21 must-read nonfiction books like William L. Shirer Twentieth Century Journey: The Start (1904-1930), The Nightmare Years (1930-1940), A Native's Return (1945-1988) by William L. Shirer

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William L. Shirer Twentieth Century Journey: The Start (1904-1930), The Nightmare Years (1930-1940), A Native's Return (1945-1988)

By: William L. Shirer

4.57

Format: 1999 pages, Kindle Edition

World-renowned journalist and best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William …

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1. 1940: FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—the Election amid the Storm

By: Susan Dunn

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

By: Larry McMurtry

4.12

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER The second book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy, Comanche Moon… read more

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"Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long."

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"I've just served five years in a great war —the only struggle that still interests me is the conflict with the sentence, sir—the English sentence."

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"The thing that Buffalo Hump was most grateful for, as he rode into the emptiness, was the knowledge that in the years of his youth and manhood he had drawn the lifeblood of so many enemies. He had be…"

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

"Buffalo Hump wanted to see the ocean because the ocean would always be as it was. Few things could stay forever in the way they were when the spirits made them. Even the great plains of grass, the ho…"

-Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

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3. On Love

By: Charles Bukowski

3.80

Format: 224 pages, ebook

A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty O… read more

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"we know so little, we know so much, we don't know enough."

-Charles Bukowski, On Love

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4. The Unfinished Odyssey of Robert Kennedy

By: David Halberstam

0.00

Format: 798 pages,

The Pulitzer prize-winning newsman's analysis of Kennedy's ideological journey toward increasing ra… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

5. My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more

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6. Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45

By: Roger Moorhouse

3.62

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Berlin was the city at the very center of World War II. It was the launching pad for Hitler's empir… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Road to Jerusalem (The Knight Templar, #1)

By: Jan Guillou , Anna Paterson

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

The hero of this phenomenally successful historical trilogy is Arn Magnusson, born in 1150 to an ar… read more

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8. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By: John Berendt

4.27

Format: 67 pages,

A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this eno… read more

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  • nonfiction

9. No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State

By: Fritz Stern , Elisabeth Sifton

2.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

During the twelve years of Hitler's Third Reich, very few Germans took the risk of actively opposin… read more

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10. The King's Privateer (Alan Lewrie, #4)

By: Dewey Lambdin

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

1783: His Majesty's secret agent Fresh from war in the Americas, young navy veteran Alan Lewrie fin… read more

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11. The French Admiral (Alan Lewrie, #2)

By: Dewey Lambdin

4.70

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Alan Lewrie is a scandalous young rake whose amorous adventures ashore lead to his being shipped of… read more

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12. Sourcery (Discworld, #5; Rincewind #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

3.26

Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When last seen, the singularly inept wizard Rincewind had fallen off the edge of the world. Now mag… read more

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13. This Boy's Life

By: Tobias Wolff

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff… read more

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14. 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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"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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15. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World

By: Michael Pollan

3.72

Format: 2 pages, Audible Audio

Listening time = 2h 2m Pollan takes us on a journey through the history of the drug, which was f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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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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  • nonfiction
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17. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

By: Jon Meacham

4.46

Format: 676 pages, Hardcover

The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany

By: James Wyllie

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III

By: Andrew Roberts

4.25

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By: Bill Maher

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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23. Shadowman: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling

By: Ron Franscell

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare.… read more

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24. Hollywood: The Oral History

By: Jeanine Basinger

4.04

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. The Seven Men of Spandau: The Last of the Hitler Gang (Hitler's Henchmen)

By: Jack Fishman

4.27

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

The riveting story of what happened to the seven top Nazi war criminals in the aftermath of World W… read more

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26. 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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  • nonfiction
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27. Scotland: A History from Earliest Times

By: Alistair Moffat

3.89

Format: 843 pages, Kindle Edition

Five hundred million years of Scottish history from the author of Arthur and the Lost “Deserves a … read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang

By: John Boessenecker

3.94

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A Pim County Public Library Southwest Books of the Year 2021 A True West Reader’s Choice for Best … read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump

By: Stuart Stevens

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"A brilliant, unflinching look at the descent of the GOP - backed up with data, historic sweep & fi… read more

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30. William L. Shirer Twentieth Century Journey: The Start (1904-1930), The Nightmare Years (1930-1940), A Native's Return (1945-1988)

By: William L. Shirer

4.57

Format: 1999 pages, Kindle Edition

World-renowned journalist and best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William … read more

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31. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

4.27

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more

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