6 must-read biography books like Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace by James T. Costa

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Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

By: James T. Costa

4.50

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natu…

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1. Spoon River Anthology

By: Edgar Lee Masters

4.05

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more

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"Act well your part, there all the honor lies."

-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

"Remember the acorn; It does not devour other acorns."

-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

"the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth."

-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

"The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul."

-Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

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2. The Road to Roswell

By: Connie Willis

3.74

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are … read more

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3. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

By: Hampton Sides

4.51

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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5. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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6. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.02

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more

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"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"

-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

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7. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

By: James L. Swanson

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

By: Stephen Vladeck

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An acclaimed legal scholar’s “essential” (Linda Greenhouse) exp… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"But in order after order, the Supreme Court gave the Trump administration most of what it wanted without endorsing principles that the justices would be bound to apply to future presidents, so that t…"

-Stephen Vladeck, The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic

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9. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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10. Infinity Gate (Pandominion, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.17

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

 From bestselling author M. R. Carey comes a brilliant genre-defying story of humanity's expansion … read more

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11. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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12. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. The Story of Russia

By: Orlando Figes

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“This is the essential backstory, the history book that you need if you want to understand modern R… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

By: Anthony Bourdain

3.64

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, televisi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"You know, I'll tell you honestly: if you like food and you haven't come here to eat, you're really missing the fucking boat. This is world-class food; this is world-class wine; this is world-class ch…"

-Anthony Bourdain, World Travel: An Irreverent Guide

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15. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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16. After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

By: Eric H. Cline

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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17. A View from the Stars: Stories and Essays

By: Cixin Liu

3.54

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

"We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and f… read more

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18. Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations

By: Simon Schama

3.65

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Da millenni gli esseri umani e i virus coesistono e, suo malgrado, l'umanità più di una volta si è … read more

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  • biology
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
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19. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace by James T. Costa

20. Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

By: James T. Costa

4.50

Format: 552 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natu… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biology
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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21. The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus

By: Gunnar Broberg

3.19

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and work Carl… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science

13 Top history books like Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace by James T. Costa

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

James L. Swanson

3.44

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I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Transform Your Habits

The Mimicking of Known Successes (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #1)

Malka Ann Older

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

Transform Your Habits

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

Martha Wells

4.22

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