10 must-read biography books like Alexander Graham Bell by Edwin S. Grosvenor

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Alexander Graham Bell

By: Edwin S. Grosvenor

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

". . . rarely have inventor and invention been better served than in this book." – New York Times B…

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1. The Spinoza Problem

By: Irvin D. Yalom

4.25

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic rema… read more

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"Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"Omul fiind in totalitate parte a naturii, este incorect sa credem ca omul mai degraba tulbura, decat sa respecte ordinea naturii."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is born."

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

"تمام قوم اسرائیل در نگرش محترمانه خود به تورات، در همان گناهی دخیل بودند که خدا به وسیله موسی به آنها هشدار داده بود: بت برستی. در همه جا یهودیان نه بت هایی طلایی بلکه بت هایی از «کاغذ و جوهر» را می …"

-Irvin D. Yalom, The Spinoza Problem

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2. The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

By: Erin Meyer

4.34

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

An international business expert helps you understand and navigate cultural differences in this ins… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Try seeing, feeling, and tasting the water you swim in the way a land animal might perceive it. You may find the experience fascinating -- and mind-expanding."

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"This is the philosophy of low - context communication in a nutshell: Tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them ,then tell them what you’ve told them."

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"This is where I learned the traditional American rule for successfully transferring a powerful message to an audience: tell them what you are going to tell them, then tell them, then tell them what y…"

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

"You may find yourself reacting defensively when you hear what others have said about the culture you call your own. It isn't true: my culture is not a bit like that. At the risk of pouring oil on the…"

-Erin Meyer, The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business

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3. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)

By: Robert A. Caro

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, cont… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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5. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • science
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6. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Alexander Hamilton

By: Ron Chernow

3.77

Format: 32 pages,

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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8. Gulliver’s Travels

By: Louis Rhead , Jonathan Swift , William Dean Howells , Robert DeMaria Jr.

3.58

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A wickedly clever satire uses comic inversions to offer telling insights into the nature of man and… read more

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"Anlamadığınız bir insanı "delidir" diye nitelemek o kadar kolaydır ki!"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"we neither of us are able to deliver our conceptions in a manner intelligible to the other."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"معظم ابناء جلدتك هم أخبث سلالة من الحشرات المؤذية البغيضة التي سمحت لها الطبيعة بالزحف على وجخ الأرض"

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

"... a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young."

-Louis Rhead, Gulliver’s Travels

9. Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

3.80

Format: None pages,

Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience was originally published in 1849 as Resistance to Civil Go… read more

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10. The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

This famous story of man's progress through life in search of salvation remains one of the most ent… read more

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"Follow your heart"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Dark clouds bring waters, when the bright bring none."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"They are my fears of him, too. But who can hinder that which will be?"

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion."

-John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

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11. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

By: William L. Shirer

4.21

Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"

-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

12. Black Rednecks and White Liberals

By: Thomas Sowell

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which … read more

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13. The Johnstown Flood

By: David McCullough

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

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14. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

By: Anne Applebaum

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Appleb… read more

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15. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

By: Daniel Yergin

0.00

Format: None pages,

The Prizerecounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth and power that has al… read more

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16. Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

By: Dan Jones

4.41

Format: 636 pages, Hardcover

An epic reappraisal of the medieval world--and the rich and complicated legacy left to us by the ri… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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17. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

By: Philipp Dettmer

4.59

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."

-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

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18. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • science
"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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19. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

By: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

4.52

Format: 934 pages, Kindle Edition

#1 on AMAZON, and a NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NATIONAL B… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • science
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20. The Secret History of Christmas

By: Bill Bryson

3.84

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

A cornucopia of Christmas delights from the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everyth… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. The Manor House

By: Gilly Macmillan

3.71

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

The terrifying story of what can happen after all your dreams come true Be careful what you wish… read more

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22. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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23. Agent 355

By: Marie Benedict

3.73

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A novella A fictional portrayal of a real-life Revolutionary spy and her daring deeds, from the … read more

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24. Turtles All The Way Down: Vaccine Science and Myth

By: Anonymous

4.63

Format: 556 pages, Kindle Edition

If you are reading this, you are probably aware of the fierce debate surrounding vaccination and lo… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
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25. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Travel by Bullet (The Dispatcher, #3)

By: John Scalzi

4.02

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

The Audible and New York Times best-selling "Dispatcher" series returns with a brand-new mystery, p… read more

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27. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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28. Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence

By: Alex Berenson

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening report from an award-winning author and former New York Times reporter reveals the l… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Marijuana causes paranoia and psychosis. That fact is now beyond dispute. Even scientists who aren’t sure if marijuana can cause permanent psychosis agree that it can cause temporary paranoia and psy…"

-Alex Berenson, Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence

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29. How to Win an Argument: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Persuasion (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying t… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

By: Ainissa Ramirez

3.93

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon a clever and engaging look… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • science
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31. Alexander Graham Bell

By: Edwin S. Grosvenor

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

". . . rarely have inventor and invention been better served than in this book." – New York Times B… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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16 Best history books like Alexander Graham Bell by Edwin S. Grosvenor

Transform Your Habits

Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)

Robert A. Caro

4.36

Transform Your Habits

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

Shashi Tharoor

3.63

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Ron Chernow

3.77

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18 best-selling audiobook books like The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III by Andrew Roberts

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George V: Never a Dull Moment

Jane Ridley

4.23

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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff

3.74

Transform Your Habits

A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

Troy Senik

4.16

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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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