20 must-read nonfiction books like The Lords of the Golden Horn: From Suleiman the Magnificent to Kamal Ataturk by Noel Barber

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The Lords of the Golden Horn: From Suleiman the Magnificent to Kamal Ataturk

By: Noel Barber

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A voluptuous history of the glories and evils of the mighty Ottoman empire from the reign of Suleim…

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1. Death in Florence: The Medici, Savonarola, and the Battle for the Soul of a Renaissance City

By: Paul Strathern

3.92

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Way Things Are

By: Rolfe Humphries , Lucretius

3.97

Format: 265 pages, Paperback

..". [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and pro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"There can be no centre in infinity."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Nothing exists but amalgams of matter and space."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

"For whatever changes and leaves its natural bounds is instant death of that which was before."

-Rolfe Humphries, The Way Things Are

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3. The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon

By: Alex Kershaw

4.17

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

On a cold morning in December, 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of eighteen men under t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Anathem

By: Neal Stephenson

4.17

Format: 937 pages, Hardcover

Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians,… read more

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  • audiobook
"It is what you don't expect... that most needs looking for."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

"Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

"Linguistics got me into this excellent mess––only physics can get me out."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

"Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time."

-Neal Stephenson, Anathem

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5. Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

By: Neil Gaiman

4.53

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Timesbestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivat… read more

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  • audiobook
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6. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By: Mary Beard

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

New York TimesBestseller * National Book Critics Circle Finalist * Wall Street JournalBest Books of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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7. Freedom at Midnight

By: Dominique Lapierre , Larry Collins

4.20

Format: 32 pages,

A famous, major work on Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Admiral Lord Mountbatten, and the partition of India. read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

8. The Hero With a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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9. Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

By: Cole C. Kingseed , Dick Winters

3.95

Format: 288 pages,

They were called Easy Company--but their mission was never easy.Immortalized as the Band of Brother… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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10. Peter the Great: His Life and World

By: Robert K. Massie

4.14

Format: 909 pages, Paperback

Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn

11. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes

By: Alfie Kohn

3.82

Format: None pages,

The basic strategy we use for raising children, teaching students, and managing workers can be summ… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. The Way of SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Succeed and Lead in Life

By: Mark Divine , Allyson E. Machate , Allyson Edelhertz Machate

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Want to be tough? Cool under fire? Able to sense danger before it's too late? In The Way of the SEA… read more

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  • nonfiction

13. Cryptonomicon

By: Neal Stephenson

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time … read more

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14. Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich

By: Robert Gerwarth

3.17

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century… read more

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15. Blood Red Snow: The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front

By: Günter K. Koschorrek

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

For the German soldier fighting under Hitler, keeping a diary was strictly forbidden. So Gunter Kos… read more

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16. Alexander the Great

By: Paul Cartledge

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Paul Cartledge, one of the world's foremost scholars of ancient Greece, illuminates the brief but i… read more

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17. Starfish (Rifters, #1)

By: Peter Watts

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the botto… read more

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"Lenie " odzywa się Joel "Słucham?" "Próbowałaś się kiedyś zabić?" "Jasne, jak każdy" odpowiada"

-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)

"It’s really kind of… well, beautiful, in a way. Even the monsters, once you get to know ‘em. We’re all beautiful."

-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)

"Don’t lecture me in my own field! We’ve got language and speech centers hardwired into our brains. That gives us a common starting point. Gels don’t have anything like that. Speech might just be one …"

-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)

"Miałam 11 lat. Poprzyklejałam sobie na ciele plastry, straciłam przytomność, obudziłam się w publicznym szpitalu." "O, cholera! To tylko szczebelek wyżej od szukania pomocy w internecie." "W sumie ta…"

-Peter Watts, Starfish (Rifters, #1)

18. Chocky

By: John Wyndham

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cover Artist: Harry Willock Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to him… read more

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19. Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times

By: Thomas R. Martin

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this compact yet comprehensive history of ancient Greece, Thomas R. Martin brings alive Greek ci… read more

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20. The Romanovs: 1613-1918

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

3.17

Format: None pages,

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surfac… read more

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21. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

By: Candice Millard

3.84

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"

-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

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22. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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23. Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

By: Katja Hoyer

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World

By: Mary Beard

4.11

Format: 493 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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26. The Borgias: Power and Fortune (Italian Histories)

By: Paul Strathern

4.07

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family―a world of saints, corrupt popes, and deprav… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece

By: Paul Cartledge

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Mr. Cartledge’s command of the historical material is effortless and exhaustive, and his appreciat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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28. Metternich: Strategist and Visionary

By: Wolfram Siemann

4.22

Format: 928 pages, Hardcover

A compelling new biography that recasts the most important European statesman of the first half of … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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29. The Great Boer War

By: Byron Farwell

4.12

Format: 532 pages, Kindle Edition

1990 1st Thus Norton read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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30. The Lords of the Golden Horn: From Suleiman the Magnificent to Kamal Ataturk

By: Noel Barber

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A voluptuous history of the glories and evils of the mighty Ottoman empire from the reign of Suleim… read more

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  • islam
  • history
  • biography
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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