& 1 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Bob Harris
2007-06-11
& 2 users
Type: documentary
Status: neutral
Authors: Mark Malseed David Vise
Tags: history non-fiction
Description: Overly gushing about Google almost from the first page. However, the tone settles down a little...
2006-07-11
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Mike Daisey
Tags: non-fiction auto-biography
Description: This was great. I really heartily encourage you to get the audiobook version of this as it...
2006-03-05
& 4 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Erik Larson
Tags: history non-fiction
Description: An account of the 1900 hurricane that hit the city of Galveston.
2005-12-05
& 20 users
Type: documentary
Status: favorite
Author: David McCullough
Tags: history non-fiction
Description: I listened to the audiobook version which McCullough himself narrates. Despite his excellent...
2005-10-06
& 19 users
Type: documentary
Status: favorite
Author: Erik Larson
Tags: history non-fiction
Description: Wow! When it comes to history, this one takes the prize. The author does have to dramatically...
2005-09-12
& 1 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Tags: history non-fiction
Description: This is a really fun skip through American history. It breaks down the last few hundred years...
2005-09-12
& 9 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Simon Singh
Tags: history non-fiction
Description: An interesting analysis of codes and ciphers. Both their making and breaking are discussed...
2005-09-12
& 1 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Dava Sobel
Tags: history non-fiction
Description: A history of the solution to finding the longitude of ships at sea (and also cartographers...
2005-09-12
Type: documentary
Status: —
Authors: Myla Goldberg Alfred W. Crosby Gina Kolata Lynette Iezzoni
Tags: history non-fiction
Description: This book was interesting in spite of itself. Very few people know the scope of the havoc the...
2005-09-12
& 2 users
Type: documentary
Status: disliked
Author: Simon Winchester
Tags: history non-fiction
Description: After reading Simon Winchester's super cool book The Professor and The Madman I jumped...
2005-09-12
& 5 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Michael Moore
Tags: commentary
Description: An excellent book but the unabridged audio version of it leaves something to be desired. Arte...
2005-09-12
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Author: Michael Palin
Tags: travel autobiography non-fiction
Description: Michael Palin's diary of his trip around the world to try and recreate the fictional voyage...
2005-09-12
& 1 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Authors: Harvey Pekar Joyce Brabner Frank Stack
Tags: comics autobiography non-fiction
Description: This book was done by Harvey Pekar and Joyce Blabner when Harvey was diagnosed with cancer....
2005-09-12
& 1 users
Type: documentary
Status: I recommend
Authors: Ed Greenwood Elaine Cunningham Harvey Pekar
Tags: comics autobiography non-fiction
Description: If you haven't yet seen the movie American Splendor I recommend you actually see that first....
2005-09-12
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