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55 books

The Armada by Garrett Mattingly

The Armada

Garrett Mattingly

443 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

5.0nevinthompson's review
nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
The 40s: The Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine

The 40s: The Story of a Decade

New Yorker: The Story of a Decade

The New Yorker Magazine

720 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0nevinthompson's review
nonfiction history literary
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

The Three-Body Problem

Remembrance of Earth's Past #1

Cixin Liu

754 pages • first pub 2006 (editions) user-added

5.0nevinthompson's review
fiction science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced
Creation by Gore Vidal

Creation

Gore Vidal

574 pages • first pub 1981 (editions)

5.0nevinthompson's review
fiction historical adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan

Infinite Detail

Tim Maughan

384 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

5.0nevinthompson's review
fiction science fiction adventurous challenging tense medium-paced
The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War by Eiji Yoshikawa

The Heike Story: A Modern Translation of the Classic Tale of Love and War

Eiji Yoshikawa

640 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

5.0nevinthompson's review
fiction classics historical adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
Burr by Gore Vidal

Burr

Narratives of Empire #1

Gore Vidal

635 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

5.0nevinthompson's review
fiction historical politics challenging informative slow-paced
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World

Amy Stanley

262 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0nevinthompson's review
nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
There Will Be Fire by Rory Carroll

There Will Be Fire

Rory Carroll

397 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

5.0nevinthompson's review
nonfiction history politics true crime informative tense medium-paced
The Heike Story by Eiji Yoshikawa

The Heike Story

Eiji Yoshikawa

627 pages • first pub 1956 (editions)

5.0nevinthompson's review
fiction classics historical adventurous challenging informative slow-paced