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25 books

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

26 hours, 30 minutes • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics by Adam Rutherford

Control: The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics

Adam Rutherford

288 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott

445 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers by Deborah Tuerkheimer

Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

Deborah Tuerkheimer

320 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

432 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction politics sociology emotional informative sad medium-paced
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncan

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Mike Duncan

17 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction biography history challenging reflective medium-paced
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason Stanley

240 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction history philosophy politics informative medium-paced
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

12 hours, 37 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction history politics science challenging informative medium-paced
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

369 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction biography history science emotional informative medium-paced
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers: The Story of Success

Malcolm Gladwell

309 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0mikefromco's review
nonfiction psychology sociology informative reflective medium-paced