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The Hacker Crackdown

by Bruce Sterling  · 15 Mar 1992  · 345pp  · 105,722 words

vogue during the late 60s and early 70s, when it offered hundreds of practical (and not so practical) tips on communitarian living, environmentalism, and getting back-to-the-land. The Whole Earth Catalog, and its sequels, sold two and half million copies and won a National Book Award. With the slow collapse of American

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

by Tamara Kneese  · 14 Aug 2023  · 284pp  · 75,744 words

of unsettling startup culture’s accelerationism, expanding and slowing down the pace of technological production. Similar to the Whole Earth Catalog, the Long Now unites back-to-the-land communalism and libertarian-tinged techno-utopianism. Members intend to foster long-term thinking and responsibility, providing an alternative to the short attention spans of social

After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back

by Juliet Schor, William Attwood-Charles and Mehmet Cansoy  · 15 Mar 2020  · 296pp  · 83,254 words

computing and the internet developed in the 1990s, New Communalists hailed them as the route to the ecotopias they had failed to create in their back-to-the-land phase. The New Communalists’ views morphed into what became known as the Californian Ideology.7 It combined libertarian politics, countercultural aesthetics, and techno-utopian visions

World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

by Franklin Foer  · 31 Aug 2017  · 281pp  · 71,242 words

place to begin. The hippies shoved all the store-bought crap from the plate and replaced it with a vision of goodness. Communes, with their back-to-the-land faith in self-sufficiency, cultivated gardens and raised livestock. Bohemian neighborhoods across the country opened nonprofit cooperatives with aisles of ethically produced food. Vegetarianism—once

The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class

by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett  · 14 May 2017  · 550pp  · 89,316 words

The Knife's Edge

by Stephen Westaby  · 14 May 2019  · 259pp  · 85,514 words

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

by Kamal Ravikant  · 7 Jan 2020

San Francisco Like a Local: By the People Who Call It Home

by Dk Eyewitness  · 5 Apr 2023  · 168pp  · 33,200 words

string lights at Scribe Winery, a palm-flanked hacienda. Farm town Healdsburg, an hour’s drive north, is the beating heart of the sleeve-tattooed, back-to-the-land scene, where eco-chic boutique hotel h2 tempts environment warriors, and living roof-art galleries coax creatives from the city. Healdsburg even has a seasonal

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

by Thomas Rid

the San Francisco Bay Area by Stewart Brand, an iconic, technology-embracing hippie maven, the Whole Earth Catalog was an early techno-utopian vision of back-to-the-land living that embraced cybernetic feedback loops, community, wholeness, flattened hierarchies, and the motto “access to tools.” Brand’s catalog would become a prototypical social media

The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less Is More - More or Less

by Emrys Westacott  · 14 Apr 2016  · 287pp  · 80,050 words

San Francisco Like a Local

by DK Eyewitness  · 4 Oct 2021  · 268pp  · 35,416 words

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams  · 1 Oct 2015  · 357pp  · 95,986 words

In defense of food: an eater's manifesto

by Michael Pollan  · 15 Dec 2008  · 213pp  · 61,911 words

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You

by Eli Pariser  · 11 May 2011  · 274pp  · 75,846 words

The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

by Stephen Fry  · 27 Sep 2010  · 487pp  · 132,252 words

The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine

by Beth Hensperger  · 30 Apr 2000  · 1,249pp  · 207,227 words

Lonely Planet Pocket San Francisco

by Lonely Planet and Alison Bing  · 31 Aug 2012

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin  · 17 Apr 2017  · 222pp  · 70,132 words

Fresh Off the Boat

by Eddie Huang  · 29 Jan 2013

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

by Fran Lebowitz  · 8 Nov 1994  · 208pp  · 67,890 words

The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control

by Jacob Siegel  · 24 Mar 2026  · 348pp  · 103,246 words

Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia

by Becky Hogge, Damien Morris and Christopher Scally  · 26 Jul 2011  · 171pp  · 54,334 words

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

by Dava Sobel  · 25 May 2009  · 363pp  · 108,670 words

The Butcher's Guide to Well-Raised Meat: How to Buy, Cut, and Cook Great Beef, Lamb, Pork, Poultry, and More

by Joshua Applestone, Jessica Applestone and Alexandra Zissu  · 6 Jun 2011  · 363pp  · 11,523 words

Attempting Normal

by Marc Maron  · 28 Apr 2013  · 201pp  · 67,347 words

The Last Best Cure: My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, a Nd My Life

by Donna Jackson Nakazawa  · 21 Feb 2013

The Rich and the Rest of Us

by Tavis Smiley  · 15 Feb 2012  · 181pp  · 50,196 words

The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics

by John B. Judis  · 11 Sep 2016  · 177pp  · 50,167 words

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

by Anna Wiener  · 14 Jan 2020  · 237pp  · 74,109 words

The Good, the Bad, and the Furry: Life With the World's Most Melancholy Cat

by Tom Cox  · 9 Oct 2013  · 185pp  · 62,502 words

Against Everything: Essays

by Mark Greif  · 5 Sep 2016  · 319pp  · 103,707 words

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle  · 18 Jun 2018  · 301pp  · 85,263 words

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

by Parag Khanna  · 11 Jan 2011  · 251pp  · 76,868 words

Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines

by Richard Heinberg and James Howard (frw) Kunstler  · 1 Sep 2007  · 235pp  · 65,885 words

The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World

by John Michael Greer  · 30 Sep 2009

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner  · 15 Mar 2012  · 550pp  · 154,725 words

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx  · 18 Nov 2025  · 642pp  · 142,332 words

Machine: A White Space Novel

by Elizabeth Bear  · 5 Oct 2020  · 537pp  · 146,610 words

Galactic North

by Alastair Reynolds  · 14 Feb 2006  · 436pp  · 124,373 words

One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness  · 28 Mar 2010  · 532pp  · 155,470 words

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman  · 2 Jan 1980  · 376pp  · 118,542 words

The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry

by Gary Greenberg  · 1 May 2013  · 480pp  · 138,041 words

Stuffocation

by James Wallman  · 6 Dec 2013  · 296pp  · 82,501 words

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry

by John Markoff  · 1 Jan 2005  · 394pp  · 108,215 words

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past)

by Cixin Liu  · 11 Nov 2014  · 420pp  · 119,928 words

Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

by Molly Scott Cato  · 16 Dec 2008

Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation

by Blake J. Harris  · 12 May 2014

The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime

by Mj Demarco  · 8 Nov 2010  · 386pp  · 116,233 words

The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

by Derek S. Hoff  · 30 May 2012

This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America

by Ryan Grim  · 7 Jul 2009  · 334pp  · 93,162 words

Owning the Sun

by Alexander Zaitchik  · 7 Jan 2022  · 341pp  · 98,954 words

The Passenger: Greece

by The Passenger  · 11 Aug 2020  · 213pp  · 57,595 words

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx  · 4 Jul 2022  · 295pp  · 81,861 words

Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life

by Scott. Branson  · 14 Jun 2022  · 198pp  · 63,612 words

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

by Jacob Goldstein  · 14 Aug 2020  · 199pp  · 64,272 words

Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization

by Stephen Cave  · 2 Apr 2012  · 299pp  · 98,943 words

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality

by Jaron Lanier  · 21 Nov 2017  · 480pp  · 123,979 words

Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

by Xiaowei Wang  · 12 Oct 2020  · 196pp  · 61,981 words

Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939

by Virginia Nicholson  · 27 Nov 2003  · 644pp  · 156,395 words

Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions

by Paul Mason  · 30 Sep 2013  · 357pp  · 99,684 words

San Francisco

by Lonely Planet

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson  · 6 Oct 2014  · 720pp  · 197,129 words

Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class

by Jeff Faux  · 16 May 2012  · 364pp  · 99,613 words

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

by Timothy Ferriss  · 6 Dec 2016  · 669pp  · 210,153 words

Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

by Dan Senor and Saul Singer  · 3 Nov 2009  · 285pp  · 81,743 words

The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world

by Michael Pollan  · 27 May 2002  · 273pp  · 83,186 words

1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall

by Peter Millar  · 1 Oct 2009  · 220pp  · 88,994 words

The New Economics: A Bigger Picture

by David Boyle and Andrew Simms  · 14 Jun 2009  · 207pp  · 86,639 words

Machinery of Freedom: A Guide to Radical Capitalism

by David Friedman  · 2 Jan 1978  · 328pp  · 92,317 words

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

by Richard Heinberg  · 1 Jun 2011  · 372pp  · 107,587 words

Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America: A History of Inequality in America

by Jamie Bronstein  · 29 Oct 2016  · 332pp  · 89,668 words

Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

by Thomas Rid  · 27 Jun 2016  · 509pp  · 132,327 words

The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future

by Gretchen Bakke  · 25 Jul 2016  · 433pp  · 127,171 words

How to Do Nothing

by Jenny Odell  · 8 Apr 2019  · 243pp  · 76,686 words

San Francisco

by Lonely Planet

I Shall Not Hate

by Izzeldin Abuelaish  · 15 Jan 2010

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

by David E. Hoffman  · 9 May 2016

Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community

by Karen T. Litfin  · 16 Dec 2013  · 322pp  · 89,523 words

Future Tense: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-First Century

by Jonathan Sacks  · 19 Apr 2010  · 305pp  · 97,214 words

The Day the World Stops Shopping

by J. B. MacKinnon  · 14 May 2021  · 368pp  · 109,432 words

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

by Kristen R. Ghodsee  · 16 May 2023  · 302pp  · 112,390 words

Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms and the Corruption of Justice

by David Enrich  · 5 Oct 2022  · 373pp  · 108,788 words

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

by Chris Hayes  · 28 Jan 2025  · 359pp  · 100,761 words

Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area

by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood  · 2 Jan 2009

What Should I Do With My Life?

by Po Bronson  · 2 Jan 2001  · 446pp  · 138,827 words

Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

by Martin Meredith  · 1 Jan 2007  · 649pp  · 181,179 words

The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals

by Michael Pollan  · 15 Dec 2006  · 467pp  · 503 words

My Boring-Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith

by Kevin Smith  · 24 Sep 2007  · 728pp  · 233,687 words

The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China

by David Eimer  · 13 Aug 2014  · 316pp  · 103,743 words

Inversions

by Iain M. Banks  · 14 Jan 2011  · 225pp  · 121,045 words

The new village green: living light, living local, living large

by Stephen Morris  · 1 Sep 2007  · 289pp  · 112,697 words

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

by Tim Wu  · 4 Nov 2025  · 246pp  · 65,143 words

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman  · 9 Oct 2025  · 312pp  · 103,645 words

The Weather of the Future

by Heidi Cullen  · 2 Aug 2010  · 391pp  · 99,963 words

The Descent of Woman

by Elaine Morgan  · 1 Feb 2001  · 293pp  · 92,446 words

The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans

by Mark Lynas  · 3 Oct 2011  · 369pp  · 98,776 words

The English

by Jeremy Paxman  · 29 Jan 2013  · 364pp  · 103,162 words

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

by Fred Turner  · 31 Aug 2006  · 339pp  · 57,031 words

Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel  · 30 Sep 2007  · 571pp  · 162,958 words

Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee

by Hattie Ellis  · 25 Apr 2006  · 216pp  · 69,480 words

Wireless

by Charles Stross  · 7 Jul 2009

Old Man's War

by John Scalzi  · 2 Jan 2005  · 320pp  · 92,799 words

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

by Matt Ridley  · 17 May 2010  · 462pp  · 150,129 words

I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel

by Tom Wolfe  · 9 Nov 2004

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

by Novella Carpenter  · 25 May 2010  · 306pp  · 94,204 words

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber  · 1 Jan 2010  · 725pp  · 221,514 words

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

by Jeffrey Sachs  · 1 Jan 2008  · 421pp  · 125,417 words

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

by Stewart Brand  · 15 Mar 2009  · 422pp  · 113,525 words

The Locavore's Dilemma

by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu  · 29 May 2012  · 329pp  · 85,471 words

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Mar 2014  · 565pp  · 151,129 words

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

by Anthony Doerr  · 6 May 2014  · 464pp  · 129,804 words

Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores

by Greg Palast  · 14 Nov 2011  · 493pp  · 132,290 words

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

by Kurt Andersen  · 4 Sep 2017  · 522pp  · 162,310 words

The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Dec 2009  · 879pp  · 233,093 words

Gnomon

by Nick Harkaway  · 18 Oct 2017  · 778pp  · 239,744 words

Lonely Planet Wales (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet  · 17 Apr 2017  · 1,181pp  · 163,692 words

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

by Daniel Gordis  · 17 Oct 2016  · 632pp  · 171,827 words

Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy

by Nathan Schneider  · 10 Sep 2018  · 326pp  · 91,559 words

A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams

by Michael Pollan  · 15 Jan 1997  · 317pp  · 107,653 words

The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

by Diane Ackerman  · 9 Sep 2014  · 380pp  · 104,841 words

Islands in the Net

by Bruce Sterling  · 31 May 1988  · 509pp  · 137,315 words

Arabian Sands

by Wilfred Thesiger  · 15 Sep 1959  · 403pp  · 138,026 words

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

by Nancy Isenberg  · 20 Jun 2016  · 709pp  · 191,147 words

The Way of the Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of Firearms

by Iain Overton  · 15 Apr 2015  · 436pp  · 125,809 words

Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World

by Jamie Bartlett  · 12 Jun 2017  · 390pp  · 109,870 words

Schismatrix Plus

by Bruce Sterling  · 1 Jan 1995  · 533pp  · 145,887 words

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

by Sarah Stewart Johnson  · 6 Jul 2020  · 400pp  · 99,489 words

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time

by Hunter S. Thompson  · 6 Nov 2003  · 893pp  · 282,706 words

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Bruder  · 18 Sep 2017  · 273pp  · 85,195 words

Israel & the Palestinian Territories Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

by Lewis Dartnell  · 13 May 2019  · 424pp  · 108,768 words

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

by John Markoff  · 22 Mar 2022  · 573pp  · 142,376 words

Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

by James Suzman  · 10 Jul 2017

The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey From Shetland to the Channel

by David Gange  · 10 Jul 2019

Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

by Jamie Raskin  · 4 Jan 2022  · 450pp  · 144,939 words

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

by Sofi Thanhauser  · 25 Jan 2022  · 592pp  · 133,460 words

Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo

by Rebecca Walker  · 15 Mar 2022  · 322pp  · 106,663 words

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

by Christopher Paolini  · 14 Sep 2020  · 1,171pp  · 309,640 words

On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey Into South Asia

by Steve Coll  · 29 Mar 2009  · 413pp  · 128,093 words

Cyprus Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

The Soil Will Save Us

by Kristin Ohlson  · 14 Oct 2014

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara  · 8 Jul 2019

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

by Rachel Slade  · 9 Jan 2024  · 392pp  · 106,044 words

More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next

by Andrew McAfee  · 30 Sep 2019  · 372pp  · 94,153 words

Fantasyland

by Kurt Andersen  · 5 Sep 2017

Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities

by Diana Leafe Christian  · 1 Jan 2003

Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community

by Diana Leafe Christian  · 14 Jun 2007

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth

by Chris Smaje  · 14 Aug 2020  · 375pp  · 105,586 words

England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight

by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears  · 24 Apr 2024  · 357pp  · 132,377 words

The Rough Guide to Peru

by Rough Guides  · 27 Apr 2024  · 960pp  · 267,168 words

Iain M Banks - The Culture complete works

by Iain M. Banks  · 5,095pp  · 1,429,463 words

From Beirut to Jerusalem

by Thomas L. Friedman  · 1 Jan 1989  · 639pp  · 212,079 words

Aurora

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 6 Jul 2015  · 488pp  · 148,340 words

Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation

by Yossi Klein Halevi  · 4 Nov 2014  · 752pp  · 201,334 words

Aerotropolis

by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay  · 2 Jan 2009  · 603pp  · 182,781 words

O Jerusalem

by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre  · 31 Dec 1970  · 784pp  · 229,648 words

To the Edges of the Earth: 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

by Edward J. Larson  · 13 Mar 2018  · 422pp  · 119,123 words

Matter

by Iain M. Banks  · 14 Jan 2011  · 348pp  · 185,704 words

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

by Charles Eisenstein  · 11 Jul 2011  · 448pp  · 142,946 words

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

by Richard Dawkins  · 21 Sep 2009

Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide

by Robert Michael Pyle  · 31 Jul 2017  · 413pp  · 134,755 words

California

by Sara Benson  · 15 Oct 2010

England

by David Else  · 14 Oct 2010

In the Company of Heroes

by Michael J. Durant and Steven Hartov  · 1 Dec 2006  · 402pp  · 123,199 words

Meat: A Benign Extravagance

by Simon Fairlie  · 14 Jun 2010  · 614pp  · 176,458 words

Against All Enemies

by Tom Clancy and Peter Telep  · 13 Jun 2011  · 640pp  · 177,786 words

State of Emergency: The Way We Were

by Dominic Sandbrook  · 29 Sep 2010  · 932pp  · 307,785 words

Coastal California

by Lonely Planet

Western USA

by Lonely Planet

The Best of Best New SF

by Gardner R. Dozois  · 1 Jan 2005  · 1,280pp  · 384,105 words

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer  · 20 Jul 2010  · 879pp  · 272,328 words

France (Lonely Planet, 8th Edition)

by Nicola Williams  · 14 Oct 2010

The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

by Vernor Vinge  · 30 Sep 2001  · 659pp  · 203,574 words

One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution

by Nancy Stout  · 2 Feb 2013  · 519pp  · 160,846 words

A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

by Tony Horwitz  · 1 Jan 2008

The Rough Guide to Wales

by Rough Guides  · 24 Mar 2010

Wool Omnibus Edition

by Hugh Howey  · 5 Jun 2012

New York 2140

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 14 Mar 2017  · 693pp  · 204,042 words

Coastal California Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Northern California Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Lancaster

by John Nichol  · 27 May 2020

Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell

by Neal Stephenson  · 3 Jun 2019  · 993pp  · 318,161 words

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

by Guy Shrubsole  · 1 May 2019  · 505pp  · 133,661 words

12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

by Doug Stanton  · 16 Apr 2009  · 530pp  · 151,616 words

Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

by Michael Leinbach and Jonathan H. Ward  · 23 Jan 2018  · 424pp  · 114,094 words

Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Searching for an American Utopia

by Adrian Shirk  · 15 Mar 2022  · 358pp  · 118,810 words

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway  · 19 Oct 1991  · 496pp  · 162,951 words

The Railways: Nation, Network and People

by Simon Bradley  · 23 Sep 2015  · 916pp  · 248,265 words

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris  · 14 Feb 2023  · 864pp  · 272,918 words

Hawaii Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

I You We Them

by Dan Gretton

Braiding Sweetgrass

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Lonely Planet Brazil

by Lonely Planet  · 1,410pp  · 363,093 words

The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation

by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian  · 28 Mar 2022  · 553pp  · 153,028 words

Jared Bibler

by Iceland's Secret The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con-Harriman House (2021)

Completely Mad: Tom McClean, John Fairfax, and the Epic of the Race to Row Solo Across the Atlantic

by James R. Hansen  · 4 Jul 2023  · 362pp  · 134,405 words

Into the Ice: The Northwest Passage, the Polar Sun, and a 175-Year-Old Mystery

by Mark Synnott  · 14 Apr 2025  · 443pp  · 140,219 words

Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos and the Trillion-Dollar Space Race

by Christian Davenport  · 6 Sep 2025  · 441pp  · 127,950 words

The Rough Guide to New Zealand: Travel Guide eBook

by Rough Guides  · 1 Jan 2024  · 1,383pp  · 367,401 words

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson  · 17 Sep 2024  · 588pp  · 160,825 words