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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

George Smiley #5

John le Carré

381 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
fiction mystery thriller challenging mysterious tense slow-paced
Columbine by Dave Cullen

Columbine

Dave Cullen

417 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history true crime dark emotional informative medium-paced
The BLDGBLOG Book by Geoff Manaugh

The BLDGBLOG Book

Geoff Manaugh

272 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction art design informative reflective slow-paced
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Wolf Hall

Thomas Cromwell #1

Hilary Mantel

604 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
fiction historical literary challenging dark tense slow-paced
Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager by Keith Gessen, Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager

Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager

Keith Gessen, Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager

260 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction business economics informative slow-paced
Building Stories by Chris Ware

Building Stories

Chris Ware

260 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
fiction art graphic novel adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced
The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 by Richard White

The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

The Oxford History of the United States #5

Richard White

968 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

Eric Schlosser

632 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history politics science challenging informative tense slow-paced
The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey Into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor by John McPhee

The Curve of Binding Energy: A Journey Into the Awesome and Alarming World of Theodore B. Taylor

John McPhee

240 pages • first pub 1974 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction biography history science informative tense slow-paced
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor

American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804

Alan Taylor

704 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0gregbrown's review
nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced