Phyllis
Phyllis

Non Fiction

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
Controls
#2
Honeymoon with My Brother
Honeymoon with My Brother
  • Franz Wisner
  • Berliani M. Nugrahani (Translator)
45 reads
#3
The case for books : past, present and future
The case for books : past, present and future
  • Robert Darnton
43 reads
#4
Yours ever
Yours ever
  • Thomas Mallon
00 reads
#5
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
  • Kate Summerscale
3.2733 reads
#6
Traitor to the Crown: The Untold Story of the Popish Plot and the Consipiracy Against Samuel Pepys
Traitor to the Crown: The Untold Story of the Popish Plot and the Consipiracy Against Samuel Pepys
  • James Long
  • Ben Long
00 reads
#7
The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists
The Dangerous World of Butterflies: The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists
  • Peter Laufer
41 read
#8
The media relations department of Hizbollah wishes you a happy birthday
The media relations department of Hizbollah wishes you a happy birthday
  • Neil MacFarquhar
31 read
#9
Rising from the Rails
Rising from the Rails
  • Larry Tye
00 reads
#10
The Third Chimpanzee
The Third Chimpanzee
  • Jared Diamond
4.211 reads
#11
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber
  • Julian Rubinstein
4.1311 reads
#12
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale
  • Catherine Orenstein
51 read
#13
Death at the Priory
Death at the Priory
  • James Ruddick
00 reads
#14
The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii Lost and Found
  • Mary Beard
3.674 reads
#15
A. Lincoln: A Biography
A. Lincoln: A Biography
  • Ronald C. White Jr.
4.673 reads
#16
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
  • Matthew B. Crawford
3.3234 reads
#17
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
  • Sarah Vowell
4.0429 reads
#18
The Wordy Shipmates
The Wordy Shipmates
  • Sarah Vowell
3.7425 reads
#19
Take the Cannoli
Take the Cannoli
  • Sarah Vowell
3.639 reads
#20
Second Nature
Second Nature
  • Michael Pollan
47 reads
#21
The Botany of Desire
The Botany of Desire
  • Michael Pollan
4.0343 reads
#22
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
  • Michael Pollan
4.03126 reads
#23
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
  • Michael Pollan
4.11193 reads
#24
Curiosities of literature
Curiosities of literature
  • Sutherland, John
00 reads
#25
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
  • Eric Klinenberg
00 reads
#26
Thunderstruck
Thunderstruck
  • Erik Larson
3.7349 reads
#27
Cover 7

Finding Oz

Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
  • Evan I. Schwartz
00 reads
#28
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago
  • Alex Kotlowitz
41 read
#29
You Are Here
You Are Here
  • Colin Ellard
01 read
#30
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
  • Oliver Sacks
4.1930 reads
#31
Awakenings
Awakenings
  • Oliver Sacks
4.3817 reads
#32
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
  • Oliver Sacks
3.91241 reads
#33
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
00 reads
#34
Guide to the Lakes
Guide to the Lakes
  • William Wordsworth
00 reads
#35
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream
  • Wade Rouse
00 reads
#36
It's Not All Flowers and Sausages: My Adventures in Second Grade
It's Not All Flowers and Sausages: My Adventures in Second Grade
  • Mrs. Mimi
00 reads
#37
Round Ireland with a Fridge
Round Ireland with a Fridge
  • Tony Hawks
3.9527 reads
#38
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
  • Oliver Sacks
3.8243 reads
#39
Team of Rivals
Team of Rivals
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.676 reads
#40
Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America
Gringo: A Coming of Age in Latin America
  • Chesa Boudin
31 read
#41
"Socialism is great!"
"Socialism is great!"
  • Lijia Zhang
31 read
#42
Running With Scissors
Running With Scissors
  • Augusten Burroughs
3.57147 reads
#43
Family Properties : Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
Family Properties : Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America
  • Beryl Satter
00 reads
#44
Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III
  • Flora Fraser
00 reads
#45
How we decide
How we decide
  • Jonah Lehrer
3.7316 reads
#46
The department of mad scientists
The department of mad scientists
  • Michael P. Belfiore
00 reads
#47
Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England
Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England
  • Amanda Vickery
42 reads
#48
Dogtown
Dogtown
  • Elyssa East
00 reads
#49
The Stones of Florence & Venice Observed
The Stones of Florence & Venice Observed
  • Mary McCarthy
00 reads
#50
Home cooking
Home cooking
  • Laurie Colwin
45 reads
#51
Cover 7

Good Book

Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bib
  • David Plotz
52 reads
#52
Alex & Me
Alex & Me
  • Irene M. Pepperberg
411 reads
#53
Dancing in the Dark
Dancing in the Dark
  • Morris Dickstein
00 reads
#54
Plain, Honest Men
Plain, Honest Men
  • Richard Beeman
00 reads
#55
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
  • Stephen King
4.34534 reads
#56
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
  • Sudhir Venkatesh
4.124 reads
#57
Double Fold
Double Fold
  • Nicholson Baker
00 reads
#58
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
  • Tony Horwitz
4.2418 reads
#59
Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—The Dark History of the Food Cheats
Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—The Dark History of the Food Cheats
  • Bee Wilson
00 reads
#60
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
  • Eric Schlosser
3.81148 reads
#61
Sin in the Second City
Sin in the Second City
  • Karen Abbott
4.26 reads
#62
Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans
Cro-Magnon : how the Ice Age gave birth to the first modern humans
  • Brian M. Fagan
31 read
#63
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
The Whale: In Search of the Giants of the Sea
  • Philip Hoare
3.53 reads
#64
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
  • Maryanne Wolf
3.517 reads
#65
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  • Rebecca Skloot
4.2327 reads
#66
This book is overdue!
This book is overdue!
  • Marilyn Johnson
2.673 reads
#67
Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing
Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing
  • Catherine J. Golden
00 reads
#68
Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans
  • Dan Baum
51 read
#69
The Things They Carried
The Things They Carried
  • Tim O'Brien
4.1251 reads
#70
The Plan of Chicago
The Plan of Chicago
  • Carl Smith
00 reads
#71
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
  • Ian Mortimer
3.9530 reads
#72
Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw
Three Chords for Beauty's Sake: The Life of Artie Shaw
  • Tom Nolan
00 reads
#73
The Illustrated Insectopedia
The Illustrated Insectopedia
  • Hugh Raffles
21 read
#74
Banvard's Folly : Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
Banvard's Folly : Tales of Renowned Obscurity, Famous Anonymity and Rotten Luck
  • Paul Collins
51 read
#75
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
  • David von Drehle
  • Dave Von Drehle
3.676 reads
#76
You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
  • Susannah Gora
32 reads
#77
Edgar A. Poe: A Biography
Edgar A. Poe: A Biography
  • Kenneth Silverman
00 reads
#78
Manhunt
Manhunt
  • James L. Swanson
4.0716 reads
#79
Lives like loaded guns
Lives like loaded guns
  • Lyndall Gordon
00 reads
#80
The most powerful idea in the world
The most powerful idea in the world
  • William Rosen
4.334 reads
#81
The Shallows
The Shallows
  • Nicholas Carr
3.6772 reads
#82
The Dead Beat
The Dead Beat
  • Marilyn Johnson
32 reads
#83
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
  • Deborah Blum
4.0831 reads
#84
Contested Will
Contested Will
  • James S. Shapiro
41 read
#85
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
  • James Shapiro
32 reads
#86
Paris Under Water
Paris Under Water
  • Jeffrey H. Jackson
00 reads
#87
Vanished smile
Vanished smile
  • R. A. Scotti
3.52 reads
#88
Zoo story
Zoo story
  • French, Thomas
42 reads
#89
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow
Twilight at the World of Tomorrow
  • James Mauro
00 reads
#90
Four fish : the future of the last wild food
Four fish : the future of the last wild food
  • Paul Greenberg
4.52 reads
#91
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
  • Eric Jay Dolin
01 read
#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
The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities
  • Joe Flood
00 reads
#93
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
  • Wes Moore
3.1518 reads
#94
Hot stuff
Hot stuff
  • Alice Echols
01 read
#95
Wind, Sand and Stars
Wind, Sand and Stars
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4.3523 reads
#96
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
  • Hampton Sides
4.52 reads
#97
Cover 6

Down the Great Unknown

Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
  • Edward Dolnick
41 read
#98
The Coke Machine
The Coke Machine
  • Michael Blanding
00 reads
#99
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
  • Mary Roach
3.8786 reads
#100
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
  • Michael J. Sandel
4.3635 reads
#101
Cover 6

The Pattern in the Carpet

The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws
  • Margaret Drabble
00 reads