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Non Fiction

#2

Honeymoon with My Brother

2005 • 7 Readers • 488 pages • 4

#3

The case for books : past, present and future

2009 • 9 Readers • 218 pages • 4

#4

Yours ever

#5

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

2008 • 67 Readers • 360 pages • 3.3

#6

Traitor to the Crown: The Untold Story of the Popish Plot and the Consipiracy Against Samuel Pepys

2008 • 1 Reader • 322 pages

#7

The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists

2006 • 1 Reader • 272 pages • 4

#8

The media relations department of Hizbollah wishes you a happy birthday

1 Reader • 3

#9

Rising from the Rails

2004 • 2 Readers • 352 pages

#10

The Third Chimpanzee

1991 • 32 Readers • 407 pages • 4.2

#11

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

2007 • 26 Readers • 352 pages • 4.1

#12

Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale

2002 • 4 Readers • 304 pages • 5

#13

Death at the Priory

2002 • 4 Readers • 224 pages

#14

The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found

2008 • 12 Readers • 360 pages • 3.7

#15

A. Lincoln: A Biography

2009 • 9 Readers • 4.7

#16

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work

2009 • 80 Readers • 246 pages • 3.3

#17

The Partly Cloudy Patriot

2002 • 47 Readers • 212 pages • 4

#18

The Wordy Shipmates

2008 • 31 Readers • 272 pages • 3.7

#19

Take the Cannoli

2000 • 19 Readers • 219 pages • 3.6

#20

Second Nature

1991 • 35 Readers • 258 pages • 4

#21

The Botany of Desire

2001 • 122 Readers • 304 pages • 4

#22

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

2008 • 244 Readers • 232 pages • 4

#23

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

2006 • 410 Readers • 480 pages • 4.1

#24

Curiosities of literature

#25

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

2002 • 5 Readers • 320 pages

#26

Thunderstruck

2006 • 110 Readers • 481 pages • 3.7

#27

Cover 7

2009 • 2 Readers • 374 pages

#28

Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago

2004 • 1 Reader • 4

#29

You Are Here

2009 • 2 Readers • 336 pages

#30

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

1964 • 86 Readers • 318 pages • 4.2

#31

Awakenings

59 Readers • 4.4

#32

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

1985 • 594 Readers • 300 pages • 3.9

#33

Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes

1879 • 1 Reader

#34

Guide to the Lakes

1835 • 1 Reader • 212 pages

#35

At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream

2010 • 2 Readers • 322 pages

#36

It's Not All Flowers and Sausages: My Adventures in Second Grade

2009 • 1 Reader

#37

Round Ireland with a Fridge

1997 • 59 Readers • 284 pages • 4

#38

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

2007 • 141 Readers • 400 pages • 3.8

#39

Team of Rivals

2005 • 240 Readers • 1,277 pages • 4.6

#40

Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America

2009 • 1 Reader • 240 pages • 3

#41

"Socialism is great!"

1 Reader • 3

#42

Running With Scissors

2002 • 243 Readers • 304 pages • 3.6

#43

Family Properties : Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America

2009 • 4 Readers • 495 pages

#44

Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III

2004 • 6 Readers • 480 pages

#45

How we decide

2009 • 60 Readers • 302 pages • 3.7

#46

The department of mad scientists

1 Reader

#47

Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England

2009 • 6 Readers • 400 pages • 4

#48

Dogtown

2009 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#49

The Stones of Florence & Venice Observed

1972 • 1 Reader • 294 pages

#50

Home cooking

1988 • 10 Readers • 184 pages • 4

#51

Cover 7

2 Readers • 5

#52

Alex & Me

2008 • 18 Readers • 232 pages • 4

#53

Dancing in the Dark

2009 • 1 Reader • 624 pages

#54

Plain, Honest Men

2009 • 6 Readers • 423 pages

#55

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

1999 • 871 Readers • 288 pages • 4.3

#56

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

2008 • 50 Readers • 302 pages • 4.1

#57

Double Fold

2001 • 2 Readers • 370 pages

#58

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

1999 • 44 Readers • 425 pages • 4.2

#59

Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—The Dark History of the Food Cheats

2008 • 370 pages

#60

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

2001 • 208 Readers • 399 pages • 3.8

#61

Sin in the Second City

2007 • 17 Readers • 356 pages • 4.2

#62

Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans

2010 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 3

#63

The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea

2008 • 10 Readers • 3.5

#64

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain

2007 • 62 Readers • 310 pages • 3.5

#65

Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2011 • 653 Readers • 384 pages • 4.2

#66

This book is overdue!

2010 • 11 Readers • 294 pages • 2.7

#67

Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing

2009 • 1 Reader

#68

Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans

2009 • 1 Reader • 368 pages • 5

#69

The Things They Carried

1990 • 456 Readers • 236 pages • 4.1

#70

The Plan of Chicago

2006 • 1 Reader

#71

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

2008 • 115 Readers • 319 pages • 3.9

#72

Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw

2010 • 1 Reader

#73

The Illustrated Insectopedia

2010 • 3 Readers • 480 pages • 2

#74

Banvard's Folly : Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck

2001 • 3 Readers • 5

#75

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America

2004 • 18 Readers • 460 pages • 3.7

#76

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

2010 • 6 Readers • 337 pages • 3

#77

Edgar A. Poe: A Biography

1991 • 2 Readers • 592 pages

#78

Manhunt

2006 • 32 Readers • 388 pages • 4.1

#79

Lives like loaded guns

2 Readers

#80

The most powerful idea in the world

2010 • 9 Readers • 370 pages • 4.3

#81

The Shallows

2010 • 177 Readers • 289 pages • 3.7

#82

The Dead Beat

2006 • 6 Readers • 272 pages • 3

#83

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

2010 • 111 Readers • 319 pages • 4.1

#84

Contested Will

4 Readers • 4

#85

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

2005 • 7 Readers • 333 pages • 3

#86

Paris Under Water

2010 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

#87

Vanished smile

5 Readers • 3.5

#88

Zoo story

2 Readers • 4

#89

Twilight at the World of Tomorrow

2010 • 1 Reader • 401 pages

#90

Four fish : the future of the last wild food

2010 • 7 Readers • 284 pages • 4.5

#91

Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

2010 • 4 Readers • 442 pages

#92

The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities

2010 • 1 Reader • 325 pages

#93

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

2010 • 25 Readers • 3.2

#94

Hot stuff

1 Reader

#95

Wind, Sand and Stars

1939 • 55 Readers • 160 pages • 4.4

#96

Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin

2010 • 11 Readers • 397 pages • 4.5

#97

Cover 6

2001 • 1 Reader • 400 pages • 4

#98

The Coke Machine

2010 • 1 Reader • 396 pages

#99

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

2008 • 180 Readers • 327 pages • 3.9

#100

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

2007 • 80 Readers • 308 pages • 4.4

#101

Cover 6

2009 • 2 Readers • 350 pages

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