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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen

587 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson

The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

Sam Wasson

416 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history challenging medium-paced
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

Beyond Black

Hilary Mantel

416 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
fiction contemporary fantasy horror dark slow-paced
Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell by Tim Miller

Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

Tim Miller

272 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction politics informative reflective medium-paced
The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World by Iuliia Mendel

The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

Iuliia Mendel

240 pages • missing pub info (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction autobiography memoir
Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission by Mark Leibovich

Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

Mark Leibovich

352 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Hercule Poirot #4

Agatha Christie

288 pages • first pub 1926 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
fiction classics crime mystery mysterious medium-paced
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman

Lucy Worsley

415 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction biography challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

384 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction biography history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen

544 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

5.0wahistorian's review
nonfiction history politics challenging dark tense slow-paced