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Genres

History Biography


History Biography Books

John Adams
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
1776
The Diary of a Young Girl
Alexander Hamilton
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Steve Jobs
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Night
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Washington: A Life
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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Lists

The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootMedical Apartheid by Harriet A. WashingtonWhen Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Breaking Brown Book Reads
98 books — 55 voters
Eisenhower vs. Warren by James F. SimonIke and McCarthy by David A. NicholsEisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward SmithEisenhower's Guerillas by Benjamin F. JonesBlood and Sand by Alex von Tunzelmann
US Presidents: Dwight Eisenhower (nonfiction)
122 books — 4 voters

The Secret Man by Bob WoodwardThe Road to Jonestown by Jeff GuinnStayin’ Alive by Jefferson R. CowieGame, Set, Match by Susan WareThe Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's by Steven Lee Beeber
The 1970s in the United States (nonfiction)
228 books — 21 voters
A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. HoffmanThe Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
The Cold War (nonfiction)
365 books — 107 voters

Buses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaAnd a Voice to Sing With by Joan BaezOutlaw Woman by Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizHouse of Diggs by Marion Orr
Sixties Memoirs & Biographies (nonfiction)
174 books — 37 voters
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonFun Home by Alison BechdelTwo or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy AllisonZami by Audre LordeLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren Hough
Lesbian Memoirs
280 books — 136 voters