Non-Fiction Worth Reading

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Obviously different people have different ideas of what makes a book worth reading. But for you personally, was it worth the time it took to read?
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The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Il manoscritto
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The Path to Power
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The Princes in the Tower
di Alison Weir
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Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
di Adam M. Grant
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Not in Our Name: American Antiwar Speeches, 1846 to the Present
di Jesse Stellato
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Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
di Avi Steinberg
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The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Missouri
di Avi Steinberg
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The Baseball Talmud: The Definitive Position-by-Position Ranking of Baseball's Chosen Players
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41 utenti
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Taking the Field: A Fan's Quest to Run the Team He Loves
di Howard Megdal
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Wilpon's Folly : The Story of a Man, His Fortune, and the New York Mets
di Howard Megdal
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The Cardinals Way: How One Team Embraced Tradition and Moneyball at the Same Time
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Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture
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Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books
di Leah Price
379 utenti
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The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot
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How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain
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Ashbery's Forms of Attention (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
di Andrew Lee DuBois Jr.
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The Anthology of Rap
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The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
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The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
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Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution
di Jennifer Block
71 utenti
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The Elements of Style
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Le 10 mappe che spiegano il mondo
di Tim Marshall
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Autobiografia di uno schiavo
di Frederick Douglass
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Confessioni
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157 recensioni
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Ortodossia
di G.K. Chesterton
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
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Uno specchio lontano: Un secolo di avventure e di calamita Il Trecento
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Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
di Caroline Fraser
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SPQR : storia dell'antica Roma
di Mary Beard
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
di Dan Jones
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Gli assassini della terra rossa. Affari, petrolio, omicidi e la nascita dell'FBI. Una storia di frontiera
di David Grann
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
di Candice Millard
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
di Patrick Radden Keefe
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La vita immortale di Henrietta Lacks
di Rebecca Skloot
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Sharkie35 : The way they used her cells was nothing unique, or based on her race. The author glosses over these facts so they could write a book proclaiming the medical profession as racist.