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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Tony Horwitz
CIT
I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Livia E. Bitton-Jackson
IHL
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson
TAO
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
TSO
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
Reza Aslan
NGB
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Hunter S. Thompson
FAL
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin
YIF
War
Sebastian Junger
W
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
CIT
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoğlu
WNF
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
Doug Stanton
IHW
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
James D. Bradley
FAT
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
Jeffrey Toobin
TNI
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
Simon Singh
TCB
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
TMO
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Rick Atkinson
AAA
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Evan Wright
GKD
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Miklós Nyiszli
AAD
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
David Simon
HAY
Orientalism
Edward W. Said
O
How Music Works
David Byrne
HMW
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Steve Sheinkin
BTR
The Way of Zen
Alan W. Watts
TWO
Washington's Crossing
David Hackett Fischer
WC
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel C. Dennett
DDI
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Bart D. Ehrman
MJT
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Noam Chomsky
MCT
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Tom Holland
RTL
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky
HOS
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Geraldine Brooks
NPO
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Will Durant
TSO
The White Album
Joan Didion
TWA
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt
EIJ
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Jay Winik
A1T
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson
ICR
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Rick Atkinson
TDO
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Margaret MacMillan
P1S
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
TDA
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Unknown
TCP
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
Stephen Jay Gould
WLT
The Best and the Brightest
David Halberstam
TBA
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber
TPE
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
DTF
Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag
RTP
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Unknown
TCE
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Leonard Susskind
TBH
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Susan Faludi
BTU
The Songlines
Bruce Chatwin
TS
Escape from Freedom
Erich Fromm
EFF
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
Unknown
CSA
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Johann Hari
CTS
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt
PAH
The 33 Strategies of War
Robert Greene
T3S
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
Sam Kean
TVT
The Case for God
Karen Armstrong
TCF
The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould
TMO
The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine
TAO
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
Russell Shorto
TIA
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin
TPT
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
Mark R. Levin
LAT
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
Margot Adler
DDT
The Good Soldiers
David Finkel
TGS
Ten Days in a Mad-House
Nellie Bly
TDI
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley
TRO
The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World
W. Cleon Skousen
T5Y
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Unknown
HHO
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson
OFB
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Terence McKenna
FOT
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Octavio Paz
TLO
Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
Lynne Olson
COL
The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme
John Keegan
TFO
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
TOO
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
Bryan Sykes
TSD
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Steve Silberman
NTL
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Tadeusz Borowski
TWF
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Eric Hoffer
TTB
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Tamim Ansary
DDA
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
Unknown
MMT
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split
Lesley Hazleton
ATP
Dreadnought
Robert K. Massie
D
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
UPT
The Ascent of Man
Jacob Bronowski
TAO
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Unknown
TGR
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Bryan Burrough
PEA
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Jonah Goldberg
LFT
Who Wrote the Bible?
Richard Elliott Friedman
WWT
The Fifties
David Halberstam
TF
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges
WIA
The Drowned and the Saved
Primo Levi
TDA
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
William L. Shirer
BDT
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Barbara W. Tuchman
TMO
Soccer in Sun and Shadow
Eduardo Galeano
SIS
The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
TEO
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
Robert Fisk
TGW
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
TDH
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Rebecca Solnit
HIT
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Unknown
TSO
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
James Rickards
CWT
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Ronald Takaki
ADM
A History of Reading
Alberto Manguel
AHO
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Mark Steyn
AAT
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
TOO
Up in the Old Hotel
Joseph Mitchell
UIT
Persian Girls
Nahid Rachlin
PG
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
Michael Dobbs
OMT
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)
Riane Eisler
TCA
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt
IFT
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
Brooke Gladstone
TIM
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
Matt Taibbi
ICP
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
Kent Nerburn
NWN
Religion and Science
Bertrand Russell
RAS
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England
Unknown
1AA
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Thomas Sowell
BRA
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
Robert Lacey
ITK
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
Lawrence Anthony
BAT
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Douglas Brinkley
TGD
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Modris Eksteins
ROS
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Annie Jacobsen
OPT
Strength to Love
Martin Luther King Jr.
STL
The Untold History of The United States
Oliver Stone
TUH
A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
Luc Ferry
ABH
The Resurrection of the Son of God
N.T. Wright
TRO
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
Unknown
ABI
Our Oriental Heritage
Will Durant
OOH
This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness
T.R. Fehrenbach
TKO
The Story of Civilization
Will Durant
TSO
A World Without Islam
Graham E. Fuller
AWW
On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
Friedrich Nietzsche
OTU
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
Unknown
TCB
The Pentagon's Brain
Annie Jacobsen
TPB
Days and Nights of Love and War
Eduardo Galeano
DAN
The Essential Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
TEC
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
Leonard Mlodinow
TUT
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Charles Eisenstein
SEM
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
Ludwig von Mises
SAE
History and Utopia
Emil M. Cioran
HAU
The Sufis
Idries Shah
TS
The Wisdom of the Native Americans: Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle
Kent Nerburn
TWO
Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
Brian Switek
WIS
In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
Kevin Sites
ITH
Our Enemy the State
Albert Jay Nock
OET
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
P.W. Singer
CWT
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Richard Kluger
SJT
Progress and Poverty
Henry George
PAP
The Rosicrucian cosmo-conception: or, Mystic Christianity; an elementary treatise upon man's past evolution, present constitution and future development
Max Heindel
TRC
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
TDO
The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad
Unknown
TEH
Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300
Unknown
CHT
Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform
Unknown
SCB
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Emilie Autumn
TAF
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
David Foster Wallace
CTL
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Billy Collins
SAA
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
Unknown
TTH
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
Resmaa Menakem
MGH
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
Abraham Joshua Heschel
GIS
Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
Celso Cukierkorn
SOJ
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
MIT
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story
Ann Rule
TSB
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
John Grisham
TIM
The Executioner's Song
Norman Mailer
TES
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
I Have Lived a Thousand Years
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
War
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
Orientalism
How Music Works
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
The Way of Zen
Washington's Crossing
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
The White Album
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
The Best and the Brightest
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Regarding the Pain of Others
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
The Songlines
Escape from Freedom
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
The 33 Strategies of War
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
The Case for God
The Mismeasure of Man
The Age of Reason
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
The Good Soldiers
Ten Days in a Mad-House
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
The 5000 Year Leap: A Miracle That Changed the World
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
The Face Of Battle: A Study Of Agincourt, Waterloo And The Somme
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite
After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split
Dreadnought
Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
The Ascent of Man
The Golden Ratio: The Story of Phi, the World's Most Astonishing Number
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Who Wrote the Bible?
The Fifties
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
The Drowned and the Saved
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Soccer in Sun and Shadow
The End of History and the Last Man
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
A History of Reading
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Up in the Old Hotel
Persian Girls
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Updated With a New Epilogue)
Ill Fares the Land
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
Religion and Science
1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Inside the Kingdom: Kings, Clerics, Modernists, Terrorists and the Struggle for Saudi Arabia
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Strength to Love
The Untold History of The United States
A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
The Resurrection of the Son of God
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
Our Oriental Heritage
This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness
The Story of Civilization
A World Without Islam
On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
The Pentagon's Brain
Days and Nights of Love and War
The Essential Chomsky
The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
History and Utopia
The Sufis
The Wisdom of the Native Americans: Including The Soul of an Indian and Other Writings of Ohiyesa and the Great Speeches of Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle
Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars
Our Enemy the State
Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Progress and Poverty
The Rosicrucian cosmo-conception: or, Mystic Christianity; an elementary treatise upon man's past evolution, present constitution and future development
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad
Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300
Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy The Shocking Inside Story
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
The Executioner's Song