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7 books

Short Stories

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Cathedral
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories
Homesick for Another World
Labyrinths

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21 books

Physics

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The First War of Physics
The Second Creation
Marie Curie
The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
The Road to Reality

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18 books

Paleontology

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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Wonderful life
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Ever Since Darwin
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

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17 books

South America

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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon
Trail of Feathers
The people of the arrow in search of the Amazon's last hidden tribes
Walking the Americas
The Galapagos

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50 books

Travel

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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
The Travel Book
Alone on the Ice
Farthest North: The Incredible Three-Year Voyage to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
Walking the Americas

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17 books

Urban Planning

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Gotham
What the Eyes Don't See
Happy City
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The City in History
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

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7 books

Survival

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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Adrift
Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
Lost in the Wild
Shackleton: A Biography

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12 books

Food

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The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Cooked
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Tea: The Drink that Changed the World
Uncommon Grounds
Salt: A World History

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10 books

Geology

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Uranium
The Source
Annals of the Former World
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet
The Life and Death of Planet Earth
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

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9 books

Mexico

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The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1493
The Diary of Frida Kahlo
Conquest
Oaxaca Journal
Conquistador

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16 books

Humor

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Vacationland
Bossypants
Yes Please
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
America
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History
The Bedwetter

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12 books

Artificial Intelligence

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Cybernetics
On Intelligence
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
The computer and the brain.

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13 books

Middle East

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The Kite Runner
Lawrence in Arabia
A History of the Arab Peoples
Exit West
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

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17 books

Canada

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Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown
A Fair Country
Seven Fallen Feathers
Three Against The Wilderness
Das dunkle Herz
The Tenderness of Wolves
Indian Horse

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30 books

Indigenous

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Trail of Feathers
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History
Seven Fallen Feathers
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

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91 books

Europe

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A Moveable Feast
The Judgment of Paris
Paris: The Secret History
Venice: A New History
Seven Ages Of Paris
History of Rome
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

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41 books

Africa

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In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
I Didn't Do It for You : How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

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43 books

Philosophy

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On Revolution
Are Prisons Obsolete?
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
The Stranger
The Plague
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
The Age of Reason

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155 books

Biography

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Henry Clay
Eisenhower : in War and Peace
Grant
On the Move: A Life
Chronicles: Volume One
Wishful Drinking
Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

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123 books

American History

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
John Adams
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Washington: A Life
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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9 books

Read Next

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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Motherless Brooklyn
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom

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22 books

Essays

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Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Where I Was From
Can You Tolerate This?
The Argonauts
Bluets

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9 books

World History

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A History of the World in 100 Objects
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
The Arabs: A History
Four Lost Cities
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

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4 books

Lgbtq

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Sissy
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
The Song of Achilles

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126 books

Science

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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Wonderful life
Packing for Mars
The River of Consciousness
Lake Views
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