John H. Mayer

23 books

The Inventor and the Tycoon: The Murderer Eadweard Muybridge, the Entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball

The Inventor and the Tycoon: The Murderer Eadweard Muybridge, the Entrepreneur Leland Stanford, and the Birth of Moving Pictures

Edward Ball

447 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography historical history reflective slow-paced
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America by Les Standiford

Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Changed America

Les Standiford

336 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin

Mouthful of Birds

Samanta Schweblin

240 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

fiction horror magical realism short stories dark mysterious medium-paced
The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century by Steven Watts

The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century

Steven Watts

656 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography business history informative reflective slow-paced
The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway by Doug Most

The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway

Doug Most

416 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President by Noah Feldman

The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President

Noah Feldman

816 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table by Langdon Cook

Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table

Langdon Cook

336 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction nature adventurous informative reflective fast-paced
A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America by Tony Horwitz

A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

Tony Horwitz

464 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies of the Founding of the Republic unabridged library edition by Joseph J. Ellis
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies of the Founding of the Republic unabridged library edition
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Joseph J. Ellis

American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies of the Founding of the Republic unabridged library edition

Joseph J. Ellis

missing duration info • first pub 2007 (editions)

American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-Out That Stopped It by Stephen Hunter, John H. Mayer, John Bainbridge Jr.

American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-Out That Stopped It

Stephen Hunter, John H. Mayer, John Bainbridge Jr.

missing page info • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history politics true crime informative medium-paced