Books like The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
12 books with a reading profile close to The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal by Ben Mezrich. Practical, outward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Flush
by Carl Hiaasen
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
Noah Underwood's father is in jail for sinking a casino boat, the Coral Queen, which he says is dumping raw sewage into the waters of the Florida Keys.
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Island of the Sequined Love Nun
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
Tucker Case, a disgraced pilot who crashed a pink jet into the Vatican, finds himself flying for a questionable missionary organization in Micronesia.
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Percy Jackson's Greek Gods
by Rick Riordan
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
In this illustrated compendium, Percy Jackson provides a firsthand account of the Greek creation myth and the origins of the Olympians.
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Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
by Max Brooks
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
Kate Holland and her husband move to Greenloop, a high-tech eco-community in the shadow of Mount Rainier.
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A Matter of Honour
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
Adam Scott, a former captain in the British Army, receives a mysterious letter following his father's death.
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Pirate Latitudes
by Michael Crichton, John Bedford Lloyd
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
In 1667, Captain Charles Hunter receives a secret commission from the Governor of Jamaica to lead an expedition against a Spanish fortress on the island of Matanceros.
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The Guardians
by John Grisham
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
In the small town of Seabrook, Florida, Quincy Miller was convicted of murdering his lawyer, Keith Russo.
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George's Marvelous Medicine
by Roald Dahl
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
When George Kranky is left alone to care for his mean-spirited, demanding grandmother, he decides to replace her regular medicine with a homemade brew.
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The Racketeer
by John Grisham
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
Malcolm Bannister is an incarcerated former attorney serving time in a federal camp for a white-collar crime he maintains he did not commit.
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Cycle of the Werewolf
by Stephen King
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
Set in the isolated town of Tarker’s Mills, this episodic novella tracks a year of monthly slaughters committed by a werewolf.
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Wolverine: Old Man Logan
by Mark Millar
Also practical · entertainment, narrative
In a dystopian future, the United States has been carved into territories ruled by supervillains like the Abomination, Magneto, and the Red Skull.
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by Bill Buford
Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative
Bill Buford leaves his editorial position at The New Yorker to document the intense physical reality of professional cooking.
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