On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA
By: John Gribbin
3.77
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
A Waterstones Best Book of 2020The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully fo…
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1. Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Polly Perks joins the Discworld army to find her brother Paul. "Ozzer" cuts off blonde braids, dons… read more
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2. Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.98
Format: None pages,
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Roy… read more
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3. How Right You Are, Jeeves (Jeeves, #12)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring a cow-creamer, the redheaded Miss Wickham, and the formidabl… read more
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4. Life on Earth
By: David Attenborough
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from … read more
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5. The German War: A Nation Under Arms
By: Nicholas Stargardt
4.34
Format: 704 pages, Hardcover
As early as 1941, Allied victory in World War II seemed all but assured. How and why, then, did the… read more
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6. Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.00
Format: 64 pages,
'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revol… read more
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7. Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
According to the writer of the best-selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of … read more
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8. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Library Binding
Maurice and the rats have teamed up with a young lad named Keith to implement a clever moneymaking … read more
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"The second mouse gets the cheese!"-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)
"I am not so blind that I can't see darkness."-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)
"And I say take two, sir," said Maurice urgently. "Two and call it quits?"-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)
"A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows."-Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)
9. Raising Steam (Discworld, #40, Moist von Lipwig #3 )
By: Terry Pratchett
4.32
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
To the consternation of the patrician, Lord Vetinari, a new invention has arrived in Ankh-Morpork -… read more
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10. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
By: Margaret MacMillan , Richard Holbrooke
4.28
Format: 120 pages,
'Without question, Margaret MacMillan's Paris 1919 is the most honest and engaging history ever wri… read more
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11. I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.36
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
It starts with whispers. Then someone picks up a stone. Finally, the fires begin. When peo… read more
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"And you know what? Books live. The pages remember!"-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
"Everybody needs a witch, but sometimes they just don't know it."-Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (Discworld, #38; Tiffany Aching, #4)
12. The Shepherd's Crown (Discworld, #41; Tiffany Aching, #5)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.25
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A shivering of worlds. Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense i… read more
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13. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
14. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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15. White Holes
By: Carlo Rovelli
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing trip to the strange world of white holes from the bestselling author of Seven Brief L… read more
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16. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more
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"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
17. The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome
By: Nick Holmes
4.30
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
It was the fall before the fall. The Roman Revolution describes the little known “crisis of the… read more
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18. Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
By: Carl Zimmer
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world--from prot… read more
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"It was a biochemical Jackson Pollock: a field of strings, tangles, loops."-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
"Thirteen thousand years ago it fell to Antarctica. It rested in the Allan Hills as the Ice Age glaciers retreated, farmers discovered agriculture, cities rose, and rockets shot into space."-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
"The disgusting smell of death of death is the result of certain airborne molecules with evocative names like cadaverine and putrescine. These molecules are not produced by death, however, but by life…"-Carl Zimmer, Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
19. The Fall of Rome: End of a Superpower
By: Nick Holmes
4.25
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
WHY DID ROME FALL? In this gripping retelling of one of the most momentous chapters in history, … read more
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20. On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’ from Aristotle to DNA
By: John Gribbin
3.77
Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition
A Waterstones Best Book of 2020The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully fo… read more
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21. Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
By: Edward Dolnick
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading … read more
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