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214 book guides · Showing 97–144
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Charles C. Mann
Effort 56/100
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World
Jennifer Armstrong
Effort 19/100
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Effort 46/100
Brown Girl Dreaming
Jacqueline Woodson
Effort 39/100
Endurance
Alfred Lansing
Effort 29/100
Warriors Don't Cry
Melba Pattillo Beals
Effort 36/100
The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
Effort 64/100
Empire of the Summer Moon
S. C. Gwynne
Effort 44/100
The Boys in the Boat
Daniel James Brown
Effort 30/100
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
Effort 61/100
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi
Effort 34/100
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
Effort 76/100
At Home
Bill Bryson
Effort 51/100
Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer
Effort 57/100
Fear and Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson
Effort 46/100
First They Killed My Father
Loung Ung
Effort 32/100
Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
Effort 55/100
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Adeline Yen Mah
Effort 24/100
Maus II
Art Spiegelman
Effort 52/100
Bowling Alone
Robert D. Putnam
Effort 49/100
Zlata's Diary
Zlata Filipović
Effort 24/100
Stamped
Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
Effort 22/100
The Radium Girls
Kate Moore
Effort 39/100
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom Wolfe
Effort 50/100
Cadillac Desert
Marc Reisner
Effort 61/100
In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson
Effort 26/100
Battle Cry of Freedom
James M. McPherson
Effort 55/100
Friday Night Lights
Buzz Bissinger
Effort 43/100
The Wager
David Grann
Effort 30/100
Rubicon
Tom Holland
Effort 45/100
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Effort 43/100
The Frontiersmen
Allan W. Eckert
Effort 52/100
Apollo 13
Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
Effort 45/100
The Great Crash, 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith
Effort 35/100
Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Effort 53/100
The Boy on the Wooden Box
Leon Leyson, Marilyn J. Harran, Elisabeth B. Leyson
Effort 24/100
Escape from Camp 14
Blaine Harden
Effort 26/100
The Indifferent Stars Above
Daniel James Brown
Effort 42/100
A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt
Effort 43/100
Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson
Effort 45/100
All But My Life
Gerda Weissmann Klein
Effort 42/100
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
Effort 42/100
A Peace to End All Peace
David Fromkin
Effort 61/100
Bomb
Steve Sheinkin
Effort 34/100
The Orchid Thief
Susan Orlean
Effort 45/100
The River of Doubt
Candice Millard
Effort 40/100
Citizen 13660
Miné Okubo
Effort 32/100
Everything Is Tuberculosis
John Green
Effort 33/100
