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The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History by Emma Rothschild

The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History

Emma Rothschild

495 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
The World of Odysseus by M. I. Finley

The World of Odysseus

M. I. Finley

232 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics history adventurous challenging slow-paced
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton

Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World

Tara Isabella Burton

320 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups by Robert Hellyer

Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups

Robert Hellyer

256 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City by Tyina Steptoe

Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City

Tyina Steptoe

344 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Meg Jacobs

Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

Meg Jacobs

349 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
David Dinkins and New York City Politics: Race, Images, and the Media by Wilbur C. Rich

David Dinkins and New York City Politics: Race, Images, and the Media

Wilbur C. Rich

239 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography politics sociology
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith

272 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science informative reflective medium-paced
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia

The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean

David Abulafia

783 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
For Whom the Dogs Spy: Haiti: From the Duvalier Dictatorships to the Earthquake, Four Presidents, and Beyond by Raymond A. Joseph

For Whom the Dogs Spy: Haiti: From the Duvalier Dictatorships to the Earthquake, Four Presidents, and Beyond

Raymond A. Joseph

352 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced