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ZERO FAIL The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 5 BOSSHOG May 2024 Jul 2024 5 3700
Just finished "The New Rules of War" by Sean McFate. I highly recommend it. 0 raccoon Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 2569
Long Haul by Frank Figliuzzi 0 Vinca Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 2440
GOP grifters & graft: Stealing with both hands 2 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 2945
Lies and the lying liar who told them: A former PR looks back on a career spent whitewashing 'foreign baddies' 3 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 3433
What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started 1 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 2733
Just read The 4 winds 2 efhmc Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 2781
If You Have a Blog... 5 qwlauren35 Sep 2023 Jun 2024 5 5316
Nuclear War: A Scenario 3 kairos12 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 3395
as its memorial day, i'd like to recommend an old WW1 book. 'and they said we wouldn't fight', by floyd gibbons. 2 pansypoo53219 May 2024 May 2024 2 2674
"Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World" (Nature book review) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 6 2449
Recycled sewage, public health and the memory of the world: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 2 2348
Congratulations to 2024 Pulitzer Nonfiction winners! 0 NanaCat May 2024 May 2024 0 2354
How rich is too rich? (Nature book review) 1 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 5 2785
From multiverses to cities: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 1 2549
"Suffrage: women's long battle for the vote," by Ellen Carol Dubois, 2020. 1 Timeflyer Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 2694
Rebel Wilson book published in the UK with blacked out text 1 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 3033
Non-Fiction reads so far in 2024 5 NanaCat Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 3839
'The anti-pet of bourgeois life': why the world needs big cat energy 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 2907
The Dead Are Arising by Les & Tamara Payne 0 NanaCat Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 2919
Forget Bonnie and Clyde, Meet the Original Gangster Grandma, "The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum" by Margalit Fox 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 5431
Just Put Down C.O. Moed's "It Was Her New York" 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 3030
"The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American evangelicals in an age of extremism", by Tim Alberta. 8 Timeflyer Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 4691
Just Completed "Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party" by Edward Dolnick 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 3137
Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen's "Hollywood Behind the Lens" - A Romp Through Hollywood's Controlled Pandemonium 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 2555
Just Finished "Can't We Be Friends" by Eliza Knight about Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald's Friendship 1 hotellanai1986 Feb 2024 Feb 2024 5 3245
Just finished the audio version of Ruth Ben-Ghiat's "Strongmen" 0 ificandream Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 2558
Fans of James Herriot gotta read this. 2 elleng Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 3433
"American Cassandra: the life of Dorothy Thompson," by Peter Kurth, 1990. 1 Timeflyer Feb 2024 Feb 2024 6 2628
Two recent books on WWII Nazi era 0 bucolic_frolic Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 2803

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This message was self-deleted by its author 20 anobserver2 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 0 6661
Non-Fiction of the Week 14 January 2024 2 ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 3049
Has anyone read the new James Patterson memoir "Stories of My Life" ? [View all] 58 anobserver2 Jun 2022 Jan 2024 1 25678
NonFiction of the week 7 January 2024 0 ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 2860
NonFiction of the week 31 December 2023/1 January 2024 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 2817
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction, by F. Bordewich 1 Timeflyer Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 3030
NonFiction of the week 24 December 11 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 5218
NonFiction of the week 17 December 3 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 2890
Non-Fiction of the Week 10 December2023 5 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 3485
Has Anyone Here Read Mindf*ck by Christopher Wylie? 1 The Roux Comes First Nov 2023 Dec 2023 9 3098
NonFic of the week 4 December 2023 4 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 3035
Killers of the Flower Moon - my wife and I don't get the plaudits 6 NewHendoLib Nov 2023 Dec 2023 0 4509
A book for all time: my new favorite author 2 The Blue Flower Oct 2023 Nov 2023 15 2923
The story of a devastating wildfire that reads 'like a thriller' wins U.K. book prize 3 sl8 Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 3719
NonFic of the week 26 November 2 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 2920
NonFic of the week 19 November 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 2619
NonFic of the week 12 November 7 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 3161
What Non-Fiction are you currently/just read? [View all] 65 violetpastille Feb 2019 Nov 2023 3 37495
NonFic I'm reading, 5 November 2023 4 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 2706
How Migration Really Works, by Hein de Haas 0 sl8 Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 2499
The plant poisons that shape our daily lives [Book review] 3 sl8 Oct 2023 Nov 2023 13 3461
KLAN WAR by Fergus M. Bordewich 0 bucolic_frolic Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 2454
Watergate, A New History - Garrett M. Graff 8 Tomconroy Feb 2022 Oct 2023 6 5614
Interesting intersection of privatization and religion in two different books 0 RSherman Oct 2023 Oct 2023 9 2623
A note from Douglas Preston 0 hermetic Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 2430
The Fall by Michael Wolff 0 ificandream Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 2165
The first digital pandemic, and the dangers of economic nationalism: Books in brief 0 sl8 Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 2428
Just started reading Michael Wolff's "The Fall" about Fox News. 0 ificandream Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 2246
Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks. (Nature) 0 sl8 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 2987
From Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System: #SwedishScarf 0 Eugene Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 2908

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Two books on the recent new non-fiction shelf 1 bucolic_frolic Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 2649
Just won a copy of The Six by Loren Gush via Goodreads 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 3454
Use of "sprang up." 17 CTyankee Jun 2023 Aug 2023 1 4897
A look at the tumultuous life of 'Persepolis' as it turns 20 0 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 2858
"Profiles in Ignorance: How America's politicians got dumb and dumber," by Andy Borowitz 2 Timeflyer Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 3889
"Why People Believe Weird Things," by Michael Shermer. 0 Timeflyer Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 4607
Question about buying books on Amazon. 12 BlackSkimmer Jun 2022 Jun 2023 1 7229
Is the author C. J Fox a right wing conspiracy person? 2 efhmc Apr 2023 May 2023 1 3877
I am re-reading James Howard Kunstler's THE LONG EMERGENCY. 1 raccoon May 2023 May 2023 2 3771
"Uncultured: a memoir," by Daniella Mestyaned Young. 0 Timeflyer Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 2913
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Baked Potato Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 2468
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Baked Potato Apr 2023 Apr 2023 1 2082
Reaching Black Audiences 0 qwlauren35 Apr 2023 Apr 2023 2 1670
Here's a "Book of the Month Giveaway" Contest (non-fiction) 1 Peccadillo Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 3357
Since our lively discussion of sourcing my privately published art history, I have discovered 18 CTyankee Mar 2023 Mar 2023 8 8906
Lisa Bortolotti argues that some irrational beliefs qualify as epistemically innocent 0 NNadir Mar 2023 Mar 2023 0 2839
need a private publisher for my book 20 CTyankee Mar 2023 Mar 2023 2 5889
Follow up to Utah tiktok kids discussion: Challenging Parental Alienation 0 cbabe Feb 2023 Feb 2023 0 2941
"The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World," 0 Timeflyer Feb 2023 Feb 2023 5 3061
The 6 Stages of Having Too Many Books (humor) 6 NJCher Oct 2022 Feb 2023 11 4787
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