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Welcome to the Non-Fiction Group. 33 Neoma Aug 2012 Dec 2023 7 52199
Looking for a book about the Jan 6 insurrection that appeared in Reader's Digest as a condensed 2 raccoon Sunday Monday 5 270
Reading When McKinsey Comes to Town. Great book, as I had never heard about the subject. 3 multigraincracker Dec 30 Dec 30 3 623
"The Year of Living Constitutionally" by A.J. Jacobs 0 Timeflyer Dec 19 Dec 19 5 319
Is It Really Your Money? 5 in2herbs Nov 24 Nov 24 5 919
"War" by Bob Woodward 0 Mike 03 Nov 22 Nov 22 7 534
If you're a fan of Thom Hartmann 1 Shipwack Nov 11 Nov 11 10 889
Invisible Doctrine: The secret history of neoliberalism, George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. 2 raccoon Nov 4 Nov 4 5 476
Any John Crace Fans Here? 0 jfz9580m Oct 2024 Oct 2024 0 422
"Emperor of Rome," by Mary Beard. 2 Timeflyer Oct 2024 Oct 2024 4 601
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford 0 cbabe Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 447
Stories Are Weapons - Annalee Newitz 0 bucolic_frolic Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 420
That Librarian by Amanda Jones 5 cbabe Sep 2024 Dec 29 3 608
Reading Micheal Lewis"The Fifth Element" of Chump's takeover of 5 kairos12 Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 673
"Losing Reality: on Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry," by R. J. Lifton. 0 Timeflyer Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 515
Deep dark MSM: All the Worst Humans: how I made news for dictators, tycoons, and politicians 4 cbabe Sep 2024 Oct 2024 6 831
John Vaillant/Fire Weather: on the front lines of a burning world 4 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 495
Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed 7 cbabe Aug 2024 Sep 2024 6 690
White robes and broken badges (fbi informant, Jamie Raskin forward, and the klan threat today) 0 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 7 614
Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned in the book banning wars 2 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 10 827
The race to the future: 1907's 8,000-mile odyssey from China to France 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 498
Before It's Gone 1 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 731
All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way - by Fred C. Trump III 4 raccoon Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 872
Hidden figures: giving history's most overlooked mathematicians their due 4 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 690
Five of the best books about conspiracy theories 1 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 655
Just finished "The New Rules of War" by Sean McFate. I highly recommend it. 0 raccoon Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 562
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan 1 Raven123 Jul 2024 Aug 2024 7 577
Long Haul by Frank Figliuzzi 0 Vinca Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 616
GOP grifters & graft: Stealing with both hands 2 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 602
Lies and the lying liar who told them: A former PR looks back on a career spent whitewashing 'foreign baddies' 3 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 677

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What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started 1 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 616
"When Religion Hurts You: Healing from religious trauma and the impact of High-Control Religion," by Laura E. Anderson, 4 Timeflyer Jun 2024 Aug 2024 10 795
Just read The 4 winds 2 efhmc Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 640
Nuclear War: A Scenario 3 kairos12 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 1100
as its memorial day, i'd like to recommend an old WW1 book. 'and they said we wouldn't fight', by floyd gibbons. 2 pansypoo53219 May 2024 May 2024 2 616
"Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World" (Nature book review) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 6 562
ZERO FAIL The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 5 BOSSHOG May 2024 Jul 2024 5 740
Recycled sewage, public health and the memory of the world: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 2 642
Congratulations to 2024 Pulitzer Nonfiction winners! 0 NanaCat May 2024 May 2024 0 822
How rich is too rich? (Nature book review) 1 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 5 921
From multiverses to cities: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 1 863
"Suffrage: women's long battle for the vote," by Ellen Carol Dubois, 2020. 1 Timeflyer Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 950
Rebel Wilson book published in the UK with blacked out text 1 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1227
Non-Fiction reads so far in 2024 5 NanaCat Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1596
'The anti-pet of bourgeois life': why the world needs big cat energy 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1261
The Dead Are Arising by Les & Tamara Payne 0 NanaCat Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1451
Forget Bonnie and Clyde, Meet the Original Gangster Grandma, "The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum" by Margalit Fox 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 3231
Just Put Down C.O. Moed's "It Was Her New York" 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1665
"The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American evangelicals in an age of extremism", by Tim Alberta. 8 Timeflyer Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 1590
Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen's "Hollywood Behind the Lens" - A Romp Through Hollywood's Controlled Pandemonium 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1306
Just Completed "Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party" by Edward Dolnick 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1484
Just Finished "Can't We Be Friends" by Eliza Knight about Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald's Friendship 1 hotellanai1986 Feb 2024 Feb 2024 5 1585
Just finished the audio version of Ruth Ben-Ghiat's "Strongmen" 0 ificandream Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 1306
Fans of James Herriot gotta read this. 2 elleng Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 1727
"American Cassandra: the life of Dorothy Thompson," by Peter Kurth, 1990. 1 Timeflyer Feb 2024 Feb 2024 6 1384
Two recent books on WWII Nazi era 0 bucolic_frolic Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 1579
This message was self-deleted by its author 20 anobserver2 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 0 2561
Non-Fiction of the Week 14 January 2024 2 ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 1592
NonFiction of the week 7 January 2024 0 ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 1721
NonFiction of the week 31 December 2023/1 January 2024 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1624

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Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction, by F. Bordewich 1 Timeflyer Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1845
NonFiction of the week 24 December 11 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 2336
NonFiction of the week 17 December 3 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1503
Non-Fiction of the Week 10 December2023 5 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1966
NonFic of the week 4 December 2023 4 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 1681
Has Anyone Here Read Mindf*ck by Christopher Wylie? 1 The Roux Comes First Nov 2023 Dec 2023 9 2188
NonFic of the week 26 November 2 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1839
NonFic of the week 19 November 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1700
The story of a devastating wildfire that reads 'like a thriller' wins U.K. book prize 3 sl8 Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 2453
Killers of the Flower Moon - my wife and I don't get the plaudits 6 NewHendoLib Nov 2023 Dec 2023 0 2884
NonFic of the week 12 November 7 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1593
How Migration Really Works, by Hein de Haas 0 sl8 Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1744
NonFic I'm reading, 5 November 2023 4 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 1587
KLAN WAR by Fergus M. Bordewich 0 bucolic_frolic Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 1697
Interesting intersection of privatization and religion in two different books 0 RSherman Oct 2023 Oct 2023 9 2036
The plant poisons that shape our daily lives [Book review] 3 sl8 Oct 2023 Nov 2023 13 2223
A note from Douglas Preston 0 hermetic Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 1737
The Fall by Michael Wolff 0 ificandream Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 1621
The first digital pandemic, and the dangers of economic nationalism: Books in brief 0 sl8 Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 1896
Just started reading Michael Wolff's "The Fall" about Fox News. 0 ificandream Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 1744
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