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Welcome to the Non-Fiction Group. 33 Neoma Aug 2012 Dec 2023 7 52851
the war diary of late Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina, introduced by Margaret Atwood 2 cbabe Feb 8 Mar 21 8 367
Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of world war II 5 cbabe Mar 14 Mar 15 3 366
Omar El Akkad on Gaza, Power, and the Stories Empires Steal 0 cbabe Feb 27 Feb 27 2 302
Stoicism 5 Baron2024 Feb 9 Feb 21 6 476
Disposable: what Covid-19 did to those who couldn't afford to fight the virus 1 cbabe Feb 19 Feb 19 13 488
'The Poisoner's Handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in jazz age New York," by D. Blum, 2010. 2 Timeflyer Feb 19 Feb 19 2 299
They Knew: how a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent/Sarah Kendzior 0 cbabe Jan 28 Jan 28 10 460
Looking for a book about the Jan 6 insurrection that appeared in Reader's Digest as a condensed 2 raccoon Jan 19 Jan 20 5 466
Reading When McKinsey Comes to Town. Great book, as I had never heard about the subject. 3 multigraincracker Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 853
That Librarian by Amanda Jones 5 cbabe Sep 2024 Dec 2024 3 848
"The Year of Living Constitutionally" by A.J. Jacobs 0 Timeflyer Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 509
Is It Really Your Money? 5 in2herbs Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 1103
"War" by Bob Woodward 0 Mike 03 Nov 2024 Nov 2024 7 705
If you're a fan of Thom Hartmann 1 Shipwack Nov 2024 Nov 2024 10 1107
Invisible Doctrine: The secret history of neoliberalism, George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. 2 raccoon Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 655
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 jfz9580m Oct 2024 Oct 2024 0 579
"Emperor of Rome," by Mary Beard. 2 Timeflyer Oct 2024 Oct 2024 4 812
Deep dark MSM: All the Worst Humans: how I made news for dictators, tycoons, and politicians 4 cbabe Sep 2024 Oct 2024 6 1034
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford 0 cbabe Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 597
Stories Are Weapons - Annalee Newitz 0 bucolic_frolic Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 574
Reading Micheal Lewis"The Fifth Element" of Chump's takeover of 5 kairos12 Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 874
"Losing Reality: on Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry," by R. J. Lifton. 0 Timeflyer Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 672
Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed 7 cbabe Aug 2024 Sep 2024 6 926
John Vaillant/Fire Weather: on the front lines of a burning world 4 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 659
White robes and broken badges (fbi informant, Jamie Raskin forward, and the klan threat today) 0 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 7 795
Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned in the book banning wars 2 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 10 990
"When Religion Hurts You: Healing from religious trauma and the impact of High-Control Religion," by Laura E. Anderson, 4 Timeflyer Jun 2024 Aug 2024 10 989
The race to the future: 1907's 8,000-mile odyssey from China to France 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 642
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan 1 Raven123 Jul 2024 Aug 2024 7 762

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Before It's Gone 1 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 887
All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way - by Fred C. Trump III 4 raccoon Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 1051
Hidden figures: giving history's most overlooked mathematicians their due 4 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 902
Five of the best books about conspiracy theories 1 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 811
ZERO FAIL The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 5 BOSSHOG May 2024 Jul 2024 5 919
Just finished "The New Rules of War" by Sean McFate. I highly recommend it. 0 raccoon Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 712
Long Haul by Frank Figliuzzi 0 Vinca Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 759
GOP grifters & graft: Stealing with both hands 2 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 762
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 4 843
What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started 1 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 776
Just read The 4 winds 2 efhmc Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 790
If You Have a Blog... 5 qwlauren35 Sep 2023 Jun 2024 5 2759
Nuclear War: A Scenario 3 kairos12 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 1264
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 2 771
"Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World" (Nature book review) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 6 725
Recycled sewage, public health and the memory of the world: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 2 806
Congratulations to 2024 Pulitzer Nonfiction winners! 0 NanaCat May 2024 May 2024 0 946
How rich is too rich? (Nature book review) 1 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 5 1080
From multiverses to cities: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 1 1021
"Suffrage: women's long battle for the vote," by Ellen Carol Dubois, 2020. 1 Timeflyer Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1109
Rebel Wilson book published in the UK with blacked out text 1 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1395
Non-Fiction reads so far in 2024 5 NanaCat Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 1840
'The anti-pet of bourgeois life': why the world needs big cat energy 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1453
The Dead Are Arising by Les & Tamara Payne 0 NanaCat Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1593
Forget Bonnie and Clyde, Meet the Original Gangster Grandma, "The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum" by Margalit Fox 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 3403
Just Put Down C.O. Moed's "It Was Her New York" 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 1793
"The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American evangelicals in an age of extremism", by Tim Alberta. 8 Timeflyer Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 1826
Just Completed "Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party" by Edward Dolnick 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 1675
Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen's "Hollywood Behind the Lens" - A Romp Through Hollywood's Controlled Pandemonium 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1453
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 1811

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Just finished the audio version of Ruth Ben-Ghiat's "Strongmen" 0 ificandream Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 1441
Fans of James Herriot gotta read this. 2 elleng Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 1888
"American Cassandra: the life of Dorothy Thompson," by Peter Kurth, 1990. 1 Timeflyer Feb 2024 Feb 2024 6 1524
Two recent books on WWII Nazi era 0 bucolic_frolic Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 1725
This message was self-deleted by its author 20 anobserver2 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 0 2783
Non-Fiction of the Week 14 January 2024 2 ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 1748
Has anyone read the new James Patterson memoir "Stories of My Life" ? [View all] 58 anobserver2 Jun 2022 Jan 2024 1 8994
NonFiction of the week 7 January 2024 0 ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 1864
NonFiction of the week 31 December 2023/1 January 2024 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1777
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction, by F. Bordewich 1 Timeflyer Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1978
NonFiction of the week 24 December 11 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 2621
NonFiction of the week 17 December 3 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 1670
Non-Fiction of the Week 10 December2023 5 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 2158
Has Anyone Here Read Mindf*ck by Christopher Wylie? 1 The Roux Comes First Nov 2023 Dec 2023 9 2328
NonFic of the week 4 December 2023 4 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 1860
Killers of the Flower Moon - my wife and I don't get the plaudits 6 NewHendoLib Nov 2023 Dec 2023 0 3076
A book for all time: my new favorite author 2 The Blue Flower Oct 2023 Nov 2023 15 2140
The story of a devastating wildfire that reads 'like a thriller' wins U.K. book prize 3 sl8 Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 2624
NonFic of the week 26 November 2 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1996
NonFic of the week 19 November 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1854
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