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Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootSalt by Mark KurlanskyEats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
You Read a Book about What?
4,124 books — 2,316 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachSalt by Mark KurlanskyThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven JohnsonLongitude by Dava Sobel
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,864 books — 2,247 voters

Outlander by Diana GabaldonMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Winter Sea by Susanna KearsleyDragonfly in Amber by Diana GabaldonThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Books Set in Scotland
1,089 books — 687 voters
How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur HermanMary Queen of Scots by Antonia FraserOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Celts by Peter Berresford EllisGreyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson
Scottish History
287 books — 66 voters

The Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald FraserThe Secret Commonwealth by Robert KirkThe Visions of Isobel Gowdie by Emma WilbyFolklore of the Scottish Highlands by Anne RossTales of the Seal People by Duncan Williamson
Scottish Folk Beliefs
94 books — 4 voters
The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal RyanTrespasses by Louise KennedyHaven by Emma DonoghueThe Colony by Audrey MageeWe Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole
Irish Interest 2022
103 books — 12 voters

Say Nothing by Patrick Radden KeefeCatch and Kill by Ronan FarrowKnow My Name by Chanel MillerShe Said by Jodi KantorShortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg
Best Non-Fiction of 2019
336 books — 193 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherOver the Edge of the World by Laurence BergreenIn the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel PhilbrickThe Trigger by Tim ButcherPapillon by Henri Charrière
Best Historical Travel Journals
335 books — 239 voters

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Radium Girls by Kate MooreRejected Princesses by Jason PorathGood Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena FavilliHidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Overlooked Women of History
958 books — 245 voters
Big Freedia by Big FreediaI Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldSexuality and Its Impact on History by Hunter S. JonesCreole by Sybil KeinBlack Life in Old New Orleans by Victor Block
New Orleans (nonfiction)
98 books — 36 voters

Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondThe Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertEmpire of the Summer Moon by S.C. GwynneThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightMaster of the Senate by Robert A. Caro
Pulitzer Prize General Nonfiction Winners and Finalists
137 books — 34 voters
Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
1,971 books — 2,146 voters


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