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

I need a recommendation for a book on English colonization 4 NEOhiodemocrat Oct 2014 Oct 2014 0 1888

I need a stealth selection for my book club - 9 hedgehog Jun 2012 Nov 2012 0 2946

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

I need help finding a word 8 Freelancer Oct 2018 Oct 2018 0 1458

I Read It So You Don't Have To 3 Wolf Frankula Nov 2014 Jul 2020 0 2381

I recommend Mary Trump's book TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH 4 raccoon Jul 2020 Jul 2020 4 2091

I recommend Netflixed 1 JonLP24 Jan 2013 Jan 2013 1 1551

I would like to run for host of this group, in order to make it a more vibrant part of DU. (Poll) 13 Neoma Jul 2012 Aug 2012 4 6480

I'm counting The Mueller Report as a book. 1 Neoma Apr 2019 Apr 2019 5 1625

I'm hoping someone can help me find an author with some really vague clues. 1 othermeans Nov 2013 Nov 2013 0 1597

I'm looking for a book about the real reasons for various wars. 15 raccoon May 2014 Aug 2016 1 3682

I'm looking for a book about travel on a wagon train 11 left-of-center2012 Feb 2022 Aug 2022 1 3363

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

I'm looking for a nonfiction book with "walls" in the title. 3 raccoon Mar 2021 Mar 2021 0 2084

I'm reading American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People" 0 raccoon Oct 2020 Oct 2020 2 1373

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

I'm reading 81 Days Below Zero. It's the story 6 raccoon Dec 2017 Dec 2017 1 1480

I'm reading up on The Cold War 3 pscot Nov 2015 Sep 2016 0 1590

I'm really enjoying "The Boys" by Ron and Clint Howard 2 FakeNoose Dec 2021 Dec 2021 6 2650

I'm really enjoying the book about human perspectives in history 0 applegrove Feb 2016 Feb 2016 1 1402

I've really been trying to make non-fiction a bigger part of my reading repetoir. 16 BlueIris May 2011 Dec 2011 0 3974

I, Mammal 1 PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1124

If you are interested in the temples in Cambodia 0 oldandhappy Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 1312

If You Have a Blog... 3 qwlauren35 Sep 2023 Jan 2024 4 1716

In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust 3 bucolic_frolic May 2022 May 2022 3 2579

Interesting intersection of privatization and religion in two different books 0 RSherman Oct 2023 Oct 2023 9 1264

Is the author C. J Fox a right wing conspiracy person? 2 efhmc Apr 2023 May 2023 1 2383

Is there any interest in a sub-section of non-fiction devoted to military history? 1 Lurks Often Feb 2013 Feb 2013 0 1616

Isaly's chipped ham, Klondikes celebrated in new historical book 9 left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 Nov 2021 5 2827

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It Came From Something Awful by Dale Beran 1 pscot Oct 2019 Oct 2019 0 1708

it took me only TWO years! 2 skippercollector Aug 2012 Aug 2012 0 1767

It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump 5 Danascot Aug 2020 Sep 2020 16 3711

It's never too late to appreciate the majesty of George McGovern 11 BeyondGeography Jan 2021 Jan 2021 11 2668

Jackie Robinson's birthday 1 The Polack MSgt Jan 2018 Jun 2018 1 1379

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

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

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

JFK by Fredrick Logevall 0 Tomconroy Jan 2022 Jan 2022 5 1681

June 12, 2022: 93 Years Since Anne Frank's birth; June 25, 2022: 75 years since her diary printed 9 anobserver2 Jun 2022 Jun 2022 0 3522

Just a visual treat for booklovers 7 skepticscott Feb 2012 Jul 2012 3 2906

Just about half-way through Eisenhower's "So Far From God: The U. S. War With Mexico, 1846–1848." 5 Adsos Letter Nov 2015 Mar 2016 0 1669

Just Completed "Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party" by Edward Dolnick 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 6 Mar 9 4 691

Just Finished "Can't We Be Friends" by Eliza Knight about Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald's Friendship 1 hotellanai1986 Feb 28 Feb 28 5 768

Just finished "H is for Hawk". Fascinating book. 0 bif Jan 2016 Jan 2016 1 1657

Just finished "Lotharingia" by Simon Winder. 0 bif May 2020 May 2020 1 1146

Just finished Bernal Diaz' The True History of the Conquest of New Spain 2 Zorro Mar 2018 Mar 2018 2 1592

Just finished Johann Hari's book, Lost Connections 3 mnhtnbb Sep 2019 Sep 2019 1 1247

Just finished LOSING OUR WAY: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF A TROUBLED AMERICA. 0 raccoon Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1357

Just finished reading An American Family by Khizr Khan. 6 onecaliberal Dec 2017 Dec 2017 26 2308

Just finished reading My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor. 15 northoftheborder Jan 2013 Apr 2014 0 3423

Just finished the audio version of Ruth Ben-Ghiat's "Strongmen" 0 ificandream Feb 24 Feb 24 2 557

Just finished TO END ALL WARS by Adam Hochschild, about WWI. 1 raccoon May 2014 May 2014 0 1467

Just finished: Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That 5 FSogol Apr 2018 Apr 2018 7 1586

Just finished: The Perfectionists: How precision engineers created the modern world by 2 FSogol Jul 2018 Sep 2018 7 1465

Just got the most fun book from my daughter 2 av8rdave Jan 2012 Jan 2012 2 2162

Just Put Down C.O. Moed's "It Was Her New York" 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 20 Mar 20 6 856

Just received David Neiwerts latest book. 0 Adsos Letter Oct 2017 Oct 2017 3 1204

Just started "The Presidents Club" 2 RudynJack Mar 2013 Mar 2013 0 1592

Just started reading Michael Wolff's "The Fall" about Fox News. 0 ificandream Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 1070

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Just won a copy of The Six by Loren Gush via Goodreads 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 1913

Just working my way through "The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, Revolu 2 Adsos Letter Feb 2013 May 2013 0 2206

Katherine Johnson, at age 100, is telling her life story 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 2701

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse. 7 Neoma Mar 2013 Mar 2013 1 2705

Killers of the Flower Moon - my wife and I don't get the plaudits 6 NewHendoLib Nov 2023 Dec 2023 0 1931

KLAN WAR by Fergus M. Bordewich 0 bucolic_frolic Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 906

Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction, by F. Bordewich 1 Timeflyer Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1076

Leadership: In Turblent Times 2 Ninga Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 2939

Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive 0 salvorhardin Feb 2012 Feb 2012 0 1819

Like Judgment Day by Michael D'Orso 0 struggle4progress Oct 2017 Oct 2017 1 1212

Lisa Bortolotti argues that some irrational beliefs qualify as epistemically innocent 0 NNadir Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 1575

looking for the scariest books 25 clarice Feb 2013 Feb 2013 0 8942

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

Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen's "Hollywood Behind the Lens" - A Romp Through Hollywood's Controlled Pandemonium 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 6 Mar 6 2 552

Meet The 'Spiritual Godfather Of Online Leaking' 0 struggle4progress Sep 2012 Sep 2012 0 1483

Megan Rapinoe (US Women's World Cup soccer star) has 2 books in the works 0 FakeNoose Jul 2019 Jul 2019 0 1174

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

Michael Moore, Here Comes Trouble, is a real page turner. 3 limpyhobbler Oct 2012 Dec 2012 1 2138

Midnight In Chernobyl 2 kairos12 Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1235

Midnight in Washington Comment Thread 6 NJCher Oct 2021 Feb 2022 4 2167

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