAM! ? 4 justgamma Dec 2011 Dec 2011 1 2105

Great history of the Mountain Meadows Massacre 3 kag Nov 2012 Jan 2013 1 2626

Explains how democracy is in big trouble: "Democracy in Chains." 2 kairos12 Sep 2017 Aug 2018 2 2999

"Into the Raging Sea" 1 kairos12 Jun 2018 Jun 2018 0 1314

Midnight In Chernobyl 2 kairos12 Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1237

"Premonition" 2 kairos12 Nov 2021 Jan 2022 0 1552

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"Empire of Pain" 4 kairos12 Jan 2022 Jan 2022 3 1665

"Flying Blind 0 kairos12 Mar 2022 Mar 2022 1 1260

"Cabin Fever." 0 kairos12 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 1542

"The Pope At War." 0 kairos12 Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 1029

Bruce Catton over Shelby Foote any day. & twicet on the weekends 2 KG Dec 2020 Dec 2020 0 2211

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right 4 kgrandia Jan 2016 Jul 2017 5 2577

Here is account of my last 3 years in San Jacinto California 0 Koch Ebola Aug 2016 Aug 2016 0 1283

Here is a chaper from my manuscript in audio 0 Koch Ebola Jan 2018 Jan 2018 0 1158

I'm reading "Connecticut in the Civil War" right now 2 krispos42 Dec 2011 May 2012 1 2022

This town wow 5 Laochtine Sep 2013 Sep 2013 1 1916

"Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present" --Ruth Ben-Ghiat 1 lastlib Feb 2022 Feb 2022 2 2323

What about Double Down? 9 Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2013 Jul 2014 0 2442

Ex-cop to release book on New Kensington, PA mob 0 left-of-center2012 Nov 2015 Nov 2015 0 3312

Manure and ice cream 0 left-of-center2012 Jul 2018 Jul 2018 5 1275

'The Pioneers' by David McCullough 6 left-of-center2012 May 2019 May 2019 6 1471

The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969: when Vietnam came home 1 left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 Jul 2019 4 1206

"ESCALANTE'S DREAM: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest" 1 left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 Jul 2019 1 1473

The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America 1 left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 Jul 2019 1 1110

"The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found" 0 left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 Jul 2019 2 1197

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