11 must-read history books like Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes by Jaime Weinman

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Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes

By: Jaime Weinman

4.05

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Looney Tunes cartoons, writes celebrated television critic Jaime Weinman, are the high-water mark o…

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1. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

By: Tim Weiner

3.94

Format: 514 pages, Hardcover

For the last sixty years, the CIA has managed to maintain a formidable reputation in spite of its t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"To the CIA, everyone's an outsider."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

"It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world."

-Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

Cover of A Night in the Lonesome October by Gahan Wilson, Roger Zelazny, James Warhola

2. A Night in the Lonesome October

By: Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

All is not what it seems… In the murky London gloom, a knife-wielding gentleman named Jack prowl… read more

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  • humor
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3. Aurora

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.77

Format: 466 pages, Hardcover

A major new novel from one of science fiction's most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible s… read more

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"Then it's a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes and trying any old thing."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora

"There are ecological, biological, sociological, and psychological problems that can never be solved to make this idea work. The physical problems of propulsion have capture your fancy, and perhaps th…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora

"Statistically it was not greatly different than it had been for previous generations, but anecdotally it had become so prominent that every problem was noticed and remarked. The cognitive error calle…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora

"We had a project on this trip back to the solar system, and that project was a labor of love. It absorbed all our operations entirely. It gave a meaning to our existence. And this is a very great gif…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Aurora

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4. C is for Corpse (Kinsey Millhone, #3)

By: Sue Grafton

3.74

Format: 410 pages,

How do you go about solving an attempted murder when the victim has lost a good part of his memory?… read more

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5. Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties

By: Lucy Moore

4.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This is an exhilarating portrait of the era of invention, glamour and excess from one of the bright… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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6. And Another Thing... (Hitchhiker's Guide, #6)

By: Eoin Colfer

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

AN ENGLISHMAN'S CONTINUING SEARCH THROUGH SPACE AND TIME FOR A DECENT CUP OF TEA... Arthur Dent's a… read more

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  • humor
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7. The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

By: Michael Moorcock , Mike Ashley , Amy Myers

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Singular, capital, wonderfully enjoyable, this is the biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes sto… read more

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8. Horseman, Pass By

By: Larry McMurtry

4.30

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LonesomeDovecomes the novel that became the basis for the… read more

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9. B is for Burglar (Kinsey Millhone, #2)

By: Sue Grafton

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Although business has been slow lately for P.I. Kinsey Millhone, she's reluctant to take on the cas… read more

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10. Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life… read more

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11. The Book of Charlie: Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

By: David von Drehle

4.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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12. The Rabbit Factor

By: Antti Tuomainen

3.79

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

An insurance mathematician’s carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly lose… read more

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  • humor
Cover of Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir by Stevie Van Zandt

13. Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir

By: Stevie Van Zandt

4.01

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Uncover never-before-told stories in this epic tale of self-discovery by a Rock n Roll disciple and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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14. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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15. Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

By: Jasper Fforde

4.50

Format: 459 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition… read more

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  • humor
"Choice," went the Word of Munsell, "leads only to dithering and unhealthy speculation over alternative outcomes. The choice to have no choice is the best choice of all."

-Jasper Fforde, Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)

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16. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska by Warren Zanes

18. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

By: Warren Zanes

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

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19. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

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"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

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20. Ghost Eaters

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more

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21. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of Sherlock Holmes The Coronation Murders: A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery (A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery Series Book 8) by J. B. Varney

22. Sherlock Holmes The Coronation Murders: A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery (A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery Series Book 8)

By: J. B. Varney

4.40

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

Queen Victoria lays dying and some predict she will not live out the week. It is a turning point fo… read more

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23. Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation

By: Reid Mitenbuler

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sop… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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24. Sherlock Holmes The Great Nemesis: A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery (A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery Series Book 9)

By: J. B. Varney

4.45

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

The ring of the bell at 221B Baker Street portends evil and confronts Holmes and Watson with a case… read more

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25. Sherlock Holmes The Dowager Baroness: A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery (A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery Series Book 11)

By: J. B. Varney

4.40

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1885 Watson ran into an old rugby pal, now a successful London businessman. The ma… read more

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26. Sherlock Holmes The Aging Detective: A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery (A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery Series Book 12)

By: J. B. Varney

4.46

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

In the early summer of 1913 I received a letter from my old friend, Sherlock Holmes. While he conce… read more

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27. Sherlock Holmes The Disappearance of Henry Fyldene: A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery (A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery Series Book 10)

By: J. B. Varney

4.42

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

The year ’84 brought Holmes & Watson several interesting cases but none quite as recherché and exot… read more

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28. Sherlock Holmes Mystery of the Standing Stone: A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery (A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery Series Book 13)

By: J. B. Varney

4.52

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

On a dark and stormy spring evening Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson were dining quietly at … read more

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29. Sherlock Holmes The Lady in the Black Mantilla: A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery (A Sherlock Holmes Resurgent Mystery Series Book 7)

By: J. B. Varney

4.49

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Ranulf Briquessart, Viscount Briquessart of Rutledge, was dead. This truth was as undeniable as the… read more

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30. Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes

By: Jaime Weinman

4.05

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Looney Tunes cartoons, writes celebrated television critic Jaime Weinman, are the high-water mark o… read more

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  • biography
  • history

5 Best humor books like Anvils, Mallets & Dynamite: The Unauthorized Biography of Looney Tunes by Jaime Weinman

Transform Your Habits

A Night in the Lonesome October

Gahan Wilson , Roger Zelazny , James Warhola

4.18

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And Another Thing... (Hitchhiker's Guide, #6)

Eoin Colfer

3.89

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The Rabbit Factor

Antti Tuomainen

3.79

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Jasper Fforde

4.50

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Bruce Springsteen , Clarence Clemons , Don Reo

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

Bernie Taupin

3.58

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Barack Obama

4.32

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Bob Dylan

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