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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

James W. Loewen

383 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0jeffphilly's review
nonfiction education history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J.D. Vance

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

5.0jeffphilly's review
nonfiction memoir sociology informative reflective medium-paced
A Civil War by John Feinstein

A Civil War

John Feinstein

412 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

5.0jeffphilly's review
nonfiction sports informative inspiring slow-paced
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre

A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Ben Macintyre

368 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

5.0jeffphilly's review
nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
Ridgeline by Michael Punke

Ridgeline

Michael Punke

384 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

5.0jeffphilly's review
fiction historical informative reflective tense slow-paced
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Michael Lewis

304 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

5.0jeffphilly's review
nonfiction business economics sports informative inspiring medium-paced
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back #1

Erich Maria Remarque

192 pages • first pub 1928 (editions)

5.0jeffphilly's review
fiction classics historical dark emotional sad medium-paced
East of Eden by John Steinbeck

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

602 pages • first pub 1952 (editions)

5.0jeffphilly's review
fiction classics historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Becoming by Michelle Obama

Becoming

Michelle Obama

448 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

5.0jeffphilly's review
nonfiction memoir politics hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

Max Hastings

729 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

5.0jeffphilly's review
nonfiction history informative fast-paced