The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
By: Scott Carney
4.40
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nucl…
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1. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
By: Simon Winchester
2.67
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines … read more
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- asia
- nonfiction
- history
- science
2. Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse
By: James L. Swanson
3.57
Format: 160 pages,
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
3. In the President's Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect
By: Ronald Kessler
4.30
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Never before has a journalist penetrated the wall of secrecy that surrounds the U.S. Secret Service… read more
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4. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
By: John W. Dower
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel … read more
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5. UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There
By: Garrett M. Graff
3.73
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times-bestselling author Garrett M. Graff comes the first comprehensive and eye-openi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
6. Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington
3.77
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood in this “timely… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"Even after becoming a mother, fulfilling the role society demands of you, you still can't win."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"Parenthood is demanded of us, but we are asked to parent in isolated bubbles, supported--to put it crudely--by our bank accounts and little else."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"COVID-19 exposed what women with children and without both already knew: that despite the expectation we all become mothers, we receive little support once we do."-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
"In light of our failure to account for the pressures, anxieties, and dangers of modern life, it's possible to argue that the decision to opt out of parenthood is perfectly rational. The decision to h…"-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother
7. Nuclear War: A Scenario
By: Annie Jacobsen
4.47
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more
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- science
- history
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- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario
8. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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- history
- science
- audiobook
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
9. Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong
By: Michael Wejchert
3.99
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible res… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
By: David Roberts
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
- audiobook
11. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
12. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
By: Max Hastings
4.40
Format: 538 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more
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- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
13. Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA
By: Tim Mak
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A blistering exposé of the National Rifle Association, revealing its people, power, corruption, and… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
By: Adam Higginbotham
4.60
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more
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- audiobook
- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- science
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
15. Watergate: A New History
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.49
Format: 832 pages, Hardcover
From Garrett Graff, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
By: Craig Taylor
4.08
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terroris… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"On the subway I felt I had a secret knowledge - I probably wasn’t the only one - a secret reason to travel, knowing that this exercise was ultimately for me, all these encounters brought with them le…"-Craig Taylor, New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
17. Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
By: Andrea Pitzer
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Long before Bering or Amundsen, long before Franklin or Shackleton, there was William Barents, in m… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
18. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
By: Zhuqing Li
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, … read more
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- asia
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
19. Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
By: Paul Kenyon
4.42
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica i… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- history
- war
20. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
By: David E. Sanger
4.37
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more
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- history
- politics
- war
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier
By: April White
3.54
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth… read more
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- history
- audiobook
22. Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania
By: Paul Kenyon
4.43
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The only country in Eastern Europe to speak a Latin language, Romania has always felt itself differ… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
By: Martyn Rady
4.13
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world hist… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
By: William Neuman
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Named Foreign Affairs Best Books of 2022 and the National Endowment for Democracy Notable Books of … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
25. Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance
By: Azam Ahmed
3.95
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
By: Benjamin T. Smith
4.02
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white a… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disa… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline
By: Paul M.M. Cooper
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
Landmark world history from the creator of the Top Ten podcast Fall of Civilizations. Based on t… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
29. Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
By: Anne Sebba
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mo… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
By: Scott Carney
4.40
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nucl… read more
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- history
- asia
- politics
- war
- pakistan
- bangladesh
- nonfiction
- india
- audiobook
31. The Art of Talking with Children: The Simple Keys to Nurturing Kindness, Creativity, and Confidence in Kids
By: Rebecca Rolland
4.04
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
From a Harvard faculty member and oral language specialist, an invaluable guide that gives readers … read more
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- audiobook
