Phyllis
Phyllis

Non Fiction

Position
Details
Rating
Readers Count
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#102
The German Genius
The German Genius
  • Peter Watson
53 reads
#103
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse
  • James L. Swanson
41 read
#104
Rival rails
Rival rails
  • Walter R. Borneman
00 reads
#105
The Ninth
The Ninth
  • Harvey Sachs
00 reads
#106
In the Wake of the Plague
In the Wake of the Plague
  • Norman F. Cantor
3.75 reads
#107
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Time Traveler's Wife
  • Audrey Niffenegger
3.92653 reads
#108
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
  • Linda Lear
41 read
#109
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood
  • Truman Capote
4.11413 reads
#110
Lost states
Lost states
  • Michael J. Trinklein
41 read
#111
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild
  • Lee Sandlin
43 reads
#112
The Disappearing Spoon
The Disappearing Spoon
  • Sam Kean
3.9364 reads
#113
Banvard's folly
Banvard's folly
  • Collins, Paul
41 read
#114
A Novel Bookstore
A Novel Bookstore
  • Laurence Cossé
  • Alison Anderson (Translator)
44 reads
#115
The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man
  • Stephen Jay Gould
416 reads
#116
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Cathedrals of Science

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry
  • Patrick Coffey
00 reads
#117
A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
  • Howard Zinn
  • Kathy Emery
  • Ellen Gordon Reeves
4.23184 reads
#118
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
  • Bill Bryson
4.04114 reads
#119
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
  • Bill Bryson
4.01291 reads
#120
Cinderella ate my daughter
Cinderella ate my daughter
  • Peggy Orenstein
3.838 reads
#121
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  • John Berendt
3.73163 reads
#122
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
  • Paul Collins
42 reads
#123
Moonwalking with Einstein
Moonwalking with Einstein
  • Joshua Foer
3.79159 reads
#124
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Fingerprints

Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Forensic Science
  • Colin Beavan
00 reads
#125
The Last Full Measure
The Last Full Measure
  • Jeff Shaara
46 reads
#126
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
  • Bill Bryson
3.6340 reads
#127
Salt: A World History
Salt: A World History
  • Mark Kurlansky
3.6877 reads
#128
The Food of a Younger Land
The Food of a Younger Land
  • Mark Kurlansky
02 reads
#129
Finding Everett Ruess
Finding Everett Ruess
  • David Roberts
00 reads
#130
Into the Wild
Into the Wild
  • Jon Krakauer
  • Christopher Johnson McCandless
3.86484 reads
#131
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
  • Stacy Schiff
32 reads
#132
Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life
  • Stacy Schiff
3.5641 reads
#133
Travels in Siberia
Travels in Siberia
  • Ian Frazier
3.7512 reads
#134
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Scorpions

Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
  • Noah Feldman
00 reads
#135
The Hard Way Around: the Passages of Joshua Slocum
The Hard Way Around: the Passages of Joshua Slocum
  • Geoffrey Wolff
41 read
#136
The Mind's Eye
The Mind's Eye
  • Oliver Sacks
413 reads
#137
Hellhound on His Trail
Hellhound on His Trail
  • Hampton Sides
41 read
#138
The forgotten founding father
The forgotten founding father
  • Joshua C. Kendall
31 read
#139
The Man Who Made Lists
The Man Who Made Lists
  • Joshua Kendall
21 read
#140
Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds
Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds
  • Melissa Katsoulis
21 read
#141
Blue highways
Blue highways
  • William Least Heat-Moon
415 reads
#142
Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America The Joy of Cooking
Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America The Joy of Cooking
  • Anne Mendelson
42 reads
#143
Lies My Teacher Told Me
Lies My Teacher Told Me
  • James W. Loewen
4.0970 reads
#144
American Sphinx
American Sphinx
  • Joseph J. Ellis
4.335 reads
#145
Walden
Walden
  • Henry David Thoreau
3.66200 reads
#146
Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience
  • Henry David Thoreau
3.755 reads
#147
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
  • John Stuart Mill
  • Daniel Kolak
  • Michael B. Mathias
3.7740 reads
#148
Nothing Like It in the World
Nothing Like It in the World
  • Stephen E. Ambrose
3.754 reads
#149
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The Zimmermann Telegram

The Zimmermann Telegram
  • Barbara W. Tuchman
3.25 reads
#150
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
  • Amanda Foreman
3.719 reads
#151
A Distant Mirror:  The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
  • Barbara W. Tuchman
4.1526 reads
#152
Herodotus
Herodotus
  • Herodotus
4.135 reads
#153
Complete Stories
Complete Stories
  • Dorothy Parker
3.52 reads
#154
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Sugar Nation

Sugar Nation: The Hidden Truth Behind America's Deadliest Habit and the Simple Way to Beat It
  • Jeff O'Connell
21 read
#155
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
  • Steven Pinker
3.8345 reads
#156
A Thousand Lives
A Thousand Lives
  • Julia Scheeres
4.56 reads
#157
Destiny of the Republic
Destiny of the Republic
  • Candice Millard
4.3938 reads
#158
Drama
Drama
  • John Lithgow
51 read
#159
The Wilder life my adventures in the lost world of Little house on the prairie
The Wilder life my adventures in the lost world of Little house on the prairie
  • Wendy McClure
3.756 reads
#160
Assassination Vacation
Assassination Vacation
  • Sarah Vowell
3.9845 reads
#161
The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood
  • David McCullough
4.119 reads
#162
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  • Isabel Wilkerson
4.581 reads
#163
Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia
Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia
  • Richard Francis
00 reads
#164
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
  • Sherry Turkle
3.210 reads
#165
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School
  • Kathleen Flinn
4.176 reads
#166
A world on fire Britian's crucial role in the American Civil War
A world on fire Britian's crucial role in the American Civil War
  • Amanda Foreman
00 reads
#167
Cover 2

Tomatoland

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
  • Barry Estabrook
52 reads
#168
The Telescope: A Short History
The Telescope: A Short History
  • Richard Dunn
31 read
#169
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A Vindication of the Rights of Women

A Vindication of the Rights of Women
  • Mary Wollstonecraft
00 reads
#170
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
  • Joseph J. Ellis
3.9336 reads
#171
War on the Mississippi: Grant's Vicksburg Campaign
War on the Mississippi: Grant's Vicksburg Campaign
  • Jerry Korn
41 read
#172
Cover 7

City of Scoundrels

City of Scoundrels
  • Gary Krist
00 reads
#173
Mr. and Mrs. Madison's war
Mr. and Mrs. Madison's war
  • Hugh Howard
00 reads
#174
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • Mary Wollstonecraft
3.8719 reads
#175
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
  • Drew Gilpin Faust
3.65 reads
#176
Tinderbox
Tinderbox
  • Craig Timberg
01 read
#177
A Secret Society History of the Civil War
A Secret Society History of the Civil War
  • Mark A. Lause
00 reads
#178
Below Stairs
Below Stairs
  • Margaret Powell
3.674 reads
#179
A Time of Gifts
A Time of Gifts
  • Patrick Leigh Fermor
4.4412 reads
#180
The Uprooted
The Uprooted
  • Oscar Handlin
00 reads
#181
Yellow Jack
Yellow Jack
  • John R. Pierce
00 reads
#182
An Everlasting Meal
An Everlasting Meal
  • Tamar Adler
  • Alice Waters
54 reads
#183
Fat Land
Fat Land
  • Greg Critser
3.52 reads
#184
The American Way of Eating
The American Way of Eating
  • Tracie McMillan
44 reads
#185
In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite: 150 Recipes and Stories About the Food You Love
In the Kitchen with A Good Appetite: 150 Recipes and Stories About the Food You Love
  • Melissa Clark
31 read
#186
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London
  • Steven Johnson
3.9468 reads
#187
SoulPancake
SoulPancake
  • Rainn Wilson
  • Devon Gundry
  • Golriz Lucina
  • Shabnam Mogharabi
00 reads
#188
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
  • Randy Shilts
4.3226 reads
#189
Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening That Changed America
Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening That Changed America
  • Charles A. Cerami
31 read
#190
I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
  • Bruce Chadwick
21 read
#191
The intimate lives of the founding fathers
The intimate lives of the founding fathers
  • Fleming, Thomas J.
00 reads
#192
The Nerdist Way
The Nerdist Way
  • Chris Hardwick
3.1918 reads
#193
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
  • Scott Miller
42 reads
#194
At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka: A Cookbook
At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka: A Cookbook
  • Madhur Jaffrey
00 reads
#195
The Areas of My Expertise
The Areas of My Expertise
  • John Hodgman
3.9734 reads
#196
And the Sea Will Tell
And the Sea Will Tell
  • Vincent Bugliosi
  • Bruce Henderson
3.175 reads
#197
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks
  • Dave Tompkins
00 reads
#198
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
  • Kate Summerscale
3.673 reads
#199
Bossypants
Bossypants
    3.82600 reads
    #200
    That is All
    That is All
    • John Hodgman
    413 reads
    #201
    Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records
    Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records
    • Nadine Cohodas
    31 read