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Welcome to the Non-Fiction Group. 33 Neoma Aug 2012 Dec 2023 7 54643
Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now 4 cbabe Yesterday Yesterday 3 313
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s 0 cbabe Jun 8 Jun 8 2 286
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice 1 bucolic_frolic May 12 May 30 3 526
Clint Smith, writer: 'It is impossible to understand the US economy without slavery' 5 cbabe May 3 May 9 9 759
Careless People/Sarah Wynn-Williams 4 cbabe May 4 May 4 2 552
"Survive and Resist: the Definitive Guide to Dystopian Politics," 2019, by Atchison and Shames. 1 Timeflyer May 3 May 3 3 519
What are some of Sy Montgomery's best books? 0 bif Apr 8 Apr 8 0 518
"Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich," by Norman Ohler, US 2017. 3 Timeflyer Apr 7 Apr 7 4 848
Josephine Baker: the superstar turned spy who fought the Nazis and for civil rights 0 cbabe Apr 6 Apr 6 9 649
Question for all 2 AdamThePhantump Apr 5 Apr 5 3 666
the war diary of late Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina, introduced by Margaret Atwood 2 cbabe Feb 2025 Mar 2025 8 761
Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of world war II 5 cbabe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 851
Omar El Akkad on Gaza, Power, and the Stories Empires Steal 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 649
Stoicism 5 Baron2024 Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 964
Disposable: what Covid-19 did to those who couldn't afford to fight the virus 1 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 13 873
'The Poisoner's Handbook: murder and the birth of forensic medicine in jazz age New York," by D. Blum, 2010. 2 Timeflyer Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 693
They Knew: how a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent/Sarah Kendzior 0 cbabe Jan 2025 Jan 2025 10 769
Looking for a book about the Jan 6 insurrection that appeared in Reader's Digest as a condensed 2 raccoon Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 831
Reading When McKinsey Comes to Town. Great book, as I had never heard about the subject. 3 multigraincracker Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1276
That Librarian by Amanda Jones 5 cbabe Sep 2024 Dec 2024 3 1430
"The Year of Living Constitutionally" by A.J. Jacobs 0 Timeflyer Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 825
Is It Really Your Money? 5 in2herbs Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 1582
"War" by Bob Woodward 0 Mike 03 Nov 2024 Nov 2024 7 1022
If you're a fan of Thom Hartmann 1 Shipwack Nov 2024 Nov 2024 10 1486
Invisible Doctrine: The secret history of neoliberalism, George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison. 2 raccoon Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 1005
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 jfz9580m Oct 2024 Oct 2024 0 929
"Emperor of Rome," by Mary Beard. 2 Timeflyer Oct 2024 Oct 2024 4 1160
Deep dark MSM: All the Worst Humans: how I made news for dictators, tycoons, and politicians 4 cbabe Sep 2024 Oct 2024 6 1541
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford 0 cbabe Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 907

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Stories Are Weapons - Annalee Newitz 0 bucolic_frolic Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 904
Reading Micheal Lewis"The Fifth Element" of Chump's takeover of 5 kairos12 Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 1382
"Losing Reality: on Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry," by R. J. Lifton. 0 Timeflyer Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 966
Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed 7 cbabe Aug 2024 Sep 2024 6 1481
John Vaillant/Fire Weather: on the front lines of a burning world 4 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 4 1082
White robes and broken badges (fbi informant, Jamie Raskin forward, and the klan threat today) 0 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 7 1175
Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned in the book banning wars 2 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 10 1368
"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 1420
The race to the future: 1907's 8,000-mile odyssey from China to France 0 sl8 Aug 2024 Aug 2024 5 931
A Fever in the Heartland by Timothy Egan 1 Raven123 Jul 2024 Aug 2024 7 1132
Before It's Gone 1 cbabe Aug 2024 Aug 2024 8 1263
All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way - by Fred C. Trump III 4 raccoon Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 1518
Hidden figures: giving history's most overlooked mathematicians their due 4 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 9 1377
Five of the best books about conspiracy theories 1 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 4 1159
ZERO FAIL The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service 5 BOSSHOG May 2024 Jul 2024 5 1423
Just finished "The New Rules of War" by Sean McFate. I highly recommend it. 0 raccoon Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 1014
Long Haul by Frank Figliuzzi 0 Vinca Jul 2024 Jul 2024 3 1115
GOP grifters & graft: Stealing with both hands 2 cbabe Jul 2024 Jul 2024 1 1139
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 1267
What was the 'first American novel'? On this Independence Day, a look at what it started 1 sl8 Jul 2024 Jul 2024 6 1148
Just read The 4 winds 2 efhmc Jun 2024 Jun 2024 1 1157
If You Have a Blog... 5 qwlauren35 Sep 2023 Jun 2024 5 3206
Nuclear War: A Scenario 3 kairos12 Jun 2024 Jun 2024 3 1674
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 1115
"Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World" (Nature book review) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 6 1109
Recycled sewage, public health and the memory of the world: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 2 1162
Congratulations to 2024 Pulitzer Nonfiction winners! 0 NanaCat May 2024 May 2024 0 1233
How rich is too rich? (Nature book review) 1 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 5 1429
From multiverses to cities: Books in brief (Nature) 0 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 1 1351
"Suffrage: women's long battle for the vote," by Ellen Carol Dubois, 2020. 1 Timeflyer Apr 2024 Apr 2024 4 1536

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Rebel Wilson book published in the UK with blacked out text 1 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 1 1736
Non-Fiction reads so far in 2024 5 NanaCat Apr 2024 Apr 2024 6 2256
'The anti-pet of bourgeois life': why the world needs big cat energy 0 sl8 Apr 2024 Apr 2024 5 1794
The Dead Are Arising by Les & Tamara Payne 0 NanaCat Mar 2024 Mar 2024 3 1928
Forget Bonnie and Clyde, Meet the Original Gangster Grandma, "The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum" by Margalit Fox 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 3805
Just Put Down C.O. Moed's "It Was Her New York" 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 6 2094
"The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American evangelicals in an age of extremism", by Tim Alberta. 8 Timeflyer Mar 2024 Mar 2024 7 2454
Just Completed "Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party" by Edward Dolnick 2 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 5 2053
Marc Wanamaker and Steven Bingen's "Hollywood Behind the Lens" - A Romp Through Hollywood's Controlled Pandemonium 0 hotellanai1986 Mar 2024 Mar 2024 2 1749
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 2159
Just finished the audio version of Ruth Ben-Ghiat's "Strongmen" 0 ificandream Feb 2024 Feb 2024 2 1774
Fans of James Herriot gotta read this. 2 elleng Feb 2024 Feb 2024 11 2283
"American Cassandra: the life of Dorothy Thompson," by Peter Kurth, 1990. 1 Timeflyer Feb 2024 Feb 2024 6 1853
Two recent books on WWII Nazi era 0 bucolic_frolic Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 2054
This message was self-deleted by its author 20 anobserver2 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 0 3465
Non-Fiction of the Week 14 January 2024 2 ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 2115
Has anyone read the new James Patterson memoir "Stories of My Life" ? [View all] 58 anobserver2 Jun 2022 Jan 2024 1 11108
NonFiction of the week 7 January 2024 0 ExWhoDoesntCare Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 2203
NonFiction of the week 31 December 2023/1 January 2024 1 ExWhoDoesntCare Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 2109
Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction, by F. Bordewich 1 Timeflyer Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 2379
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