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Bad BloodJohn Carreyrou100/100
Billion Dollar WhaleTom Wright and Bradley Hope100/100
Hidden FiguresMargot Lee Shetterly100/100
In the Heart of the SeaNathaniel Philbrick100/100
Midnight in ChernobylAdam Higginbotham100/100
RabidBill Wasik and Monica Murphy100/100
Silent SpringRachel Carson100/100
The Code BookSimon Singh100/100
The Warmth of Other SunsIsabel Wilkerson100/100
The Wright BrothersDavid McCullough100/100
A Short History of Nearly EverythingBill Bryson92/100
An American SicknessElisabeth Rosenthal92/100
Annals of the Former WorldJohn McPhee92/100
Barbarians at the GateBryan Burrough and John Helyar92/100Battle Cry of FreedomJames M. McPherson92/100
Black Holes and Time WarpsKip S. Thorne92/100
ChaosJames Gleick92/100
CodMark Kurlansky92/100
Code GirlsLiza Mundy92/100
Command and ControlEric Schlosser92/100
CosmosCarl Sagan92/100
EnduranceAlfred Lansing92/100
Field Notes from a CatastropheElizabeth Kolbert92/100
Isaac's StormErik Larson92/100
Just MercyBryan Stevenson92/100
Killers of the Flower MoonDavid Grann92/100
KrakatoaSimon Winchester92/100
Make It StickPeter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel92/100
On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin92/100Polio: An American StoryDavid M. Oshinsky92/100
PostwarTony Judt92/100
Skunk WorksBen R. Rich and Leo Janos92/100
SpilloverDavid Quammen92/100
SPQRMary Beard92/100
The 4 Percent UniverseRichard Panek92/100
The American PlagueMolly Caldwell Crosby92/100
The Beak of the FinchJonathan Weiner92/100
The Big ShortMichael Lewis92/100
The BoxMarc Levinson92/100
The Coming PlagueLaurie Garrett92/100The Design of Everyday ThingsDon Norman92/100
The Disappearing SpoonSam Kean92/100
The Emperor of All MaladiesSiddhartha Mukherjee92/100
The GeneSiddhartha Mukherjee92/100
The Ghosts of Eden ParkKaren Abbott92/100The Idea FactoryJon Gertner92/100
The Immortal Life of Henrietta LacksRebecca Skloot92/100
The Indifferent Stars AboveDaniel James Brown92/100
The Johnstown FloodDavid McCullough92/100
The Making of the Atomic BombRichard Rhodes92/100
The PlantagenetsDan Jones92/100
The Poisoner's HandbookDeborah Blum92/100The Radium CenturyJ. Timothy Jorgensen92/100
The Smartest Guys in the RoomBethany McLean and Peter Elkind92/100
The Vaccine RaceMeredith Wadman92/100
The Woman Who Smashed CodesJason Fagone92/100
The Worst Hard TimeTimothy Egan92/100
Too Big to FailAndrew Ross Sorkin92/100
Why Don't Students Like School?Daniel T. Willingham92/100
Your Inner FishNeil Shubin92/100
1177 B.C.Eric H. Cline83/100
1491Charles C. Mann83/100
1493Charles C. Mann83/100
A Brief History of EarthAndrew H. Knoll83/100
A Brief History of TimeStephen Hawking83/100
Being MortalAtul Gawande83/100
BetterAtul Gawande83/100
ComplicationsAtul Gawande83/100
Dealers of LightningMichael A. Hiltzik83/100
Democracy and EducationJohn Dewey83/100Earth: An Intimate HistoryRichard Fortey83/100
Empire of PainPatrick Radden Keefe83/100
Entangled LifeMerlin Sheldrake83/100
Gideon's TrumpetAnthony Lewis83/100
How Buildings LearnStewart Brand83/100
King Leopold's GhostAdam Hochschild83/100
LongitudeDava Sobel83/100OverdiagnosedH. Gilbert Welch, Lisa M. Schwartz, and Steven Woloshin83/100
Pacific CrucibleIan W. Toll83/100Poor EconomicsAbhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo83/100
Punishment Without CrimeAlexandra Natapoff83/100
RailroadedRichard White83/100
SaltMark Kurlansky83/100
Seeing Like a StateJames C. Scott83/100
Seven and a Half Lessons About the BrainLisa Feldman Barrett83/100
Simple JusticeRichard Kluger83/100
The Big BurnTimothy Egan83/100The Big OysterMark Kurlansky83/100
The Big RoadsEarl Swift83/100
The Black JacobinsC. L. R. James83/100
The Blind WatchmakerRichard Dawkins83/100
The BodyBill Bryson83/100
The Botany of DesireMichael Pollan83/100
The Code BreakerWalter Isaacson83/100
The Color of LawRichard Rothstein83/100
The Cuckoo's EggClifford Stoll83/100
The Death and Life of Great American CitiesJane Jacobs83/100
The Dream MachineM. Mitchell Waldrop83/100
The Ends of the WorldPeter Brannen83/100
The Fabric of the CosmosBrian Greene83/100
The First Three MinutesSteven Weinberg83/100
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyJohn Maynard Keynes83/100
The Great BridgeDavid McCullough83/100
The Great EscapeAngus Deaton83/100
The Great InfluenzaJohn M. Barry83/100The High Cost of Free ParkingDonald Shoup83/100
The Horse, the Wheel, and LanguageDavid W. Anthony83/100
The InformationJames Gleick83/100
The InnovatorsWalter Isaacson83/100
The Invention of NatureAndrea Wulf83/100
The Man Who Knew InfinityRobert Kanigel83/100
The Map That Changed the WorldSimon Winchester83/100
The New Climate WarMichael E. Mann83/100
The Path Between the SeasDavid McCullough83/100
The Radium GirlsKate Moore83/100
The Rise and Fall of the DinosaursSteve Brusatte83/100
The Sixth ExtinctionElizabeth Kolbert83/100
The Song of the DodoDavid Quammen83/100
The Soul of a New MachineTracy Kidder83/100
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall DownAnne Fadiman83/100
The Tangled TreeDavid Quammen83/100
The Unnatural History of the SeaCallum Roberts83/100The WagerDavid Grann83/100
The Wealth of NationsAdam Smith83/100
The WorksKate Ascher83/100The World Is BlueSylvia Earle83/100
Under a White SkyElizabeth Kolbert83/100
Walkable CityJeff Speck83/100
Where Wizards Stay Up LateKatie Hafner and Matthew Lyon83/100
An Anthropologist on MarsOliver Sacks75/100
AtlanticSimon Winchester75/100
Bury My Heart at Wounded KneeDee Brown75/100
Chip WarChris Miller75/100
Dead WakeErik Larson75/100
Descartes' ErrorAntonio Damasio75/100
Development as FreedomAmartya Sen75/100
DrawdownPaul Hawken75/100
Empires of the SeaRoger Crowley75/100
Energy and CivilizationVaclav Smil75/100
Fast Food NationEric Schlosser75/100
Fire WeatherJohn Vaillant75/100
Five Days at MemorialSheri Fink75/100
Fooled by RandomnessNassim Nicholas Taleb75/100
Four FishPaul Greenberg75/100
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern WorldJack Weatherford75/100
HackersSteven Levy75/100
How Asia WorksJoe Studwell75/100
How Democracies DieSteven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt75/100
Imagined CommunitiesBenedict Anderson75/100
Learning from Las VegasRobert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour75/100
LivewiredDavid Eagleman75/100
Locked InJohn F. Pfaff75/100Modern Architecture: A Critical HistoryKenneth Frampton75/100
NightElie Wiesel75/100
Other MindsPeter Godfrey-Smith75/100OutlivePeter Attia with Bill Gifford75/100
Palaces for the PeopleEric Klinenberg75/100
Pale Blue DotCarl Sagan75/100
Pale RiderLaura Spinney75/100
Phantoms in the BrainV. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee75/100
Railways and the RajChristian Wolmar75/100SaltMark Kurlansky75/100
Salt Sugar FatMichael Moss75/100
Sea and CivilizationLincoln Paine75/100
Six DegreesMark Lynas75/100
SupercontinentTed Nield75/100
SuperforecastingPhilip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner75/100
Team of RivalsDoris Kearns Goodwin75/100
The Age of RevolutionEric Hobsbawm75/100
The Ascent of MoneyNiall Ferguson75/100
The Blank SlateSteven Pinker75/100
The Brilliant AbyssHelen Scales75/100
The Butchering ArtLindsey Fitzharris75/100
The Cathedral and the BazaarEric S. Raymond75/100
The Checklist ManifestoAtul Gawande75/100The Cheese and the WormsCarlo Ginzburg75/100
The Concept of LawH. L. A. Hart75/100The DeepAlex Rogers75/100
The Demon-Haunted WorldCarl Sagan75/100
The Descent of ManCharles Darwin75/100
The Devil in the White CityErik Larson75/100
The Double HelixJames D. Watson75/100
The Emotional BrainJoseph E. LeDoux75/100
The End of EverythingKatie Mack75/100
The Ghost MapSteven Johnson75/100
The Great MortalityJohn Kelly75/100
The Great Railroad RevolutionChristian Wolmar75/100
The Great SeaDavid Abulafia75/100The Gulag ArchipelagoAleksandr Solzhenitsyn75/100The Guns of AugustBarbara W. Tuchman75/100The High SeasOlive Heffernan75/100
The Hot ZoneRichard Preston75/100
The Image of the CityKevin Lynch75/100
The Knowledge GapNatalie Wexler75/100
The Knowledge IllusionSteven Sloman and Philip Fernbach75/100
The Logic of Scientific DiscoveryKarl Popper75/100
The Lost City of ZDavid Grann75/100
The Making of the English Working ClassE. P. Thompson75/100
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a HatOliver Sacks75/100The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip IIFernand Braudel75/100
The New Jim CrowMichelle Alexander75/100
The Ocean of LifeCallum Roberts75/100The Omnivore's DilemmaMichael Pollan75/100The Order of TimeCarlo Rovelli75/100
The Outlaw OceanIan Urbina75/100
The Power BrokerRobert A. Caro75/100
The PremonitionMichael Lewis75/100
The Price of InequalityJoseph E. Stiglitz75/100
The PrizeDaniel Yergin75/100The Rule of LawTom Bingham75/100
The Scientific RevolutionSteven Shapin75/100
The Sea Around UsRachel Carson75/100
The Selfish GeneRichard Dawkins75/100
The Signal and the NoiseNate Silver75/100
The Silk RoadsPeter Frankopan75/100
The SleepwalkersChristopher Clark75/100
The Story of EarthRobert M. Hazen75/100
The Uninhabitable EarthDavid Wallace-Wells75/100
The Victorian InternetTom Standage75/100The Weather MakersTim Flannery75/100
The Wizard and the ProphetCharles C. Mann75/100
Thinking in BetsAnnie Duke75/100
TimefulnessMarcia Bjornerud75/100Triumph of the CityEdward Glaeser75/100
TubesAndrew Blum75/100
Until the End of TimeBrian Greene75/100
Why Dinosaurs MatterKenneth Lacovara75/100Why Growth MattersJagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya75/100
A Pattern LanguageChristopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein67/100
A People's History of the United StatesHoward Zinn67/100Against MethodPaul Feyerabend67/100
BreakneckDan Wang67/100Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyThomas Piketty67/100Capital, Volume IKarl Marx67/100
Cities in CivilizationPeter Hall67/100
Complexity and Contradiction in ArchitectureRobert Venturi67/100
Conjectures and RefutationsKarl Popper67/100ConsilienceEdward O. Wilson67/100Debt: The First 5,000 YearsDavid Graeber67/100
Guns, Germs, and SteelJared Diamond67/100Home: A Short History of an IdeaWitold Rybczynski67/100
How Children FailJohn Holt67/100
How Doctors ThinkJerome Groopman67/100
In Defense of FoodMichael Pollan67/100
IncognitoDavid Eagleman67/100
InfluenceRobert B. Cialdini67/100
Losing EarthNathaniel Rich67/100
Medical NemesisIvan Illich67/100
MindstormsSeymour Papert67/100
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson67/100
NoiseDaniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein67/100
Nothing Like It in the WorldStephen E. Ambrose67/100
NudgeRichard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein67/100
OrientalismEdward W. Said67/100
OtherlandsThomas Halliday67/100
OutliersMalcolm Gladwell67/100
Pedagogy of the OppressedPaulo Freire67/100
Political Order and Political DecayFrancis Fukuyama67/100
QuietSusan Cain67/100
RangeDavid Epstein67/100
SapiensYuval Noah Harari67/100
Strong TownsCharles L. Marohn Jr.67/100
Stumbling on HappinessDaniel Gilbert67/100
The Architecture of HappinessAlain de Botton67/100The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X and Alex Haley67/100
The Beginning of InfinityDavid Deutsch67/100
The Black SwanNassim Nicholas Taleb67/100
The Body Keeps the ScoreBessel van der Kolk67/100
The Bottom BillionPaul Collier67/100
The Brain That Changes ItselfNorman Doidge67/100
The City in HistoryLewis Mumford67/100
The Collapse of American Criminal JusticeWilliam J. Stuntz67/100
The Dawn of EverythingDavid Graeber and David Wengrow67/100
The Elegant UniverseBrian Greene67/100
The Enigma of ReasonHugo Mercier and Dan Sperber67/100
The Entrepreneurial StateMariana Mazzucato67/100
The Fate of RomeKyle Harper67/100
The Federalist PapersAlexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay67/100
The Great DivergenceKenneth Pomeranz67/100
The Great LevelerWalter Scheidel67/100
The Great TransformationKarl Polanyi67/100The GridGretchen Bakke67/100
The Happiness HypothesisJonathan Haidt67/100
The Invention of ScienceDavid Wootton67/100The Landscape of ManGeoffrey Jellicoe and Susan Jellicoe67/100
The Logic of Collective ActionMancur Olson67/100
The Mismeasure of ManStephen Jay Gould67/100
The MosquitoTimothy C. Winegard67/100
The NineJeffrey Toobin67/100
The Open Society and Its EnemiesKarl Popper67/100
The Origins of Political OrderFrancis Fukuyama67/100
The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt67/100
The Person and the SituationLee Ross and Richard E. Nisbett67/100
The Process of EducationJerome S. Bruner67/100
The Routes of ManTed Conover67/100The Scout MindsetJulia Galef67/100
The Smartest Kids in the WorldAmanda Ripley67/100
The Soul of an OctopusSy Montgomery67/100
The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThomas S. Kuhn67/100
The SwerveStephen Greenblatt67/100
The Tell-Tale BrainV. S. Ramachandran67/100The Tyranny of ExpertsWilliam Easterly67/100
The Undoing ProjectMichael Lewis67/100
The Universe in a NutshellStephen Hawking67/100
The Vital QuestionNick Lane67/100The White Man's BurdenWilliam Easterly67/100
Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman67/100
Toward an ArchitectureLe Corbusier67/100
Why Nations FailDaron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson67/100
Why the West Rules—for NowIan Morris67/100Wonderful LifeStephen Jay Gould67/100
BehaveRobert M. Sapolsky58/100
Capitalism and FreedomMilton Friedman58/100
Capitalism, Socialism and DemocracyJoseph A. Schumpeter58/100
Democracy in AmericaAlexis de Tocqueville58/100
Free to ChooseMilton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman58/100
Good Calories, Bad CaloriesGary Taubes58/100
How Not to DieMichael Greger and Gene Stone58/100
Moral TribesJoshua Greene58/100
The Better Angels of Our NatureSteven Pinker58/100
The Coddling of the American MindGreg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt58/100The End of PovertyJeffrey D. Sachs58/100
The Mystery of CapitalHernando de Soto58/100
The Narrow CorridorDaron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson58/100The Origins of the Second World WarA. J. P. Taylor58/100
The Righteous MindJonathan Haidt58/100
The Rise and Fall of the Great PowersPaul Kennedy58/100
The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichWilliam L. Shirer58/100
The Road to SerfdomFriedrich A. Hayek58/100
The WEIRDest People in the WorldJoseph Henrich58/100
This Changes EverythingNaomi Klein58/100
Visible LearningJohn Hattie58/100
Why We SleepMatthew Walker58/100
BreathJames Nestor50/100
CollapseJared Diamond50/100
Dead AidDambisa Moyo50/100
GritAngela Duckworth50/100LifespanDavid A. Sinclair with Matthew D. LaPlante50/100
Predictably IrrationalDan Ariely50/100
ScarcitySendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir50/100
The China StudyT. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II50/100
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World OrderSamuel P. Huntington50/100
The Dictator's HandbookBruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith50/100
The Fabric of RealityDavid Deutsch50/100
The Paradox of ChoiceBarry Schwartz50/100
The Rise and Decline of NationsMancur Olson50/100
The Spirit LevelRichard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett50/100
The End of History and the Last ManFrancis Fukuyama42/100
The Lucifer EffectPhilip G. Zimbardo42/100
Why Liberalism FailedPatrick J. Deneen42/100Rapid reviews use three central claims so the catalog can grow quickly. Each page keeps the reasoning summary, uncertainty, and sources visible. Covers are matched by exact title and author via Open Library.