Nonfiction 73 books by Lory

Empty Mansions

ByBill Dedman,Paul Clark Newell Jr.

2013 • 35 Readers • 456 pages • 3.8

#1 of 2 in How to Be

How to Be a Victorian

ByRuth Goodman

2013 • 37 Readers • 458 pages • 4.3

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

ByCheryl Strayed

2012 • 132 Readers • 370 pages • 4.2

The Boys in The Boat

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

ByDaniel James Brown

2013 • 130 Readers • 418 pages • 4.5

Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything

ByDavid Bellos

2011 • 11 Readers • 390 pages • 3

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

ByHampton Sides

2014 • 41 Readers • 454 pages • 4.6

If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran

ByCarla Power

2015 • 11 Readers • 352 pages • 5

#11

A royal experiment

ByJanice Hadlow

2014 • 4 Readers • 682 pages

#12

Just Mercy

ByBryan Stevenson

2014 • 231 Readers • 336 pages • 4.8

#13

The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

ByJames Rebanks

2015 • 4 Readers • 320 pages

#14

C. S. Lewis and his Circle

ByRoger White(Editor),Judith Wolfe(Editor)

2015 • 1 Reader • 288 pages • 4

#15

The Making of Home

ByJudith Flanders

2014 • 9 Readers • 368 pages • 4

#16

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad

ByM.T. Anderson

2015 • 16 Readers • 456 pages • 4.3

#17

Lingo

ByGaston Dorren,Alison Edwards(Translator)

2014 • 16 Readers • 304 pages • 3.3

#18

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

ByAtul Gawande

2014 • 224 Readers • 282 pages • 4.5

#19

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

ByElizabeth Kolbert

2014 • 198 Readers • 336 pages • 4.1

#20

The Invention of Nature

ByAndrea Wulf

2015 • 66 Readers • 473 pages • 4

#21

New England Bound

ByWendy Warren

2016 • 2 Readers • 368 pages

#22

The Lexicographer's Dilemma

ByJack Lynch

2009 • 2 Readers • 326 pages

#23

Until We Are Free

ByShirin Ebadi

2016 • 2 Readers • 5

#24

In Translation

ByEsther Allen(Editor),Susan Bernofsky(Editor)

2013 • 2 Readers • 288 pages

#25

Chrysalis : Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis

ByKim Todd

2007 • 6 Readers • 328 pages • 4

#26

The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany

ByThomas Harding

2015 • 6 Readers • 464 pages • 4.5

#27

The man who wasn't there

ByAnil Ananthaswamy

2015 • 1 Reader • 305 pages

#28

When Breath Becomes Air

ByPaul Kalanithi

2016 • 577 Readers • 256 pages • 4.4

#29

A History Of God

ByKaren Armstrong

1993 • 51 Readers • 562 pages • 3.9

#30

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

ByEd Yong

2016 • 133 Readers • 368 pages • 4.2

#31

Dark Money

ByJane Mayer

2017 • 123 Readers • 576 pages • 4.2

#32

A Whole New Life

ByReynolds Price

1994 • 1 Reader • 224 pages

#33

Cambridge Concise Histories

A Concise History of Switzerland

ByClive H. Church,Randolph C. Head

2013 • 2 Readers • 339 pages • 3

#34

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

ByArlie Russell Hochschild

2016 • 70 Readers • 351 pages • 3.8

#35

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

ByMatthew Desmond

2016 • 241 Readers • 434 pages • 4.6

#36

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

ByTrevor Noah

2016 • 615 Readers • 288 pages • 4.5

#37

Daring to Drive

ByManal Al-Sharif

2017 • 13 Readers • 289 pages • 3.8

#38

The underground girls of Kabul in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan

ByJenny Nordberg

2014 • 17 Readers • 366 pages • 3.3

#39

The New Jim Crow

ByMichelle Alexander

2010 • 299 Readers • 352 pages • 4.6

#40

Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language

ByDaniel Tammet

1982 • 8 Readers • 4

#41

A History of Children's Books in 100 Books

ByRoderick Cave,Sara Ayad

2017 • 1 Reader • 272 pages

#42

The Tiger

ByJohn Vaillant

2010 • 37 Readers • 352 pages • 4.5

#43

Words Are My Matter

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

2016 • 11 Readers • 316 pages

#44

The Wizard and the Prophet

ByCharles C. Mann

36 Readers • 4.3

#45

For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind

ByRosemary Mahoney

2014 • 1 Reader • 304 pages

#46

Thinking, Fast and Slow

ByDaniel Kahneman

2011 • 843 Readers • 499 pages • 4.1

#47

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

ByJeff Goodell

2017 • 31 Readers • 336 pages • 3.9

#48

The Accidental Dictionary

ByPaul Anthony Jones

2017 • 4 Readers • 224 pages

#49

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

ByCaroline Fraser

2017 • 52 Readers • 641 pages • 4

#50

The Library Book

BySusan Orlean

2018 • 213 Readers • 4

#51

The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal

ByHoratio Clare

2018 • 3 Readers • 208 pages • 4

#52

The World I Live In

ByHelen Keller

1904 • 5 Readers • 182 pages • 5

#53

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

ByLori Gottlieb

386 Readers • 4.4

#54

Defenders of the Faith

ByJames Reston Jr.

2009 • 2 Readers • 407 pages

#55

John Adams

ByDavid McCullough

2001 • 124 Readers • 751 pages • 4.3

#56

Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege

ByMike Thomson

2015 • 6 Readers • 320 pages • 2

#57

The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning

ByIain McGilchrist

2012 • 3 Readers • 40 pages • 5

#58

In Pursuit of Disobedient Women

ByDionne Searcey

2020 • 4 Readers • 3

#59

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

ByDavid DiSalvo

2011 • 12 Readers • 309 pages • 4.3

#60

I Choose Elena

ByLucia Osborne-Crowley

2019 • 4 Readers • 144 pages • 5

#61

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

ByCharles Eisenstein

2013 • 10 Readers • 288 pages • 4.3

#62

I Don't Want To Be An Empath Anymore: How To Reclaim Your Power Over Emotional Overwhelm, Build Better Boundaries, And Create A Life Of Grace And Ease

ByOra North

2019 • 1 Reader

#63

Sacred Economics

ByCharles Eisenstein

2011 • 4 Readers • 497 pages • 4

#64

Black Wave

ByKim Ghattas

2021 • 24 Readers • 400 pages • 4.8

#65

The Spiritual Emerson

ByRalph Waldo Emerson

2003 • 2 Readers • 240 pages

#66

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

ByLeslie Jamison

2018 • 20 Readers • 544 pages • 4.5

#67

We Have Been Harmonized

ByKai Strittmatter

2020 • 10 Readers • 368 pages • 4.7

#68

Biased

ByJennifer L. Eberhardt

2019 • 38 Readers • 368 pages • 4.5

#69

The Future Is History

ByMasha Gessen

2017 • 23 Readers • 528 pages • 4

#70

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

ByKatherine Boo

2012 • 108 Readers • 4.1

#71

Dancing on Ropes

ByAnna Aslanyan

2021 • 3 Readers • 272 pages

#72

Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive

ByMarc Brackett

2019 • 24 Readers • 304 pages • 4.7

#73

Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness

ByVivek H. Murthy

2020 • 30 Readers • 352 pages • 4.3

#74

Catch and Kill

ByRonan Farrow

2019 • 182 Readers • 464 pages • 4.4

#1 of 18 in Canongate's The Myths

A Short History of Myth

ByKaren Armstrong

2005 • 18 Readers • 176 pages • 2.9

Victorian Fairy Tales

ByMichael Newton(Editor)

2014 • 3 Readers • 544 pages

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