Non Fiction 389 books by Nat

We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe

ByDaniel Whiteson, Jorge Cham

3 Readers • 5

Company towns of the Pacific Northwest

ByLinda Carlson

1 Reader

The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology

ByTom Shippey

1 Reader • 4

Secret Gardens: The Golden Age of Children's Literature

ByHumphrey Carpenter

1 Reader

The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives

ByBryant Simon

2 Readers

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

ByMichelle McNamara

2018 • 384 Readers • 4.1

Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools: The Impact of Charters on Public Education

ByRaynard Sanders, David Omotoso Stovall

1 Reader

Walt Disney Imagineering

ByThe imagineers,

2010 • 2 Readers • 192 pages

Citizen Scientist

ByMary Ellen Hannibal

2016 • 5 Readers • 432 pages • 3

The Meaning of Jesus

ByMarcus J. Borg, N.T. Wright

2 Readers • 4

Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

ByKaren Armstrong

1 Reader

The Cross and the Lynching Tree

ByJames H. Cone

2011 • 19 Readers • 202 pages • 5

Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision

ByJohn Dominic Crossan, Sarah Crossan

3 Readers • 5

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

ByReza Aslan

2013 • 96 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

Contemporary Classics - The Feminist Press

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

ByBarbara Ehrenreich,Deirdre English

1972 • 23 Readers • 112 pages • 4

Collecting: An Unruly Passion: Psychological Perspectives

ByWerner Muensterberger

1 Reader

Mapping the Mind

ByRita Carter

1998 • 8 Readers • 224 pages

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

ByJames Howard Kunstler

1993 • 37 Readers • 310 pages • 4.1

Shores Of Discovery: How Expeditionaries Have Constructed The World

ByEric J. Leed

1 Reader

Drawing the Lines: Tales of Maps and Cartocontroversy

ByMark Monmonier

1 Reader

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

ByAbby Norman

2018 • 17 Readers • 4.5

Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick

ByMaya Dusenbery

2018 • 23 Readers • 400 pages • 3.5

Dispatches

ByMichael Herr

1977 • 45 Readers • 288 pages • 4.5

The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives

ByFrances Cairncross

1 Reader

Mapping the Next Millennium

ByStephen S. Hall

1 Reader

Honorable Treachery: A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage & Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA

ByG.J.A. O'Toole

1 Reader

The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

ByMiles Harvey

2000 • 5 Readers • 404 pages • 3.5

Neverland: 2fabled

BySteven Frimmer

1976 • 2 Readers • 216 pages • 4

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

ByKevin Young

3 Readers

Mary Roach's Curiosities

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

ByMary Roach

2003 • 364 Readers • 303 pages • 3.9

The Butterfly Effect with Jon Ronson

ByJon Ronson(Narrator)

4 Readers • 3

The Singer of Tales

ByAlbert Bates Lord

1 Reader

A Place Called Waco: A Survivor's Story

ByDavid Thibodeau,Leon Whiteson

1999 • 8 Readers • 384 pages • 2

New Orleans Carnival Balls: The Secret Side of Mardi Gras, 1870-1920

ByJennifer Atkins

1 Reader • 4

Jefferson's Daughters

ByCatherine Kerrison

2018 • 8 Readers • 425 pages • 3

Land of the spotted eagle

ByLuther Standing Bear

2021 • 2 Readers • 206 pages

Old World, New World: Great Britain and America from the Beginning

ByKathleen Burk

1 Reader

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

ByGary Krist

2014 • 4 Readers • 4

A People's History of the United States

ByHoward Zinn,Kathy Emery,+1 more

1980 • 319 Readers • 642 pages • 4.3

The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World

ByJames Shreeve

2 Readers

The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building

ByDavid J. Peterson

2015 • 3 Readers • 3

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

ByDeborah Blum

2010 • 89 Readers • 319 pages • 3.9

A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities

ByJan Bondeson

1997 • 4 Readers • 264 pages

The Soul of Dna

ByJun Tsuji

1 Reader

Nine Who Survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki

ByRobert Trumbull

1 Reader

The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

BySam Kean

1 Reader • 4

Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945

ByRandall Hansen

2008 • 3 Readers • 352 pages

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

ByNeil deGrasse Tyson

2017 • 447 Readers • 144 pages • 3.9

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

ByDavid Sax

2017 • 5 Readers • 3.5

A Wizard of Their Age: Critical Essays from the Harry Potter Generation

ByCecilia Konchar Farr

1 Reader • 4

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries

ByKory Stamper

2017 • 72 Readers • 296 pages • 4.4

Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks

ByAnnie Spence

2017 • 35 Readers • 244 pages • 3.5

The Clothing of Books

ByAlberto Vourvoulias-Bush(Translator),Jhumpa Lahiri

2016 • 10 Readers • 74 pages • 3.5

Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers

ByKaty Horan, Taisia Kitaiskaia

1 Reader

My Life with Bob

ByPamela Paul

2017 • 20 Readers • 242 pages • 3.8

Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers

ByBob Eckstein

1 Reader • 5

Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation

ByAmmon Shea

2014 • 4 Readers • 3.5

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

ByKate Moore

2017 • 267 Readers • 404 pages • 4.2

Edison's Eve

ByGaby Wood

1 Reader

The Devil in the White City

ByErik Larson

2002 • 571 Readers • 447 pages • 4

Supernatural Horror in Literature

ByE.F. Bleiler, H.P. Lovecraft, Theodore Menten

1 Reader

Dear Data

ByGiorgia Lupi,Stefanie Posavec

2016 • 9 Readers • 289 pages • 3.8

So You've Been Publicly Shamed

ByJon Ronson

2015 • 213 Readers • 306 pages • 3.9

The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

ByDossie Easton,Catherine A. Liszt

1997 • 71 Readers • 279 pages • 3.8

The Polyamorists Next Door: Inside Multiple-Partner Relationships and Families

ByElisabeth Sheff

4 Readers

The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure & Betrayal

ByHoward Blum

2016 • 4 Readers • 5

#1 of 4 in Whatever

Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008

ByJohn Scalzi

2008 • 16 Readers • 373 pages • 2.9

The Discovery of the Titanic

ByRick Archbold, Walter Lord, Robert D. Ballard, Ken Marschall

1 Reader

What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves

ByBenjamin K. Bergen

2016 • 10 Readers • 271 pages • 5

An Edible History of Humanity

ByTom Standage

2010 • 11 Readers • 288 pages • 3

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease

ByMarc Lewis

2015 • 7 Readers • 256 pages • 4

The British Spy Manual: The Authentic Special Operations Executive (SOE) Guide for WWII

ByImperial War Museum,Sinclair McKay

1 Reader

The Physics of Everyday Things: The Extraordinary Science Behind an Ordinary Day

ByJames Kakalios

2017 • 5 Readers • 3

Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest

ByGreg Carlisle

1 Reader • 3

The Know-It-All

ByA. J. Jacobs

2004 • 1 Reader • 400 pages

#1 of 2 in Mark Manson Collection

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

ByMark Manson

2016 • 948 Readers • 134 pages • 3.6

Believe Me

ByEddie Izzard,Laura Zigman

2017 • 23 Readers • 348 pages • 3.6

Forces of Nature

ByBrian Cox, Andrew Cohen

2 Readers

Princesses Behaving Badly

ByLinda Rodríguez McRobbie

2013 • 27 Readers • 303 pages • 3.4

Braiding Sweetgrass

ByRobin Wall Kimmerer

2022 • 331 Readers • 391 pages • 4.6

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

ByRobert A. Caro

1975 • 161 Readers • 1,246 pages • 4.8

White Trash

ByNancy Isenberg

66 Readers • 3.8

Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry

ByPatrick Coffey

2008 • 4 Readers

EveryDayCook

ByAlton Brown

1 Reader

Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki

ByRebecca Cate, Martin Cate

7 Readers • 4.4

Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words

ByJosefa Heifetz Byrne

1 Reader

#1 of 4 in Sarah's Scribbles

Adulthood Is a Myth

BySarah Andersen

2016 • 154 Readers • 112 pages • 4.3

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

ByJ.D. Vance

2016 • 247 Readers • 352 pages • 3.5

But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

ByChuck Klosterman

2016 • 60 Readers • 262 pages • 3.7

The Disappearing Spoon

BySam Kean

2010 • 104 Readers • 394 pages • 4.1

American Dreams: Lost and Found

ByStuds Terkel

2005 • 3 Readers • 470 pages

My (Underground) American Dream: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive

ByJulissa Arce

1 Reader

Possessing Genius: The True Account of the Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain

ByCarolyn Abraham

1 Reader

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

ByVincent Starrett

1933 • 3 Readers • 116 pages

The Victorian Underworld

ByDonald Serrell Thomas

1998 • 6 Readers • 346 pages • 4

Furiously Happy

ByJenny Lawson

2015 • 9 Readers • 352 pages • 3.8

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

ByOliver Sacks

2015 • 354 Readers • 300 pages • 3.9

#2 of 2 in The History of the Hobbit

The History of the Hobbit, Part Two: Return to Bag-End

ByJ.R.R. Tolkien

2007 • 3 Readers • 448 pages

The Lord of the Rings

ByWayne G. Hammond,Christina Scull

2005 • 5 Readers • 894 pages • 5

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

ByYuval Noah Harari

2015 • 155 Readers • 448 pages • 4.1

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