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1

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant: A Memoir

by Daniel Tammet

2,568 members

95 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: jordantaylor, Christine_Foley

2

American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee

by Karen Abbott

550 members

37 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: jordantaylor, Christine_Foley

3

The Periodic Table

4,183 members

73 reviews

4.2

Member: jordantaylor

4

The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives

by Shankar Vedantam

366 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aspirit

5

The Kommandant's Mistress

by Sherri Szeman

142 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: dara85

6

1,010 members

32 reviews

4.2

Member: dara85

7

The Linguist and the Emperor: Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone

by Daniel Meyerson

227 members

9 reviews

½ 2.7

Member: jordantaylor

8

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond To The Redesigned Human Of The Future

by James Hughes

98 members

4 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aspirit

9

The Liars' Club: A Memoir

4,156 members

85 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

10

Sea Room: An Island Life in the Hebrides

by Adam Nicolson

514 members

10 reviews

4

Member: jordantaylor

11

Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers

by Jacques Vallée

275 members

2 reviews

4

Member: aspirit

12

by Rachel Carson

6,971 members

108 reviews

4

Member: aspirit

13

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

3,785 members

49 reviews

4.1

Member: jordantaylor

14

Bereft: A Sister's Story

by Jane Bernstein

32 members

1 review

½ 3.6

Member: dara85

15

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

by Jon Krakauer

9,208 members

236 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

16

by Mineko Iwasaki

2,389 members

48 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

17

Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence

by Stefano Mancuso

219 members

8 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: aspirit

18

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

by Laura Hillenbrand

8,176 members

155 reviews

4.2

Member: jordantaylor

19

My Life, Deleted

by Scott Bolzan

57 members

3 reviews

3.2

Member: dara85

20

Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality

49 members

4

Member: aspirit

21

This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

by Daniel J. Levitin

4,285 members

68 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

22

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

559 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85
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23

A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World

by Daniel Goleman

96 members

3 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: aspirit

24

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

4,536 members

136 reviews

3.8

Member: jordantaylor

25

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

1,088 members

29 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: aspirit

26

In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing

by Lee Woodruff

479 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: dara85

27

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

by Stephen Greenblatt

3,813 members

148 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

28

The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition

by Peter Wohlleben

219 members

4 reviews

4

Member: aspirit

29

The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

1,187 members

84 reviews

4.1

Member: jordantaylor

30

Capitalism in America: A History

by Alan Greenspan

269 members

1 review

½ 4.3

Member: aspirit

31

Creation Revisited

by P. W. Atkins

77 members

½ 3.7

Member: aspirit

32

Paris to the Moon

2,864 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jordantaylor

33

Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past

by Martin Bauml Duberman

711 members

½ 3.7

Member: aspirit

34

Working IX to V : orgy planners, funeral clowns, and other prized professions of the ancient world

292 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: jordantaylor

35

On Going to Bed

by Anthony Burgess

112 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: jordantaylor

36

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

by Candice Millard

3,724 members

142 reviews

4.2

Member: jordantaylor

37

Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead

337 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: jordantaylor

38

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

554 members

13 reviews

4

Member: jordantaylor

39

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematorium

by Caitlin Doughty

2,754 members

128 reviews

4.2

40

The Longest Trip Home

525 members

39 reviews

4

41

A Rip in Heaven

by Jeanine Cummins

390 members

18 reviews

3.8

42

Hot Lights, Cold Steel: Life, Death, and Sleepless Nights in a Surgeon's First Years

by Michael J. Collins

257 members

9 reviews

3.8

43

Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue

205 members

5 reviews

2.8

44

by Amy Silverstein

139 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

45

Portraits of Guilt

by Jeanne Boylan

68 members

½ 4.3

46

Rotations: The 12 Months of Intern Life

by Robert Marion

16 members

1 review

4

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