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The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published by David Skinner

The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published

David Skinner

349 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford, Bryan Burrough

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

Chris Tomlinson, Bryan Burrough, Jason Stanford

413 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative lighthearted medium-paced
Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads by Paul Theroux

Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads

Paul Theroux

441 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

296 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective slow-paced
Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past by Julian E. Zelizer, Kevin M. Kruse

Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

Julian E. Zelizer, Kevin M. Kruse

400 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

Kurt Andersen

462 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology adventurous slow-paced
The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Francis J. "Bing" West Jr.

The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan

Francis J. "Bing" West Jr.

336 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative slow-paced
Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land by Patrick French

Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land

Patrick French

325 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history travel adventurous slow-paced
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M.M. Blume

Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World

Lesley M.M. Blume

288 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative sad tense fast-paced
The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis by Elizabeth Letts

The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

Elizabeth Letts

400 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative inspiring slow-paced