You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey (great on audio)
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*The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting* by Ben Lewis
*The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance* by Ross King
*The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum* by James Gardner
*Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East* by Amanda H. Podany
*Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best*
by Neal Bascomb
*Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America’s Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice* by Victoria Bruce and William Oldfield
*The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History* by Edward Brooke-Hitching
*The Madman’s Gallery: The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities from the History of Art* by Edward Brooke-Hitching
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The Facemaker: One Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore (okay, this one is from 2016 but it’s such an interesting story)
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White Rage
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Umm ‘5 years old or younger’ implies books published after 2018, but you also said ‘came out no later than 2018’, which means the opposite. Can you clarify?
But if you mean published before 2018, then:
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts. Published in 2014.
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BEHOLD THE MONSTER by Jillian Lauren.
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
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The Song of the Cell – Siddhartha Mukherjee
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of An American Family – Robert Kolker
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Why Fish Don’t Exist – it’s a biography, science book, murder mystery, and philosophical piece all while being surprisingly touching.
The Anthropocene Reviewed – beautiful and charming.
Four Futures, Life after capitalism – quick, smart, and eery read.
Life 3.0 – my personal favorite book on AI
Sapiens – the best “deep history” book I’ve read.
The Righteous Mind – explains so much about politics. I think about this book every day.
A Billion Wicked Thoughts – very interesting findings that are not talked about enough.
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You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey (great on audio)
*The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World’s Most Expensive Painting* by Ben Lewis
*The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance* by Ross King
*The Louvre: The Many Lives of the World’s Most Famous Museum* by James Gardner
*Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East* by Amanda H. Podany
*Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best*
by Neal Bascomb
*Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America’s Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice* by Victoria Bruce and William Oldfield
*The Madman’s Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History* by Edward Brooke-Hitching
*The Madman’s Gallery: The Strangest Paintings, Sculptures and Other Curiosities from the History of Art* by Edward Brooke-Hitching
The Facemaker: One Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore (okay, this one is from 2016 but it’s such an interesting story)
White Rage
Umm ‘5 years old or younger’ implies books published after 2018, but you also said ‘came out no later than 2018’, which means the opposite. Can you clarify?
But if you mean published before 2018, then:
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts. Published in 2014.
BEHOLD THE MONSTER by Jillian Lauren.
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
On the Clock: What Low-Wage Work Did to Me and How It Drives America Insane
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
The Song of the Cell – Siddhartha Mukherjee
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of An American Family – Robert Kolker
Why Fish Don’t Exist – it’s a biography, science book, murder mystery, and philosophical piece all while being surprisingly touching.
The Anthropocene Reviewed – beautiful and charming.
Four Futures, Life after capitalism – quick, smart, and eery read.
Life 3.0 – my personal favorite book on AI
Sapiens – the best “deep history” book I’ve read.
The Righteous Mind – explains so much about politics. I think about this book every day.
A Billion Wicked Thoughts – very interesting findings that are not talked about enough.
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Stolen Focus – Johann Hari (2022).
Sapiens – Yuval noah Harari ( 2017).
An outsider’s Guide to Human