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29 totalThe Struggle for Taiwan
Sulmaan Wasif Khan / 2024
Polostan
Neal Stephenson / 2024
The MANIAC
Benjamin Labatut / 2023
The Individualists
Matt Zwolinski & John Tomasi / 2023
The White Pill
Michael Malice / 2022
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
Jeevan Vasagar / 2021
The Sack of Detroit
Kenneth Whyte / 2021
The Aristocracy of Talent
Adrian Wooldridge / 2021
The Polymath
Peter Burke / 2020
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
Michael Pollan / 2020
Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham / 2019
On Grand Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis / 2018
Singapore, Singapura
Nicholas Walton / 2018
Who We Are and How We Got Here
David Reich / 2018
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum / 2017
New City Upon a Hill: A History of Columbia, Maryland
Joseph Rocco Mitchell & David L. Stebenne / 2017
The Infidel and the Professor
Dennis C. Rasmussen / 2017
The Doomsday Machine
Daniel Ellsberg / 2017
At the Existentialist Cafe
Sarah Bakewell / 2016
Days of Rage
Bryan Burrough / 2015
Homo Deus
Yuval Noah Harari / 2015
The Edge of the World
Michael Pye / 2014
Inventing Freedom
Daniel Hannan / 2013
The Fish That Ate the Whale
Rich Cohen / 2012
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari / 2011
The 10,000 Year Explosion
Gregory Cochran & Henry Harpending / 2009
Demolishes the idea that human evolution stopped 50,000 years ago. Cochran and Harpending show how agriculture accelerated genetic change—provocative and rigorous.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson / 2003
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes / 1986
America's Great Depression
Murray N. Rothbard / 1963