17 must-read nonfiction books like The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson by Patrick Weil

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The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson

By: Patrick Weil

3.48

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The notorious psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, rediscovered nearly a century after it was written…

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1. Bad Monkey

By: Carl Hiaasen

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in w… read more

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2. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

3. City Primeval

By: Elmore Leonard

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Clement Mansell, knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The crazed killer is back on the Det… read more

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4. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

By: Brad Meltzer

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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5. 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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6. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

By: Douglas Brunt

4.23

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more

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  • biography
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"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"

-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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7. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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8. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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9. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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12. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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13. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America

By: Abraham Riesman

3.75

Format: 464 pages, ebook

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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15. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder

By: Susan Wels

3.33

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

By: Heather E. Heying

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A bold, provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Love develops for every evolutionary pairing that requires devotion."

-Heather E. Heying, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

"Our differences are fascinating, but our similarities make us human."

-Heather E. Heying, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

"Pain is information about the environment, and how your body is responding to it."

-Heather E. Heying, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

"Male and female are complementary states, and there is a healthy natural tension between them."

-Heather E. Heying, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

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17. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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18. First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

By: Thomas E. Ricks

4.08

Format: 416 pages, ebook

New York Times BestsellerEditors' Choice —New York Times Book Review "Ricks knocks it out of the p… read more

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"It is a cliché, and a bad one, that generals try to “fight the last war"

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"...Populism tends to look good from a distance, but close up it can be frightening."

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"As an inhabitant of a Mississippi River town happily shouts out in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , “You pays your money and you makes your choice!"

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

"More than anything else, I have learned in researching this book that America is a moving target, a goal that must always be pursued but never quite reached."

-Thomas E. Ricks, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

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19. Very Bad Company

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Every year executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company’s top employees for an e… read more

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20. Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World

By: David L. Roll

4.44

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Fra… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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21. The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson

By: Patrick Weil

3.48

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The notorious psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, rediscovered nearly a century after it was written… read more

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16 Best history books like The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson by Patrick Weil

Transform Your Habits

The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

Brad Meltzer

4.16

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 Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt

4.23

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany

Donald L. Miller

4.18

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 Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

Douglas Brunt

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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