 | Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $0.09 fascinating, gripping, personal... couldn't put it down
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 | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
Buy used from: $0.72 A very interesting book outlining US policy in the face of repeated incidents of genocide. Eye opening, depressing, worth reading.
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 | Remembering Satan: A Tragic Case of Recovered Memory by Lawrence Wright
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $1.05 quick, captivating read. i rmember when the case broke and how shocked i was at first...
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 | China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic by Karl Taro Greenfeld
Buy used from: $6.97 Interesting narrative on the outbreak of SARS
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 | When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.60 an interesting first hand view of life under the khmer rouge, underscoring endless starvation and deprivation
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 | Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It) by William Poundstone
Buy new: $1.75 / Used from: $0.33 fascinating and fun read
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 | Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone
Buy used from: $4.38 A reasonably interesting book, but not nearly as good as Gaming the Vote.
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 | The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt
Buy used from: $0.01 Fun part mystery part mis-en-scene about Venice. Good feel of the city and a nice read. Try Erik Larson if you liked Berendt
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 | A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 by Vasily Grossman
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.49 A fascinating and emotional read tracking the Soviet battles with the Fascists during WW2. Really great book
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 | Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections by Madeline Drexler
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.24 An interesting book about viruses, but not as gripping as Coming Plague or Virus X
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 | Virus X: Tracking the New Killer Plagues by Frank Ryan
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $0.14 A very interesting book about viruses. Explores various dangerous viruses such as lassa, hantaa, etc, those that track them down, and how the viruses work. quite interesting and a great read.
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 | What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan
Buy new: $21.24 / Used from: $0.01 A somewhat rambling apology that gives a warmer face to Bush than expected and reveals less evil than existed but still gets the right wing angry. OK to skip this one...
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 | The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
Buy new: $17.15 / Used from: $1.22 A very interesting true unsolved murder mystery that shows the Florentine character. A good read.
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 | Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love by Lara Vapnyar
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $1.22 A quick read of short stories based on Russian immigrant experiences. For me, didn't live up to the NYT review. Was OK and fun, but not fantastic.
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 | The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation by Philip Shenon
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $0.49 Fantastic. A must read for anyone interested in 9/11. Read along with the Looming Tower to understand another view of what went wrong.
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 | Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land by Nina Burleigh
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $3.38 A fascinating and fun read
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 | The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love by Matthew Miller
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $2.08 An interesting book about how to fund key government programs such as health and education without bankrupting the country in the progress. interesting thoughts during an election year.
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 | Molecules of Murder: Criminal Molecules and Classic Cases by John Emsley
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $15.55 An interesting book. Part science, part murder mystery.
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 | Buzzed: The Straight Facts About the Most Used and Abused Drugs from Alcohol to Ecstasy (Third Edition) by Cynthia Kuhn
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $11.46 Interesting survey of various drugs, from alchohol and caffeine to lsd and pcp.
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 | My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar
Buy new: $16.35 / Used from: $2.72 A fascinating book tracing the author's family history through 5 generations. Touching.
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 | If This Is a Man and The Truce by Primo Levi
Buy used from: $10.21 A fantastic, beautifully written and moving first person narrative of Auschwitz and repatriation afterwards. Along with the Black Book, this is a must read.
Note that in the US this book is called Survival in Auschwitz. It should be read along with the Truce, so this double book is the way to read it.
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 | Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason by Russell Shorto
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $5.72 An interesting but sometimes rambling trace of philosophical and scientific developments from the time of Descartes, written along with a tracing of Descartes bones from his death in Sweden to the several burials in France.
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 | The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.67 An interesting book that is the conversation from the tv series. I think it would be a lot better as the video rather than the book
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 | The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of his Life--His Own by David Carr
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $0.01 A very interesting story of an investigative reporter who investigates his own past and struggles with addiction. A worthwhile read.
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 | First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army by Peter Eichstaedt
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $13.31 fascinating and tragic story
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 | Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by Riki Ott
Buy new: $13.61 / Used from: $3.82 interesting story of Exxon's major misdeeds with destroying the Alaskan environment and then avoiding paying for it
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 | Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing by Michael Ruhlman
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $21.60 really great cookbook. makes me want to cook all types of things no one in my family will eat
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 | Blue Ribbon Preserves: Secrets to Award-Winning Jams, Jellies, Marmalades and More by Linda J. Amendt
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $9.94 A great cookbook on making jellies and other preserves
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 | War Child: A Child Soldier's Story by Emmanuel Jal
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $5.49 really great. moving, powerful
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 | Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $15.97 / Used from: $5.60 not as good as blink, but an interesting read
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 | The Price: My Rise and Fall As Natalia, New York's #1 Escort by Natalie McLennan
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $5.58 yawn
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 | A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800 by Susan Pinkard
Buy new: $21.08 / Used from: $13.85 surprisingly interesting
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 | Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood by Donovan Campbell
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $12.11 very interesting poignant, apolitical narrative on the war in iraq, told firsthand by a marine platoon leader.
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 | A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 by Professor Orlando Figes
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $7.82 like all of figes books... long, detailed, emotionally compelling, very informative
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 | The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession by Chandler Burr
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.06 Fantastic, interesting book about an obsessive, brilliant scientists quest to understand how scent works. Fast paced and great
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 | How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $12.50 high level neuroscience survey. interesting but lightweight
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 | The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom by John F Baker
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $0.22 at times interesting, at times needs heavy editing
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