6 Best history books like The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945 by Ferenc Morton Szasz

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The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945

By: Ferenc Morton Szasz

3.87

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Western History Association's Robert G. Athearn Award for outstanding book on the twe…

If you liked the history plot in The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945 by Ferenc Morton Szasz , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 324 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A flamboyant party host is murdered in full view of a roomful of bridge players! Mr. Shaitana wa… read more

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"I have always disapproved of murder."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?"

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"Hercule Poirot spread out his hands in his most foreign manner."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

"There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best."

-Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)

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2. The Eyes of the Dragon

By: Stephen King

3.94

Format: 427 pages, Paperback

Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a king with two sons… ​Thus begins one of the most u… read more

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"Never will you talk to me like that again."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"Sleep is often denied to those with secrets."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"A true King would not waste time justifying or explaining. He would simply state his will."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

"His rope, his legs, his luck. Either all would hold or all would break, quite possibly at the same time."

-Stephen King, The Eyes of the Dragon

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3. A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

By: Josh Neufeld

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A stunning graphic novel that makes plain the undeniable horrors and humanity triggered by Hurrican… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. The Good House

By: Tananarive Due

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that townspeople in Sac… read more

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5. The Hellbound Heart

By: Clive Barker

4.07

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. … read more

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"She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Allí el placer era dolor, y viceversa. Y él lo conocía tan bien que era como sentirse en casa."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas"

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

"Todas las cosas se cansan con el tiempo y comienzan a buscar algún oponente que las salve de sí mismas."

-Clive Barker, The Hellbound Heart

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6. Matterhorn

By: Karl Marlantes

3.30

Format: 107 pages,

A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly dec… read more

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  • historical
  • military fiction
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7. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

By: Carlo Rovelli , Simon Carnell , Erica Segre

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. In seven bri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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8. A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more

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9. Anthem

By: Ayn Rand

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Anthemhas long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her late… read more

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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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11. The Rabbi's Cat

By: Joann Sfar , Anjali Singh , Alexis Siegel

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The preeminent work by one of France's most celebrated young comic artists, The Rabbi's Cattells th… read more

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12. Fledgling

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young… read more

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13. Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

By: Bryan Lee O'Malley

4.40

Format: 205 pages,

Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rockband, he's "between jobs" a… read more

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14. You Should Have Left

By: Daniel Kehlmann , Ross Benjamin

3.44

Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition

From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatura… read more

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"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterd…"

-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left

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15. Shubeik Lubeik

By: Deena Mohamed

4.50

Format: 528 pages, ebook

A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more

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16. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Shuna's Journey

By: Hayao Miyazaki

4.34

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki comes a new manga classic about a prince on a quest for a go… read more

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18. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

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"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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19. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • history
  • science
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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20. The Secret to Superhuman Strength

By: Alison Bechdel

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exerc… read more

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  • nonfiction
"My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been."

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

"Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties."

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

"Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!"

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

"Most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails."

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

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21. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

By: Benjamin Lorr

3.95

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir   Eyal

22. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

By: Nir Eyal

3.75

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interru… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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23. The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.88

Format: 563 pages, Hardcover

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more

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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

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24. On a Sunbeam

By: Tillie Walden

4.30

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain… read more

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"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

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25. If It Bleeds

By: Stephen King

3.99

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

If it Bleeds is a collection of four new novellas —Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, an… read more

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26. The Low, Low Woods

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.95

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

When your memories are stolen, what would you give to remember? Follow El and Vee as they search fo… read more

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27. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

By: Dan Egan

4.34

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The Great Lakes―Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior―hold 20 percent of the world’s supply … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"A normal lake is knowable. A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some."

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

"Sandy beaches still rim the lakes, but if Lake Michigan, for example, were drained it would now be possible to walk almost the entire 100 miles between Wisconsin and Michigan on a bed of trillions up…"

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

"A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lam…"

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

"A single Seaway ship can hold up to six million gallons of vessel-steadying ballast water that gets discharged at a port in exchange for cargo. And that water, scientists would learn after it was too…"

-Dan Egan, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

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28. The Naked Tree

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

3.84

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

A delicate, timeless, and breathtaking coming-of-age story.The critically acclaimed and award-winni… read more

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  • historical
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29. The Day the Sun Rose Twice: The Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945

By: Ferenc Morton Szasz

3.87

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Western History Association's Robert G. Athearn Award for outstanding book on the twe… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • read for school
  • nonfiction
  • science
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30. Acid West: Essays

By: Joshua Wheeler

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

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3.65

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