Nonfiction 76 books by Marina

Twelve Years a Slave

BySolomon Northup

1853 • 68 Readers • 363 pages • 4.1

#1 of 4 in Time Traveller's Guides

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

ByIan Mortimer

2008 • 65 Readers • 319 pages • 4

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Two Men Who Battled to Save Victorian London

BySteven Johnson

2006 • 133 Readers • 299 pages • 3.8

The Worst Hard Time

ByTimothy Egan

2005 • 59 Readers • 340 pages • 4

History of Beauty

ByUmberto Eco,Girolamo De Michele,+1 more

2004 • 31 Readers • 432 pages • 3.7

#1 of 4 in Sarah's Scribbles

Adulthood Is a Myth

BySarah Andersen

2016 • 154 Readers • 112 pages • 4.3

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

ByMartin Ford

2015 • 25 Readers • 352 pages • 4.3

A Briefer History of Time

ByStephen Hawking,Leonard Mlodinow

2008 • 57 Readers • 162 pages • 4.3

#10

Thinking, Fast and Slow

ByDaniel Kahneman

2011 • 843 Readers • 499 pages • 4.1

#11

Bad Science

ByBen Goldacre

2008 • 106 Readers • 354 pages • 4.3

#12

Physics of the Impossible

ByMichio Kaku

2008 • 66 Readers • 329 pages • 4

#13

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

ByCaitlin Doughty

2014 • 214 Readers • 254 pages • 4.3

#14

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

ByCarlo Rovelli

2014 • 101 Readers • 96 pages • 3.8

#15

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

#16

#1 of 2 in Feynman

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

ByRichard P. Feynman,Микола Климчук(Translator)

1985 • 340 Readers • 391 pages • 4.3

#17

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

ByAllie Brosh

2013 • 277 Readers • 384 pages • 4.2

#18

#1 of 6 in Maya Angelou's Autobiography

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

ByMaya Angelou

1969 • 399 Readers • 309 pages • 4.2

#19

4 Freakonomics

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

BySteven D. Levitt

2005 • 588 Readers • 321 pages • 3.9

#20

Blink

ByMalcolm Gladwell

2004 • 401 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

#21

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

ByPadma Lakshmi

2013 • 23 Readers • 324 pages • 4

#22

So Sad Today: Personal Essays

ByMelissa Broder

2016 • 39 Readers • 203 pages • 4

#23

Mary Roach's Curiosities

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

ByMary Roach

2003 • 364 Readers • 303 pages • 3.9

#24

The World Without Us

ByAlan Weisman

2007 • 93 Readers • 336 pages • 3.6

#25

Mayflower Madam: The Secret Life of Sydney Biddle Barrows

BySydney Biddle Barrows

1987 • 1 Reader

#26

Parasite Rex

ByCarl Zimmer

2000 • 17 Readers • 320 pages • 4

#27

Return of the Black Death: The World's Greatest Serial Killer

BySusan Scott

2004 • 2 Readers

#28

Encyclopedia of Fairies

ByKatharine M. Briggs

1971 • 4 Readers • 453 pages

#29

The speckled monster

ByJennifer Lee Carrell

2003 • 5 Readers • 506 pages

#30

Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams

ByRobert Englund,Alan Goldsher

2009 • 3 Readers • 298 pages • 2

#31

Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Fairies

ByKatharine M. Briggs

4 Readers • 159 pages • 4

#32

The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story

ByRichard Preston

2002 • 26 Readers • 292 pages • 4.2

#33

The Hot Zone

ByRichard Preston

1994 • 109 Readers • 352 pages • 4.2

#34

Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History

ByBen Mezrich

2011 • 8 Readers • 4

#35

A Small Place

ByJamaica Kincaid

1988 • 29 Readers • 92 pages • 3.8

#36

Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Women in Barbados

ByHilary McD. Beckles

1989 • 3 Readers

#37

The Black Rose

ByTananarive Due

2000 • 6 Readers • 396 pages • 3.5

#38

The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty

ByLawrence Otis Graham

2 Readers

#39

Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star

ByCamille F. Forbes

2008 • 1 Reader

#40

Black Women in White America

ByGerda Lerner

4 Readers

#41

Women, Race & Class

ByAngela Y. Davis

1981 • 127 Readers • 256 pages • 4.7

#42

The Souls of Black Folk

ByW.E.B. Du Bois

1903 • 90 Readers • 272 pages • 4.1

#43

England's Living History

Georgian and Regency Houses Explained

ByTrevor Yorke(Author and Illustrator)

2007 • 1 Reader

#44

The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater 1900-1940

ByNadine George-Graves

2000 • 1 Reader

#45

Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean

ByAdrian Tinniswood

4 Readers

#46

Brown Girl Dreaming

ByJacqueline Woodson

2014 • 93 Readers • 353 pages • 4.3

#47

Living Architecture: How Synthetic Biology Can Remake Our Cities and Reshape Our Lives

ByRachel Armstrong

2012 • 1 Reader • 51 pages

#48

Wonderbook

ByJeff VanderMeer

2013 • 31 Readers • 332 pages • 4.2

#49

You are now less dumb

ByDavid McRaney

2013 • 19 Readers • 309 pages • 4.2

#50

Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st-Century Writer

ByJeff VanderMeer

3 Readers

#51

What If the Earth Had Two Moons?: And Nine Other Thought-Provoking Speculations on the Solar System

ByNeil F. Comins

2010 • 1 Reader

#52

Starve Better: Surviving the Endless Horror of the Writing Life

ByNick Mamatas

2011 • 5 Readers • 172 pages • 4.5

#53

The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

ByKelly McGonigal

2011 • 92 Readers • 275 pages • 4.1

#54

Brain Bugs

ByDean Buonomano

2011 • 14 Readers • 310 pages • 3.5

#55

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

ByElaine Scarry

1985 • 8 Readers • 385 pages

#56

Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

ByThomas W. Laqueur

1990 • 6 Readers • 4

#57

About Writing

Dancing at the Edge of the World

ByUrsula K. Le Guin

1989 • 10 Readers • 320 pages

#58

War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History

ByRobert B. Asprey

1975 • 2 Readers • 1,323 pages

#59

1 Studies on the History of Society and Culture

Speaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa

ByLuise White

2000 • 1 Reader

#60

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

ByDavid DiSalvo

2011 • 12 Readers • 309 pages • 4.3

#61

Choke

BySian Beilock

2010 • 4 Readers • 304 pages

#62

The Corpse Walker

ByLiao Yiwu,Wenguang Huang(Translator)

2003 • 9 Readers • 336 pages • 2

#63

London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror

ByRichard J. Hand,Mr. Michael W. Wilson

2002 • 1 Reader

#64

Bees in America

ByTammy Horn

2006 • 1 Reader • 352 pages

#65

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

ByJonathan Haidt

2012 • 242 Readers • 500 pages • 4.4

#66

Orientalism

ByEdward W. Said

1978 • 105 Readers • 396 pages • 4.1

#67

So Good They Can't Ignore You

ByCal Newport

2012 • 218 Readers • 288 pages • 4

#68

45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters

ByVictoria Lynn Schmidt

2001 • 4 Readers • 304 pages • 3

#69

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

ByElizabeth Kolbert

2021 • 63 Readers • 258 pages • 4.4

#70

Everything you wanted to know about Indians but were afraid to ask

ByAnton Treuer

2012 • 19 Readers • 190 pages • 4.3

#71

Save the Cat!

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel

ByJessica Brody

2018 • 48 Readers • 320 pages • 4.4

#72

Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

ByEvan Wright

2004 • 28 Readers • 384 pages • 4.3

#73

This Messy Magnificent Life: A Field Guide

ByGeneen Roth

2018 • 2 Readers • 224 pages • 4

#74

Cop Stories

ByDick Ellwood

2010 • 1 Reader • 3

#75

Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley

ByCary McClelland

4 Readers • 4

#76

Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order

ByJ.C. Sharman

2019 • 3 Readers • 216 pages • 4

#77

Thrilling Cities

ByIan Fleming

1963 • 3 Readers • 207 pages • 3

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