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Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

4,676 members

107 reviews

4

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Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America

52 members

½ 3.5

Member: bluewind1

3

Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment

11 members

4

Member: bluewind1

4

Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

236 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

5

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

by Daniel James Brown

379 members

19 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: bluewind1

6

Frantz Fanon: A Biography

107 members

½ 3.6

Member: bluewind1

7

Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

by Carlo Rovelli

582 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: bluewind1

8

Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City

by Samira Shackle

19 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bluewind1

9

My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness (Pivotal Moments in American History)

by Howard Jones

57 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

10

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

by Alice L Baumgartner

93 members

1 review

4.1

Member: bluewind1

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

by David Graeber

2,125 members

43 reviews

4.2

Member: bluewind1

12

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

by Louis Menand

259 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: bluewind1

13

The Girl from Kathmandu: Twelve Dead Men and a Woman's Quest for Justice

35 members

5

Member: bluewind1

14

The private world of high society

by Lucy Kavaler

6 members

Member: bluewind1

15

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

by Stephen L. Brusatte

451 members

15 reviews

4.2

Member: bluewind1

16

The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest

by Mark Synnott

133 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

17

The Ungrateful Refugee

237 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bluewind1

18

The War that Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium

by Barry S. Strauss

123 members

3 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

19

To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)

by Charles Pellegrino

75 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: bluewind1

20

Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

by Max Hastings

694 members

15 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: bluewind1

21

Gothic: An Illustrated History

by Roger Luckhurst

79 members

1 review

4.2

Member: bluewind1

22

Nurse, Come You Here!: More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

by Mary J. MacLeod

64 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: bluewind1

23

Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands

by Hazel V. Carby

70 members

5

Member: bluewind1

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by Tamsin Calidas

131 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bluewind1

25

Bibliographical notes on T. E. Lawrence's Seven pillars of wisdom and Revolt in the desert

Member: bluewind1

26

Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen

by Giles Tremlett

118 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bluewind1

27

Joan of Arc: A History

by Helen Castor

375 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

28

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

341 members

8 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: bluewind1

29

The World of Yesterday

by Stefan Zweig

2,568 members

76 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bluewind1

30

The Rise of Athens: The Story of the World's Greatest Civilization

by Anthony Everitt

245 members

4 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bluewind1

31

Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter

255 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

32

Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages (Wellcome)

by Jack Hartnell

277 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

33

Out of Egypt DVD

by Unknown Author

1 member

1 review

Member: bluewind1

34

Magna Carta Ancestry

by Douglas Richardson

35 members

5

Member: bluewind1

35

Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

458 members

10 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

36

The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever

by David M. Friedman

104 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

37

Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo

by Mansoor Adayfi

34 members

1 review

3.9

Member: bluewind1

38

The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm

26 members

Member: bluewind1

39

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

by Daniel Okrent

214 members

8 reviews

4

Member: bluewind1

40

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

by Michael Lewis

930 members

47 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bluewind1

41

You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

by Whitney Phillips

21 members

2 reviews

4

Member: bluewind1

42

The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace

by Eric Rauchway

66 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

43

Trapped In the Present Tense: Meditations on American Memory

by Colette Brooks

11 members

1 review

5

Member: bluewind1

44

The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home

by Denise Kiernan

739 members

25 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: bluewind1

45

From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West

by John Sedgwick

44 members

1 review

4

Member: bluewind1

46

JELL-O Girls: A Family History

by Allie Rowbottom

173 members

10 reviews

3.2

Member: bluewind1

47

Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest

by Lesley Poling-Kempes

62 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: bluewind1

48

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

by Lauren Redniss

150 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

49

The Boston Massacre: A Family History

by Serena Zabin

143 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

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by Sebastian Junger

191 members

12 reviews

3.8

Member: bluewind1

51

Just Us: An American Conversation

by Claudia Rankine

340 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: bluewind1

52

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

by Ernest J. Gaines

1,418 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

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391 members

31 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

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by Semezdin Mehmedinović

79 members

4.2

Member: bluewind1

55

The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice

by Wendell Berry

75 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: bluewind1

56

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

519 members

31 reviews

4.1

Member: bluewind1

57

The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction

by LeeAnna Keith

97 members

4 reviews

3.9

Member: bluewind1

58

Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm

by David Mas Masumoto

21 members

4

Member: bluewind1

59

Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions

33 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: bluewind1

60

Ida: A Sword Among Lions

by Paula J. Giddings

266 members

3 reviews

4

Member: bluewind1

61

A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies

by Martin J. Sherwin

138 members

4

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62

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

2,546 members

47 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: bluewind1

63

Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis

by Martin J. Sherwin

62 members

2 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: bluewind1

64

Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

by Francesca Peacock

38 members

2 reviews

4

Member: bluewind1

65

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

9,940 members

229 reviews

½ 4.4

66

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong {revised & updated}

by James W. Loewen

6,348 members

97 reviews

4

67

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

by Ulysses S. Grant

1,868 members

17 reviews

4.1

68

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America

1,847 members

17 reviews

4.1

69

Why We're Polarized

548 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

70

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

by Judy Batalion

526 members

20 reviews

4

71

When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

by Ariana Neumann

374 members

14 reviews

4.2

72

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

by Heather Cox Richardson

311 members

7 reviews

4.2

73

Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years

by Haynes Johnson

296 members

5 reviews

3.9

74

Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

by Jamie Raskin

233 members

10 reviews

4.1

75

1947: Where Now Begins

by Elisabeth Åsbrink

231 members

12 reviews

4

76

The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

by Gwen Strauss

225 members

20 reviews

4.2

77

The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

by Margalit Fox

179 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

78

One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

by Michael Frank

174 members

15 reviews

½ 4.3

79

Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure

168 members

7 reviews

3.8

80

The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

by Max Hastings

159 members

1 review

4.2

81

140 members

7 reviews

4.1

82

Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now

135 members

1 review

½ 3.5

83

The Chosen Ones

by Steve Sem-Sandberg

128 members

2 reviews

3.8

84

Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy

by Ethan J. Kytle

126 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

85

Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South

by Margaret Renkl

117 members

1 review

½ 4.4

86

The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero

by Peter S. Canellos

110 members

4 reviews

½ 4.5

87

1941: The Year Germany Lost the War: The Year Germany Lost the War

by Andrew Nagorski

104 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

88

Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century

by Sinclair McKay

101 members

2 reviews

2.8

89

Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again

by Dan Pfeiffer

88 members

4 reviews

3.8

90

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape, and Home

by Alexander Wolff

80 members

1 review

4.1

91

New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time

by Craig Taylor

72 members

2 reviews

4.2

92

Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson

by Rebecca Boggs Roberts

72 members

2 reviews

4.1

93

The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America

by Noah Feldman

64 members

½ 4.5

94

Four Hours of Fury: The Untold Story of World War II's Largest Airborne Invasion and the Final Push into Nazi Germany

by James M. Fenelon

61 members

1 review

½ 4.3

95

Indivisible: Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism

by Joel Richard Paul

47 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

96

The Last Days of Ellis Island

by GAËLLE JOSSE

45 members

6 reviews

3.8

97

The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

by Astrid Karlsen Scott

22 members

98

The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama

by Claude A. Clegg Iii

17 members

99

Biden: The Obama Years and the Battle for the Soul of America

by David Lienemann

10 members

100

I'm Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People During the Holocaust

by Alexandra Zapruder

1 member

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