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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

292 pages • first pub 1959 (editions) user-added

4.0jamesbutler0's review
nonfiction biography history adventurous informative inspiring slow-paced
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

Stephen Kinzer

272 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

4.0jamesbutler0's review
nonfiction history politics informative fast-paced
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard

Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill

Candice Millard

375 pages • first pub 2016 (editions) user-added

4.0jamesbutler0's review
nonfiction biography history informative tense medium-paced
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (20th Anniversary Edition) by David Fromkin

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and The Creation of the Modern Middle East (20th Anniversary Edition)

David Fromkin

672 pages • first pub 1989 (editions) user-added

3.0jamesbutler0's review
nonfiction history politics informative slow-paced
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice by Bill Browder

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

Bill Browder

417 pages • first pub 2014 (editions) user-added

3.5jamesbutler0's review
nonfiction history politics dark informative tense medium-paced
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

357 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

4.0jamesbutler0's review
nonfiction history true crime adventurous dark informative medium-paced
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

The Hero of Ages

Mistborn #3

Brandon Sanderson

576 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

4.5jamesbutler0's review
fiction fantasy adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson

The Well of Ascension

Mistborn #2

Brandon Sanderson

624 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

4.5jamesbutler0's review
fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn

Mistborn #1

Brandon Sanderson

541 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

4.5jamesbutler0's review
fiction fantasy adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

Rich Cohen

292 pages • first pub 2012 (editions) user-added

3.5jamesbutler0's review
nonfiction biography business history reflective medium-paced