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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

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

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

Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

by Kamal Ravikant  · 7 Jan 2020

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

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

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

Fresh Off the Boat

by Eddie Huang  · 29 Jan 2013

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

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You

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

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

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

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

In defense of food: an eater's manifesto

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

The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography

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

Lonely Planet Pocket San Francisco

by Lonely Planet and Alison Bing  · 31 Aug 2012

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

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

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

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

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

One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

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

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

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

Attempting Normal

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

The Rich and the Rest of Us

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

Against Everything: Essays

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

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

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

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

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

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

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

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

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

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

by Blake J. Harris  · 12 May 2014

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

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

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

The Ecotechnic Future: Envisioning a Post-Peak World

by John Michael Greer  · 30 Sep 2009

Galactic North

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

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

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

Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

by Molly Scott Cato  · 16 Dec 2008

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

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

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

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

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

Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community

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

Stuffocation

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

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing

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

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

by Derek S. Hoff  · 30 May 2012

Owning the Sun

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life

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

The Passenger: Greece

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

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

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

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

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

1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall

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

San Francisco

by Lonely Planet

Islands in the Net

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

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

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

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

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

The Locavore's Dilemma

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

Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

by James Suzman  · 10 Jul 2017

Machinery of Freedom: A Guide to Radical Capitalism

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

Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee

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

Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology

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

Old Man's War

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

Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History

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

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

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

The New Economics: A Bigger Picture

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

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

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

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

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

I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel

by Tom Wolfe  · 9 Nov 2004

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

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

How to Do Nothing

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

Lonely Planet Wales (Travel Guide)

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

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

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

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

The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us

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

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

by David E. Hoffman  · 9 May 2016

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

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

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

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

The Descent of Woman

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

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

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

I Shall Not Hate

by Izzeldin Abuelaish  · 15 Jan 2010

Cyprus Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

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

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

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

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

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

Women Talk Money: Breaking the Taboo

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

San Francisco

by Lonely Planet

Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939

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

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

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

The Day the World Stops Shopping

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

Coastal California Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

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

Northern California Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

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

Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide

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

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

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

The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China

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

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

by Richard Dawkins  · 21 Sep 2009

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

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

Coastal California

by Lonely Planet

Western USA

by Lonely Planet

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

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

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

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

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

On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey Into South Asia

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

All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

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

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

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

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

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

Aurora

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

What Should I Do With My Life?

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

Wireless

by Charles Stross  · 7 Jul 2009

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

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

In the Company of Heroes

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

State of Emergency: The Way We Were

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

Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer

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

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

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

England

by David Else  · 14 Oct 2010

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

Arabian Sands

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

The Rough Guide to Wales

by Rough Guides  · 24 Mar 2010

Meat: A Benign Extravagance

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

Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area

by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood  · 2 Jan 2009

Aerotropolis

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

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

by Michael Pollan  · 15 Dec 2006  · 467pp  · 503 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 Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

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

France (Lonely Planet, 8th Edition)

by Nicola Williams  · 14 Oct 2010

Matter

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

The Railways: Nation, Network and People

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

Inversions

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

Gnomon

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

Against All Enemies

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

One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution

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

A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams

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

Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

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

The Weather of the Future

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

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

Israel & the Palestinian Territories Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

New York 2140

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

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

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

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara  · 8 Jul 2019

O Jerusalem

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

Lancaster

by John Nichol  · 27 May 2020

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

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

Schismatrix Plus

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

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

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

Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

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

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

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

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

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

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

by David Gange  · 10 Jul 2019

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

Fantasyland

by Kurt Andersen  · 5 Sep 2017

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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

The Best of Best New SF

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

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

The Rough Guide to Peru

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

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time

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

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

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

Jared Bibler

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

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

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

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

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

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

12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers

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

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

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

The Soil Will Save Us

by Kristin Ohlson  · 14 Oct 2014

Lonely Planet Brazil

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

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

Hawaii Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Braiding Sweetgrass

by Robin Wall Kimmerer

California

by Sara Benson  · 15 Oct 2010

The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge

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

From Beirut to Jerusalem

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

Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell

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

The Naked and the Dead

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

Wool Omnibus Edition

by Hugh Howey  · 5 Jun 2012

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

I You We Them

by Dan Gretton

The Rough Guide to New Zealand: Travel Guide eBook

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