Books like The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
12 books with a reading profile close to The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
During the 1920s, the Osage Nation in Oklahoma became the wealthiest people per capita in the world after oil was discovered beneath their reservation.
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EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS
by John Green
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
John Green tracks the history and persistence of tuberculosis, a bacterial infection that has killed more humans than any other pathogen.
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
history, analytical
Patrick Radden Keefe reconstructs the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten taken from her Belfast home by the Irish Republican Army.
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4
How Music Works
by David Byrne
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
David Byrne argues that musical composition is driven by external constraints rather than pure internal inspiration.
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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by Kate Moore
history, analytical
Kate Moore details the lives of factory workers in the early twentieth century who painted watch dials with glow-in-the-dark radium paint.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Yuval Noah Harari tracks the biological and social evolution of Homo sapiens from our origins as a minor African primate to our current dominance over the biosphere.
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Jon Krakauer examines the 1984 murders of Brenda Lafferty and her infant daughter, committed by her brothers-in-law, Ron and Dan Lafferty.
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Michael Pollan investigates the origins of the human diet by tracing four distinct food chains: industrial corn, organic agribusiness, local pastoralism, and personal foraging.
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Charles C.
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Steve Brusatte traces the evolutionary trajectory of dinosaurs from their emergence as small, peripheral specialists in the Triassic period to their ultimate dominance and sudden extinction.
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At Home: A Short History of Private Life
by Bill Bryson
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Bill Bryson uses his 1851 Norfolk rectory as a physical map to trace how the modern domestic world evolved.
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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
Also outward-looking · history, analytical
Michael Lewis chronicles the efforts of a clandestine group of scientists and public health officials who spent years preparing for a viral outbreak before COVID-19 surfaced.
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