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214 book guides · Showing 145–192
Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen
Effort 46/100
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
Effort 62/100
Command and Control
Eric Schlosser
Effort 62/100
Krakatoa
Simon Winchester
Effort 48/100
Geography of Nowhere
James Howard Kunstler
Effort 43/100
The Great Bridge
David McCullough
Effort 48/100
The Path Between the Seas
David McCullough
Effort 56/100
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson
Effort 22/100
The Map That Changed the World
Simon Winchester
Effort 46/100
The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan
Effort 46/100
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Ian Mortimer
Effort 36/100
The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester
Effort 26/100
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
Effort 49/100
Everything and More
David Foster Wallace
Effort 77/100
The Johnstown Flood
David McCullough
Effort 37/100
Changes in the Land
William Cronon
Effort 43/100
Coming into the Country
John McPhee
Effort 51/100
The Road to Little Dribbling
Bill Bryson
Effort 24/100
Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos
Effort 52/100
Casino
Nicholas Pileggi
Effort 35/100
The White Album
Joan Didion
Effort 66/100
Nothing Like It in the World
Stephen E. Ambrose
Effort 33/100
The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England
Ian Mortimer
Effort 30/100
The Nineties
Chuck Klosterman
Effort 47/100
The Rise and Fall of American Growth
Robert J. Gordon
Effort 73/100
China
John Keay
Effort 44/100
Maphead
Ken Jennings
Effort 22/100
Brainiac
Ken Jennings
Effort 22/100
The Pine Barrens
John McPhee
Effort 41/100
Bully for Brontosaurus
Stephen Jay Gould
Effort 50/100
Dynasty
Tom Holland
Effort 49/100
Island of the Lost
Joan Druett
Effort 22/100
Black Flags, Blue Waters
Eric Jay Dolin
Effort 37/100
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
Gary Kinder
Effort 42/100
The Pencil
Henry Petroski
Effort 46/100
Challenger
Adam Higginbotham
Effort 48/100
Energy
Richard Rhodes
Effort 47/100
Oranges
John McPhee
Effort 36/100
The Unwinding
George Packer
Effort 53/100
Human Smoke
Nicholson Baker
Effort 49/100
Conquistador
Buddy Levy
Effort 40/100
The Monopolists
Mary Pilon
Effort 46/100
Ghetto at the Center of the World
Gordon Mathews
Effort 52/100
Great Plains
Ian Frazier
Effort 45/100
Murderland
Caroline Fraser
Effort 67/100
Imperial Twilight
Stephen R. Platt
Effort 44/100
In the Kingdom of Ice
Hampton Sides
Effort 46/100
24 Hours in Ancient Egypt
Donald P. Ryan
Effort 21/100
