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The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)

A TIME MAGAZINE BEST FANTASY BOOK OF ALL TIME

Emperor Mapidéré was the first to unite the island kingdoms of …

The Impossible City by Karen Cheung

Reaganland by Rick Perlstein

Bring up the bodies by Hilary Mantel

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give …

Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke

Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the …

Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen

The knowledge by Lewis Dartnell

"How would you go about rebuilding a technological society from scratch? If our technological society collapsed tomorrow, perhaps from a …

Slouching Towards Utopia by Bradford DeLong

An examination of global economic behavior in the long twentieth century from 1870 to 2010.

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, #1)

In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the …

Crashed by J. Adam Tooze

"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of …

No Filter by Sarah Frier

Deadhouse gates by Steven Erikson (The Malazan book of the fallen ;)

The second book in Steven Erikson's thrilling epic fantasy series chronicling the ill-fated Malazan Empire.Weakened by events in Darujhistan, the …

The Sleepwalkers by Christopher Clark

The passage of power by Robert A. Caro (The years of Lyndon Johnson)

Continues Johnson's career from the 1960 elections through his vice presidency to the first months of his presidency.